Rundown (9/14/2025) Find Yourself Within Silence

• Post published:09/14/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:93 mins read
• Post comments:8 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Find Yourself Within Silence
• YouTube is Destroying The Livelihood of Its Creators (Thanks to Restricted Mode)
• How Many People Does It Take to Make a Game (And Who TF Counts as a Game Dev?)
• Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Unveiled (Forever Entertainment Biffed It Again!)
• Natalie Fell Down A Retro Game Influencer Hole Again (One More Mini Indulgence…)
• The Biggest Nintendo Direct EVAH! (Mr. Mario Just Turned 40~!)
• Super Mario Galaxy is Back Bay-Bee! (Back to SPACE!!!)
• Mario Tennis Fever Announced (Everybody Clap! NOW!!!)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is Getting Paid DLC for Switch 2! (Because Super Luigi Bros. Wonder Would be Too Cute!)
• Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Announced (What the Hell is the Yoshi Series?)
• Virtual Boy Games Are Back! (If You Pay Nintendo $100 for Some Plastic)
• Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined Announced (The Best/Worst Dragon Quest, But With 3D Scanned Doll and Dioramas)
• Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake Announced (Another Remake of a Remake!)
• Donkey Kong Bananza Paid DLC Announced (A Bastardized Childhood and Roguelike Mode for a Brisk $20!)
• Pokémon Legends: Z-A Is Getting Paid DLC! (And Stupid Natalie is Gonna Buy It!)
• Pokémon Pokopia Announced! (Pokémon X Dragon Quest Builders, I Guess?)
• Danganronpa 2×2 Announced (What a Needless Re-Whatever…)
• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Announced (Here’s To Another Decade of Anime Genocide Discourse!)
• Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection Announced (How Is That Even Going to Work?)

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Rundown (8/03/2025) How Square Enix Fumbled Final Fantasy

• Post published:08/03/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:80 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Why Don’t Zoomies Care About Final Fantasy?
• Atari Acquires Thunderful Group (It Was Either This or Bankruptcy, I Guess)
• Natalie Does Not Understand Gamindustri (She’s Also Nutso)
• Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase 2025 Happened (Bring On The Switch 2 Ports!)
• Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection Announced (NOT The Monster Hunter People Crave)
• Once Upon A Katamari Announced (A Sequel 14 Years In The Making!)
• The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Announced (Cool, But What’s With That Name?)
• Octopath Traveler 0 Announced (Continent of Champions Redux!)
• Nintendo Switch Price Hike Announced (Bunk All This Tariff Ish Maaaaaan…)
• Darksiders is NOT Dead! (The 15 Year Dream Will Be Realized!)
• re:Dreamer Version 0.20.0 is FINALLY Done! (The Third Last Minute Addition)

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Rundown (9/01/2024) Nina Tendo Brain Problems

• Post published:09/01/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:69 mins read
• Post comments:5 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Nina Tendo Brain Problems
• Nina Tendo’s Double Direct Digest! (Nintendo Direct and Indie World Rundown)
• Tetris Really IS Forever (Digital Eclipse Announces Tetris Forever)
• Yo, Falcom’s TitS is No Longer Ugly As Hell! (Trails in the Sky 1st Remake Announced)
• We Are In The CapGod Era of Re-Releases! (Capcom Announces Capcom Fighting Collection 2)
• DominuS Without the Dual Screen (Castlevania DominuS Collection Announced)
• Corporatized Coziness Continues (EA Announces Remaster of MySims and MySims Kingdoms)
• Hitting the Switch LIKE A DRAGON! (Like a Dragon – Yakuza: Kiawami (2016) Announced for Switch)
• Tokimeki FUCKING Memorial is Back! (Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You Emotional Announced)
• Nintendo Direct: Dribs and Drabs (JRPGs I Didn’t Have Much to Say About)
• Live Services, Quality, Disdain, Bad Ideas, and Death (The Struggles of Foamstars, Concord, and Blue Protocol)
• Argonaut & Croc are BACK! (Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HD Remaster Announced)
• Visions of Dissolution and Despair (NetEase and Tencent Are Reconsidering Japanese Game Investments)
• Hideaki Itsuno Leaves Capcom After 30 Years (Devil May Cry Shepard and Dragon’s Dogma Director Leaves Capcom)
• Nintendo Re-Whatever Rationale List (Moved to the End to Avoid Pace Breaking)

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Rundown (6/23/2024) Pride Month and Transition Reflections

