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@Princess_Lilly while I understand the desire to play as a female avatar, it's a plot based cast. I can't remember if you can change who leads your party (and therefore appears on the map) but Felix is the main protagonist of TLA because of the fact he disappeared at the beginning of the story. And Isaac is the protagonist of the first game as it's his story. This isn't a game to have a blank avatar that can be swapped out to suit the players preference like Dragon Quest, or the Pokemon series.

Another voice to add to the "what do you mean the soundtrack isn't memorable" crowd.

Come on, it's lauded by fans and critics alike. One of the greatest soundtracks from a compositional and technical aspect. I mean it literally has the Venus Lighthouse theme.

Oh no! Aaaanyway.

Delighted that we as a society have rejected this fad so vigorously that only a couple of years after it sprang up, it's almost dead.

What a day! Golden Sun finally on Switch. Now let's see a new one!

@KJW90 it's made by American companies, so it's actually season.

They need to call it something unique. One of the problems with Wii U is people assumed it was some kind of add-on for the Wii. The Wii was SO big it reached a bunch of non-gamers. I once had one say to me Nintendo have made a new controller for it now, about 2 years after the Wii U was out. So yeah, people who don't follow gaming closely didn't know it was a whole new console.

Whatever it is, it needs to retain the key features of the Switch hardware whilst expanding upon it.

Typical 50+ year old who doesn't really know what gaming is about these days. Perhaps she should spend less time behind her news desk and more time outside, in the real world.

Never heard of this guy, played the game and never encountered this NPC (didn't see the Mirth side quest through fully) so whatever. I won't lose any sleep over whoever he is.

End of an era. I'll never forget the days when streams weren't widely publicised and you felt like you were "in the know" if you found a way to watch it. And no one outside the internet gaming community even knew of the show. It gets reported on BBC radio now. Nothing has, and probably won't, replace it. Summer Games Fest isn't up to scratch. Too drawn out, few major announcements and seemingly tons of paid promo. As a Nintendo fan though, the sparkle was taken off the show when Nintendo started to do the Directs. I miss the stage presentations in front of an audience.

The next generation just won't know what that's like. They won't know the excitement of a week which is guaranteed to show off major announcements and new consoles. Now we have to put up with months of speculation about when the next Direct is coming, and it's never guaranteed. And usually on at awkward times for me. Nintendo always had the 5pm Tuesday slot at E3. You knew when to tune in every year.

@abbyhitter lmao be serious

Wasn't even aware that was the name of the islands

Where exactly in Ealing is it opening? Seems there are specific locations for Brighton and Sheffield but can't find anything for Ealing.

Seems obvious to me that the next "gimmick" they add to freshen up the formula will be tracks where the layout changes with every lap. You see the way it came into the city tracks once they came to MK8. That's gonna be every new track on the next game. Probably won't be released on the Switch, but Mario Kart Switch would've been the perfect name to go with that feature...

@Brianst0rm I haven't heard about that. Do you have a link to where it was discovered?

@Don honestly it would be such a mickey take if they did that. The service shouldn't be tied to the console the same way the downloaded VC games used to be. Makes sense if they just launch the next console with all these games ready to play on day one and keep adding more. But this is Nintendo, who knows what they're thinking.

Super Paper Mario doesn't belong on here. It's a platform game with RPG elements. There isn't even a battle system, which is a core part of RPG gameplay.

Are we going to get Golden Sun (and it's sequel) on the GBA app any time before the new console?? It was one of the games featured in the announcement at launch. Just wondering if this service will continue on the next console in it's current state or if they'll do the Nintendo thing of scrapping it and starting entirely from nothing yet again. You'd hope it's the former, seeing as it's only streaming content.

Personally would've put Song of Time top, it's the central mechanic of the game after all.

It's just a massive amiibo. We know what the Zelda one will look like. I wonder what the support that makes her float will look like. Kinda ugly if they just stick a big plastic curve up her backside on a full size model.

It would be great if the next console launched with a lovely remade OOT that took full advantage of it's visual capabilities. But, it's not gonna happen tbh.

Why does everyone say there are 12 zones? I got to zone 11's boss and was very surprised to find it was the final boss and the credits rolled (explains why it was so hard). There's the secret boss unlocked after beating both story campaigns but I wouldn't ever count that as an actual zone. It's just a boss fight.

Anyway, this review was quite generous with it's praise. Though it feels like old school Sonic, the level design isn't and it's full of ideas that feel just thrown in and not fleshed out. They're also horrendously long levels, taking 7-8 minutes in most cases. That gets very boring. Even worse is the bosses that take just as long. A few of the levels also borrow quite a bit from old Mega Drive ones, even using music which takes cues from at least one of them (Sky Temple is basically Sky Sanctuary). Special stages are confusing and frustrating. All in all, it's not a game I'll go back to anytime soon. But there are green shoots of promise emerging, if Sega don't rush out future releases on a short development cycle.

