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Hating the music from this movie is the new Hating any recent game that Sonic Team have made.
..
..Because we have good taste.

I always feel the same way seeing projects like this... And that is.. I'd really like to see what talented developers like this could REALLY do, if they weren't cloning someone else's work.
Make something new and unique. Use that EPIC amount of skill that you quite clearly have, and amaze us with your own projects.

If I had to choose between original Movie Sonic and crazy Sanic, I certainly know which I would prefer to have a movie of.

@Gs69 Yep! Best use of the keyboard.. .. except maybe Q3Arena.

I'm holding out for the Typing edition.

"New Game" just the one... pick one before you enter. don't look at two. If you look at two, you're banned for life.

I haven't finished it yet.
The battles, with the camera panning around rapidly and endlessly, kicks off my motion sickness.
As much as I "have" managed to complete, I haven't yet risked the end battle, because I know it's going to be a lot of swirling and nausea and .. Bleurgh..
There's other things I can't do in the game, too, but for the most part I can aimlessly wander and explore, and things aren't too bad in general gameplay.

I'm over 350 hours. Which is pretty dang lame considering I haven't beat it yet! But I'm ok with that, because I've really enjoyed my time with it.

I "kinda" look forward to the next one. But I'm worried that I might've explored the map to death already. I do hope there's LOADS more to do in the next one.

1st Day Switch, still working just fine. 1st Day Joycons have been replaced, as they started drifting, though it was only a few months ago, so they certainly held up.
It's had over 360 hrs of BOTW, and I've written over 135 games in SmileBASIC.
... and other games, occasionally, a bit.. maybe..

Yep, yep, yep.

Be absolutely certain you have
1. A good enough network to handle the switch online, AND simultaneously enough mobile devices for all the players, also being online.
2. The ability for all players to occasionally understand the weird Americanised references that often crop up.
3. Other players around you, or via a twitch stream or whatnot.

Then they're fun.
If you're a sad and lonely gamer like me, you'll wish they still made more single player-able games.

Where's my 3DS-style Themes!?!?!
And Folders.
Dag-nabbit, the Switch is a failure!!!

@westman98 gosh, it really doesn't feel like that long ago.
Iwata's presence is still felt, almost a decade later.

I've been reorganising my room, and at some point ended up sitting playing the original WarioWare on a surprisingly still-charged GBAsp for about an hour.. oops!!

Oh, how I would love to aimlessly wander a huge world like that.
Do it, BOTW2! Go on, go on, go on...

This is utterly ridiculous. The sheer audacity of only giving us a full year to make our purchases for consoles that we've mostly already replaced. Sickening. What will Nintendo do next? Make it so I can't nip into town and buy a new NES game? For shame.

Match Point today, Zorro the other day. When's Beach Head popping up?

If you don't now have the 8bit Zorro game's theme in your head, you're too young!!
Bloomin' young'uns!

Exec 1 : See, I told you..
Exec 2 : Dang.. How far is GTA VI?
Exec 1 : 3% complete.
Exec 2 : SHIP IT!!

It's based on the ITV gameshow Lingo, which was resurrected on New Year's Day January 2021, after a hiatus of about 40 or so years.

I know this because I instantly saw the potential of it as a videogame, and made my own clone of it way back in January 2021, whereby I added it to https://ShoeboxOfGames.com ...WAY before Wordle popped up in October.

Cool. So, with my housebound situation, I oughta be able to watch it via iTunes in.. oooh, roughly 2024 or so..?

But how many of those are in the hands of gamers?

"Wii"
A name is only dumb until you're used to it.

There are two sides to this argument.
On the one hand, it's not theirs to post it to YouTube, and it's entirely within reason for Ninty to take it down.
On the other hand, Ninty should probably give us access to this stuff, somehow.

Only one of those will be a guaranteed win in court.
Choose your battles wisely, people.

What would be lovely would be the soundtracks playable on your Switch for any games you've purchased.
Like how Smash Bros does it.

....Who's preordering games from Curry's?!

... these are all words I've heard before, usually just before the release of the newest Worst Sonic Game Ever..
please don't mess it up

How long from turning it on, to being able to aimlessly wander around a sprawling world without repetitive tutorial guff?
Have any of the reviews mentioned that yet?

