GravyThief

Still waiting for the SNES pad to come back in stock

I played Minecraft for the first time ever on my Switch at the weekend, with my two young daughters. It’s not my type of game at all, but I thought my girls would enjoy just building stuff. My goodness how wrong I was. It’s terrible. I don’t understand what all the fuss is about? I hope it’s because we didn’t know what we were doing but goodness me, this just reinforces how far removed I am from modern gaming trends. Minecraft, Fortnite, open world games. They’re terrible. I’m thankful I grew up in the 90s, otherwise I would not be a gamer at all.

@UmbreonsPapa I just had another go, and I managed to trawl through all the games and favourite the tracks I want. So at least I can use it now. The pre-Switch offering is really meagre though. I can’t believe there are only 3 games each for N64 and SNES. These have the best soundtracks. I really hope Starfox/Starwing on the SNES makes an appearance. That game has some belters.

I have very fond memories of this game. I got it for Xmas 1994, but the hype in the run up to its release was phenomenal. I remember the coverage on Bad Influence TV show, and the anecdote about when it was shown at E3 (or whatever it was at the time) and everyone thought it was for Nintendo’s next console.

I also remember playing levels repeatedly because I was looking for the ‘!’ exclamation mark to show on the map to show that you’d 100% completed a level. I was expecting it to show on the map itself, in the spot where you enter the level. Little did I know that they just added the ‘!’ to the end of the level’s name! I gave up in the end. I probably got 100% on loads of levels without even realising it 🙈

I need to spend time trying to work out how best to browse this app and add specific tracks to a ‘favourites’ list or something. When I first downloaded it and had a quick look, it wasn’t that intuitive. I hope it’s better. It didn’t help that most soundtracks were from newer games, which let’s face it, have far inferior soundtracks to the classics. I mean, the Mario Odyssey soundtrack is fine, but it has nothing on the 80s and 90s Mario games.

I still don’t understand how people can like Prime 3. The game starts with you in a space station chin wagging with random peeps going about their mundane warehouse jobs, and then ending up in a meeting room with a bunch of weirdos who are wearing the worst fancy dress costumes this side of the Milky Way. How is that a Metroid game?

They should. But it’s Nintendo, so they probably won’t.

I’ve only just started playing and completed the first dungeon. I don’t have enough echoes yet for the menu to be a problem but I can definitely see it being laborious as I acquire more of them.

What I’m finding more irritating is the lack of traditional combat. Fighting monsters is just a chore using only echoes. Every fight takes longer than it should. I just want to go up to them and whack them. They should have kept the echoes for traversal and puzzle solving only, for which they’re much better equipped to handle. Not a bad game so far though, but definitely not a top tier Zelda game.

I’m close to completing this game right now (late to the party I know), and I really wish I hadn’t read this review beforehand. I have found the game to be mediocre and generic at best. The fighting is little more than button bashing. I’m sure there’s more depth to it, but I have no desire to discover it. I don’t bother upgrading my legions’ skills, it’s just busy work. The missions/quests whatever are completely lacklustre, and the astral plain is the most repetitive place to explore, it all looks the same. The puzzles have no depth whatsoever. The only thing keeping me going is the slightly intriguing story, and the fact I’ve committed all this time to it.

I think this is my first platinum game, and it will probably be my last. At least it’s confirmed I won’t bother trying to get into Bayonetta.

They just need to do a price drop. I think it’s now time!

@Zeebor15 I completed the game. Can’t remember how many hours it was, other than way too many. The game is mediocre at best.

Need an option “No, I played the Wii U version and that’s 50+ hours of my life I’ll never get back”.

I don’t know what all the fuss is about. I completed this game on Wii U when it first came out and that’s 50+ hours (probably more!) of my life I’ll never get back. I suppose this is good for those who didn’t have a Wii U, but seriously there are better games out there!

