NinjaSyao

"Smaller" games like these always remind me that I used to absolutely love Ubisoft back in the Gamecube era.
None of that bloated open world stuff, or agressive DLC practises (I'm looking at you, Fenyx Rising!), just good single player games like the Prince of Persia franchise.

And they've still got it, based on how good this Prince of Persia and the Mario + Rabbids games are.
Heck! Rayman Origins/Legends were pretty darn great too.

Just wish they'd do these kinda games more often... v.v

Freedom Planet 2 with ease! Absolute gigantic improvement over the already very fun 1st game and loved every moment of it!

Just finished my Lilac playthrough and am definetly gonna 100% this game. It deserves it and I'd be very surprised if anything will beat this game as my GOTY 2024.

Was kinda fun in the first 3 episodes, goes downhill faster than Sonic can run through a loop afterwards.

Way too much focus on Wade and the humans from that point on, Knuckles is nowhere to be seen and the action is meh (we don't even get to see Wade do a "Flames of Disaster" move, even though there was a whole bit about him learning it?), cringe dialogue and the whole bowling tournament part with Wade versus his dad made my soul hurt with its stupidity.

(the low budget musical part was hilarious though and will be the source of memes for many years to come XD)

4/10

I was hoping for the update notes to include a new developer, but alas...

Doing a 100% playthrough of Freedom Planet 1, always surprises me just how fun this game is despite me not being a fan of 2D Sonic style gameplay, and then it's straight to the sequel! ^_^

With this, the Ender Lilies sequel, and Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus coming soon it's gonna be a good year for metroidvania fans ^_^

Looks like stability is back on the menu boys!

@MasterGraveheart

Yeah, and if anyone is to take over for them I really hope it's Nightdive.

They've done amazing remaster work on the Turok games and Star Wars Dark Forces among others.

14 seconds is an immense save for quite a few parts of the game. But I'm gonna stick with the PC version now that I'm able to use my account there.

Switch doesn't even come close to that version's performance and loading speeds. Controller support kinda sucks though...

Time for Incineroar to wrestle the entire VGC meta in submission, as usual XD

I wonder if this means the PC version will get updated too?
Got hit by the nasty "game plays at 1-2 fps" bug that has affected others too and now the game is literally unplayable. None of the possible fixes posted online have worked sadly, so I'm waiting on a patch to hopefully play it again.

Real shame too as this game is the most fun I've had with Sonic in a very long time, despite the jank and glitchiness, but Sega is just soo bad at coding their games nowadays v.v

I hope we'll get some Freedom Planet 2 release date news this time.

Loved the first one and the 2nd looks to be better in every single way ^_^

@Waluigi451

Warframe does it well imo.

We've had cross-play for a year now and though there are some issues, mostly coming from the Switch not being nearly as fast at loading times as the rest, it works well and really revitalized the game and it's no wonder it's always the #1 requested feature of multiplayer games now.

I don't think I'll buy it (got way too many fighting games on Steam I yet need to try thanks to a few Humble Bundle deals in recent times), but any developer putting rollback netcode in their Switch releases gets nothing but mad respect from me! ^_^

@HammerKirby Nope! The only Capcom game we have received a physical edition for since the launch of the Switch, as far as I know atleast, is Monster Hunter Rise >.>

@HammerKirby

Here's another question: when is Capcom going to remember the EU exists for physical releases?

Really enjoyed the first one back in the days, but never got to play the 2nd as that never released here in my country.

Looking forward to getting these, but not right away. Got a few more Switch games I need to finish first and Namco Bandai does discount sales on a regular basis, so I can wait.

@Ocaz

For Warframe it is actually. This game has different monetary systems for a lot of stuff depending on whether you're on console or PC.
Add a variety of other things to that like agreements with the platform holders and Tennogen designers and you get what's a real headache of a cross save case.

Warframe struggling with "spaghetti code" is another thing. Every single update of theirs has had a lot of stuff breaking over the years and cross-play has been a thing for over a year now, but it's still incomplete and messy so yeah... I can't blame 'em for taking this long with cross saves. They need to get this right!

I'm gonna wait a few months before migrating my account to avoid becoming part of the inevitable wave of people that lost their accounts when using this feature.

