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I'm knee deep in the Ocarina of Time remake having already made it to the Shadow Temple and have no plans of slowing. There is a good chance I'll have it completed before the weekend is over and it's been an absolute delight. Will pick back up with Final Fantasy Resonance and the water crystal landmass once Ocarina has been put to bed.

Also plan on more fighting game time with the family continuing Street Fighter 6 and Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves and unlocking more in new additions Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered and Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero.

Hope y'all have a good weekend!

@Luigia $7.99. Very fair for what they're adding.

I think a Metroid movie could be really special in the right hands but I also don't think the sales of the series are strong enough to convince a movie studio to invest. Would be pleasantly surprised to be wrong.

smashes through wall Is the decline in Switch 2 sales because Nintnedo Life didn't give Ocarina of Time remake a 10/10!?!?!

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I'm really excited for Metroid Ravenous and to see what Monolith Soft can do with more powerful hardware with Xenoblade Genesis. Also look forward to the new Pokémon games I assume next fall. Shaping up to be a great year.

This feels like possibly the ultimate vaporware. Microsoft has been so horrible about their game studios despite the company posting record profits I don't feel that even Bethesda is completely safe from being stripped for parts by the next craven ladder climbing executive. Also AI seems like a bubble just waiting to burst so expensive projects will be the first to go if that hill of beans collapses.

Going to my first late night release in ages to pick this up. Glad the reviews were largely so glowing. Kept myself from reading too many of them and watching the prerelease videos so I could absorb as much of the game as possible on my own.

Possible biggest bag fumble of all time that they went in so heavy on MMOs for Fallout and Elder Scrolls when MMOs were already declining in popularity and now it'll be over 15 years for both series before a new mainline single player entry is released.

Bummer this didn't do more to establish it's own identity. I enjoyed the Star Fox 64 remake on Switch 2 but found myself baffled at how faithful it was at times (I'm looking at you true Andross battle). Feel like things were still ripe for an homage that carved it's own path more. Oh well.

Glad to hear it's a solid port. Won't be getting to it anytime soon with the overwhelming amount of stuff I want to play that came out in the last few months but I will definitely wish list it for a sale on down the road. Likely the closest we'll get to anything involving Bayonetta in the near future.

This is my favorite racing game of the last few years. Looking forward to playing as Bayonetta and putting time in with the City Escape Godzilla track this week even though I'm knee deep in Final Fantasy Resonance and Ocarina of Time looms on the horizon.

Jumped on Dragon Quest XI for Switch 2 even though my backlog is ridiculous. Already had what I wanted of the other games. Excellent price for the FFVII remake games for anyone curious.

I have fond memories of the original and am very much looking forward to diving back into this remaster and sharing it with my kids this time. Kept some eshop credit set aside for it.

@cosmograph It runs mostly well. A few more open areas chug along at parts but nothing that deterred my enjoyment of the game.

I've wrapped up spooky season gaming with the excellent Mouthwashing so now I'm diving into my copy of Final Fantasy Resonance. I almost went with Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories in the Kingdom Hearts Collection after beating the first game over a few days earlier in the week but figured it would be better for me to spread those out as Kingdom Hearts IV isn't coming anytime soon.

I've also been on a fighting game kick after the Street Fighter movie. Been grinding out World Tour mode in Street Fighter 6 and leveling up my character in Avatar Arcade when I hit roadblocks. Just picked up Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves as well and would like to use it to teach my kids more about fighting games.

Sonic Racing: Crossworlds, Mario Kart World, and Mario Tennis Fever are always on standby for gaming time with my kids and friends.

Hope y'all have a good weekend!

I borrowed this from my brother and it was one of my favorite games of the year. I'll gladly support it by picking up a physical release whenever Yacht Club can manifest it.

I always had admiration for his willingness to work on just about anything. Felt like a huge deal in legitimizing them when he leant his voice to the X-Men Legends games. Oblivion felt so grandiose from the jump because of his vocal work. May he rest in peace.

