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I used to play Skywire a lot back in the day when bored - hearing that theme just unlocked a load of memories!

@LightSpirit “Entitled? excuse me but have you forgotten it's the Players buying their games that keep them in a job.”

Ha very nice - this is up there with “Pretentious, Moi?” in terms of self-reflective irony! Well played!

@theberrage the reward is story progression and commencing Act 2!

The hype machine and FOMO gets a lot of people every time. You don’t need to play this game if it’s not your type of game. You don’t need the game to adapt to be something more convenient to you just because it’s popular. You don’t need to comment on the game’s design when you haven’t played it and have no idea of context.

@Elock you can usually go back to the boss area and quickly grab your stash before the fight triggers. If not, and the fight starts again, just make sure you get killed next time right next to the door!

@Slain It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree - the point is you can’t speak for everyone. If I, and others, think we lose out with difficulty options, then it isn’t a matter of your opinion.

“ You don't have to use an easy mode just because it's there.” I explained why this was not necessarily the case for me in my post.

@Slain “Answer me this: who loses out by adding difficulty options? Who?“

Well just one example - I would. Is that enough for you? There is a certain satisfaction to beating difficult games, in learning patterns, executing well, and yes, overcoming frustration. If there are difficulty modes then I would not get the same satisfaction because mostly I’d give in to the temptation after a while and lower the settings - the equivalent of throwing your controller against the wall. You could say, well don’t use them just because they are there, but it’s just because they are there that I would eventually use them.

For another example, see the comment above: “I don’t want difficulty settings because I would probably get frustrated and use them.” I get why people want difficulty modes but please also get why people don’t want them - it isn’t the case that you lose nothing at all by having them.

For me, I’d leave it to the devs to decide and not demand difficulty modes in or out from the sidelines.

Herding looks good! Would be great to see a review

Who’s up for bowling?

I like it - it’s been a great excuse to mop up the 400 or so missing koroks as well as a few hinoxes (hinoi?) and taluses (talui?)

I do wonder how much work from a dev perspective it would have been to embed it into the game - that would have been much preferable. How many man hours are we talking here?

Are we sure this one can run on OG Switch?

As long as they don’t make you create a Rockstar account and login like they do on Steam. If they are gonna insist on that then don’t bother even bringing it.

Shame there’s no story DLC like Kirby is getting

Where my Burning, Churning Power Plant be at?

@Reztobi thanks for replying to my comment from over 2 years ago to tell me my opinion is “factually wrong”… in your opinion

@chardir indeed it was a typo!

@chardir they just increased all their digital game prices by 5.26% actually! (100/95)

Playing this game years later and really enjoying it. Just wish there were more levels as I think I’m almost finished!

Spencer also said: "At some point, getting Nintendo would be a career moment and I honestly believe a good move for both companies. It's just taking a long time for Nintendo to see that their future exists off of their own hardware. A long time."

Oh nice, the city I live in has one!

Enjoyed this game - very light and breezy. Interested in the DLC!

Thanks Simon - this was my Game of the Year!

Just as a FYI on the voucher front - you can currently get 4 months of Apple TV free with any digital purchase at Currys - including the £15 eshop voucher

I say it every year but these awards would actually be (slightly more) watchable if they hired a professional guest presenter. Geoff is the business side of things and has zero charisma or on stage presence. It’s like if the Oscars were presented by a Committee Chairman or the Emmys presented by the Treasurer.

@DiamondJim “the fuss” may have something to do with the following:

• YouTube has ads and this is ad free.
• You can play this in the background and download music unlike YouTube on phones.
• Everything in one place easy to find, not involving searching through several versions of tracks which may get removed.
• The tracks are uploaded by Nintendo not some random so the audio quality is reliable.
• This also has playlists on certain themes curated by Nintendo which are interesting.

Maybe you could think of some more reasons if you thought harder about it.

Yes Diddy’s Kong Quest is perhaps the greatest OST of all time!

For anyone saying oh I can just use YouTube - you do realise that has ads and Thurs is ad free. And you can play this in the background and download music unlike YouTube on music. And this is a selection curated by Nintendo not Johnny69 so the audio quality is ideal.

