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This is just silly. Just let them put the full uncensored game out, Nintendo.

@Stormkyleis Eh, ok. A lot of people use the word "average", but the disdain seems to suggest people think otherwise. Why would people be so passionate about their dislike for the game and want to so badly decry positive opinions or reviews if they believe it is average? Average games can still be enjoyable and, to some people, they can still be great games depending on what you like and how much you are able to look past their flaws. Some of that is subjective.

@KingChiliPepper Agreed. I am also surprised by the comments. I am aware that it was considered a bit of a disappointment, but if you judged the games purely by the comments here alone, you'd think people absolutely hate it and think it's an awful game. I haven't finished it quite yet (I am maybe around 70% of the way through), but I have been enjoying it so far. There are plenty of great moments.

I don't believe for one moment that all these people claiming that the 4 face buttons work fine in place of a d-pad actually play any difficult shmups or fighters...

I agree. I don't understand why they stick so rigidly to this design choice. The benefits of a d-pad far outweigh the benefits of having 4 individual buttons for split individual joycon play.

Ouch. Glad I didn't get this. I had wrongly assumed that by owning the original cartridge, that I was eligible for the "free" update. I hadn't realised that I didn't own the "anniversary edition" and nearly paid the £18 for the upgrade (or whatever price it is). Glad I held off to read the reviews.

Someone explain it to me like I am three. Why the hell is there suddenly a chip shortage and price hikes?

Nothing makes any sense anymore. It's like we globally broke something around a decade ago.

@julia_silverlining @JohnnyMind Thanks guys, just watched it 😃

It says the trailer is private for me, for some reason?

@Jeronan Firstly, that's really good to hear. So thank you for explaining how the game expands as you get more into it, because I must admit that after a few hours of the game I was kinda left thinking "is this it?" That said, I still maintain that the trailers and marketing material I saw still didn't really sell it to me and that (in my personal opinion at least) it looked less interesting than Arceus.

I am glad that a lot of new areas unlock and open up and there is plenty of content. I will stick with it.

I think just going off of the initial pre-launch materials, marketing and trailers, that Arceus looked far more interesting than Z-A and having now played the latter a bit, I think my scepticism was warranted. The gameplay loop of going out into big open fields to explore and search for Pokemon was far more interesting than the small town/city location of Z-A with its small wild zones. It just feels a bit boring so far. So I am not surprised sales of Z-A are lower.

@Anti-Matter It says it's 60fps on Switch 2... 30fps is the 4K mode by the looks of it.

Do we know if the physical version is out the same day as digital?

@YoshiTails Utter hyperbole.

@AG_Awesome I was shocked they never brought out Fire Pro World for the original Switch. It seemed like the perfect platform for it.

Meh, the 2K WWE games are boring as hell in my opinion. All style and no substance as far as gameplay is concerned. I miss the fun, accessible wrestling games from the days of the N64, PS2 and Gamecube etc. The wrestling games we got in those two generations were so fun. And I know people often say that's just nostalgia talking, but I disagree. I still regularly play them on the original consoles.

Here Comes the Pain and No Mercy were my favourites (I know, predictable choices), but the other Smackdown games and Day of Reckoning games were also great fun. Raw 2 on Xbox is underrated. Even Royal Rumble as bare bones as it is was a lot of fun on Dreamcast thanks to the crazy 9 men in a ring Rumble. The Giant Gram games on Dreamcast were also good. I have to mention Fire Pro wrestling as well. Good times.

@JohnnyMind It runs well on Switch 2 and seems to run better. Take this for what you will, but some of the add ons were crashing and glitching the game on our Switch 1, but when we tried the game on Switch 2, the same add ons work flawlessly without any issue.

No Super Bubsy!? Noooo

Haha nope. It's just a conceptual design they have knocked out. Probably even an intentional marketing stunt.

"We sought all over the controller for a way to tiptoe about and hear that double bass, but it seems the “discreet” mood has simply vanished"

I am pretty sure you can still sneak around. I haven't played the game yet, but I have watched videos and I swear I saw Twinsen sneaking in some of the footage I watched...

