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

• Post published:09/14/2025
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:93 mins read
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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 (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 (9/03/2023) Let’s Imagine… TSF Mecca

• Post published:09/03/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
• Post comments:3 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Let’s Imagine… TSF Mecca
• TSF Showcase #2023-26 An Older Guy’s VR First Love by Violence Tomoko
• The Ultimate TF Visual Novel Should Use 3D Models (Natalie Muses About a Ren’Py X Koikatsu Super Program)
• PlayStation Plus 33% (Sony Raises PlayStation Plus Prices 15 Months After Revising Service)
• Super Mario’s Wonderworld (Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo Direct Rundown)
• The End of Volition (Embracer Shuts Down Saints Row Developer Volition)

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Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers

• Post published:08/27/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:40 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers
• TSF Showcase #2023-24.1 BlazBlue Remix Heart Gaiden by Arc System Works
• TSF Showcase #2023-25 Doutei Ikki [Brotherhood of Virgins] by DOM
• The Behavior of a Juggernaut (Behavior Acquires Rotterdam-Based Developer Codeglue)
• Sony Gobbles Up An Audio Company (Sony Interactive Entertainment Acquires Audeze)
• PlayStation Portal Is a Bad PlayStation Vita (PlayStation Project Q Re-Announced As PlayStation Portal)
• New Auditory Era of Mario (Mario Voice Actor, Charles Martinet, Steps Down From Role)
• Nintendo is Bringing DRM to Consoles (Nintendo Partners With Denuvo to Fight Switch Emulation)
• Denuvo Is Trying to Prevent Mods on Unreal Engine Games (Denuvo Announces Unreal Engine Protection Software)
• Sacrifice Profits For Market Share For The Glory of Tencent (Epic Games Launches New Revenue Share Model for Timed Exclusives)
• The Plan to Eradicate Platform Identity (Natalie Rambles About Platform Identity and Media Formats)

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Rundown (7/30/2023) Hoarding Games I’ll Never Play!

• Post published:07/30/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:27 mins read
• Post comments:4 Comments

This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie’s ROM Hole
• TSF Showcase #2023-21 Mahou Shounen Majorian by Ishida Atsuko
• Techland’s Dying Light of Independence (Tencent Will Acquire A Majority Stake in Techland)
• Tencent Bought One of the Most Important Visual Novel Developers of All Time (Tencent Acquires Visual Arts and Key)
• Capcom Snagged a Snack! (Capcom Acquires Swordcanes Studios Co., Ltd.)
• Screw Social Media, Make RSS 3.0! (𝕏 Is Here, And I Stopped Caring!)
• Official Game Collections Continue To Be Worse Than A ROM Folder (Double Dragon Collection Announced)

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Rundown (6/25/2023) A Gray Day Is DOPE!

• Post published:06/25/2023
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:42 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• Rundown Preamble Ramble: TSF Showcase #2023-14 A Gray Day by Maideneir
• Trans-Sexual Fantasy Ja Nai (What is and is not TSF?)
• The GameCube Handle Was Worthless, Stop Revising History (This Is a Pointless Comment, but I Just Slid It in Here)
• Ah Shaz, I Guess We’re Getting 3 Nintendo Directs This Year! (Rundown of the June 21, 2023 Nintendo Direct)
• Detective Pikachu 2 ACTUALLY Looks Like It Belongs On 3DS (Detective Pikachu Returns Announced)
• Monster Catching Is Back, Bay-Bee! (Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince Announced)
• WarioWare is Back… AGAIN… AGAIN! (WarioWare: Move It! Announced)
• The Pikmin Quadrilogy is Complete! (HD Ports of Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 2 Announced and Stealth Dropped)
• Collect That Shit Like A Master! (Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Volume 1 is Lookin’ Good!)
• The Best Star Ocean is Now EVEN BETTER! (Star Ocean: The Second Story R Announced)
• Natalie Hated This Remake Until She Re-Watched The Trailer (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Remake Announced)
• New Super Mario Wonderworld! (Super Mario Bros. Wonder Announced)
• More Mario Coming In 2024! (Nintendo Sorta Announces Two Mario Games)
• Other Nintendo Direct Coolsies (Neat Games That Don’t Warrant Their Own Section)
• The 2023 Schedule – Q2 Update (Natalie Provides Her TENTATIVE Plans For The Rest of 2023)
• A Demon In Human Skin (A Rundown Post-Script)

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Rundown (12/04/2022) Hello and Welcome to Natalie Dot TF

• Post published:12/04/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:7 mins read
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This Week’s Topics:

• A recap of the happenings here at the brand new Natalie.TF
• Musings about visual novel presentation
• Trickles of gaming news before The Game Awards next week

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Rundown (10/02-10/08) Little Ado About Horror

• Post published:10/09/2022
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:29 mins read
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Wherein I discuss: My mundane thoughts on the most popular genre of autumn. An absolutely awful acquisition. The eternal mixing up of re;makers and re;masters. The fifth Super Mario movie. CDPR Expansion. A game that thinks it should be more invasive than a game. One Last Scarlet and Violet splurge sesh. And the surprise Steam release of Chaos;Head Noah. 

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Rundown (1/10-1/16) Meandering Musings About Music

• Post published:01/17/2021
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:14 mins read
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Wherein I discuss music stuff, the return of two old ghosts, an open area fury, the return of a gaming legend, and the end of East AR Wars.

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Natalie Rambles About 2020

• Post published:12/30/2020
• Post category:Rambles
• Reading time:56 mins read
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Because 2020 is finally at an end, and good riddance!

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Rundown (8/30-9/05) Oopsie! Scheduling Conflict Imminent!

• Post published:09/06/2020
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:11 mins read
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Wherein I provide a Nigma Box Update, discuss Nintendo’s Mario-related nonsense, and hot forklift action coming to an anime channel near you.

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Rundown (3/29-4/04) Please Be Nice

• Post published:04/05/2020
• Post category:Rundowns
• Reading time:10 mins read
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Wherein I discuss a personal quibble, a much-anticipated revision, a mobile Re;Birth, a baffling split, a rumored revelrous re-release, the seasonal guffaws, and the future of industry events!

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Super Mario Odyssey Review

• Post published:09/12/2018
• Post category:Game Reviews
• Reading time:11 mins read
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A grand globe-trotting journey best only taken once.
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