• Post published:06/23/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:88 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Pride Month and Transition Reflections
• Student Transfer V8 is Out! (Get HYPE!)
• TSF Showcase 2024-25 True Stories From the Time of The Great Shift by Caleb Jones
• Embracer Group Shuts Down Pieces Interactive (Alone in the Dark (2024) Developer Crumbles Into Pieces)
• Nintendo Direct 2024-06-18 Rundown (Nindai Doko? Nindai Now!)
• The Denpa Boys Are BACK! (Live Service The New Denpa Men Announced)
• The Ace Attorney Saga is Now Complete! (Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Announced)
• Toy Zelda is Back… Unfortunately (Natalie Completely Loses The Plot in Her Latest Rant)
• Ho Hi Jamboree! (Mario Party 13: Super Jamboree Announced)
• Beyond The Emerald Beyond | Minstrel Song Successor (Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven Announced)
• This Looks Like a Marvelous Mishmash! (Farmagia Formally Unveiled)
• Mario & Luigi RPG is BACK! (Mario & Luigi: Brothership Announced)
• They Downgraded A Remake of an NES Game! (Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake Re-Announced)
• Versus Capcom is BACK! (Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection Announced)
• Do I Want This Fantasy To Come True? (Fantasian Neo Dimension Announced)
• Donkey Kong Re-Re-Re-Returns With His First Game in 7 Years! (Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Announced)
• I want 100 Danganronpas, And I’m Not Kidding! (The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Announced)
• It’s Been 7 Years… (Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Gameplay Reveal)
• I Should Have Talked About This Two Weeks Ago… (Tribe Nine Looks Like The Coolest Shit*)
• Resident Evil… 1996! (PEGI Leaks a Possible PC Release of the Original Resident Evil)
• Limited Run Rundown! (Sonuva Finch! I Forgot This Was This Week!)
• Two PS1 Games, Emulated Decently, For a Premium Price (Fighting Force Collection Announced)
• Fear Effect Reinvented is Dead, Take This Re-Release (Fear Effect Port Announced)
• Limited Run Should Not Have This Power! (The Carbon Engine Was A Mistake…)
• A Good Remaster Example (Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition Formally Announced)

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Rundown (2/25/2024) First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!

• Post published:02/25/2024
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:35 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: First Place, Second Place, Third Place, THE VOID!!!
• TSF Showcase 2024-08 Okitsune-sama de Chu♥ by Sumino Yuji
• Nintendo Direct 2024 – 1 of ??? (A Spoonful of Sugar To Numb The Mind)
• Monster Hunter Stories… Retold (Capcom Announces Monster Hunter Stories Remaster)
• Epic Disappointment Remastered (Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed Announced)
• SMT is BACK! …With A Vengeance! (Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Announced)
• Back to the Banana-Rama Again! (Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble Announced)
• Explore The Sea… With Friends! (Endless Ocean Luminous Announced)
• Pokémon Radical Insanity (First Impressions of Pokémon Radical Red v4.0)

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Rundown (9/17/2023) Natalie is a TOS Violation

• Post published:09/17/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:79 mins read
• Post comments:7 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie is a TOS Violation
• TSF Showcase #2023-28 Kikaishikake no Eve [Clockwork Eve] – Haruno Suzune
• TF Discussions and Drama (Natalie Rambles About a TF React Podcast)
• The Tour is Over! (Nintendo Will Stop Producing Mario Kart Tour Content)
• Gearbox (May) Escape the Controlling Embrace (Embracer Group is Weighing Options to Sell Gearbox)
• We Must Stand Unified Against Unity (Unity Will Charge Royalties for Game Installations)
• Franchise and Series – A Pet Peeve of Peeves! (Natalie Defines a Franchise and a Series)
• Nintendo Direct 2023 – 3 of 2 (Rundown of the September 14, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
• Minis Go Home! The Boy Is Back And He Don’t Look Like Ass No Mo’ (Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Remake Announced)
• Trace to Another Code to Recollect Two Memories of Cing (Another Code Recollection Announced)
• Peach Game is a Genre Mashup, and That’s Sparklin’ Cool! (Princess Peach: Showtime! Fully Announced)
• We Sold Enough Remasters to Continue Da SaGa! (SaGa Emerald Beyond Announced)
• Tomb Raider’s Getting Re-Re-Remade! (Tomb Raider I II III Remastered Starring Lara Croft Announced)
• Konami Refuses to Give Contra, or Any Game, A Proper Budget(?) (Contra: Operation Galuga Announced)
• Is That Freaking Grand Knights History II? …No. It’s BETTER! (Unicorn Overlord Announced)
• Nintendo, This is Just a Straight 3DS Port… (Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD Fully Revealed)
• After 19 Years, F-Zero is BACK… in 2D! (F-Zero 99 Announced)
• One of Nat’s GOATS is BACK! (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Remake Announced)
• Moon: RPG Remix Adventure Part 4, Bay-Bee! (Onion Games Announces Stray Children)
• The Original Mystery Dungeon is Back, Bay-Bee! (Shiren the Wanderer 6: Toguro Island Expedition Record Announced)
• Shin-Chan Did Well Enough To Get A Sequel? (Shin-chan: Shiro of Coal Town Announced)
• Double Direct Debauchery (A Narrow Rundown of the September 14, 2023 State of Play)
• Wizardry Is Back… Except It Never Left! (Digital Eclipse Announces Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord)