@Arawn93

Not impossible, just a chore once you get to the point of upgrading a lot of stuff to max and go deep into the whole building thing, which is a game in itself.
That's when lack of materials starts to rear its ugly head. And I'm a OCD item hoarder in games, so yeah...

I didn't use the glitch for most of my playthrough, but it did alleviate the grinding aspect of a game that imo, really suffers from being way too big for its own good.

Also, it's kinda pointless to argue about whether or not the glitch and the people that are using it is good or bad in a game that literally has the design philosopy of "play the game however the hell you want".

The only thing that really matters is if they messed with the duplication glitches again?

The game is way too darn grindy without them, so I hope those remain possible.
Not that it matters for me, I'm gonna stick with 1.1.2 for as long as possible ^_^

@Friendly

Yeah, it looks like this will be final game in this franchise with the composer recently posting that he's done working on these games.

Played it and managed to get to the ending, despite the game's best attempts to make me quit.

Really mediocre game with some of the most cringe dialogue in the gaming industry. Save your money for something else!

@greengecko007

People have been analyzing the trailers and there also seem to be new mechanics, like being able to continue combo'ing people if you hit them with a crumple move or whatever it's called.

There's also a lot of downright broken stuff in Storm 4 that hopefully will be fixed for this release.

Loved this game back in the day!

Great to see it back, but I'm gonna hold off until the price drops, 30+ bucks is a bit much for this genre....

Will just say what everyone's thinking: No, Silksong is not gonna be in this Direct v.v

Edit: here's hoping for a release date for Freedom Planet 2. Also, if I can be greedy I would be very happy with a port of Super Cloudbuilt ^_^

Mario Kart 8: "Smell that? Smells like roadkill!"

Ah yes, and they will arrive when I'm asleep and sell out in mere seconds...

Oh wait, it's just the Australian branch, not the Dutch one. Nice! Don't have to be disappointed for the 20th time then ^_^

Was expecting a bit more from the big 0.0.16 update to be honest >.>

I played it for like 30 minutes at a friend's place and I was surprised at how much fun I was having just racing around and doing some platforming. Combat wasn't half-bad either and Sonic felt good to control for once O.O

I'm glad Sega wants to build on this success, because my first impression was the same as the reviews from a lot of fans: very fun, if flawed, game that is a great starting point for future Sonic games.

Btw, no I don't have the game myself yet. I'm waiting on all the free DLC to be released so I can 100% it in one go.

Also, the modding community is doing some really neat stuff with the game, even improving physics and momentum and stuff, so I've got plenty of things to try out when that time comes ^_^

First Bayonetta I won't be getting on day 1. It looks good, but not 60 bucks good, especially compared to Bayonetta 3, so I'm gonna wait for a sale.

Bayonetta games go on sale quite fast anyway.

@joezilla83

Yeah, I've got 2 more rpgs on my backlog that I'm starting on now (Ni no Kuni 2 and Fire Emblem: Three Houses) and this one'll be right after that.

I do expect the game to be patched by that time. The issues mentioned in this review sound like relatively easy fixes and even if not by the time I get to it, whatever! I've experienced far worse in the past and still greatly enjoyed those games ^_^

Was waiting for a review on this one, looked unique and promising in the trailers, before pulling the trigger as the other game I had my eyes on turned out to be kinda meh according to reviews (Alisha the oblivion of twin goddesses)...

Review reads like a 8 to me so I'll be downloading this one in the near future, although I will wait for a bit to see if any updates are planned ^_^

Warframe has keyboard support and it's really useful to quickly type a message in the chats. I'd love for more games to have it ^_^

Glad they didn't go that route. Not every game/genre has to be open world and wouldn't work anyway.

It's like eating soup with a fork: just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should...

Have had on my eyes on this one ever since it got announced. It has potential and I love the overall style of it, though the kinda sluggish walking and lack of smoothness when it comes to rotating the camera (you can see both @ 0:21 in the launch trailer) has me a bit worried it might be a rough experience.

Really looking forward to the review on this one!

Yeah, this was a total disaster.

Got a nice Masquerade Edition sitting here, but I don't have the physical copy of the first game to complete that panorama thing that's inside... great job Nintendo! Not!

