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SUPER BOSSA NOVA
SIRIUS
(zts) EPIC TRANCE

KITTY CITY
SOARING EMOTION
CAF AFFECTION

cruel match 1
cruel match 2
cruel match 3

yeah i thought for a while and concluded that there just hasn't really been a pokeclone that i was way into objectively... (outside of mixed juice)

best clones just aren't as good as the best pokemon fangames tbh

We get signal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc0tt-ThHoo

ok not really though

i hesistate to say it, but mechanically 200% Mixed Juice is halfway to being a pokemon clone down to its online battles so that's arguably my actual answer

though as far as open clones go...

Fantasy
Bloodlines

Wordle 377 4/6

DREAM OF FRAIL GIRL
APHEL AURA
VIVID PROG

unhealthily stacked day, match 2 is just flat out evil and wrong bracket design and i hate the rest too

actually can i have that usb stick

RUINED METROPOLIS
BLUE GOLD
TWILIGHT TIMPANI

l

so regarding other things i'm looking forward to here's a partial list i guess of stuff on my radar currently

that Garage (ps1 game) smartphone port/localisation but on steam
JETMAN
Yoko Redux
Mothmen 1966
Kinkoi: Golden Time
Koumajou Remilia (touhouvania remaster)
Severed Steel on switch (and other consoles)
Bunny Must Die also on switch
River City Saga
Vestaria Saga 2
Monument Valley 1 and 2 on pc
Yuoni
Yurukill
Overrogue maybe
METEORA
LOST EPIC was promoted more than it needed to be but eh i might still pick it up in a sale maybe
i probably won't get it but Ex-Zodiac is neat
SUPER UFO FIGHTER
Exodus Vigil looks kinda neat maybe
Nyaruru Fishy Fight

also since i'm looking at steam while noting these down here's some other games with placeholder (non-announced) dates over the next month, surely some of these will have to actually release in july
Nour: Play with Your Food
Hello, Goodbye, Summer Girl
Touhou Fairy Knockout ~ One fairy to rule them all
Touhou Blooming Soul
Porcelain Mask
Mohism: Battle of Words
There's no way that tsundere girl I met in the infirmary will be my girlfriend lol
Small Saga
Rendezvous
We Are OFK
Gematombe
Zero Losses
CrocApoca
Metal Slug Tactics

and i'm not sure how its development is progressing but Retro Game Aliens was targeting Q2 and it hasn't happened so just in case it does slip in to july instead that's also right at the top of my list

but yeah grimgrimoire day 1 for sure, klonoa for sure, stray for sure maybe not straight away, live a live asap, rest ideally some time

might get rune factory 5 on steam too, almost forgot

Puyo
Dragon

excited for stray, klonoa, live a live, xc3 if i ever finish the rest... and the rest are cool besides powerwash simulator what's the deal with that


there is also a ton of other stuff i don't have time to check that i am confident is also releasing soon, all i can definitely say is grimgrimoire remake is a day 1 buy if it gets localised

didn't doom have a snes version anyway lol

honestly have no idea, there's been so much stuff i've played and thoroughly enjoyed and also a ton of stuff i really want to get to as well

shoutout to NORCO

aw

yeah i realised when i rechecked

so i guess with my new slot i'll go lock in a different puzzle game

Puyo Puyo 2

also swapping out fatal fury 3 for fatal fury special now that i saw where it was at on the tally if that's cool. i like 3 slightly more but special is my 2nd favourite lol

oh i knew it was on x55 first which i knew wouldn't have counted but i was just going by gamefaqs arcade release date which i guess was wrong maybe

wait

ok i have no idea why but it came up when i was searching 1995 arcade releases and i figured it must've counted. shrug.

why would you change red truth to hard truth gdi

HEAVY DUTY
LUTHER
WAYNE'S WORLD

Donkey Kong '94
X (GB)

nearly forgot to have some gb noms (yes these are kinda generic picks but i mostly just played gbc...)

oh darn ok, guess i better nom those fighting games too before it's too late (it's probably already too late but shh)

Psychic Force
Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness
Cleopatra Fortune
Virtua Fighter 2
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Galaxy Fight: Universal Warriors
Cyber Troopers Virtual-On
Seiya Monogatari: AnEarth Fantasy Stories

okay i only just went to watch the japanese direct and AAAAAAAAAAAAA
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/7/9/AARWb-AADZKH.jpg

(ok i see this was already announced somewhere but i had no idea)

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen

tazzyboyishere posted...

Policenauts is valid, yes

oh i meant more that, while i know it's valid for this, would it be invalid for gen v because of that? i'd rather pick it for there tbh

on a related note, still feel a bit embarrassed i never played enough of lostcolors until the other day to hear the ingame version of cmyk (which i liked more...). in other words, even less people have played it (to the point that nobody had really at the time of noms..............)

not really any special context to be gleaned from "playing" it though, beyond it remaining bizarre that a no-name doujin visual novel like it would have such a soundtrack in general, of course