@Vyacheslav333 how does that work? I buy songs digitally - admittedly mainly from iTunes, but some were from Google Play in the past when I had an Android phone. I literally have the music files on my computer (mp3, m4a, whatever) that I’ve copied to hard disks (backup), as well as on my phone, and I can play them on any media hardware I like. There’s no physical way they can delete these files. Were you subscribed to it or something?

@Davii0_ well I’m guessing she might be unfollowing the site now thanks to this article 🤣

@MrGawain thanks for the link. I didn’t really know who she was but this shows she’s a Nintendo fan and it was a smart move by Nintendo to use her for a marketing campaign. She talks about wanting a 1-UP mushroom tattooed on her arm. I think it’s fair to say that’s pretty hardcore!

Good taste. Playing this game back in Jan 95 after getting it for that Xmas was an eye opener. The music and story made me realise games can be more than just platformers or shooters. The story hasn’t really held up over time (it’s too simplistic) but for an 11 year old back in the day it really was great. And it still has some of the best music for a videogame ever.

I didn’t get a Switch until 2023, and was quite happy with my (then new to me) PS4. But I remember watching this trailer and thinking Nintendo were on to a winner. I thought the price was too high, but clearly I don’t know anything as it’s barely had a price drop since launch and sold gangbusters!

I fire this game up every week… for 30 seconds to quickly complete a couple of the NSO weekly missions 🤣

This whole playing online against random people, battle royale style really isn’t my thing. I’m very much an old school player. I just don’t enjoy multiplayer unless it’s with friends in the same room huddled round a screen like back in the day.

@Max_the_German Just realised you were being sarcastic in response to the other comments 🤣 I do apologise for not having my sarcasm detector working

@Max_the_German there is absolutely nothing objective about reviews, whether you agree with them or not. Reviews are someone’s opinion, and so by their nature are completely subjective.

Also, with the way averages work, something is always going to be below average! It doesn’t automatically mean it’s wrong.

Nobody is asking the burning question. Can it play Doom?

They definitely need prisons. There’s always at least one thug going round people’s homes, rifling through their belongings and smashing their pots and vases.

Maybe just his nose is credited. Because doesn’t he stick it in all of Nintendo’s output?

(I’m jesting of course).

My main problem with AI is calling it AI. Everything badged ‘AI’ as I understand it is just supercharged data processing or data generation. Nothing is actually intelligence. Machine learning is the closest to intelligence, but even that is just very specific data processing to predict specific outcomes on that specific data.

What I’m trying to say is, none of this AI is actually AI, and we’re safe from Skynet for years to come.

This really isn’t looking like the revival of the traditional 2D Zelda game I hoped it’d be. From the review I read it only has 7 dungeons (could be worse, but could be more) and they’re apparently a bit lacklustre, according to that reviewer. I want to find a review from someone who, like me, much prefers the traditional Zelda games and formula, compared with the recent BotW and TotK. Then I’d know whether this is for me or not.

@Mana_Knight damn I knew I’d regret selling my Game Boy Camera and Printer earlier this year! 🤣

Good. It’s not a Zelda game without ‘proper’ dungeons

Guessing this is US only? Can’t find anything on UK Amazon and the link in the article just takes you to a fandom page.

I like that there’s a proper dungeon. I just hope there are multiple proper dungeons. Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time had loads of dungeons, and it’s no coincidence they’re my two favourite Zelda games.

I’m still undecided on the lack of traditional combat, but if there are lots of dungeons and puzzles within those dungeons I’ll be flexible on the unusual approach to combat.

I hope the creativity aspect isn’t too much of a focus either. I prefer to leave that kind of stuff to Minecraft and such like. It’s one of the reasons I don’t like BotW and TotK all that much.

I’m cautiously optimistic.

I really like the art style. I’m looking forward to this, but will I actually complete it?

I’ve been playing Paper Mario TTYD, and I’ve stopped at the point just before you go to the island on the pirate ship. I forgot how much the game drags. I don’t know if it’s this game in particular or if I just find RPGs a slog these days. Guess I’ll find out!

