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Great news this seems to have delivered on the promise it showed, though I will probably never be able to take Karl Urban seriously as Johnny Cage (no offense Karl, you're a great actor). Maybe that's the point though?

Not sure the original needs a sequel to be perfectly honest. I worry there's going to be too big a temptation to use the actual film sequel as inspiration and simply make it more action-heavy as a result, which would run the risk of diminishing the very thing that made it work in the same place. Far better to lift from Alien3 vibes-wise.

I feel like most of us have little actual understanding of what it means to be in/run a game studio, so I'll refrain from speculating on the background to this. What can't be argued is that it's hugely unfortunate for anyone to lose their job these days, and I can only hope these folks are able to pick up more work sooner rather than later.

Ooh, I'll have to give this a go. Played most of Telltale's episodic stuff and nearly watched the entirety of the Expanse. Drummer was among my favourite characters so that's a bonus-though honestly there's barely a fault in the ensemble for the show so they could have picked anyone and still found an interesting angle to follow.

It's impossible for me to hear the intro to the Starwolf theme without also hearing his iconic 'Can't let you do that, Starfox!' along with it. Such a legendary performance.

Reminds me of the OG transparent gameboys they used to do. Still think it looks naff as 'owt, but fair play to them for putting the effort in.

I still can't for the life of me work out why they released Gale of Darkness before Colosseum. Maybe the latter's going to need more than a tiny patch to make it playable?

It seems most likely the film'll be drawing from the Breath of the Wild iteration of Link and Zelda for inspiration as they're the current incarnations, and that means we could be in for Calamity Ganon as the villain rather than his Gerudo form. Which could easily lead to some disappointing CGI cloud as the big bad a la that one Fantastic Four film and its ridiculous version of Galactus. You'd hope not but who honestly knows at this point.

@ParrakerriRush Watch them give that out with the same patch they use to nerf his effectiveness straight into the ground.

Pokopia's longevity might be good, but is it Cars 3 good?

Terranigma being on this list warms my heart. La-Mulana baffles it.

Amazing take on the Guardians' series. The game is worth it for the story and character work alone, even if you just mindlessly button mash your way through on easy mode. Plus, COSMO!

Went with Zelda II because it's the one that needs it the most. There's a great game lurking in there somewhere, and the chance to do something fresh with the series yet again by rebuilding the most traditionally RPG feeling of all the Zeldas.

@Simu001 Perhaps, but then that's almost a baked in part of the free-to-play format. The product is essentially in a perpetually unfinished state so they can dangle the promise of future improvements over the playerbase to keep them returning. Which is fine as long as what they deliver in each update is substantive enough to keep people engaged, and at the moment I personally think it's in a good state. I just know there are a lot of people who have issues, and was simply suggesting that in time these issues will likely be resolved.

The good news is they can only really improve it from here. 6v6 battles are sure to be implemented somewhere down the line, even if perhaps not in a form to please everyone. They've clearly gone out of their way to make the battles as pacy as possible, and in that regard it reminds me a lot of TCG Pocket-which was similarly fine but certainly not everyone's cup of tea. I'm probably in the minority in liking the recruitment process, it's lightyears ahead of the garbage rental system from the Stadium games for one thing. EV training has never been a draw for me in the games but I can at least recognise the training system on offer here as a massive asset for the super competitive folks out there, and I love that you can buy classic battle music to play over your matches. For me it's a 7/10 minimum, but obviously this is far from a universally shared opinion.

Oof. I can't believe how much hate this game has inspired. It's one of the least-predatory free to play models going and the actual battle engine is incredibly solid. People comparing it to earlier full-price offerings like the Pokemon Stadiums and even Colosseum have apparently forgotten how many limitations those things had on them :/

Well, that's me sold on the game then. Spider Dance was the tune that got me to give Undertale a shot in the first place.

That Mr Blobby screencap is everything I never knew I wanted in life.

@darkswabber Me too, but I guess it's indicative of just how varied people's tastes are. The average from a significant pool of players is probably always going to be lower than one reviewer's opinion who was probably (though obviously not always) assigned the game because they had an interest/appreciation for the genre they're reviewing. It gets even more skewed in situations like this where the games are old and most folks adding to the user score probably don't give much thought about historical context and the limiting factors of the hardware at the time. Nor should they, to be fair. Either a game is fun or it isn't at the end of the day, and for a lot of people old timey NES games just don't hold up in that area.

This is what happens when your franchise gets so big its online wiki has its own wiki. I can't imagine the workload that comes with trying to juggle so many interlocked systems and ensure nothing slips through the net.

The game is fine. This is people just being people. The release of Pokopia right before, an obviously much higher quality product that's outperformed expectations, probably hasn't helped the optics here. It's free to play with all the baggage that involves. The battle system is solid and the limited roster makes for some great tactical teambuilding challenges. If it's not what people want I sympathise but honestly it's better than I imagined it would be and I'm looking forward to playing a ton of it going forward.