This is gonna cost like 400 quid isn't it

It'll be pretty predictable if they use Ocarina of Time, but I suppose it does allow a nice opening to follow it up with Majora's Mask. But I don't think they'd ever try to turn that into a film. Twilight Princess would be a nice one to use, already very cinematic and moody. I honestly think we'll get something original that takes elements and inspiration from various games. Little nods that the fans can recognise.

See now I didn't even notice it was 60fps. Just not something I ever put much stock in being a priority over 30fps. Definitely notice the longer loading times and the fact the loading screen animation hangs up all the time. Still looks great at 720p...just a shame so much of the game is half baked as per and they bloat out the acts with long boss battles. It would benefit from having 6-7 acts per world of smaller levels. They broke from tradition with having lots of acts per world in Sonic Frontiers. I don't understand why they feel side scrolling Sonic can have a maximum of 3 acts.

Oh boy I hope no one leaks the plot!

Slightly concerning the writer has the entire Jurassic World trilogy on his CV. The first one was good, then it tanked. Here's hoping he always starts well (and then moves on before the eventual sequel)

Very excited for this. Full trust they'll do it justice. Being live action is even better for me, it means we won't be getting a cutesy animated film aimed at younger audiences. That suited Mario, but for Zelda we need something more mature, grittier. Hopefully the dialogue for Link is handled well. But even if you aren't excited by the film itself, we're gonna get a full soundtrack to go with it. They will actually have to release a full Zelda soundtrack for purchase at last. And all the new merch we're gonna get which ties in, like with Mario. It's a very exciting time to be a Zelda fan.

So long as this Sony/Nintendo collab doesn't result in the same disastrous Zelda's as last time, it's all good.

Why would they change Pipe House to Mario House though?

Sega need to stop being so sloppy with their games then. Too many little bugs or things which, if it was a Mario game, Nintendo wouldn't let fly and the game would be ironed out until it was perfect. Sega have always been far too keen to get a new Sonic release out every year. There's a reason Mario platformers don't release every year - they're developed properly.

He is literally a Fox who's surname is McCloud, so how can it suddenly be too Bri'ish

I would've assumed the Japan one was a box for the actual toy, which I guess is the aim. But the western one is way better

Awaiting your review

Just temper your expectations about any new console reveal. Very very unlikely it's going to announced this year, with the holiday season for the current Switch still to come. But if we're seeing more "end of life" type releases, i.e. lots of ports due next year, it could be an indication of the new console coming over the horizon. Though, it's not as if they don't announce ports galore in every Direct.

WW/TP and MP2 please.

I can't imagine they're going to port it over to run on the new hardware, if anything it would be TOTK getting a 2nd release. But I would imagine it was literally just to demonstrate the capabilities of the hardware. Here's hoping anyway, I don't think I have it in me to put 200 hours into that game all over again. I hope it's a sign of what a new, original game could be running at.

How many years after BOTW is it? That's all I want to know. I haven't encountered any definitive answer within the game yet.

What actually is this? You just get to hose things down or...?

Was going to happen at some point. To be honest, I'm sure they have enough clips recorded that they don't ever need anything new. But I get the feeling they're moving into a different kind of Mario now. We'll probably have some actual dialogue scenes in the next game instead of the usual catchphrase based performance. As long as the games are great, I'm not worried.

An end of an era. Still, not a bad little gig getting to travel the world and promote Mario is it...

Man wants to play classic video games. Colour me surprised! Honestly I thought that was about him wanting to play Link in a live action.

Feels weird it's been a year, since I only put it down about 3 months ago. I did delay starting it about a week or two as well

I actually prefer Seasons. Just find the season swapping mechanic a lot more interesting than just swapping between two points in time in Ages. Certainly never found there to be that much difference between the two that I'd rate them a whole point apart. Regardless, these need to be given the Link's Awakening treatment because they are both better games. Hey maybe they might even finally give us the 3rd one at the same time.

There's still very much a place for pixel art and I'd prefer if they kept making Sonic games in that style.

Here comes shoehorning in colour powers again. The bullet one sounds real familiar. Apprehensive about this again now.

I actually accidentally bought two, having orders placed on two different sites. I didn't realise they were so hard to come by or I would've sold it for RRP to someone desperate. Anyway, it's gone back to the Nintendo UK store now so someone might get lucky in ordering it this week

That's a shame, it was a pretty decent game really. I enjoyed it

As long as this applies to iPhones I'm all for it. Never had a console with battery issues. The number of good phones that need binning off because the battery is knackered however...

Samus having autism is a new one on me

I hate when games do this. How hard can it be to just let you have multiple saves?

I remember playing this on an emulator years and years ago (18 to be exact) but never got that far into it. Would be up for giving the remake a go. If we get it here...

I'm in Vegas end of September, any there? Hopefully it's still on then