Psycho-Werekitsune

@metaphysician the bare minimum of engagement. Dodging attacks and blowing up gribbles to get more resources is video game 101, it isn't anything unique to bosses in this game. I had no trouble surviving any of these bosses while tanking hits, hell, I barely lost more than an entire health tank the duration of the game. There was no impetus for me to try to actually use my brain to fight any of the bosses, it was less than trivial how lacking in any kind of strategy they were to defeat.

"its boss fights stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the best the series has ever produced."

Did we play the same game? Prime 4's bosses were laughably bad compared to prior outings. Every other game in the franchise forces you to think on your feet and each boss fight was more of a puzzle you had to solve by utilising specific abilities and your environment to overcome. Prime 4's bosses were just blobs you had to tank to beat without any thought about doing anything more. It's incredibly representative of the game at large, how everything is just the bare minimum to get by as a decent standalone game and a weak Metroid game.

This WAS easily a 7/10 for me, but got knocked down to a 6/10 (maybe even a 5) after the weak ending.

" Of course, Alucard's Bat Form is also an option, but where's the fun in that?"

Not dying, Jim. Not dying's the fun in that. XD

Looks like Lizardcube is handling Shinobi, which I'm all for because their work has been fantastic on Wonder Boy and Streets of Rage 4. Super excited to see Sega revive their old IPs like this, it's been a long time coming and I'm here for it!

@nukatha have my like, good sir!

We getting a physical of this?

Instantly ruined by LRG's involvement. I really wanted a physical of this for Switch, but nah, this ain't it, chief.

Wondering if we'll get this actually released in the West from a proper publisher. And no neither a Play-Asia English language version nor an LRG version count for me.

@Gryzor I did play the Switch and PC versions back to back. I legit never noticed anything. Maybe I'm just blind. XD

I must have popped in from an alternate reality, because I played the demo in handheld mode and it was fine? I didn't run into any issues as all and the game ran pretty smoothly for me. Am I just not super pedantic about the alleged issues it might have, or have other people just become super sensitised to them?

Still not quite getting this whole IST slots thing. This looks very complicated and difficult to reproduce without potentially futzing it up somewhere in the middle.

@Flashlink99 probably because it was essentially a tech demo for the Joycons and should've just been a free pack-in with the console similarly to Wii Sports and Nintendo Land. The fact that they tried to pawn it off as a full fledged release at retail is the main reason most people have zero respect for it. If it was a free novelty game, you'd probably have a lot more positive opinions of it.

DxM was easily one of the best mech games ever made. Not sure what all the haters have been smoking.

El Shaddai is a work of art no matter how you look at it. It might feel a bit obtuse for people coming at it thinking it's a standard hack n slash game, but there's waaaaay more going on beneath the surface and a lot of its charm comes from the setting and visuals of the game.

@RubyCarbuncle I've been grinding out the first area for several weeks trying to complete my dex and I'm still not done, but I decided to check out the second area to move the story along just a bit. Will take my sweet ass time before I'm done with this game. XD

@Regs just checked and natch. This really blows.

@BooJoh that's such a lousy response, how's that going to solve your problem? Nintendo literally has the authority in this situation, they could easily provide you with a code. What a load of bull.

@BooJoh Wait, what's BBB?

Also, I reached out to Amazon support and the spiel they gave me was that it's an unforseen issue that they're escalating to a higher level of support and for me to wait 24 to 48 hours to see if anything changes. It's been 24, so after tomorrow I'll be sure to poke them again.

This is like the second or third time Amazon tried screwing me out of a pre-order code. Last time was for Monster Hunter Stories 2, and I had to go directly to Capcom to get it resolved, which thankfully they did. All I needed was a proof of purchase. It's a shame Nintendo isn't doing the same.

@ShikabaneHime13 time to go pick a fight then.

@Lizzyroo May is four months away, how could they possibly not be able to secure enough until then?

Has anyone gotten their Amazon pre-order code yet? They've tried screwing me out of codes in the past so I want to know if I should get ready to pick a fight with them or wait a bit longer.

@Severian it takes place well after the end of the story. Has a lot of callbacks to the show so fans of it will defo enjoy it.

Ah, another fine addition to my ever growing big box Zelda OST collection.

@Longondo it was one of the first major figma to go mainstream and be sold overseas (alongside the figma Other M Samus) so that checks out.