/

anyway oh hey flashy is back

EKOROSHIA
LIMIT BREAK
TUBULAR BELLS

c

oh yeah i should probably actually nominate stuff huh

Radical Dreamers
Star Fox 2
Panel de Pon
Kamaitachi no Yoru
46 Okunen Monogatari - The Shinka Ron
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
Policenauts (not sure whether to count this or not since only the pc98 (and maybe 3do) version would be maybe valid but also it feels like it wouldn't be eligible for gen 5 for the same reason, if i can get a confirmation it would be i'll just withdraw this nom. generation borders are still hard to really draw a line on huh there's also a lot of 1994/5 arcade fighting games with 5th gen console ports i'd also consider... hm. i guess since (at least console) neo geo is probably fine they're also probably fine lol, but i'll hold off until i know for sure. partially feel like they shouldn't really count tbh...)
Tokimeki Memorial

THE FRUMS
FIVE LAWS
PSYSLEEP

i wish the other msr song had gotten in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuRM4Av789w extended cut

yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annP2xhxJPU

if shine's allowed to make topics like this clearly i can too

oh to clarify it's not like there weren't exactly comments positive towards either, it's just that almost every comment left on a pro-cmyk vote regarding the match was just "ugh blue orb is fucking painful so cmyk wins by default" kind of stuff. the fact that it won despite this is so sad to me...

worth it

i'm pleased that cmyk got a chance it probably otherwise wouldn't have had to win a match, though i'm very disheartened that it happened basically purely because people found less in it to dislike than blue orb. love blue orb and wish people appreciated it

:(

INFINITY MAZE
SUBTLE THRILL
SKYLINE

CAPs

GACHICAT
CLEVELAND BRASS
FULL OF THINGS

caps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlURf3BST3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrAjnVFhe84&t=909s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WII791VMcXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AjeKKlstlM
alternate versions of CMYK (i hadn't listened to the original until now, damn i honestly regret not checking it before noms...)

mizuno is a secret god

also no votes for now this is a very scary day

oh i never got astebreed on steam apparently

reluctant to ask for any of these since i don't have good specs and also have barely any laptop space so it's unlikely i'll get around to any of them any time soon...

figured i'd mention that i have a spare key for long live the queen though

tazzyboyishere posted...

It's for a SNES attachment so it's definitely

cool

actually, i have one more question now that i thought about it

the date rule was applied to computer games but what about games on stuff like pc98 or x68k that is clearly not 5th gen-equivalent hardware?

(in other words, not that i expect it to get in either way but is early touhou valid lol)

would radical dreamers be eligible or nah. 1996 and satellaview makes me think maybe not?

oh yeah by the way, i hear Cherry Tree High Comedy Club and its sequel are being delisted on there soon, and they're on sale now

i am entirely confident that the moment i pick any vgm i will only get a 1-3/10 and i cannot think of a single song that i could remotely realistically get even close to a 9 with, so here's some vtuber music instead so i have an excuse when i end in last place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSJwhpXabvc

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/1/AARWb-AADYC5.jpg

i know alice schach in general isn't quite as strong as it was when chocomissile retired but i still wasn't sure if mars could win against schach, secretly strong performance there?
move me looking stronger than expected too (maybe it's just the higher votals but mad last world looking more vulnerable than i thought here)

SKYLINE in hindsight i should've considered this as a genre for night birds
ANCIENT IDM
MILLENNIUM DUET

super strong day, easily in the running for my favourite r1 day

kirbry (blessed as always)
vapour tbh skyline would also fit this song too lmao
what the fuck gamefreak (thank you). it's disheartening knowing this is the kind of song that would never win a contest match but simply being here is a victory to me
i hope twilight of the gods doesn't choke within the first couple of rounds again because i really want to vote for it but it is in one of the absolute worst parts of the bracket for that within the first few rounds ;_; (also, good genre)
balloon game still godtier also i adore this genre pick too
secretly exploded when i first saw that mili collabed with myth & roid and still exploding now

that entire filler nation in that one naruto movie that Shino managed to solo

Wordle 369 3/6

healers are secretly dicks

REVERIE BREAKS
UNKNOWN D&B
MUTATED ETHNIC

mars is good and definitely the best shade song in the contest
alice schach is good and definitely the best alice schach in the contest (please keep adding more alice schach songs to contests thanks)
this was a tough match to decide in my favourites bracket so it's not a huge surprise that i nearly flipped on it here. rooting for both

there are specific things move me does and has that elevates the song for me a good deal beyond many other ridge racer songs so i'm glad to see it back
on the other hand, this genshin song is not exactly one that i go and say "yes!!! this is the best genshin impact hoyoverse song i've heard in my life" but that doesn't really matter because genshin is just super consistent no matter where you look. glad it's here too
another tough match, was a liiiittle bit easier after relistens but sheesh

i've already said this before but this xmen song is like, a ketsui song but with some... i think battle garegga, night slave and cattle mutilation attached to it, which is an impressive vibe to achieve in just one minute especially considering none of those games existed then lol. also it's still kind of funny to me that like, i was thinking about picking a technouchi song from cotton rock n roll since, of all the composers in it, i didn't really expect anyone to nominate anything else from him at all, and then... this not only got nominated but is also in
good song. unexpectedly felt a bit pokemon dp? a little while in. even for toby, it impresses me that he was able to make such a memorable ending theme-esque song without even making it an ending theme lol
easiest decision of the day for me mostly since the xmen song manages to pack as many things i like (if not more) into its significantly shorter runtime, but i still like cyber's world a lot. i haven't seen votes so this is coming out of my ass but i also feel like it's going to win pretty easily, though i don't mind at all tbh

overall great day, i had ratings but i feel like i still underrated half of them and they should all be around at least 8 tbh

i still want to try that other technouchi song again next year though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlNB-74TbHY