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@swoose that isn't OCD at all btw

As I've got got several other games I'm waiting to play, I'll get around to this probably this time next year lol. I didn't play OT2 until a year after release for the same reason. They always release these when there's so much else releasing too. So yeah, I have it coming but it'll have to wait sadly.

@Exerion76 mate have you not played the other ones? They're all as big lol

No ta, why would I wanna watch someone else play it when I can play it myself? 😂

Played this since launch and had no idea this was even a thing

This whole trilogy is going to need a dedicated SD card. No way am I gonna get it on the card I have already

Ugh so soon, and so close to the FFVII Remake release, and DQVII Re-imagined. I haven't even had chance to start playing the last Tales remaster!

Looking forward to this. Not looking forward to the constant whining about certain details not being how people want them and overly harsh judgement and criticism of everything. Already people on here saying it looks bad. BAD HOW? It's three photos. It's going to be unbearable when the trailer comes out and we hear them both talk. Some people are literally beyond pleasing and waiting for something to complain about.

Shocked that Ring Fit Adventure made it onto the list, honestly

From my experience, some of the cutscenes played with out of sync voice acting on Switch 2. Namely the final scenes of the base game and the final scenes of the additional story, which was massively annoying and inconvenient timing.

Cinema staff will be taking vacation

So I'm confused, is there a way to trigger seeing them all in the sky like the photo or....

It's obviously a movie. It makes sense to make a standard kids film and throw Pikmin into it rather than explicitly make "a Pikmin movie". It's a niche series, not many non-gamers know it. This way they've got kids wanting to go watch this movie and discovering Pikmin and all the associated media and merchandise is already waiting for them. It's a good way to introduce the franchise to more people

@Ryo_Hazuki it does have normal controls, you can use Y for the waggle input for Mario's spin. Only thing you need the gyro for is using the pointer but that's literally just optional if you don't care about collecting all the star bits. And if you play handheld then it's touch screen based anyway so really there's no waving your hand around

The Shadow ones look pretty sick actually

I thought Dedede in the middle of the picture was one of the bonus items

That is absolutely huge!

Definitely testing the waters to see if there's a market for a permanent store. Glad they've chosen London! I just hope the queues aren't crazy like the Pokemon Centre was and that they keep it well stocked. You ended up queuing for 5 hours and eventually getting inside where all the cool stuff had been snapped up, and stock was rationed out each day.

That'll be like 20GB then. Hopefully the progress carries over

I wish they'd add back in the option to hold items behind you with a button too. I feel like people just accepted the auto-hold addition in this game too easily. At least have the option to turn it off for people who don't want it. I'd like a choice of when to deploy a banana or shell as a shield. If you withhold it, for example, people throw red shells at you thinking you're open and then sneaky sneaky, I've been holding this banana ready to defend myself this whole time. I miss that.

Definitely some welcome improvements. Though not really sure why they've decreased the item box refresh time? Did people complain they took too long? One of the few tactics available to you in Mario Kart is preventing your opponents getting an item box if they're following too close behind, and you nab it first (even when your item slots are full).

So now they'll be able to get them easier, that's lame. Especially since the intermission courses almost eliminate the effectiveness of placing bananas behind item boxes so people drive into them, because you only drive through each row of boxes once. And they should bring back the fake item box too, I can't believe they took those out.

Softening the force of landing on opponents and increasing invincibility after being hit is also an irritating slide towards making the game easier as well imo. Had no issues with either. Also, I didn't play Free Roam a huge amount but still spent a few hours in there...I had NO idea UFOs were a thing.

It'll be a diorama of that artwork with Link fighting Ganondorf

Maturing is realising Zelda II isn't divisive, it's just different

Personally I'd love to see DQ9 given the remake treatment. All the others have been remade already

I was skeptical because it didn't look like a whole lot for the £18 price tag and I think you've convinced me to save my money, and spend my time more wisely on catching up with other games before the busy end of year release schedule hits.

Xenoblade being a total babe magnet doesn't surprise me

@GinMiguel Superstars yes, the Shadow part of Sonic Generations, no.

I'll just buy the Switch 1 version and play it on my Switch 2. Any graphical enhancements the Switch 2 version has will be negligible I'm sure. At least to my eyes. This way I get it on the card and don't have to have a massive file eating up my storage.