@Zeebor15 100% going to be LRG, isn't it? Let's be honest 😔

@Kiwi_Unlimited I feel the 3D ones are incredibly underrated. I have had so much fun with those ones, particularly the first 3D one which I played to death on the Gamecube. I recently picked up Worms 4, which I am looking forward to playing.

I swear some of these haven't even been out that long. The Larry and Morton Airships were fairly recent releases I thought.

Battle For The Grid really should be #1 to he honest... The SNES movie game is ok, but fairly unremarkable and not as good as Fighting Edition. Battle For The Grid and Fighting Edition are the closest the series has gotten to games that are good on its own merits regardless of the licence. Both are very good fighting games.

@shonenjump86 I had it for Saturn (still have my copy) and I don't think I ever beat the arcade mode 😂

@Speedo Yeah, I never had many issues either. And I still own and play the original games on PS2 too, so it's not like I hadn't played them in two decades and had forgotten what they "should" play like.

@Kruegerino I was much the same. To be honest, I was incredibly disappointed when they announced that they were abandoning their plans for LBA3 in favour of a reboot, particularly since their reasoning was that they felt LBA3 would only appeal to a niche audience and that they would struggle to attract a wider modern audience. I felt they were a bit naive. They might pick up the odd impulse buyer or curious person with a reboot (or indeed this remake), but let's face it, 99% of people buying this will be fans of the original game. And then if it flops or "fails to meet expectations", where will that leave LBA3?

@Kruegerino I might be wrong, but I think that was discussed at one point, but was considered too big of a project for them. I have been subscribed to their newsletters and in the Discord channel since the team announced a few years back their intentions to revive the series. Unfortunately it has been a rocky road and they have struggled to attract a suitable publisher to come on board. They have had to change the project a few times. There was talk originally of LBA3, which sadly was scrapped in favour of a reboot, which then got cancelled, so they continued with plans for a remaster of both games. It seems like they finally have a publisher on board and we are getting a remake of the first game. I just hope it's successful enough for at least a LBA2 remake, if not LBA3 to finally happen.

@PikminMarioKirby Well Metroid Prime is an infinitely superior game, so it makes sense it received a higher score... They also didn't half the framerate...

"According to Mobapad's blog post, the Switch's successor will be a "conservative evolution" of the current models; more akin to a "refined Pro model". As previously rumoured"

A waste of time if true. It will have been 8 years since the launch of the original Switch by the time this comes out. If it isn't w significant step up from the original after that amount of time, then what is the point?

@betterman Yeah, exactly. I would not be expecting the exact same version of 'Rare Replay'. As you said, a special Nintendo edition would be nice and I would have said it would be something that is fairly likely to have happened if Nintendo wasn't trying to push the Online Service and Expansion pretty hard. I get it, from a business perspective they make a lot of money from the annual subscription and to push it hard, they need a strong selling point. These old games and Rare games in particular appearing on a Nintendo platform for the first time in decades is that strong selling point. It probably gains them a ton of subscriptions. But it still sucks as a customer. Oh well.

I don't know. I do feel that Rare Replay (or at least some kind of Rare collection) would be possible on the Switch, but that Nintendo and anyone else involved (MS?) would rather use their library to drip feed releases to push this overpriced Nintendo Online and Expansion subscription programme. So yeah, I am not going to apologise for the fact that I am not a big fan of that, as a consumer.

No, I don't cry about it. No, I don't run over to Twitter to moan. But are these titles a little disappointing? Perhaps. Would I rather pay £35 per year in order to play a small handful of Rare titles that get drip fed to us or would I rather they would just release Rare Replay or some kind of collection that I can own and play? The latter please. Not sure why that makes anyone a bad person or whatever issue some people seem to have with it.

Dumb decision to not get it out in time for the holiday period 2024.

