{"id":10094,"date":"2022-11-15T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/review-neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-2-a-fair-retro-package-with-some-intriguing-curios\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T13:21:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:21:04","slug":"review-neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-2-a-fair-retro-package-with-some-intriguing-curios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/review-neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-2-a-fair-retro-package-with-some-intriguing-curios\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol.2 &#8211; A Fair Retro Package With Some Intriguing Curios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rolling the dice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the only real criticisms we levelled at the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mega_man_battle_and_fighters\">Mega Man Battle &amp; Fighters<\/a>, a re-release of a Neo Geo Pocket Color title included in this new package, was that nobody had bothered to translate the content from Japanese. It was an issue exacerbated by a fan translation already existing online for those willing to go the emulation route. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/neo_geo_pocket_color_selection_vol_2\">Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol.2<\/a>, on the same basis, is equally disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/11\/snks-neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-2-announced-for-switch\">ten titles<\/a> on board this follow-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/neo_geo_pocket_color_selection_vol_1\">Vol.1<\/a> \u2014 four of which are already available to buy separately on Switch eShop \u2014 nicely presented as little cartridges on the menu, each with a variety of options. The language barrier issue affects three titles, one of which is the aforementioned Mega Man Battle &amp; Fighters. The other two are board game <strong>King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise<\/strong>, and minigame\/sim curio <strong>Ganbare Neo Poke-Kun<\/strong>, both of which are fairly well-known to Neo Pocket aficionados as two of the system\u2019s more intriguing titles.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-2\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol.2 &#8211; A Fair Retro Package With Some Intriguing Curios<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rolling the dice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the only real criticisms we levelled at the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mega_man_battle_and_fighters\">Mega Man Battle &amp; Fighters<\/a>, a re-release of a Neo Geo Pocket Color title included in this new package, was that nobody had bothered to translate the content from Japanese. It was an issue exacerbated by a fan translation already existing online for those willing to go the emulation route. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/neo_geo_pocket_color_selection_vol_2\">Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol.2<\/a>, on the same basis, is equally disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/11\/snks-neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-2-announced-for-switch\">ten titles<\/a> on board this follow-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/neo_geo_pocket_color_selection_vol_1\">Vol.1<\/a> \u2014 four of which are already available to buy separately on Switch eShop \u2014 nicely presented as little cartridges on the menu, each with a variety of options. The language barrier issue affects three titles, one of which is the aforementioned Mega Man Battle &amp; Fighters. The other two are board game <strong>King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise<\/strong>, and minigame\/sim curio <strong>Ganbare Neo Poke-Kun<\/strong>, both of which are fairly well-known to Neo Pocket aficionados as two of the system\u2019s more intriguing titles.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/neo-geo-pocket-color-selection-vol-2\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}