Maybe they should also disband senior management

Cloud is OP - it’s infinite beds

@Axecon Lorelei and the Laser Eyes has been the best indie I’ve played this year - hope it’s in the discussion for best Indie of the year with others come December!

I had higher hopes for Plucky Squire on the assumption this wasn’t geared so much towards being kid friendly (perhaps a bit naive given the artstyle)

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes was soo good earlier this year - good that was released before this fiasco!

Best case scenario I can see from this point:

• the staff who leave set up a new company together which uses their existing contacts and experience to continue the legacy of publishing strong indies
• Annapurna gets its shirt together, hires some new staff and fulfils its existing contracts with indie devs (some of which presumably had some gems waiting in the wings)

Maybe optimistic to hope for two ongoing indie publishing houses after this (alongside the likes of Devolver) as could easily and sadly be the case that neither happens.

@JohnnyMind so this new guy will be called Rubbie? 🤣

Ruberi = Robbie?

Just hook it to my veins!

Bit late to this discussion but just want to point out that evolution in a game series is necessary. Do you really want to play another version of LTTP again and again? Forever?

Ocarina of Time is my favourite game ever but I found Twilight Princess incredibly boring as it was just doing the same thing, but less well. Would the people here complaining about BOTW’s evolution rather have played a third version of that? Or even worse, a second version of Skyward Sword?

I can’t wait for this new game, it looks incredible from the small bits we have seen, but still way too early to say the extent to which there is evolution of gameplay.

Link’s Awakening is in my top 3 Zelda games of all time and I loved what did the remake did both to the visuals and the soundtrack.

Very excited to have another game in this style and almost as excited to hear the new music in this game!

This is already looking incredible - the art style really deserves an original adventure. A dark art style didn’t really help Twilight Princess and it would be even more out of place in a top down Zelda.

I’m almost looking forward to hearing the soundtrack more than anything.

@Mrkittyhead to find that option, you need to open the Nintendo eshop, find Shovel Knight Treasure Trove, and click purchase!

A little tip from me to Geoff, free of charge, hire a professional presenter.

@LikelySatan that doesn’t really fit the mould as the bit before the colon isn’t just a random word, it’s the name of the first game in the series.

The Ori games would actually be a good example of a time it worked.

Art style looks distinctive. Gameplay reminds me more of Ori than HK.

I’m generally put off though by names that are Random word: Something of the something

Dual Destinies has one of the worst cases in the whole series (the yokai one) but overall it’s the best game out of these three. The final 2 connected cases involving the space centre are the best outside the original trilogy for the main series.

Spirit of Justice is ok but it drags on way too long - especially the final case. And it makes no sense why Nahyuta is travelling to and fro between Khurain and the mainland to do case after case.

Chants of Senaar is a lovely game with a perfect demo I reckon

Worked well for them with NFTs.

How about focusing on talent, creativity and quality instead?

Didn’t really like the look of Fire Emblem Engage but picked it up in the recent sale and having a good time with it. The story is absolutely terrible with some annoying characters (story and characters are what I miss most of all from Three Houses rather the social sim side) but it’s still a good game with the classic fire emblem feel. Would just about make my top 5 Switch games for the year:

1. TOTK
2. Cocoon
3. SMBW
4. Dredge
5. Fire Emblem Engage

Top 3 are TOTK, SMBW and Cocoon

@AllieKitsune Blackquill prosecutes 4.5 cases - that’s second only to Edgeworth!

Godot and Franziska von Karma were highly underused in comparison at 2.5 cases prosecuted each.

Woah, guy whose job it is to say this event will be great says this event will be great

You know an indie game when you see one. Not from a look at the graphics (pixel or otherwise) but from when you look at the developer’s corporate group and see that either it’s a small team working for themselves or it’s part of a billion dollar plus business and inherently therefore answerable to investors.

A few grey areas in between the two but Nexon is not in that grey area. This is a no brainer non-indie.

Also, notable that Gohma is potentially the scariest boss visually in the whole game and you fight it when you are at your least powerful. Was certainly frightening to me as a kid anyway!