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@OnlyManWhoCan Yes to those first two points you made! Great example of Metroid Dread illustrating what could make it great. I just take issue with the final point: please no multiplayer. And that’s just personal preference. As a solo gamer these days I unfortunately have to tap out of most multiplayer games/co-op.

For the life of me, I never understood the whole “This is an Xbox” campaign one iota. Even for someone who has no experience/nous with marketing etc, it made absolutely no sense and was actively encouraging people NOT to buy any Xbox hardware. The lack of exclusives on top of this is baffling, and although I’d love to see as many games as possible on Switch 2, Xbox should absolutely shift back towards exclusive games being only available on their console, for their own sake.

@TheWokesterGamer That’s exactly what I wanted to hear, thank you 🙏

@Solid_Python Ok, great, I am intrigued so I will download and check it out. Thank you.

How welcoming is this game for newcomers? I’ve never played Overwatch before and wondered if anyone who has experience could tell me if it is difficult to get into….?

Great to see a 9, I’ve been hyped for this ever since playing the excellent demo. No mouse controls is never a con for me personally, as I play with the wonderful Pro Controller 2 when in TV mode. As long as gyro is included I’m golden.

Rather than just reading comments about people complaining about GKCs, I want to know if this game is actually going to release on Switch 2. I hope so, it looks like tons of fun

I adored this game, but after completing virtually everything already and sinking countless hours in, I can’t see myself going back unless the new content is substantial.

@MyUsernameWasTaken That is absolutely fair enough, and I honestly meant zero offence: I fully appreciate different opinions, especially when they are quite eloquently put.

@MyUsernameWasTaken Whoa, for a first comment, that is quite the cynical take. I don’t want to say Buzzkill, so I’ll just say… welcome.

@Teksette glad someone else was curious about Deadzone. Oh, and thanks again for the recommendation on Minishoot - I ended up fully completing it, even all the post-credits stuff, very enjoyable little game.

Voted for Minishoot’, but honestly can’t believe this site hasn’t reviewed (or barely mentioned) Deadzone: Rogue!!! It’s a great roguelike FPS for Switch 2, and it certainly warrants more attention than it’s been getting on here.

I was very interested in Content Warning until you said “Co-op”. That instantly kills my interest in any game whatsoever, unfortunately.

@squiddu-real that is a very good point… I wish I had been able to use it by now, but I still have no (Switch 2) friends 🥲

Never known them to make a pro - style controller before, would definitely be interested if it weren’t for the fact that I just LOVE the official Pro Controller 2. However, very much looking forward to their Nitro Deck 2 for handheld play. My old Switch Oled never left the first Nitro Deck…

@AJWolfTill Does 7 stay this intense all the way through? I consider myself a horror book/movie/game aficionado, but 7 is another level of tense/nerve-shredding so far… 😱

I played the original RE 1, 2 and 3 back in the late 90s with a childhood friend, great times. I then played RE 4 Wii Edition about 10 years later, and had a hiatus from the series until Requiem (5 and 6 didn’t seem like proper Resi games to me, and by the time 7 and Village released I was a Nintendo-only gamer). Requiem was so good it made me fall back in love with the series! I personally think you can start with Requiem if you really don’t mind missing out on some of the wider understanding of the virus and just want to play a great game.

Got the Generations pack, and I have started 7 since finishing Requiem…. But it’s quite a shock going into 7 now. It is soooo tense, claustrophobic and really quite scary because of the heavy leaning towards pure survival horror.

I’m in the 85% responding who hasn’t used it, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the feature itself. I mostly play single player games, and secondly not a single one of my friends or family in real life have a Switch 2 yet, so I just have no way of using the feature. Although I technically have quite a few ‘friends’ on my friends list, Nintendo spent 8 years with the original Switch forbidding us to have any kind of contact with people on our friends list, let alone chatting, so it’s kind of ingrained in a lot of Nintendo gamers to never use such a feature, in my view.