One of my favorite survival horror games in recent years. I'll gladly take an excuse to pick it up, especially given how things turned out for the Pathfinder in the main game.

I pick this game up every few years and get overwhelmed by all the new content and bounce after a few hours. Glad the developers keep trucking along and adding stuff for their loyal players who can handle the sheer amount of content they've added.

Almost bought this a few times to play on my laptop but glad I held out so I can play this on my Switch 2 as one of my last games of spooky season.

My most lasting memory of Ocarina of Time was drawing maps in 5th grade of the final battle arena with Ganon so I could memorize which pillars had crucial refills to endure his assault.

I really want Breath of Fire III and IV on Switch someday if Capcom starts taking porting old console games seriously.

This is the only entry in the survivor trilogy I never got to so I want to play it for completionist sake but it also coming out as the most expensive entry for no real good reason means I'll wait until a much better sale on it.

I liked Mega Man 11 quite a bit. Looking forward to this. Good robot master design so far. Also getting to play as Protoman has me excited. I know he was playable in 10 but I wasn't the biggest fan of 9 and 10.

It's been a while since my kids and I played together. This is as good excuse as any to jump back in. Love raining destruction down on a world with TNT just to see how it breaks.

I'm not the biggest fan of roguelikes but I'll still use this as an excuse to play the game again, at the very least to take Sue Storm through the other modes.

The first two entries in the survivor trilogy is when Tomb Raider really clicked for me. I still need to play Shadow. I also enjoyed my time with Legend and the first remake of the first game from the 00s but have a feeling those games probably don't hold up as well as the survivor games do. I have a respect for the foundational early entries but never found them personally gratifying to play. I'm optimistic for Legacy of Atlantis. Glad Lara is still going strong.

Hello all!

My spooky season gaming is winding down but since it got patched this week I decided to play Hellraiser: Revival as my last spooky game of the month. I admire how well it captures the atmosphere of the first two movies and it's willingness to depict sex and violence in a way most games shy away from. I'm playing on the story setting and I'm not as fond of the difficulty as I have died a lot in the roughly 4 hours I've played. I'm going to try and finish it this weekend but it may prove too frustrating.

I'm still working my way through Monolift Soft's Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans on my 2DS. Just a few chapters left before I put Nappa and Vegeta down and it really is one of the lost gems of the DS era. Once the saiyan menace is stopped I'm moving onto a proper replay of Chrono Trigger.

Sonic Racing: Crossworlds, Mario Kart World, and Mario Tennis Fever are always on the docket with the family. I may start teaching my daughter Street Fighter 6 as the movie has reignited my interest in that game.

Hope y'all have a good weekend!

Good selection of games but I'll be over in the corner with my arms crossed about the lack of Wario Land II again. I want to replay all the Wario Land games chronologically but have been kept in a weird holding pattern by NSO.

@Zeeba It just got patched today on Switch 2 so I'm going to give it a go. Looks great so far from the hour I put in. No real bugs or issues encountered so far.

I'll buy this when it's cheaper as it's the only one of the trilogy I haven't played. Just played the first this year and it mostly holds up. Also have Rise but have been waiting for winter to play it as it's a winter game to me.

With a few exceptions, I think the N64 and PS1 era of games are the most difficult to go back to. They were still trying to figure out standards for 3D gaming and the N64 controller being the poorly designed mess that it is didn't help. I tried Ocarina again on NSO and my nostalgia melted away as the frustration of the camera and controller set in.

BioWare games helped change the course of my life letting you play as openly queer characters so I don't envision a scenario where I give EA anymore money after all this. Maybe down the road if a company like Aspyr or the like ported the old Bioware games to Switch 2 I would get those but as far as new EA releases go I have zero interest in giving them so much as a dime.

I have bought DLC for Minecraft on my kids' accounts but never for myself. That probably changes with this because I'm a sucker for Dragon Ball. Plus I wanted an excuse to check out the Switch 2 version.

