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@Anti-Matter

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Those professors are hot stuff

On one hand I salute the French for trying to keep their language alive and relevant.

On the other the added complication is just unnecessary

Hollow Knight and Ori literally neck and neck at time of posting. I personally preferred Ori with it's more compact game style, but you can't go wrong with either.

Celeste I haven't played but my brother raves about it.

Weird / annoying that there is no friendly match offered in this demo and you can only do training and then the online stress test in a weeks time.

Would it have been hard to let players play a match with preselected, gearless characters?

This looks fantastic. I would hope it gets a nice physical edition, but I'll get the game regardless.

What did I just watch?

My eyes. My ears. My brain. Everything hurts.

Neat device. Terrible price tag.

If there is a market for these kinda devices then I would assume that the Xbox team will jump into handheld gaming at some point. Gamepass games on a handheld would be fantastic.

Oh my goodness. yes please.

July is going to be expensive with Live A Live and then XC3 and Digimon Survive a week later. Who needs to go outside and get sunburnt eh?

Definitely got a Mutant Mudds / WarioLand vibe from this. Not sure the sexual innuendo at the start is completely necessary and detracts from an otherwise great trailer.

@Abeedo It might also be the aesthetic they are going for, which seems to be a toy style like Disney Infinity was. It brings all the IPs together without having to do a different style for almost every IP.

@Danimations https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/as-far-as-the-eye

The latest game to score less than a 4

@UltimateOtaku91 Have you seen the gameplay of a full game of Mario Strikers that Nintendo France released?

The gameplay itself looked quite a bit stripped back and almost boring. Strikers Charged had more character variety AND each character had a unique dodge mechanic. Granted some were kinda busted, such as Hammer Bros hammer and Toad's jump.

I am still getting the game, but I'm not sure that gameplay trailer did the game any favours unfortunately.

@sanderev I wouldn't call a 6/10 "bad". I would say their review is the fairest from what I have seen and the score fits with their scoring policy perfectly:

A good example of a six is a lazy sequel, it doesn't innovate but it doesn't really do anything wrong.

The LOTR trilogy would be pretty sweet. I would highly doubt it though as the new owners of the works are keen to move away from the Jackson films.

Was the best looking game in this Indie World to me. The soulslike part is offputting considering it looks cutesy and fairly kid friendly.

I will definitely be keeping an eye on this one for sure

Might be worth waiting for Switch reviews in this one. The frame rate looked pretty bad in the trailer. Unless that's what it is supposed to look like? In which case ignore me.

And there is the rumoured news we were expecting. 3pm is an awkward time for us Brits though.

@Rob3008 I would hope they wouldn't have been any different. But then there are people that have to buy both versions of the game, for some reason.

@westman98 That BDSP stat is sad as they are also by far the worst remakes.

Next months Switch Online rewards confirmed. Oh please please please.

@Friendly Gets me everytime. Always worse when you're not entirely sure either.

Guess what dates I mean with the following:

02/09/22
06/05/22
01/12/22

Good luck

@CodyMKW That anonymous mode is actually a really good idea and should be the default across all games on all kids accounts.

I used mine, infrequently. Obviously it was far easier to travel with in a pocket, but then the GBA SP wasn't too big and would fit in a pocket as well anyway.

'Murica. I'll get my popcorn ready because this thread is already turning nasty.

@Erigen I suppose that is my point. The price point would be fine IF they were all truly unique and memorable RPGs. As it stands they all seem pretty copy and paste and probably worth no more than £6 each, i.e. half the price they currently are.

Honest question, please don't hate me, but does anyone actually buy these? They just seem overpriced for what they are.

Was gunna grab Bugsnax, but you've shot down that idea with your 5/10 review.

So I'll probably trawl through the eShop sale to see if there is anything worth grabbing

@CharlieGirl To be fair to British Gas it uses this term across ALL devices that use power when in standby, not just games consoles.

On the other hand TVs, computers, consoles use so little power in standby that yes this definitely feels like BG trying to blame the public for their energy bills when in fact it is the shareholders of these companies holding the country to ransom.

Well this has me considering cancelling my preorder. Has a 6/7 out of 10 written all over it.

Does what it does well, but there isn't much there in the first place. sigh

Sounds really expensive for trials and a few gems. Not too sure who would buy this considering long time players will have unlocked most of the characters already.

@Silly_G Sounds glorious. I wonder if we can strap it to our face and get the full Virtual Boy experience.

The last time this happened there was a Direct announced last minute right before.

I don't see that happening this time. Maybe one was planned but they didn't have enough to show off and just gave us the XB3 and Splatoon news separately.

But also it's Nintendo. Switch Pro to be confirmed this Thursday. Book it.

Offering additional flexibility is always good, one of the few good things to come out of the pandemic.

But only offering an 80% week is kinda baffling. Why not allow those staff members to work an extra 2 hours each day and have a 100% week over 4 days?

@RupeeClock Considering they haven't had a commercial success for the last couple of years, probably.

Will I be picking this up? As it is free, yes. It does look better than Chocobo GP and I did like that game despite it's obvious flaws. Glad I didn't purchase the full game though.

Not surprising that the Switch is the top selling version of Lego SW considering the install base and the target market of the game.

Weird to see FIFA22 in second place considering how old that game is now (for a FIFA game). Has it gone on a decent sale somewhere?

Seeing Arceus rise back up to third is nice to see.

HOW is GTAV still in the top 10 though? Who doesn't have this game who was already interested? Does it just keep selling to kids or something? Much like Minecraft does.

@RiasGremory I'm probably going to get myself in trouble for saying this but classing a game with excessive cartoon cleavage as "mature" is pretty laughable. In fact the way XC2 did it is pretty immature.

The Witcher series is a game with mature nudity. Xenoblade 2 is not and is complete fanservice.

@Shambo Fair explanation. Apologies for getting the wrong end of the stick.

@DiggleDog This sums it up perfectly. Bravo.

I was expecting some angry Kirby american box art. I am disappointed

@Shambo The first comment was obviously sarcasm, yours however was not. Considering someone else called you out so I do not believe that joke is on me.

Sarcasm does NOT translate well to the written form unless you make it obvious.

To me it just reads like you are calling the original poster a degenerate for no real reason.

@Shambo HAHAHAHAHA. Boy did you miss the sarcasm of their post.

sigh. I was really hoping this wouldn't be the case. It is just unnecessary, largely unrealistic and distracting.

Is there a character limit for titles? I feel like you could have gotten a couple more mentions of Wii Sport in there.

Music sounds good and gave me Ori vibes.

£17.99 for a 4 hour game seems quite steep so the 50% discount is welcome but should probably be the retail price anyway.

@Anti-Matter That's fine but unfortunately those games would just not sell as well as the branded games.

Imagine if there was a Lego Dance Dance Revolution though

The same day as Xenoblade 3 and a week after Live A Live. Who needs to go outside and socialise during the summer anyway?

Looks like an improvement over XC2 for sure. I liked XC2 but it didn't grab me and will me to play through again. Hopefully this next one is the one that clicks for me.

If they decide to throw in characters with the some bodily proportions as Pyra/Mythra/Dhalia then I am done.

@AndyC_MK111 They could have cut some content and give it back later as paid DLC. Just a thought.

What are Nintendo avoiding at the end of the year to push BOTW2 to next year and pull this forward to July?

Switch Sports is the first game on Switch to use the AMD image upscaling. Couldn't this just be BOTW2 using that and being the showpiece for the technology?