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, released on PS1 in 1999 and didn’t have loading because they constantly streamed the next parts of the game in advance of you going there. On a CD based console. In 1999.

But yeah, this is impressive I guess….

@YunoboCo I love finding old articles like this and reading comments from so long ago, seeing what were people’s hot topics at the time.

I’m also surprised to read from this article that the EU version of Metroid Prime had more effects than the US/JPN version. Despite being in the UK, I’ve always played the US version so I now want to buy a UK copy of the game just to check it out 🤣

30fps is extremely disappointing. I’m guessing the PS5 version will be 60?

This genre of game really benefits from being 60fps. They should have prioritised that and then made the visuals as best they could while sticking to it. Mario Odyssey looks great and is 60fps and feels wonderful to play.

Too little too late. I needed this in the early 90s when I was trying to complete my HeroQuest sticker album.

@garfreek if you’re on the European eShop, search for “Tombi!” rather than “Tomba!” It had a different name in Europe (no idea why) and it seems they’ve continued with it in this re-release.

I have no nostalgia for F-Zero X. Played for the first time in 2016 or sometime around then. It instantly became my favourite F-Zero game. I enjoyed the SNES and GC outings, but X just feels right. GX certainly looks more impressive, but once I’d played X I couldn’t go back.

Not tried it on NSO, to be honest I really don’t like the clean emulator look of N64 games on NSO. Just looks wrong. Early 3D games were blurry for a reason 🤣

I bloody love SNES Doom. It was the only way I could play it back in the day and I didn’t care/know how bad it ran. It was Doom and I could play it. I played it to death too.

I see Randy Linden is involved with it, he’s the wizard that did the original so I have high (but realistic) hopes for this. Will be keeping an eye on it that’s for sure.

Played it on PS4 thoroughly enjoyed it. Is there a physical version for the Switch?

This is nothing special or new. My uncle worked at Konami and showed me this prior to release, the day before the 1999 E3 demo.

I still don’t have Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch 😱

@IceClimbers I am one of those people! Although I think the binding stuff looks good, it will work much better in 2D and allow some great puzzles I’m sure. But seeing side quests, smoothies (crafting) and wardrobe chores really puts me off. Is there any confirmation of proper dungeons being in the game yet?

I’m guessing the biggest impact of this is the currency rate point they mention. All research and most development costs are expensed in year, and the majority of R&D costs for Switch 2 would probably go back further at a guess. I’m not privy to the profile of R&D costs for new consoles but I would imagine most happen in the early stages rather than the year prior to release?

Drop the price. Job done.

Thanks for reminding me to preorder this. It’s silly how the PS4 version is only getting a physical release in Europe, and the Switch version is only getting a physical release in the US. I’m sure they have some logic behind that 🤪

One annoying thing about the map in Super Metroid is that the symbol for items doesn’t change when you obtain them, so when you’re reviewing the map later in the game you have no idea which items you’ve already got and which you still need to get.

The over-world map in Super Mario World is the best map in any game, ever. It’s pretty, mysterious, provides sneak peaks to later areas of the game, it’s not a boring grid layout, it tells you which levels have secret exits and best of all, it evolves and changes as you uncover the secret exits and discover hidden paths and levels that you could pass by without ever knowing they’re there in the first place.

It saddens me that no Mario game since has bettered the map from a game made in 1990.

I saw the previous reunion, so will definitely check this out.

Did these folks also voice the characters, or only do the live action bits?

You know there are loads of Americans on this site when NES and SNES carts are beating Famicom and Super Famicom carts. But like the box art brawls to be honest.

Still, glad to see N64 carts on top. Those carts are substantial and feel good to hold and slot in.

Yet another NL, Time Extension or Push Square article I can’t read on my phone without the text jumping up and down the screen constantly. It’s even doing it as I write this comment. It’s infuriating.

Unless it’s a Metroidvania Open World Rogue-like Souls-like with crafting, skill trees and trophies then I’m not interested.

And the physical edition will be released by… Limited Run Games!