Rundown (1/04/2026) The Most Confusing Name In Gaming…
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natsume Atari Is Now Winning Entertainment Group
- Student Transfer Version 9 is Out! (Enjoy and Rejoice in The Swappings!)
- GOG is Under New Ownership! (Which Could be Good or Bad)
- Granblue Fantasy is Coming to Steam! (Which is Weird and Confusing!)
- Rance is Coming to Steam! (Steam, Clarify Your Damn Guidelines!)
- Natalie Muses About Chinese RPGs (Because She’s Ignorant But Wants to Care)
Rundown (4/06/2025) Swiitch 2 – 4 Mii & U
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Swiitch 2 – 4 Mii & U
- Switch 2: The Main Deets (Summary of the System Level Stuff)
- Switch 2: The Race World (Mario Kart World Announced)
- Switch 2: A Familiar Fable (Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster Announced)
- Switch 2: A New Zelda, Technically! (Zelda Musou – Hyrule Warriors 3: Age of Imprisonment Announced)
- Switch 2: A FromSoftware Multiplayer Switch 2 Exclusive (The Saga of Souls Chapter IX: The Duskbloods Announced)
- Switch 2: Sakurai’s Next Big Game! (Kirby Air Riders Announced)
- Switch 2: A Banana Bonanza (Donkey Kong Bananza Announced)
- Switch 2: The Riffraff (Games I Have Only A Paragraph of Stuff To Say About)
- Switch 2: The GameCube (Dolphin At Home!)
- Switch 2: The Money Zone (And the High Prices Brought to You by Trump Tax)
- Switch 2: The Tariffs (Fight the Power, With Your Fists!)
- Switch 2: The Verdict (Nah, Imma Gonna Pass This One)
- Random Tax Tip For American Gamers (I’m An Enrolled Agent, Trust Me Bro!)
- Oh, Right, April Fools Happened (And I Didn’t Get to Celebrate It!)
Rundown (10/13/2024) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic! – The Lost Levels
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic! – The Lost Levels
- Silent Hill 2 (2024) is… Actually Good? (Bloober Got It Right?)
- 343 Industries Is Now Halo Studios (Still Doesn’t Get Halo Out of Its Mess)
- Student Transfer FINALLY Got An Official YouTube Channel! (And Other Miscellaneous Tangents)
- Red Dead Re-Re-Re-Redemption! (Red Dead Redemption Is FINALLY Coming to PC)
- LittleBigDelisting (Sony is Delisting LittleBigPlanet 3)
- The Great Big Roblox Exposé! (Roblox Is an X-Rated Pedophile Hellscape)
- Raise the Alarmo! (Nintendo Reveals a Smart Clock to Watch You as You Sleep)
Rundown (7/07/2024) Student Transfer Ad Infinitum
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Transfer Students Ad Infinitum
- DRDR: Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Gameplay (We’ve Got Nothing To Discuss This Holiday Week!)
- A Lost Planet History Rundown… Because I Don’t Know (Gotta Bulk Up The Word Count)
- Keywords Studios Has Been Acquired (Private Equity Wants To Ruin The Games Industry For £2.2 Billion)
Rundown (6/23/2024) Pride Month and Transition Reflections
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)
Rundown (6/02/2024) It’s Gonna Be A Bangin’ TSF Summer!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: It’s Gonna Be A Bangin’ TSF Summer! (Also, Press-Switch v0.6b is OUT!!!)
- TSF Showcase 2024-21.1 Tenkôsei: Sayonara Anata (2007) [Transfer Students: Goodbye to You] or Switching: Goodbye Me
- TSF Showcase 2024-22 The God Power by Gregor Daniels
- TSF Showcase 2024-22.1 The God Power Seeks Another by Gregor Daniels
- Awaiting The Inevitable Segmented Summer Showcases (A Preamble to S3 2024)
- The Obligatory State of Play Summary (Let S3 2024 Begin!)
- Monster Hunter Musings (Natalie Avoids Talking About Monster Hunter Wilds)
- Dynasty Warriors X – The New Zero (Dynasty Warriors Reboot, Dynasty Warriors Origins, Announced)
- Japan Studio Died So Astro Bot Can Live (Standalone Astro Bot 3D Platformer Announced)
Rundown (5/12/2024) Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Sprite Smarter, Sprite Sharder
- TSF Showcase 2024-19 Change Ring by Kawaii Tsun’aho
- TSF Showcase 2024-19.1 Change Ring the Manga by Kawaii Tsun’aho and MPZ
- Student Transfer V8 is Coming Soon! (The Murder Route is Finally Getting Replaced!)
