I think people put far too much emotional investment into a score number. Ultimately it's a very broad and arbitrary indication of quality, especially when there are so many hundreds of games with completely different facets of what marks their quality, and everyone has their own basis of what denotes a rating.

That said, it is a very safe remake.

That's likely for the best — could you imagine the Vesuvius-level response from folks online if they'd gone full FFVII: Remake with it?

@Potimarron sounds a bit overly provocative/edgylordy — seems like a fine line to walk, does the game pull it off well?

@Sindayl The Last Revelation is such an overlooked gem — easily my favourite PS1 entry after the original

@Tempestryke I know, it's an absolute deal-breaker for me, I've returned games for insisting I go online with an account just to play them in single player

The ONLY reason I begrudgingly got a Capcom ID in the first place was because Street Fighter 6 wouldn't launch without me signing up for one; it just reboots the game if you tell it "no".

Does anyone know, if I delete my Capcom ID (as I was offered to do when I logged in to change my password), it'll delete my character/save, or be able to launch the game at all?

Edit: You can indeed now launch the game offline without incident after deleting your Capcom ID

It was a short window in the rich tapestry of animated cinema but people from a certain demographic REALLY like Shrek

@ButterCashier when you leave the house thinking you don't need to, but then you immediately do when it's too inconvenient to return, and there's not a public toilet for miles.

@Lizuka Oof, that's rough — CEX in the UK offer up to £37 trade in value which is over halfway towards the cost of a PC2 (they run for about £62-65)

Wouldn't it make more sense to just trade in your old Switch 1 Pro Controller and use the credit to get a Switch 2 one? Price would likely end up more or less the same...

People are clearly hungry for more Metroid

I'm still not clear on where "classic" Sonic ends and "modern" Sonic is supposed to begin — is Sonic Adventure where the split occured, or is it Sonic '06? Are they two separate universes, as implied by Generations? I just thought one was an older version of the other, and if so, where does Knuckles from Sonic 3 fit in?

@Tempestryke why did you think the shark?

Dang, and I remember being slightly put out when I had to spring £20 for a PS1 memory card...

@Joshie-Bomb No one hits like Chun Li
Does high kicks like Chun Li
From a wall no one springs off the bricks like Chun Li

@Pillowpants @imopthefloors more like Middle Dearth (of fun).

Yeah I'm rather digging it so far — it is a bit timesinky with the fetch quests, but as long as you stick to the story mission and try not to get distracted by the seemingly endless amount of guilds to join (as I've been doing!) you should be fine. it reminds me a little bit like a combination of Fantasy Life and Dragon Age Inquisition.

Just a heads up to anyone considering starting over with a new account, you can use the same email address, but for some bizarre reason they take upper/lower case letters into account, so you can have multiple accounts on the same email address, which is kind of wild/dangerous

@cvrator I just realised I still had the lowest, bottom-feeder ad subscription, but I've literally not used it in months, so thanks for reminding me to get rid

I know a lot of people use it to browse.

@Whirlwound they wanted to spend their Odo on other things

@Mz3player Vapourised into atoms

@Whirlwound At least people who bought the game in time can still retrieve the Data

@Whirlwound It wasn't Worf playing

@LostAutumn that's great, thanks — is it a rolling month to month sub or do you sign up for like 12 month contracts?

Thanks, I came here for clarity on this exact thing. It's a shame really because I'd be really keen to pay for one of the editions right off the bat, but not if it locks me into a subscription.

I have a couple of questtions: Say if I do end up subscribing, but after a certain point I want to take a couple of months off, does it let you dip in and out wihtout losing your progress? Also, is the game playable solo? I don't mind playing online, I'm just a bit wary about having to rely on joining groups/parties

it'll Really Make You Sweat

Sweat 'til you can't sweat no more?

It's "replaceable" in the same way that I have opposable thumbs and could therefore perform open-heart surgery, yet I would be somewhat wary about attempting it.

@EarthboundBenjy and almost always over the bedcovers

Could you imagine a game like Animal Well giving you hints and wisecracks at every opportunity?

Does taking off the collar unbind and unleash Yrael's true form?

@Ironcore there used to be a dedicated C64 section on the Wii Virtual Console — they were wild times

Is there really no single-player option for this? Such a shame, I'd be all over it if there was

"They're not not coming to Switch 2..."

I think Sonic 1 and 2 on the Mega Drive had some of the best soundtracks of the era (3 I can take or leave), but Palmtree Panic in Sonic CD (the non-American version) absolutely raised the bar

Navi should be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.

@Chlocean did you play Wattam? That was a fun little oddity

They should absolutely do the poor sods who spent money on these things the courtesy of giving them the real games for free. Or even better, the option of a refund. The "you can transfer your save data!" announcement in the Direct felt like a slap in the face.

I was kind of more interested by the House building/design element than the retro collection — if they had a full game centered around that (unless that's actually what they're doing?) I'd be really keen

Avanother three weeks, we don't mind if it's Ava-tardy, we can Aang on for a bit

@Hank_Scorpio Yeah it's massively expanded — not only in terms of the general narrative, but it also in that it kind of assumes that you have at least some prior knowledge of the original game, for reasons I'd rather not spoil or over-explain too much

Easy to get lost finding the next objective

As someone who recently rolled credits on Animal Well, I'm ready to take anything they can throw at me

Ah, it does look very charming but I don't think I'm ready to drop fifty notes on it, especially when there are so many other games on my radar at the mo — and given that it's a first party game I doubt it'll be on any kind of substantial sale any time soon...

@Pillowpants I had been wondering if this is R-Type of game.

Aw that's a shame, I was rather looking forward to seeing how this turned out @EthanZack did you manage to get your hands on the Switch 2 version?

@Glassneedles this is my thinking as well — the free/capped playable elements are more than enough content for a whole game. If I'm still around after I've finished all that, I'll assume I enjoy the game well enough to pay to carry on playing!

The movie wasn't perfect — it was basically everything I expected the first film to be — but I think critics really seemed like they were trying to outdo each other with ladling the hyperbolic negativity upon it.

@Pickettfury I'm pretty creative, given the right context, but I was the kind of kid who would follow the instructions in Lego sets

I must confess I've always struggled to see the appeal of Tomodatchi Life; the "goldfish simulator" analogy kinda resonated with my main concern, that there's not much of an actual "game" there — I think I'd need a bit more in the way of agency and interactivity.

I'll probably get around to it eventually, but most likely on PS5

The game won't even boot in Scunthorpe