HappyMaskedGuy

So long as she never attempts to write and direct a horror movie ever again. Her contribution to the ‘feminist’ XX film was utterly dreadful.

Then in an interview about it, she said that she doesn’t even like horror films?

Ugh. Makes me so angry. Stick to the music hen.

CEASE AND DESTROY!!!! I mean, DESIST.

I’ll have Mario 64 now.

@IceClimbers Excuse me Sir, Trolling in Progress, please step back

@CodyMKW Firstly, can you admit that you were categorically wrong about micro transactions?

The information on Cloud Saves is nebulous at best. Nintendo’s ‘own version’? What does that even mean?

And woah there sonny—there’s no need to be rude.

At this rate we’ll start getting N64 games some time in 2040.

@CodyMKW Still feeling so smug?

Read the latest on ‘in-game purchases’

Also, where is it stated that the game supports cloud saves exactly?

LOL at yourself. Don’t be so blindly supportive of a game, or anything for that matter.

As a hardcore fan, these problems will affect you far more than me. Think about it.

@NerdyBoutKirby Yes.

@KitsuneNight Totally agree. We humans should be custodians and protectors—not jailers and abusers.

Won’t be watching, won’t be buying.

Way too many unnecessary problems introduced in this game—from no cloud saving to no multiple files, right up to bloody micro-transactions.

You can keep it, Nintendo.

Thread was far more interesting than the topic at hand.

Popcorn compatible.

@NerdyBoutKirby Not quite. It’s good enough, but no classic.

And they said that Zero Suit Samus was too racy.

This girl is swallowing her own leggings.

Looks like a typical 90’s/ early 00’s platform adventurer, in good ways and bad. It looks like it might suffer from similar problems to Yooka Laylee—great art and assets, but uncompelling, listless gameplay in large, empty feeling worlds.

Hopefully it gets a little more density in terms of content.

Because this game has ‘Knight’ in the title, I will make a point of ignoring it.

Come up with more original titles, you lazy hacks.

I absolutely love foxes, so might check this out. I’m getting some BotW/ Okami/ Journey vibes, which is always intriguing.

I feel sorry for foxes. They live extremely difficult lives, scraping by to survive. Beautiful animals that deserve to be treated more compassionately.

‘Pokemon’ and ‘Fresh Gameplay’

are not compatible word combinations.

Cheap generic anime aping classic English Gothic literature?

No. Thank. You.

Nintendo continues to behave in the most idiotic ways possible when it comes to online services.

Honestly, toddlers could do a better job at this point.

Oh man. FIFA, CoD and Grand Theft Auto clogging the top spots of UK charts since 2010.

Christ, it’d be funny if it wasn’t so bloody embarrassing, depressing.

I’m marooned on an island of idiots. Kill me.

@Ainz Think the number of new cases is dropping, according to Chinese authorities. But considering the source I’d take that with a large pinch of Winnie The Pooh.

Companies like Nintendo would do well to avoid putting all their manufacturing eggs in the China basket. A country built on child labour, concentration camps, propaganda and aggressive state censorship.

Not to mention their shocking treatment of animals—the source and cause of coronavirus, and countless other pandemic level outbreaks.

Oh, and far and away the world’s worst polluting country to boot.

Roll up and sell your souls right here, folks. Buy cheap and sell bloodied.

@dugan Would Tom Nook worry about the law?

Hell naw.

That Resetti patch should be slapped on oil platforms across the globe.

Meme-able wisdom.

Threw up a little bit reading that headline...

It’ll be Fortnite next. Then we can all celebrate our collective entry into the first circle of Hell.

Fire up the grills, Mr Caffeine.

Yahoozerino.

£30?!

incredulous scoffing

That Blizzard style camera angle has immediately put me off this.

The least immersive perspective ever.

@RedBlueCarrots I’m waiting on a CEASE AND DESIST for my life any day now.

This is shaping up to be really interesting. Personally I’d rather they made it for a more powerful console than Switch, though.

Bundled with a Switch Pro? Yes please.

So where’s the review?

@spoondriver Yeah, it’s lovely. So beautifully realised.

@EarthboundBenjy Hybrid Heaven was an RPG, I think. Weird as hell too.

@KitsuneNight I personally think it’s the best Silent Hill game full-stop. Certainly the best in terms of execution.

It wouldn’t be half the game it is without the motion controls either.

@Impaler-D Agreed. If the political agenda is given priority over the quality of the work, it tends to suffer badly for it.