- re:Dreamer is Back, Bay-Bee! (re:Dreamer Version 0.18.0 Releases After 7 Month Delay)
- Microsoft Murders Arkane Austin and Tango GameWorks (Technically They Also Killed Alpha Dog and Consolidated Roundhouse…)
- Another AI Generated Image Musing (No, I’m Not Going to Become An AI Pundit)
- Yes, Nintendo Switch 2 is Happening, But You Gotta Wait! (The Switch-2.0-Roadmap)
- Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Announced (Better Than Nothing, Worse Than You’d Expect)
Rundown (4/14/2024) The Enigmatic Children
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: The Enigmatic Children
- TSF Showcase 2024-15 TS Boshi Techou by Seto Kouhei and Matsuzono
- Contemplating Console Cataclysm (Response to the Consoles Are Dying Discourse – Wave Two)
- Natalie Rambles About the Triple-A and Triple-i Naming Convention (A Tangent That Overtook the Original Topic)
- Eman Looc’s Possession Scroll is Divesting from Student Transfer (Add Another Great Standalone TF Game to The List!)
- Minor Musings About Unionization and Costs of Living (Avalanche Studios Starts Unionizing)
- The Illest Quote From 1951 (Natalie Hyperfixates on 30 Seconds From a 38 Hour Documentary)
Rundown (4/07/2024) Artificially Difficult Taxation
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Artificially Difficult Taxation
- TSF Showcase 2024-14 Ojou-sama Irekawari by Yuniba (TSuniverse)
- TSF Showcase 2024-REJECT_1 Watashi-tachi ha “Byplayer” [We Are Supporting Actors] by Harada
- April Fools Ain’t Cool, Except For When It Is (The April Fools Rundown)
- STOP KILLING GAMES!!! (Ross Scott Launches Legal Campaign Against Live Services)
- Not Safe For The Powerful Puritans – Part II (DLSite Has Been Screwed By US Credit Card Companies)
Rundown (11/20-11/26) Student Transfer Version 7.0 is Out!!!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Student Transfer V7 is Good; Review Coming Before December 7th
- These Wolves Ain’t Rebels No More! (NetEase Invests in Polish Studio Rebel Wolves)
- The ‘Kdicarus’ Will Rise Again (Masahiro Sakurai Teases Kid Icarus: Uprising Port)
- There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Hybrid Home Console Handheld’ (Natalie Complains About the Switch’s Classification for the nth Time)
- More Like T.E.X.T. Troopers (E.X. Troopers Has Been Fan Translated)
- AI-licia Erotica (Alicia’s The Great Shift TG Captions is Back!)
- Video Deliberations (Should Natalie Start Recording Gameplay and Making Videos?)
- End & Updates: Goodbye Dragalia Lost…
Rundown (10/16-10/22) Press-Switch v0.6a Is Out & Student Transfer v7.0 Is Coming Next Month
Wherein I discuss: The Next Releases of two DOPE TSF VNs. My disastrous Q4 2022 schedule. The 2022 Bayonetta controversy. And the return of Silent Hill.
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Student Transfer Scenario Reviews – Part 8
It was the dopest of times, it was the perviest of times, and it was the spaghettiest of times.
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Rundown (11/01-11/07) Get Hyped for Student Transfer Version 5!
Wherein I discuss STVV’s imminent debut, the modern political strife, another allegedly auspicious acquisition, and an anticipated… agglomeration!
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Student Transfer Scenario Reviews – Part 3
No one can stop, will stop, or wants to stop this train, so let’s drive her off a cliff and see if she can fly!
Rundown (3/31-4/06) Natalie Got Her Gacha Fix!
Ever since I stopped playing Fire Emblem Heroes a year ago, I’ve been craving a game with some sort of gacha mechanics, as I love the sensations that come with getting rare and powerful characters accompanied with light flavor text and unique artwork. It is a desire that I have been looking to satiate in a somewhat healthy manner, and wouldn’t you know it, the Student Transfer dev team provided just that with their latest April Fools goof. A standard no-frills card collector gacha title where the player can earn 160 unique cards with flavor text that were enough to drive me to achieve a 100% completion rate, and then proceed to happily read through the descriptions, taking delight in the information, background, and general absurdity they provided.
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Rundown (2/10-2/16) Flowchart Nightmares Ahead 2: You Can (Not) Prepare
Last Friday the Student Transfer development team announced that Version 4 will be coming before the end of February, boasting that this version will contain roughly twice the content as Version 3. A surprising bit of news that I find to be simultaneously exciting and intimidating to me, as I have taken on the duty of creating the flowcharts for sprawling choose-your-own adventure style visual novels about TG, body swapping, and more. I very much want to enjoy the game and take my time with it, but Version 3 took me a good week to get through, so I am a bit concerned about getting a flowchart ready in a timely manner, especially with work and grad school keeping me so busy. As such, I decided to do my homework in advance and download what I can off of the public Student Transfer GitHub in order to get cracking on a rough flowchart for V4 at the risk of spoiling myself. Only to discover that with the way this game is developed, I would basically need to consolidate the builds available myself and… yeah, that sounds like more trouble than it’s worth.
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Rundown (1/28-2/03) Flowchart Nightmares Ahead!
So, after thirteen months of dev time, the latest build of Student Transfer has been released, and going through it has become my first priority. I should have a review of the game up around the 14th, but more importantly, I have to work on another flowchart for the game. While I do enjoy mapping out a complicated series of choices in a visually appealing manner, this build seems particularly… nasty in the sheer spectrum of its choices. I mean, I honestly had to go into the game’s files just to figure out how the heck it all works.
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