Almost bought this game a few times to play on my laptop but glad I held out because I'd much rather play it in handheld on my Switch 2.

Putting all my upgrades into kitanas and grenades was one of the most fun experiences I've had with a game like this the first time I played it. Dual wielding pistols has me inspired to make a John Woo homage character when I finally play my Switch 2 copy.

Been a big fan of a lot of the HD-2D games Square Enix have been releasing. Went ahead and pre-ordered this one so I will gladly pick it up now that the reviews are in and positive.

Even though my kids have become teenagers in the timespan since the original film came out, the quality of these films are such that my kids still want to see them which is a rarity.

Had a silly good time with it and got a neat poster for seeing it in IMAX. Think it gets the Street Fighter tone better than I expected.

I've played through 7 quite a few times now and it was refreshing having a Resident Evil game be digestible again vs. the bloated action game messes of 5 and 6. It's my second favorite of the entire series behind 4. Love it's Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Evil Dead vibes.

Lovely piece of writing about processing grief. Thank you for sharing something so personal.

@Zeeba Thanks for letting me know! I plan on jumping into it as soon as they patch some of the stuff that locks progression.

Hello all. I'm still knee deep in spooky season between marathoning movies and gaming.

Finished Resident Evil 5 in co-op with my brother the other night. That is 4/5 of a great co-op experience but cheapness of certain enemies and QTE events in the last few chapters really soured the experience. Moved onto giving Resident Evil 6 it's first proper playthrough after bouncing off it around launch. I'm finding myself more forgiving of it this time around, especially since I turned off the QTE stuff, and am meeting it on it's own terms as a silly action monster shooter. Already completed Leon's chapter and am actually looking forward to playing the rest.

More Diablo IV is on the docket as well. Finished the Vessel of Hatred campaign earlier in the week and am now working my way through Lord of Hatred for the first time. The new island is gorgeous and flaying and resurrecting the corpses of my enemies as a necromancer never gets old to me.

I got Hellraiser: Revival but have kept it on the back burner due to glitches and look sensitivity issues I have read about. Hoping it gets patched soon so I can take it for a spin before October is over.

For non spooky season gaming I've been putting time into Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans on my 2DS. Currently at a more free form section where you collect the Dragon Balls and accidentally picked the hardest area first so it's keeping me busy level grinding my primary team of Goku, Gohan, and Piccolo. Sonic Racing: Crossworlds, Mario Kart World, and Mario Tennis Fever with my kids are a perpetual weekend plan. My friends are coming over to watch scary movies tonight and we may play some Street Fighter 6 as well in honor of the very fun new movie.

Hope y'all have a good weekend!

If you're coming to this as a fan of Rise, be prepared it's a much more streamlined game. I personally feel it was streamlined to it's detriment as a Monster Hunter game because I enjoy the friction in the other games of hunting instead of being sleepwalked to every encounter by the mount.

I have a reserved copy paid off. Very much looking forward to playing it, though it likely won't be until November as I am knee deep in spooky games until the end of October.

I picked this one up based on other reviews but haven't touched it yet. May wait for a few patches before giving it a go. I just got done watching the 4K box set of the first four films from Arrow last week so I'm primed for the game but don't want bugs dragging the experience down.

As much as part of me would like to play this I've got other stuff to prioritize and I can wait until a Switch 2 version is released. I have a feeling there won't be an upgrade path either when it does get announced so patience is it's own reward.

I will attempt to resist the urge to watch this. Want to go in as blind as possible so I can discover how one of my formative games was remade by playing it. Saw enough from the announcement of the game to wet my appetite and secure a reservation.

Who wouldn't want their brand associated with one of the worst people on the planet?

I adored this game when I played it on PS5. Ultimately I liked it more than Persona 5. My brother didn't have a chance to play it yet and has it pre-ordered for Switch 2 so I will replay it once he is finished and I can borrow it from him.