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@Pillowpants I totally agree with you, having songs organized by composer would be great. However, I can see the work on Nintendo’s side in digging up who actually composed each song, especially for some games where multiple composers were involved. There is potential for miscredit, and they’d rather avoid that, as a company who cares so much about keeping their image. I still think it’d be worth the risk, though.

I JUST finished Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown on Immortal difficulty. What a game! Same feeling of accomplishment as beating Hollow Knight or a FromSoftware game. Had to dial down the difficulty afterwards to complete those devilish Divine Trials, though…

Going to continue the last case in the Apollo Justice trilogy. At least I think it’s the last... It’s great to play a bit here and there before bed! And these witnesses are hilarious xD

Also going to finally start Unicorn Overlord, very curious about this one. Strangely, the first Vanillaware game I ever played, even though I’ve always been curious about all their games!

Have a good weekend, everybody!

Yeah, I’m reluctant to vote here since I’m not sure what “new” is supposed to mean. I rarely buy full-priced games, most times I wait for a deep sale, and this is the reason I have a backlog.

Super Metroid’s and Metroid Prime’s are awesome, but anyone who’s played Prime Trilogy on Wii knows its got the most epic intro ever. I still remember the first time I booted it up. I knew right there I was going to be playing a masterpiece.

I also have very fond memories of the crew and base system in Skies of Arcadia… I remember being excited about finding out each crew member’s animation in Vyse’s ultimate move!

Simply knowing that DLC is coming makes me just want to wait for that to come out, and get the game on a sale. I was going to buy Silksong day one if I stayed oblivious to any plans about DLC.

I honestly prefer when developers don’t do DLC for long single-player games. I think the DLC format works a lot better with multiplayer or run-based games, like fighters, strategy games and roguelikes.

Man, and I JUST bought Golden on sale so I could try it out, should’ve suspected e remake was on the cards…

@Spider-Kev I did not play the original Age of Wonders, although I do intend to eventually try out the latest entry. To my understanding, the latest Age of Wonders entry is more akin to the 4X genre (turn-based strategy, directly controlling units), while Against the Storm plays more like a shortened and simplified version of an Anno game (real-time resource management, with an emphasis on building placement).

My favourite city-building game on PC, this game really is amazingly designed. As everyone here has already mentioned, if there was ANY game that could get you into city-building and resource management, it’s this one. Can’t say I’d enjoy playing this with a controller myself, but if they add cross-saves and mouse controls down the line, they can take my money again.

Agent 47 really tries his best to blend in, doesn’t he?

I’m already sold, so I’m going to try to avoid this Direct…

This is beautiful, I wonder if it’s actual stained glass or some kind of mimicry.

@Daniel36 I’m glad I’m not alone. I really tried to enjoy these games, to the point that I played all the entries, got pretty far into the games, but I never actually beat a single one (well, I beat Torna, but that doesn’t count). The stories are great, and the worlds are beatiful, but I just wished these games respected my time a bit more. The longer I played them, the slower they’d get. And the battle systems, even though they’re unique, would end up repetitive, with more incentive to grinding than applying strategy. If the games didn’t pack so much “stuff” into them, I think they’d shine even brighter.

Soundtracks are awesome, btw, especially 1 and 2.

“Excitement is important.”

• Hideki Kamiya

Honestly, if any outfit is missing, it’s a Sheik outfit…

That’s also the name of a great Bruce Dickinson song!

I think this is an awesome idea, as long as devs don’t “force” it into gameplay as a gimmick.

But honestly, I don’t think Sakurai would mention such a feature in his videos if he knew it was planned for Switch’s successor… And I believe he is probably aware of the Switch 2’s features.

I don’t know a lot about DQ (only played VII and XI, really enjoyed XI) but I find it cool that, as generic as the NA cover may be, it still has Erdrick’s sword on the front, faithful to the design I know. Is this actually the first time the sword is shown?

BOARD THE PLATFORMS!

Playing this as 9 year old, I too was scared of the Deku Tree. Or rather, his insides…

Weirdly enough, I keep going back to big strategy games after beating a new game: Civ VI, Crusader Kings 3, Stellaris… Of course, there’s the odd Zelda/Metroid replay here and there.

I would change the first question to have just “Voice acting” as an answer, instead of “Full voice acting”. I might be wrong, but to me, “Full voice acting” means that all character dialogs are voice acted, which BOTW does not have (thankfully!), and I got the first question wrong because of this confusion

Gonna continue hunting marks in Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. Tried it when it came out on the PS2, was really disappointed as the follow-up to Final Fantasy X, but this time I am really enjoying it, the Gambit System and License boards are a lot of fun to play with.

@Lemmy_the_Koopa Thanks! I thought it was something like that, but it seemed like such an unsustainable system…

@BloodNinja I felt the same way xD

@BloodNinja I second this question. I’ve searched many times for a good explanation, but I can’t understand how a digital asset hurts the environment. Are there a lot of servers spending energy to maintain the blockchain or something?

He looks so passionate while singing it, it's awesome!

Just roll into a tree with a beehive on it and run like crazy!

So many hidden games out there... I'm seriously considering getting a RetroN...

What's with the high golf socks? And why don't they stick with the style established in the other pokémon games? I'm still really curious about this game, but I feel like I'm starting to see the effects of Nintendo not caring so much about how affiliated developers treat their IPs...

@bitbrigade77 Good hunting!

I got an extra EU code if anyone needs it, always a pleasure to share with other NL buddies: A076YWGL0VG7QRD5

I had never heard of this desire sensor... Now everything makes sense!!

It'd be awesome if these were actually made with Mode 7

Pikachu was caught!

I already love the game and knew it was good, but this is a really good and detailed review! It helped me look at the game in another perspective!

Congrats Tom! Keep up the good work!

It was my most anticipated console ever, way back when it was released, especially because Zelda was included in the launch line-up. Along these last years, I got to play and love Super Mario Galaxy and Skyward Sword, as well as discover many old classics that became instant favourites, like the Mega Man series, Ghost n' Goblins, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Paper Mario... Seriously, when I take a look at my Virtual Console library, I can't believe how many NES and SNES games I got there! And getting to replay games that I used to play when I was a kid, like Super Mario World, brought back so many memories.

Soon, Wii will become just that: memories, and really good ones at that! Thanks Nintendo