Just noticed another cool feature of this update - it breaks down your Data Management in system settings, and colour coded now too! Software data, save data, capture data and ‘other’ are now different colours!!!

I loved this game so much, very well deserved. Hopefully the mini game is mercenaries, then (in the voice of The Girl as she grabs you through the elevator) “Let’s plaaaaay!”

I do enjoy reading controller reviews on this site… I was fully third party on Switch 1, so that’s what piqued my interest. But the official Pro Controller 2 is just simply the most comfortable, slickest-feeling controller I’ve ever held. It would take a monumental effort to turn my head at this point, and it ain’t gonna be no heart rate monitor 🤣.

@Teksette It’s all thanks to you my friend, that I am already playing minishoot prior to this review! Haven’t made a ton of progress so far, but I am loving what I’ve played. Especially the exploration and finding those dinky pale blue heart 🩵 pieces.

@Banjo- thanks, it wasn’t really a difficulty issue for me personally though. Like the reviewer said, the ghost appeared to be effectively a bullet-sponge, and the tediousness completely negated the tension of the atmosphere. If that’s the nature of this game then absolutely fair enough, but it’s not for me (and not because of any inherent ‘difficulty’).

I was enjoying the creepy atmosphere in the demo until that ghost fight at the end of Chapter One. “Tension quickly gives way to tedium” from this review summed up my thoughts exactly; that fight was just annoyingly tedious, and I decided to end the demo there and not to proceed with a purchase. I can’t cope with that level of sponginess in terms of taking 50 photos to kill a ghost. Been spoiled utterly in this genre by how masterful Requiem is, which may have coloured my view also…

Oh, heck yes! More of this game is a good thing, it’s so so good. And the bones of a mercenaries mode are already in place in the Leon sections if you think about it, with the whole getting points for every kill and spending them on weapons/upgrades etc.

I haven’t been this terrified and exhilarated by a game in a long time… yes it’s cheesy, yes the puzzles are not the most original, and yes it’s absolutely brilliant! Bizarrely one of the things I am most impressed by is the HD Rumble when playing with the Pro Controller 2… you feel everything that happens, in game and in every cutscene, even wading through knee-deep water feels great. More rumble like this in more games, please.

@TYRANACLES Downloading this evening, very much appreciate the reco!

@Teksette Wow, thank you for that wonderful and considered response! That sounds like my kind of game, and your enthusiasm shines through in that summary, so I am off the fence and going to download this evening. Hopefully it will be a nice pallet cleanser for the tense Requiem sessions. Thanks again.

Finally, finally got to the Leon section in Requiem that doesn’t just last 5 minutes (I hope, I think I know) and having a blast. What a great game this is. Considering getting Minishoot Adventures… was just hoping for a Switch-specific review (nudge, nudge, wink, wink NL…)

Wh-wh-wh-what a great performance as Grace. Those scared stutters really added to the intense, scary atmosphere for me. The Girl - what nightmare fuel 😱

Ok, I’ve said it before in previous comments on Requiem, but I feel it is really worth saying again, because even the comments on this thread seem to be confusing this: this game is not a 50/50 split between survival horror (Grace) and action horror (Leon). I have been playing this game for hours on end, and it is so far 90% Grace survival horror with 5 minutes interludes of Leon. Seriously, because of all these comments I kept expecting Leon sections: it is just not the case, in the opening 10 hours or so at least. Grace Care Centre (massive section akin to the Spencer mansion from the first game) then couple of minutes of Leon, then huge Grace section again (basement) then surely it must be Leon…. No, more survival horror with Grace in the courtyard! I don’t know what game people are playing to think this is a 50/50 split in gameplay… I’m loving every second though, don’t get me wrong, great game… but Leon’s involvement has been WAY exaggerated.

@Teksette Rotwood and Minishoot were the two other games that caught my attention too! Cool that you got Minishoot already, I almost did the same but I am heavily into RE Requiem at the minute and wanted to hear some impressions of how Minishoot plays first (it might be the perfect palette cleanser during the horror of RE). Be interested to hear your first impressions when you can.