I'll register my interest, but I'm sure it'll go up out-of-the-blue again and sell out while I'm asleep, as usual. Been the story of my life with the N64 controller for over a year now >.>

And the page for physical edition of the first Bayonetta went online on their store yesterday and you already can't select the physical anymore...

What a disaster this is. Nintendo really needs to get its **** together >.>

Any news about the physical edition of Bayonetta 1? Still can't find it on their webstore...

Would love to have the collection complete, but Nintendo is being very difficult with this >.<

This DLC was good, being able to save party formations is awesome, but it's definetly geared towards players who just started or are in the mid point.

Noponic Champion is a mediocre class at best that wants you to get knocked out multiple times to get max power, losing all aggro in the process, meaning it's a tank that needs time to get going and has a very hard time getting and maintaining aggro.

The only good part of the kit is having a break art with no positional requirements, but even that is not great as it means attackers won't get talent art charge for using it >.<
Final nail in the coffin is being obtainable at a point not too far away from the point where you can get Ashera. The best tank class and hero in the game!

Challenge mode is the same thing. Not challenging at all for people with endgame set-ups and is mostly useful for getting strong accessories early in the game.
I've also never cared for swimsuits in JRPG's so yeah...

I'm still waiting for the physical release of Bayonetta 1 to become open for pre-order, from anywhere in Europe really.

Kinda starting to feel like I'm looking for an unicorn...

Looks interesting, gives me Run Saber vibes at some points like the climbing part @ 0:24 and some of the animations.

Edit: just did some digging and apparently Run Saber was a Strider knockoff. Well, that explains it ^^

Good to see the Cowabunga Collection is doing well, it's a very fine collection and a collection actually including the Gameboy games gets a big thumbs up from me. Will be picking up my copy soon ^_^

Much better than that lazy Ninja Gaiden "Master" Collection I recently finished. They couldn't even be bothered to fix all the really bad glitches in Razor's Edge and that game even performs worse than on Wii U, what the heck?! o.O

A bit off-topic: anyone know what's up with the Bayonetta 1 physical release in Europe? Still can't find it in any store online and Nintendo UK tweeted about that version so it has to come here too, right?

Started out okay, but quickly became boring and very repetitive. Didn't even bother with the sidequests and stuff.

The narrator is bad to the point where it feels like they're insulting your intelligence >.<

Surprised not to see the Ninja Gaiden Master Collection on this list, yet Dread is and that is not an easy game at all sure, but not something I'd put on a "hardest games" list o.O

All 3 NG games are exceedingly tough on higher difficulties, even on normal they can be a challenge for anyone that's not a genre veteran, with Razor's Edge in particular being just unbalanced in a lot of bad ways.

Just gonna wait for a big sale on the Gold Edition, got other stuff to play that month.

It's Ubisoft we're talking about, so should take 1-2 months at most for a sale to happen XD

Always wanted to try these, but my options are:

1. Switch versions with 30fps and no gyro....
2. PC versions that have a ton of crashes apparently and you need to jump through a bunch of hoops to "hopefully" fix it

Yeah, they're dirt cheap at the moment but I"ll spend my money on something else instead.

A bit of a bummer the Switch version will take that long, but I'm just glad we have a release window now.

PC version releases right in the middle of my vacation, so might double-dip. Don't feel like waiting until the Switch version comes and I don't mind supporting this great little franchise ^_^

@WreckitRyan

The game can be tedious and overwhelming at times, but it has so much stuff to do and personality and is just a very fun game overall.
I loved it as a kid and still do.

I also think that at some point it became the cool thing to do to hate on it, I don't know...
The first Yooka Laylee has that problem. Just try posting an article or something about that game and just watch the people come crawling out of their holes, to then start acting like it's the worst game ever and it murdered their moms or something XD

Oh sure! Finally one that appears when I'm not asleep and I can get before the scalpers show up and they don't do shipping to the Netherlands, just the UK....

The Netherlands store is also down for maintenance, just like the German one NintendoPete mentioned v.v

sighes

That's very nice! ^_^

I wonder if someday they will also make it so the names (which tend to be very different in the English version of the games) in the subtitles also match which voice language you have selected?