@Pillowpants To be fair, I am pretty sure all these combined quite easily exceed a 32gb cartridge.

They should have just released Kotor games as a physical pack and forgot the rest, since they have all been done before.

Erm, no. We're good, thanks...

FFS we are never going to get a new Timesplitters game or even just a HD port/remaster of the old games, are we? I have been dying to have these games moved over to modern hardware, so we can play them again online, with enhancements and other improvements. It would be awesome to be able to make larger maps too and with less restrictions.

The games are still amazing in my opinion and I still regularly play both TS2 and Future Perfect (it's only been two weeks since I played both on my Gamecube).

I will dispute anyone who claims those games have aged or that there is no point in them anymore. I seriously miss these old school objective based shooters and more localised corridor based multiplayer and feel there absolutely is a place for them. The arcade and challenge modes, the numerous multiplayer options and huge amounts of unlockables just don't exist in shooters anymore.

So is the additional 8GB "patch" an actual patch (i.e. it contains major bug fixes and other stuff) or is it more like they only bothered to put like 45% of the game on a cartridge and the "patch" is just the other 65% of the data?

@memer If they hate Sonic games, the chances are high that, three days into the release of the game, they haven't bought it and they haven't played it.

And there are lots of series and franchises I don't enjoy, but to call a perfectly fine game (it has its flaws, I agree with many of the criticisms here) as "abysmal" is just ludicrous. Superman 64 is abysmal. Sonic Superstars is not abysmal.

The people voting "abysmal" haven't played it and are lying.

Uh oh. Hope that's not a bad sign regarding the Switch version.

Interesting. I have a lot of fond memories of Sensible Soccer back in the 90s. I really hope this is good, because it's been a long time since I have played a football game I really enjoyed.

please say the Switch version is good

I had the PS5 version pre-ordered, but I switched (no pun intended) to the Switch version, as my son wants to play it multiplayer and I don't own two PS5 controllers (and can't justify spending £60 on a new controller right now).

I have got one of their collector's editions and they are really good and definitely worth picking up. The art books are fantastic quality.

@Yosher Their releases aren't really that hard to pick up to be honest. They don't sell out anywhere nearly as quickly as, for example, a large company like LRG's would a few years back before they did open pre-orders. I can't imagine this release will be any different, since Sonic Origins Plus already has a physical release.

Meh, I have played through the Luigi's Mansion games multiple times and the second game is the weakest by a mile. The game was designed to be played in smaller chunks (due to the hardware and it being a portable device), but I really wasn't a fan of it being split into multiple smaller mansions with fairly linear and straightforward missions. There's nothing particularly memorable about the game.

The "retail edition" that is coming 5th December, is there any indication if this is in all regions and a standard version you will be able to buy from your usual online and highstreet retailers?

Basically, I want to know as someone from the UK, if I am going to be able to buy a regular version here or if I need to buy the Iam8bit one? I have been stung before with Hollow Knight (I think that was iam8bit) and Streets of Rage 4. I really hate this practice of announcing fancy "limited run" style editions and then having "other retail editions are coming" in what is the equivalent of small print, with them not making it obvious if it will be coming to other regions or not.

I was day one until I saw the price and the fact there aren't any reviews yet (which could be a red flag).

@somnambulance Are the reviews real? I only came across a couple of youtube ones and the first one sounded highly fake. The comments were full of people accusing the uploader of just making the review up or possibly even doing it through AI. The second one was really vague and the uploader kept on getting the game's title wrong, which didn't fill me with confidence.

Anyways, I have the same concerns. It seems like after getting delayed a few times and a period of radio silence that the release date was announced out of no where and there has been little buzz since. The lack of previews and the fact either review copies haven't gone out or there is a late embargo is worrying.

@somnambulance Yeah, I am not sure if we should be worried by the lack of Bomb Rush Cyberfunk reviews and lack of hype in general 🤔

@RudyC3 Physical is confirmed for a 13th October release. You're probably right about them cheaping out on the cartridge size and forcing a download though.