@BBBBBBBBBBB Ah, ok. So I should expect more Leon after this long section (basement)…

Absolutely loving this game! I still maintain the Leon sections are extremely short compared to what we were led to believe (there is no chance this is 50/50 split between play styles/characters based on what I’ve played so far….)

@Erigen ‘The Girl’ would like a word…

Am I the only one who thought that roguelike FPS looks very interesting!? At only £15.99 I’m going to take a punt.

@BulkSlash oh yes, that’s exactly it, it doesn’t respond to tilting the console. I mainly play with the Pro Controller 2 and that works exquisitely, but this is the second game I’ve noticed wonky motion controls in handheld (try throwing a chunk of rock in DK Bananza while laid down - it goes all haywire).

One thing worth noting about this game, which I haven’t seen raised much, is that the motion controls for aiming work horrendously in handheld! I can’t work out why? I’ve been playing mostly docked, and fine tuning headshots with motion controls is superb… then last night I continued in handheld and the motion is practically unusable. Like it doesn’t even move horizontally, anyone else noticed this?

@darkswabber ah, that makes sense, thank you!

@CammyUnofficial Yes, I am loving the game, but only 3 days since release is far too soon to provide a verdict. What I will say is, I’ve been playing for hours and I’ve only had control of Leon for like 5 minutes (no exaggeration). This Grace section in the care home is a loong section, so either I’m just being really slow and methodical or those reports of a 50/50 split between the two characters are way off. It’s been 95% Grace after maybe 5 solid hours, I’ve forgotten what Leon controls like 🤣

Played the first Grace section this morning, wow. Jump-scared me twice through innocuous means, 🤣, and that gentle HD rumble caused by the rain, then thunderous rumble when lightning strikes feels amazing!

Woke up extremely early this morning…. Can’t say whether it’s excitement for this game or not, but coffee and the day one patch is beckoning now…

Great review, even more hyped for Friday now! New Resi on release day on Nintendo finally again - good times.

After reading the review of 7, I was quite surprised by this one being underwhelming/the lesser game… but as I said in that comment section, I never played either so have essentially 3 brand new Resi games to play come Friday with the generations pack.

I never played this or Village despite loving Resi from day dot, so this review has got me extra hyped - essentially 3 brand new Resi games for me with the Generations pack come Friday. Woo-effing-Hoo 🤣

@rvcolem1 absolutely same here. I will be getting the generations pack at that price to play the older ones at a later date so not complaining, just pointing out how strange the price discrepancy seems.

Really looking forward to this on launch day… One weird thing though, the generation pack with all 3 games is £84.99, but separately they are priced £64.99 (Requiem), £34.99 and £44.99 individually for Biohazard and Village. This just seems very strange pricing - is it a mistake? It’s only £20 more to get the two older games, or if you buy them separately it adds up to a whopping £80 more..?

Ok, I’m getting mixed messages on the issue of the timings of the button presses tor this game. It’s such an important issue for me that it’s make or break whether I buy or not: this review lists it as a negative and the other review I read on Metro GameCentral made it out to be even worse and a major con for the game. But then reading the comments from people who have played it on here, it seems like it isn’t that much of an issue? Hmm, which is it, because I can’t stomach buying this game then having such an important aspect of these type of games to be so flawed…?

@Teksette oh wow, that’s a crazy good point too, I have forgotten all the basics like fuelling up etc. What if I get plopped in a random station like you did, and get instantly attacked by pirates before I learn how to control/defend against them again (if that’s still a thing, the constant pirate attacks - it used to happen to me all the bloody time 😂).

@Teksette I am in the same boat, I have it loaded and ready on Switch 2 but just need to find that darn incentive/drive to fully get back into the save file from my OLED days. Tons has been added since, which is great obviously, but kinda overwhelming too?