Act One : Scene Five
At a shop. Buys am alarming amount of bubble gum.

Act Two : Scene Three
Picks up gun. Puts down bag. Tries gun. Enjoys gun. Wanders off, leaving bag behind. Bag contains bubble gum.

Act Five : Scene Eight
Blasting at alien creatures, reaches for a stick of gun, but realises he's all out of bubble gum.

Give me more shops, crafting, and different economies.
Let me build a chair from a rare wood in one land, paint it with dyes made from colourful mushrooms in another area, then sell it for a fortune in a third.
Mmmmm....
Still can't bring myself to do the final fight. Motion sickness vs swooping battle camera = bad times. But I LOVE the engine and it's world.
Basically, more to explore, and more to do once I get there.
That'll be me happy for another 360+ hours.

Their website says "Elasto Mania (or as commonly known: Elma)"
.. which definitely rings more of a bell than Elasto Mania does..

I miss having buttons on my phone...

Nintendo starting early, for the "Most deleted game of the year" award.

I've played a ton of Monkey Billiards.
... it's perfect!

Obligatory "it's just a rip off of the TV show Lingo. And the TV show Lingo goes back DECADES!!" comment.

The perfect review would include..
A ) How long it takes before it's "actually" an open world.
B ) How much of the tutorial guff we have to churn through, even though we've all played the exact same tutorial to death 600 or so times previously.

Nintendo have been working on 3D games for decades. The 3DS was the tip of the iceberg. As the writer of a whopping 128 games on Switch, my analysis of the situation is that projected holograms will be part of the next Nintendo console, codenamed Folio.

What a lovely art style.

"It can't be for a Nintendo console, 'cos only the Xbox achievements have been leaked."
Makes total sense.
If it were due for Nintendo, too, we'd definitely have seen all of the Nintendo Online Achievements.

@MaddestViking If I wanted to make stuff with bland "pixel-blocks", I'd do something silly like drawing a pixelart every day for over 2,500 days.

@MasterJay good to know. I might give it a second chance, then.
I think I only gave it about 5 minutes!!

"No Build"?
...!?!!
What about a "Relax, chill and build, without getting shot in the head" mode?

@Clyde_Radcliffe I'm afraid I really didn't give Fuze enough time to find out. I think Fuze has a "nicer" catalogue of ready made assets, but otherwise a language is a language. It is what people make of it.

If nothing else, at least Platdude pops up on SmileBASIC from time to time

SmileBASIC is currently half price. (£9.99)
Even if you're not into making your own games, there are now over 1,800 fun little retro indie games, made by developers all over the world, to play in it.
They're all completely free to download and play, once you've bought the thing.

Scrabble, Monopoly, Boggle.
Board games.. Family.. Xmas!!

Merry Christmas to you all.
I hope you get good gifts.
From shiny games as good as new,
To retro finds and thrifts.

Gooooorgeous!!

If I had an ounce of that talent... .. Platdude would at least have a face.

Hurray! I earned 13 points with my purchase!!

Hopefully I can get further into this one than "The Third", where I got stuck in the tutorial, spinning round and round and round as a weapon atop a tower, and kicking my Motion Sickness into high gear.

It's never too late to learn. SmileBASIC, Fuze and Nintendo's own Garage Builder thing make it all the more easy to give it a go as a hobby, right on the Switch!

@BloodNinja depends entirely on how it's been written, what language was used, what devkit, etc.
In this case, if you zoom into the pic on Twitter, you can quite clearly read "Unity" at the top of the screen.
Unity makes it as easy as pi.

@AugustusOxy See also : My second reply to this thread.
Additionally .. "Would HAVE" It's "Would HAVE"

@Clyde_Radcliffe Neither do games in the Apple Arcade. I've been sucked into that, head line and sinker. No ads allowed. No IAP's allowed. It's brilliant!!!
And most Apple Arcade games work with gamepads, though it's a pain to have to keep syncing my PS4 gamepad to the iPad and back..
Would be great if Apple released a proper gamepad, and bundled it with an Apple TV device.
Why are they so reluctant!?! I dunno..

"Mobile games". .. some people.
That's a standard game dev environment. If he hit a slightly different button and released the compiled version on Switch, you'd be chomping at the bits to play it.
It's the same smegging thing.