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Sounds solid but no multiplayer is a problem for me as I'd earmarked it as a potential crossplay game to play with friends on their own various consoles (basically one of them won't buy a Switch).

Hopefully it's some new merch drop or a TV series. Oh, or a theme park ride.

Hmm I really enjoyed echo of starsong but a lot of the game was carried by the awesome setting despite the melodramatic story. Judging by the trailer this one looks like straight up melodrama which doesn't intrigue me half as much, sadly.

Love the idea and I'm sure it's worth the price but I can't justify it. I'm hoping Hori brings out a new version of the Split Pad compact as it's the additional size that matters more to me than the features.

@Dman10 Yep this game and Pokotopia will spoil us

Don't really see any reason to get excited about this. How about some games?

Excellent news! Capcom's remakes have only been a hit so far.

Yeah 5 seconds of that and I'm already thinking she's the same type of bland NPC you'd see in charge at EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft so I won't hold my breath on her being anything different to Bowser.

Hopefully she proves me wrong.

Personally I'd say MP4 is a good - but not great - game and that’s perfectly fine. Playing it myself took me back about fifteen years, to when I used to rent games and genuinely enjoyed some of the decent-if-unspectacular ones more than ones that were getting critically acclaimed at the time. From memory: Vanquish, Lollipop Chainsaw, Dark Sector, Spec Ops, 3D Game Heroes... MP4 fits right in here: a game that’s genuinely fun, flaws and all.

I imagine this approach will make them more money in the long run because while fans will go watch it on opening weekend and parents will take their kids during half-term or whatever everybody else can just watch it in their own time. I really can't say I'm chomping at the bit to watch videogame movies in cinemas as they're still more of a guilty pleasure than anything else.

Bear with me but what if it's aliens?

Nonsense. It's more like a full game (the first 200 days) and the rest are side stories you'd find in a spin-off anime series. They definitely add to it but feel mostly like a /what if/ /different universe/ style.

Must admit, I found it a frustrating experience because there's loads of good ideas to it but it's alienating if you aren't intending to finish the whole shebang and all the endings (roughly 150 hours to do that too).

I can understand the score. The original is clearly very good but it can be had for £13 cheaper new here in the UK and I can't say it feels like the slight bump in resolution and mouse controls are substantial enough to warrant that. That's a £5 upgrade max.

Sounds pretty spooky to me oOooOOOo

The badge one makes sense as it's a pre-order bonus. That one's on Lego and TPC for not just selling it outright, especially considering it's the best version of the whole offering.

For the others... I do wonder if people pay close to the excess they want? Usually, you have to hold it for a few years first to make money unless it gets another release. That's where TGC scalpers are usually a little smarter, morals aside.

Sup Mai, this place is hella cool

Really doesn't need one because the original version is fine. It's a visual novel, after all, with minor elements of gameplay (that you'll mostly skip after 20 hours).

Happy new year Gav

Aw I really liked your videos. Best of luck with your next chapter~

Great game but what's weird to me about Final Fantasy Tactics is that it's not even the last one. There's another Fantasy game coming out next month.

Nah, including Switch 2 editions is kinda silly as I'd wager 90% of us already played them and MKW was/remains disappointing. The console itself is exceptional but the launch window didn't reach the heights that having a new Zelda and Mario brought. I'd always rather have one killer app for the first month because it gets me hyped.

Wii U is still the worst by a fair distance.

merry christmas gav

NA for me. Those NES covers are iconic

Even to this non-superhero fan cosmic invasion looks really great!

@ShadLink Did you miss the part where the Switch 2 version is slower than the Switch lol

Ha great news. I actually Googled it last night to see if they had any plans to port it over

I'm always envious when people talk about having IRL friends who are this into games. I know people who play but not to the extent that they'd be dedicated enough to play for hours and care enough to watch each other. Does sound cool though!

Closest I've got is a bunch of people online who I've played various games with for around 10 years and we were all chatting about SilkSong when it came out. It's nice to have that kind of thing.

Anyway nice feature

@HugoGED Yeah specifically. Sign me up for a Xenogears remake anytime!

@Anachronism Not a popular opinion but one I agree with! I liked 3 but I'd love to see them deviate from the Xeno formula on their next project because they'll struggle to top 1.

@OpheliaDynamight Fair. I think we can only ever speculate on Nintendo's decision-making.

@OpheliaDynamight How have you come to that conclusion? I expect low sales is one of the major reasons Nintendo took 18 years to release a sequel to Prime 3 (with no other 3D game in between).

Welcome Tour is pretty good too. No wonder we can't have nice things

Never played it but I remember this being pretty poorly reviewed back in the day. I just want that Fire Emblem already.

To be honest, I'd rather they didn't bother. The whole villain angle has got extremely confused since Wesker.

@IronMan30 Yep exactly. There's no harm in going a little deeper sometimes even if it means getting a little more personal.

Really cool stuff!

It's been bad since Prismatic in January. Surging Sparks set the wheels in motion but a combination of Prismatic and Destined and now whatever this new mega evolutions one is has been very bad for the hobby. Journey Together was the only enjoyable set to collect this year because it wasn't that well liked (no extremely valuable cards).

TPC could reset the market by not making such rare cards just like they did for JT (and Shrouded Fable before it) but I don't suspect they truly want to. Everything is getting bigger shinier and rarer and the result is that it's driving scalpers as much as general demand.

Can confirm that Device 6 really is a neat game

It's hard to look past welcome tour

@SirLink Ha if somebody sent me a £650 item to review I'd probably feign interest in it too.

Giving me Primark collab vibes. The mugs are cool though

This is probably not going to be noticeable to most people but as somebody who struggles with motion sickness I can immediately see the Switch 1 footage hurts my eyes whereas the Switch 2 one doesn't. Both seem to run at 60fps but the extra blur and lack of visual crispness on the Switch 1 version is not pleasant to me at all.

@The_Nintendo_Expat Keep up with your hot takes. They give the comments flavour!

@The_Nintendo_Expat In fairness to Alana, I ended up on YT the other week after the excellent 'Banjo-Tooie is nightmare fuel' article and wound up finding a fair few people who didn't like the game compared to the original. I was mostly intrigued to see gameplay having never played myself but came away with the impression it has a reputation as a bit of a marmite title - like some loving it and others finding it a little bit too big and difficult to navigate. Doesn't seem like that's anybody here's opinion but it may be a wider one?

Imo the central question for any Ass Creed game should be whether the combat is good enough to last 30/40 hours with no other driving motive except checkboxes. Describing the quests as tedious and saying very little about the story makes me think it's probably not.

I am very much looking forward to cranking that dial down to 0 on the voice SFX slider.

Terrible news for people who are okay with others enjoying games at whatever level they prefer most.

@foursider Your comments are fair and a lot of people feel that way. Silksong is hard work in a lot of ways and life is short.

Pretty cool. I'll definitely watch these and then beg mum to buy it for Christmas.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant you'd never know it but some of are posting on here blindfolded too, i recommend giinh it s try sometime