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I picked this up on my phone but didn’t get on with the touch controls. I’ve been waiting for this to come to Switch so it’ll be a day one purchase from me.

I got Smash in the morning and I will get smashed on Baileys in the afternoon 🍺

Merry Christmas everyone!

I’m about halfway through. It’s light on ‘gamey’ elements but it’s probably the most beautiful and atmospheric game I’ve ever played.

Turns out a lot of people enjoy a “physical release”

Smash (if I don’t get it as a present, I’ll be using pressie money to get it!)
World of Final Fantasy
Gris

And even though I’ll try not to I bet I’ll manage to fit in some Stardew Valley, like I always do.

So in Stardew Valley the main 2 events added for the single player are in the Winter, I loaded up my save and I was at the start of Spring, Year 5. Got a lot more farming ahead of me!

Very happy about this, I’ve been itching to play this game again. After 150 hours you start to run out of stuff to do ahah!

Ouch. I’ve listened to Death Metal less savage than this review. A shame because I was intrigued by couch co-op in a farming game but won’t be picking this up.

Looks pretty fun. I do love a good co-op game and this has a nice art style. Will keep my eye on it for sure

I’m excited about this. Aside from Sonic I’ve not played any other Sega games so quite a few of the courses/characters in the All Star Racing games meant nothing to me. I’m mostly looking forward to seeing what levels they choose for courses. As mediocre as Lost World was its be great to have a tubular level from there.

Your Hyper Light Drifter UK discount price is a bit wrong.

Incredible discounts though, shame that I’m £260 into my overdraft otherwise I’d be picking up Donkey Kong ahah! Adulthood is fun.

Personally this game isn’t for me, but I’m happy it’s doing well and definitely wouldn’t go review bomb it or anything. It’s ironic that the people screaming “this game is for kids!” are being so childish.

World of Final Fantasy while back in my hometown for my sister’s wedding. I do love the portability of the Switch!

In the UK Crash Bandicoot is normally £30 in Tesco.

Entered! I do love me some Splatoon, would be good to watch some people who aren’t completely awful (like I am)

I like these realistic looking Pokémon. I’m surprised that went with this style for something so high profile but I think it works nicely.

@Skalgrim I’m enjoying it. There’s quite a bit of depth to the combat but I haven’t really had to take advantage of that yet so hopefully the difficulty will ramp up. It’s still got plenty of original stuff as well as nostalgic content which is great. I’ve only played handheld and the resolution is noticeably lower than 720p but it doesn’t look as bad as Xenoblade 2, just a bit blurry.

@JaxonH I’m playing WoFF this weekend too. It does seem to have slipped through quietly which is weird. I picked this up over Pokemon. I’m about 5 hours in and I think I made the right choice, it’s not perfect but it is incredibly charming.

Will definitely try this out over the weekend, would be great to find someone nearby to play with me and my girlfriend.
Aaaaand now I sound like a swinger.

@Blizzia I don’t know what you’re talking about. Loughborough is a perfectly easy English place name to understand. As are Marylebone, Ashby De La Zouch and Steeple Bumpstead.
My personal favourite is a tiny village in the north that’s simply called Pity Me.
I waste a lot of time at work on Google Maps.

I had a break of a few months from Splatoon 2, really enjoyed going back in for this Splatfest. I barely experienced connection issues personally. Best moment was beating a team that had a 24 win streak.

@Eef I have very similar feelings on Owlboy. I enjoyed it but the control scheme felt really cumbersome. Especially picking fruit/veg to restore health being much more complicated than it had to be

I had one of those nifty d pad joy-cons delivered today (the Zelda one) so I’ll be practicing to see if my Dragon Ball Fighterz skills can become anything other than atrocious.

Mario Party, I haven’t played one for years (sounds like I wasn’t missing much). Excited to give it a whirl with my other half tonight to test the strength of our relationship.

Picked this up this weekend, really enjoying it. I’m not great at fighting games but having a blast... even without an internet connection since I’ve recently moved.

@gcunit I’d start with watching Dragon Ball Kai it’s a trimmed down version of Z (which needed the trimming really) which has most of the Fighterz characters in. It’s slap bang in the middle of the continuity but it’s probably the best series to watch as an adult. The first series can get quite childish.
Alternately you could watch DBZ Abridged on YouTube. That’s a very trimmed down, comedic but fairly faithful unofficial version of Z.

Dragon Ball, completely hyped for it! I’m not the best at fighters but I’m hoping this will help me.

Earthlock, I picked it up a few weeks ago in a sale and it’s pretty good! It feels like a game between FF9-10. It looks nice, has interesting combat (with actions mapped to buttons which makes things snappy for a turn based system) but the writing is kind of annoying. The characters are fun but there are a heck of a lot of made up words flying around to confuse things.

I’d assumed this much and really don’t mind. I mean, it’s designed around multiplayer and using individual joy cons. I’ll definitely be picking this up, been a long time since a decent Mario Party.

@sandman89 I dunno, I think Hollow Knight is fantastic for people who like that sort of thing. I’d say the great art style brought in people who wouldn’t ordinarily be interested but then art can only go so far in keeping people hooked. Personally, I enjoyed it a lot even though I don’t play metroidvanias often. It’s wilfully obtuse most of the time which I can see putting people off.

Well I’ve been very busy this week with doing up a new house. In the little breaks I’ve had I have been playing as a photographer in BOTW so that’s what I’ll continue with. No idea what I’ll do with the photos but it’s an enjoyable thing to do.

I hope this brings new people in to play online. I don’t play it much but my partner does and she gets very frustrated with the lack of people online. If this was crossplay with PC I’d imagine it could have a populated online

@chiptoon I read quite a few mixed reviews on Crystal Bearers before I picked it up but actually I ended up really liking it. The motion controls were kind of annoying but the world was really fun to explore.

I’m happy with this, I didn’t play it at the time and have always been intrigued. I was hoping for any of FF6-10 on switch but I’ve played those so much already that this is more appealing.

@Alexface you’re in for an amazing ride. I prefer the sequel but both are great. Really hoping a HD remaster compilation comes to Switch.

I’m moving house on Monday so not much. In my downtime I’m beating up helpless bokoblins in BOTW and pretending they’re all rip off mortgage providers & solicitors. It helps.

I’m holding off, at least for a few months. I’m not interested in NES games and the current online setup is not up to par. I know it’s only a small statement to make but we vote with our wallets. If any new announcements make it more appealing then I will go for it but as it stands I’m not quite interested enough. It’s close though, even if the 10 unannounced games were SNES games that’d tip the scales for me ahah.

Freedom Planet all the way! I loved this on PC but hate actually playing games on PC so it's an easy choice for me.

@Ooyah I’d say at least 5 minutes. He was flapping like crazy! That story gets brought up most Christmasses.

My dad had a goose called Eric and he was very much like this. He once clamped his beak onto my sister’s bum and wouldn’t let go. It was fantastic.

That video reminded me of Banzai, a late night Japanese parody show in the UK. Loads of crazy shouting, flashing and sound effects.

This and Smash are my 2 most hyped games for the rest of this year. I've not played too many fighting games outside of the 3DS Smash but this looks exciting.