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Re: Review: The Rogue Prince Of Persia (Switch 2) - A Worthy, Approachable Follow-Up To Dead Cells

Dom_31

I find it hard to believe that they got it to run well on switch (2) because my time with it on ps5 was kind of not great.
The gameplay loop was fun enough but SOMETHING about the performance felt incredibly awkward and..strangely stiff? No outright framedrops but everything felt weird to the point I eventually just stopped playing after one or two runs of defeating the final boss.

If they actually figured out what was "wrong" and went back to patch that on ps5 I might go back, but it's not something I'm buying on another system.

Re: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment Adds New Weapons & Challenges In Free Update This Week

Dom_31

This game feels half baked as hell in some aspects. It's fun, don't get me wrong, but half the roster are basic looking NPCs, the story has very odd pacing issues, imho, there's still not a ton of variety in missions and THE biggest issue with the game is that neither Sonia nor Ganondorf are playable whatsoever.

I hope whatever else they have in mind for these updates includes those two, because more weapons is not it...

Re: UK Charts: Kirby Air Riders Narrowly Misses Out On A Top Ten Spot

Dom_31

Yeah, expected. It's an incredibly niche game within a...somewhat niche franchise. I know Kirby's popular but I also DON'T know many Kirby fans who liked Air Ride (or the recent online demos of Riders)

I know it can't be true but those demographics always felt like the circles BARELY overlapped for some odd reason.

Re: Pokémon Legends: Z-A Was The Best-Selling Nintendo Game In October (US)

Dom_31

The more I play it the more I'm actually thinking it might be the best Pokémon game since HGSS... At least for me. Gen 5 is close behind those, the sequels have a dumb amount of content but never truly grabbed me, personally.

It's basically the same general gameplay loop as Arceus but the battle mechanics actually elevate it, imho. They're not on the level of vgc battling, of course, but I like that there can be a certain amount of strategy to them in pvp and if you don't just waltz into every encounter with overleveled meta picks. And that breaks up the catching in a way that Arceus utterly failed for me. That game got HELLA boring after the fourth or fifth locale and as small as the city is, it was much more engaging to explore as I went through the game. Still chasing that shiny tepig, still playing pvp, I think I'm looking forward to the dlc.

It's entirety possible that my expectations were in a very different place because I managed to buy ZA for 30€ thanks to discounts and gift cards I forgot I had and knowing the game's laughable budget from those leaks a while ago; but it's a legitimately good, maybe even great, game in my book.

All that to say...i think this deserves doing well a lot more than previous efforts. Hope they take more from this into the next title than they tend to.

Re: Poll: What Do You Make Of Link And Zelda's Live-Action Looks?

Dom_31

I don't know the actors so I don't want to comment on the two, and I knew I probably wouldn't like this movie anyway, but the costumes are pretty...meh.

Knee-jerk reaction was that they're as comically awful as the Netflix one piece trash fire but they're not even in that same ballpark. They're "not bad" but this is also a pretty big production, I assume, and that just doesn't cut it for that kind of movie. I bet they wanted to play it safe for the initial movie, though, which I won't blame them for, knowing how some breeds of fans can act towards creators and actors in these cases.