I watched these last night and I loved how he presented the reactions to each of the films. I wish Rogue One has been included but I also get why it wasn’t. It’s Star Wars but not the core of it.

I have warmed up to the prequels over the years. I, like the people he talked about in the video, was obsessed with episode 1 when it came out. I think I watched it three times in a week, and on that last one the illusion was broken. But time and age has made me appreciate things more and while it’s nowhere near as good as I thought it was opening week, it’s nowhere near as bad as I thought it was the week after.

Episode 2 though. That movie does a lot of great things but... a lot of not great things too.

I couldn't finish this. The video was too overproduced imho.

Wow, we had very different reactions. My wife and I liked it so much that we are going through this entire series and adding any movies we haven't seen to a watch list, so that we can watch the Movies with Mikey reviews of them.

I want him to do one for Baby Driver. Mikey's editing with cuts on the first beat of a musical phrase in his background music... he'd have a field day with Baby Driver.

And I STILL need to see The World's End.

The digital release is through Movies Anywhere (formerly Disney Movies Anywhere, but they have more partners now).

It ties into your iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, and a couple others. So when you activate it on Movies Anywhere, it unlocks on all the platforms you've connected to it.

Basically, if you have an internet connected device connected to your TV, it's a couple clicks away. A while back they had a promo that gave you some free movies, and I've activated a few on it, and the process is seamless and painless.

I feel like a Movies Anywhere commercial but it's really that good. Still DRM, but about as "open" as a DRM-encumbered file can be.

It's iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, and Amazon. That's the one I was forgetting.

Whoa really? So it was like a prologue instead of a demo in a way. That's awesome.

I am getting it. It comes out May 22nd btw. It is strange that they aren’t putting it all on one cart. Maybe the second collection won’t be ready in time for cart production? Or maybe they are keeping the cost down by getting the smallest cart possible?

Smallest cart possible is a reasonable guess for sure.

I want some Mega Man X action on these though!

I have to ask— “not too complicated” is relative to the player. How do you fare in turn based strategy games generally? And do you have a few games you can compare it to based on difficulty?

I’m kinda terrible at this kind of game so I’ve been holding off. But I did ADORE Valkyria Chronicles and had no issues with it.

When I get a Switch this game is on the list of things to get along with Mario Odyssey.

I not only remember you playing it, Greg. If you remember, I played it too! It’s a really good game. Very different from Trigger (though I admittedly haven’t played much of Trigger). I don’t think either of us enjoyed it as much as Ed though, that dude loved it.

It took me a long time to convince him that JRPGs weren’t demonic but once he was there, man, he was all in.

And it looks like the Secret of Mana mixed reviews are due to bugs so hopefully those get hammered out.

There are certain games from that generation (especially on PSX, but also things like Goldeneye on N64) that looked incredible at the time but definitely haven't aged well. It was kind of a transitional generation. Most everything before that holds up graphically, most everything after does as well. I guess it makes sense-- it was when they were first trying for more realism.

Especially Nintendo-made games on the N64. They've always made games that use the generation's capabilities while never striving for that kind of realism, so they stand the test of time.

I've heard from Civ players that the game gets really good after these kinds of feature expansions, curious if you agree here? Seems like it's added quite a bit of good stuff.

Also, what difficulty do you play at?

I played the original DOS Civilization a lot and then picked up Civ III and played that as well. I haven't played much of the new Civ games though but I heard really good things about IV and V. If one were going to jump into the new series which game do you recommend they play?

That video doesn't tell me anything.

No. JJ knows how to market. The Lizard crew does not.

I mean... it seems like it’s one dude doing literally everything so I can’t blame him for not being great at marketing.

But I dunno, it had some brief gameplay to show what kind of game it is. And it’s a teaser, which if he’s going by the rules of movie trailers vs teasers is meant to just hint at what’s to come. I didn’t really have an issue with it.

Honestly I think if he just released a video with half of those gameplay clips and the voiceover said “look I know my market and if you want to play a brand new NES game you’re going to play this” it would be enough :D

I expect something more from something that was kickstarted and has been released. I doubt people kickstarted it based on this video. There must be more.

Yes! His Kickstarter video is 1000% greater. I got a sense of the game.