One of the most annoying things about the key cards is having to sit and wait for the download to finish when you first put it in. It took an hour for me to download Bravely Default, I dread to think how long it'll take me to download FFVII Remake, which is 10x the size. And then having to have storage space for them. I'll need a new SD card for all of FFVII by the time it's complete. And I know it's too big to fit on a card but we had solutions for that once upon a time in releasing games on multiple discs. Tales of Symphonia was on two of those tiny discs on GameCube, you just pop in the 2nd one when it gets to a certain point in the game.

It's funny because if it's anything like the quality of recent Sonic games it'll be straight trash and not hold a candle to Mario Kart. Double Dash would probably give it a run for it's money

Just a side note, Monolith is the company that pulled off the amazing worlds of BotW and XC3. Retro is making this, so I don't think we can use them to reassure us. Rather, Retro gave us some amazing environments in the past so I think we're still in safe hands

Never had the chance to play any Virtual Boy games or try the original hardware, so I'll be getting this. However, slightly disappointing it doesn't include a replica of the original controller for the price, which is just for a plastic shell that isolates two images being directed into each eye on a separate screen, so no electronics necessary.

60 minutes is huge!

Should've added this when they added the first game, but happy to see it finally arrive. 3rd one next? Also, may we hope this hints at an announcement in the upcoming Direct? Hmmm maybe not, but I will anyway.

Never heard of Japan Matsuri before. May have to have a look at going some time

The cartridges having circuits and batteries inside is a real nice touch

It's a life sized Snorlax!

I really can't see Playstation gamers wanting the trade-off in specs just so they can play on the go. They'll want the full spec version first and foremost, and judging by the price of the current gen they won't likely fork out for another model to sit along side it that they only use occasionally. Plus let's be totally honest, if the handheld has lower specs than the standard TV connected version, many games will be developed that can only run on the better hardware anyway. But nice try and proof Nintendo have their competitors scrambling to try and gain a share of their market.

@N00BiSH At the end of the day, sooner or later they'd have had to find a replacement for Martinet, whether he retired of his own accord or sadly passed away. Unless they just wanted to reuse the same clips forever. The fact they've found someone that folks like me can't tell the difference between without a comparison video, I'd say they've done a pretty good job.

Diet Library? So it's like a library without the sugar in it?

I'd love to see some behind the scenes/the making of videos to see how it call came together. Stop motion is such a painstaking and precise process.

@N00BiSH lmao I'm not gonna lie, I didn't even pick up on him sounding any different from the last 30 years...maybe I've never listened hard enough but I really think some of you are trying to hear a difference. I quite honestly forget it's not even Charles doing the voice anymore.

Looks great but nothing like Ghibli lol. Where are the painted backgrounds? We need to stop making cel-shaded anime visuals and calling it Ghibli inspired. If it looks nothing like Ni No Kuni, which was a game with Ghibli visuals, then it's not Ghibli-esque.

Yeah I thought it must've been a Switch 2 thing. The very last scenes of the main game were way out of sync for me, never noticed any issues at all on Switch 1. Was also the same in the final scenes of the epilogue even when the rest of it was completely fine. Annoying it happens during the biggest moments of the game.

@Serpenterror Symphonia 2 was pants mate. Better left forgotten I think

So it was Tales of Xillia after all

It's an area of the game which is kept secret so well. I'd spent so many hours in the game since watching the initial opening movie that I completely forgot that you see the arm get sliced off. When you land there after falling from the sword, it's like "of COURSE this is where you end up" And the sorrowful music only adds to that "forgotten land" feel, because it really is forgotten. To discover a humanoid race living there was big twist too. My favourite area will always be Satorl Marsh at night time, but the Fallen Arm is right up there. The entire game is filled with incredible settings from start to finish.

It's a shame we never got Mania 2. Superstars had some nice ideas but ultimately suffered from courses being way too long and boss battles being unnecessarily drawn out. Mania is still the best sidescrolling Sonic in almost 2 decades.

Remember the days when you could just go up to the counter and ask to purchase the current Happy Meal toys separately?

Just a completely wasted opportunity to not release the soundtracks along side the games, or at least a week later. The drip feeding of one game at a time (except the rare exception of dumping multiple NES titles) is tedious.