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Rundown (2/12/2023) Natalie Reviews Rintarou Panic! (And Other Assorted Treats)

• Post published:02/12/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:70 mins read
• Post comments:6 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-03 Rintarou Panic! is DOPE!
• TSF Showcase #2023-04 About Sex: Understanding the Body Swap and The Transformation Fetishes by Sr. Estranho
• Libraries and Media as a Public Good (Natalie Rambles About Digital Public Libraries)
• Out With The AAA; In With The Old (Natalie Rambles About The State of AAA & Retro Gaming)
• Are First-Party Nintendo Games AAA Titles? (A Bridge Between Two Segments)
• Nintendo Direct 2023 – 1 of 2 (Rundown of the February 8, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
• Pikmin 4 is Real-er! (Pikmin 4 Gameplay Reveal)
• From Latin With Love 2 – 23 Years Later (Samba de Amigo is BACK!!!)
• Two Dope Looking Remasters Announced After Being Leaked! (Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective and We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie Announced)
• Yggdrasil Odyssey – OG Remaster! (Etrian Odyssey I, II, and III are Getting Remastered)
• Nintendo Switch Online Still Sucks, But It Has More Stuff Now (GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and GameBoy Advance Titles Added to NSO)
• Metroid Prime is BACK! (Metroid Prime Remastered FINALLY Releases for Switch)
• As Requested By 500 People, Here’s A Baten Kaitos Remaster! (Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster Announced)
• LEVEL-5 IS BACK BAY-BEE!!! (Developer Level-5 Announces 3 New Titles)
• Fantasy Life III, but with Only One I (Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Announced)
• We Ain’t Deca Sports, We Deca COPS! (DecaPolice Announced)
• Layton’s Back, BAY-BEE!!! (Professor Layton and The New World of Steam Announced)
• Paranormal Sights and Big Confusion (Square Enix Announces Horror Adventure Game Coming Out Next Month)
• Boku no Natsuyasumi VII, BAY-BEE!!! Natsu-Mon! 20th Century Summer Vacation Announced
• Atelier Remake Saga Begins! (Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg Announced)
• Nintendo Direct 2023 – 1 of 2 – Das Ende (Other Announcements From the February 8, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
• Ayesha Erotica And The Quest For Moral Purity (Natalie Rambles About Shunning And Moral Perfectionism)

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Rundown (9/11-9/17) Formatting Frustrations 2: Perpetual Aggression

• Post published:09/18/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:47 mins read
• Post comments:0 Comments

Wherein I discuss: My illiteracy. Nina Tendo’s Maple-some Autumnal Treat. Soh Nii’s Amber-some Autumnal Treat. The re;birth of Yakuza. Oodles of TGS-time video game announcements! And the (hopeful) demise of PSVR2.

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Rundown (9/19-9/25) Natalie Is Incompetent — Never Trust Her

• Post published:09/26/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:19 mins read
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Wherein I discuss how I cannot complete a simple child-level task, a potential revival of a niche game series nobody actually cares about, a faux celebration by barons of incalculable greed, the Kotick-Epstein Connection, and a Semi-Dope Nintendo Direct.

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Rundown (2/14-2/20) Snow Covered – Repeated Shoveling

• Post published:02/21/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
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Wherein I discuss the woes of midwestern home-having, the Re;Birth of the Direct, anti-crypto-mining tech, and a truckload of remasters.

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Rundown: Nintendo Direct (4/17)

• Post published:04/17/2013
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:6 mins read
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Well, numerous sites have offered their fast paced summaries of the most recent Nintendo Direct, but I’ve never taken “your opinion isn’t needed” as a valid reason not to talk about something, unless the opinion itself was lame on a personal level. So taking the amount of concentrated happy Nintendo injects into my eye sockets, time to be a snarky badger about it. Also not include hyperlinks beyond Destructoid’s Round-up.

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