It’s definitely MK9. Art style is noticably different.

If you want to learn a language, Duolingo is pretty much the worst way to do so. Seek out community-created resources for your target language.

So it’s not that “modern games suck” either?

At this point I think you gotta look inward to figure out what it is that you even want.

You say that as if indie is a singular genre. There are so many different kinds of indie games doing so many different things, I can’t believe anyone who would write them all off and claim they can’t find anything to enjoy ever.

My tastes have increasingly narrowed with age as I know what I like most, and the niches I like are pretty detached from what mainstream AAAs chase after. That said, every year I find at least a few new releases that I enjoy. And I don’t think that will ever stop being the case. I ignore the games I don’t care about and play the games I do.

There’s also the fact that I’ve settled into a few games that I really love endlessly grinding, and so it’s hard for other releases to pull my attention away from just playing my favorites some more. I’ve got a backlog of JRPGs, a genre I know I’ve always liked, and yet I hardly make time to finish them anymore…

Boktai with real sunlight?!?!?!

It’s been a childhood dream of mine to be able to play the third game with both the translation patch and Solar Sensor together.

I regularly enter fighting game tournaments under this name, and my face has been on stream several times. While I’d prefer not to keep my full name and identifying info too easy to find, if someone wanted to track me down they probably already could using that.

I don’t have anything too embarassing to expose either. My worst crime is arguing with people on the internet way too much, but I don’t think anyone’s going to have much reason to want to go after me for that.

I’ll bash on the the DNC leadership any day of the week but I don’t know what you’re trying to blame Bernie for.

Capcom released a comically ugly version of this a while back, shaped like a giant Capcom logo, with a very questionable selection of games. Only fighting games included were SF2 Hyper Fighting and Cyberbots. No Super Turbo, no Alpha, no 3rd Strike, no VSav…

All of this just sounds worse and worse. NFTs, seriously?

From what I’ve gathered, this appears to be an unusably slow 4chan for crypto bros.

You should probably double check whether you even understood OP’s question before acting smug and condescending.

GBC:

• Game & Watch Gallery 2: Holds a special place in my heart as the first game I ever owned. Has the best lineup out of all the collections, with 3 and 4 you can kinda tell they had used up all the heavy hitters.
• Mario Tennis: An incredible tennis RPG. And Mario doesn’t even show up until the postgame as a bonus boss, which I find hilarious. Has connectivity with the N64 version if you can get that running, lets you transfer your RPG mode character and unlock more content on both titles.
• Panel de Pon GBC: Better known under a name of a different IP it got reskinned with, but I’m a stubborn snob who will only ever call it by the original title. It’s a bit different from the console versions in order to compensate for the small screen, board is shrunk from 6x12 to 6x10, and the 1P Arcade mode is fake versus that gives opponents a health bar rather than their own board. I actually have a soft spot for this version, it’s different enough to stand out and be worth enjoying on its own, even if Gamecube is still the GOAT.

GBA:

• Boktai trilogy: Hideo Kojima’s greatest masterpiece. First game’s alright, second game is where it comes into its own. Note that you want the Solar Sensor hardware for the full experience, but emulating them is worth it over not playing them at all. And for the third game, you’d have to pick between original hardware or the translation patch anyway.
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: It’s Castlevania. It’s good. Also check out Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance, but AoS was by far the best of the GBA entries.
• Golden Sun 1/2: These games were way ahead of their time for how they designed a combat system that encourages you to use all of your tools and not just click basic Attack as if you gotta hoard your MP for a rainy day. Fantastic puzzles too.
• Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: If you’ve played any of the other Mario RPGs, this one’s great too. Has a 3DS remake but I haven’t played that version so I can’t tell you how it compares.
• Metroid: Zero Mission: The original Metroid has aged rather poorly if you ask me, but this remake does a perfect job modernizing it into one of the best games in the series. Fusion is good too, but some fans have opinions on that one.
• Mother 3: Surely you have already heard of this game and do not need me to tell you to go play it. Have you not played it by now? Why not? Well, okay, if you haven’t played Earthbound first, go do so, then play this.
• Rhythm Tengoku: A wonderful game about pressing the A button. Sometimes you press the d-pad too. Translation patch.
• Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 1/2: If you’ve ever played the classic 2D Tales games, these are excellent spiritual successors to those. There’s a third game that’s JP-only, translation patch is being worked on but it’s been stuck in development hell for years…

• Celeste Mario’s Zap & Dash (NES): SMB1 turned into a Metroidvania with Celeste mechanics ported in. I think what impresses me the most is that they got 4-directional scrolling into this engine.

• Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Crossover Randomizer (SNES): It’s an absolutely incredible technical feat that this even works. SM and ALttP smashed together into a single ROM, with a few doors that take you from one game to the other, then the item pools are shuffled together so you have to go back and forth to find one game’s items in the other. Unfortunately because ALttP is a much bigger game with a lot more items it kinda overshadows SM, you may not find this to be as replayable as the standalone randos. But I recommend trying it once because it’s just so cool the first time.

• Unfortunately I can’t find an up-to-date download link for this one, just a few Youtube videos with no link, but there’s an ongoing Panel de Pon GBC Restoration Project based on a lot of unused assets buried in the ROM before it tragically got reskinned (again, this poor IP can’t catch a break). I’ve got an older build of this on my hard drive I could upload somewhere if anyone wants it, but the version I have is far from complete.

Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes]

UNI finally gets rollback, which means I finally gave the series a shot. The GRD system is a very unique concept that adds an additional layer of trying to win the advantage state, then pressing the advantage when you have it or respecting the opponent’s advantage when they do. And Vatista is just a very fun character to play, I’m having a blast with her.

Fighting games and Riichi Mahjong.

Believe it or not, this venn diagram has enough overlap that we’ve got a running joke about how Riichi is becoming the new FGC Retirement Home. We’ve even got a few people bringing tiles to every major tournament to unwind before/after brackets. I’ve booked my trip to Frosty Faustings next month, signed up for six different brackets and I’ll try in squeeze in as much 'jong as I can too.

That’s not a fair comparison at all. In Mario Kart, you actually had to earn your first place spot fair and square.

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story?

If/when I can afford to upgrade - big if - I’m considering a foldable just to play rhythm games on, because some games I’ve tried feel like they aren’t designed for just thumbs and want a bigger screen. I dunno what else I’d use it for, but I see at least one niche use case for this gimmick and it happens to be a niche I’d use.

While I’d prefer to fully dismantle the whole capitalist system, I can accept UBI as the most realistic compromise we’re likely to get in our lifetimes.