But this isn’t a new problem. The heavy handed use of—and reliance on—metaphor and allegory has been undermining artwork of every kind for more than a century. I’m not sure, but I think it began with the trend of interpretation. Artworks make highly effective mules for sneaking in politics and propaganda.

If an audience suspects a creative work of having designs on them, especially political stances they disagree with, they’ll tend to reject it. But if they agree with the underlying politics, things can get nasty. Nazi propaganda is a good example of this.

@mist Oh do shut up. The only person making this political is you.

I don’t understand—why haven’t you guys reviewed it? You review things like emulators and random books, so why not this?

@gaga64 Is that a Harry Enfield reference?

You must be as old as me. For reference—I have hair growing on my earlobes. That old.

Stick it to The Man, FAST RMX, Wipeout VR, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Wii version, of course).

Very poorly judged review, tbh. This game absolutely deserves a minimum 8, based on its originality and craft alone. This is a labour of love and creativity, and it definitely shows.

“Stick It To The Man somewhat feels out of place on a Nintendo system. It’s a platform game based on a universe made up of darker themes and a large cast of wild and wacky characters; the story, along with the humour, is certainly twisted and won’t appeal to everyone.“

So because it isn’t universally inoffensive or thematically unchallenging, like Mario, it therefore deserves to be deducted points, regardless of its undeniable underlying quality?

What an injustice to a great title. This game deserves a bigger audience BECAUSE it deals with darker themes, like suicide.

Tut tut.

@EarthboundBenjy Must admit, that’s a good argument for the gameplay benefits of roguelike. If it’s the mechanics of a game that especially interest you, I can see that making a lot of sense. A game that keeps on giving, essentially.

My own problem stems more from the layout, the plot as it were, of the adventure. Human designed levels are able to tell a story, set specific moods, and create a narrative that randomisation simply cannot, except by dumb luck. Human designed levels can also be satisfyingly cleverly designed, an art in itself.

I suppose it comes more down to what you want to get out of your time with a game—an immersive narrative adventure, or a gameplay driven one.

@mesome713 I’m going to cease communicating with you now. All the best.

@EarthboundBenjy I don’t care about the process—I care about the result. Procedurally generated environments are universally forgettable, having zero discernible form or design.

Are you denying that a computer randomly generates the environments? Are you honestly claiming that developers choose procedural generation because it’s harder to create?

Come on. That’s total bull, and you know it.

Also, thanks for reading and considering the rest of my post, where I do people the favour of suggesting games they might like. But never mind, let’s just jump on defending rogue-like, computer generated games.

@mesome713 ‘Go get a job bums.’

Waw. Spectacularly dumb.

@Steel76 I imagine Platinum will be composed of several in-house teams, each working on separate projects.

NIER: AUTOMATA OR GTFO

Must say I think there’s far too many ‘rogue-like’ games out there just now. To me it just means, ‘Couldn’t be bothered actually designing levels, so let a computer randomise one for us’. I don’t intend to support that kind of development mindset, personally.

I picked up a few games for under £20– The Bridge—a weird, dreamlike puzzle adventure game, Goetia—a French point and click ghost story, Stick it to The Man, Flipping Death, Stories Untold—an 80’s inspired horror title with innovative gameplay styles (also developed by some of the people who worked on Alien: Isolation, a team from my native Glasgow).

I’ve also been playing my way through FAST RMX, which is an absolutely brilliant future racing game. If you’re dying for F-Zero, buy it immediately.

Oh, and if you’re looking for a short, unique Silent Hill style horror game, I highly recommend ‘Detention’. Great atmosphere and an engaging, affecting, humane plot, which taught me about a period of history in Taiwan to which I was previously ignorant. 5 stars.

Funny, I was just thinking of this the other day. One of the first major Indie titles, wasn’t it?

@nessisonett Keep your sectarian bile to yourself mate. It’s bad enough that Scotland’s infested with it.

@spoondriver A film doesn’t need to be ‘Oscar winning’ to be halfway decent.

It’s the same flimsy excuse as ‘Well, it’s a kid’s film, so what do you expect?’

There are plenty of universally watchable films classed as ‘for kids’ that are bloody superb—

Mulan, My Neighbour Tottoro, Toy Story, Mary Poppins, ParaNorman, Paddington—Christ, even Goosebumps and Detective Pikachu were well made.

Likewise, just because it’s ‘not an Oscar winning movie’ doesn’t give a film a free pass from legitimate criticism, or for that matter, being crap.