Honestly more fun than I was expecting it to be. The ability to set the battle music with the option to buy nostalgic Poke-tunes is likely going to keep me coming back for the next few weeks, even if I can see battling against super-optimised teams being a headache for the daily casual crowd.

Still the only adventure game to have successfully out-Zelda'ed Zelda in my estimation, one day I'll find the time to sit down and replay you again you beautiful artistic treasure of a game. Perhaps that would be a fitting way to celebrate this anniversary.

Next The Pokemon Company should sue Illumination because they were the ones who first came up with the idea of making massively grossing animated films based on video game IP. Looks like an open and shut case to me :I

Next on the slate from Illumination: Pikminions: The Rise of Shigeru.

@SlowPokemon How am I only just now seeing this? That must be the most obtuse evolutionary link in the entire series. Never have I looked at either of those Pokemon and thought anything other than 'oh it''s a fish' or 'oh it's an octopus'. That's hilarious.

Anorith is the only one I care enough about to vote for. Anorith's design is adorable.

Aright, I'll admit. I'm the 0.1% who thought Helena Harper was cool. And that was mostly because of the outfit.

Look, if Pokemon Unite can somehow make it in this landscape then I've no doubt the actual Pokemon game featuring actual Pokemon battling can.

Went for Lisa Trevor. One of my earliest and fondest memories of Resi was being scared beyond reason hearing her moans on your tail as you pelt it out of the woods round the cabin in the original REmake. Also the last entry in her diary has lived rent-free free in my head for years. Brrrrr.

@RadioHedgeFund Spicy take but...I kind of agree? The original Xenoblade Chronicles i recall finishing and instantly restarting because it was just that darn good, and it'll probably stay in my personal all time top ten of gaming for years to come. XC2 on the other hand has taken me the better part of three years to...get maybe three quarters of the way through it, possibly? Its highs are admirable but its lows are actively offputting. I actively refuse to have Tora in my party because of how genuinely creepy and obnoxious that whole robot maid business is. Riki would absolutely demolish that clown any day of the week.

@Haruki_NLI I imagine Resi 9's lack of sales is down to the previous lack of availability on Nintendo consoles of the previous entries. Anybody who's into Resident Evil enough that it qualifies as a day one purchase probably found another platform to enjoy the series on a while back.

In ten years time I'm not sure there will be as many tears shed for the loss of the Jurassic Park video game universe as some of the histrionics in this thread would suggest.

The good news is I'm sure it can be resurrected one day by some morally dubious biogeneticists with a chunk of fossilised tree sap and enough frog DNA.

It's Porygon. Always and forever. Eternal shame on Nintendo for hanging my beloved virtual duck out to dry in the face of seizuregate with that whole anime business back in the day. That was all Pikachu's doing but money talks clearly :I #JusticeForPorygon

This looks delightful. Glad to see it scoring well!

Can't wait for the inevitable day one outcry that they butchered the game when MGS4 lands with bugs out the wazoo. There was a reason nobody wanted to go near porting that thing.

I would love this to be great since I share a home with an avid Voyager fan, but nothing about this at any point has jumped out to suggest it will be. Hopefully it will at least do a better job of the alternate paths idea than that execrable Walking Dead game last year but I'm honestly not expecting much beyond that.

Resident Evil 7 in the top 30. Sure why not.

The fact it takes until entry number thirteen on this list to get into 8/10 territory with player reviews goes to show just how much forgettable dross has been squeezed out of this franchise by Square over the years.

Somehow ended up with a copy of MySims Kingdom back in the Wii era and it was a surprisingly fun time. If they can still capture the silliness and whimsy of those older titles I'm all for a comeback.

Finally, blessedly, banished Ball x Pit from my life after platinuming it on PS5. Next up on my roguelite odyssey is Spiritfall, which is a gem of a game in its own right and a bit like if Dead Cells, Smash Bros and Spiritfarer all combined into one glorious genetic aberration. Also started Path of Radiance for the first time ever thanks to the Switch 2's Gamecube library and I'm already entirely too invested just three missions in. Finally I at long last took my first steps into Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and was overjoyed to discover it's nowhere near the horrible wet parp of a game some quarters of the gaming world have been making it out to be. It's as gorgeous and atmospheric a sequel as I could have hoped for. ViOLa is also there, I guess. At least Samus looks suitably badass riding it, even if I know in my heart the game is never going to give me my dream of an epic motorbike showdown with the eternally resurrecting Ridley :<

Here's the problem as I see it, which is even mentioned in the article. You either make the reward for scanning them so meagre as to be irrelevant to the gaming experience or you run the risk of upsetting people who might (rightfully) question why in-game content is being effectively paywalled by the amiibo system. With those constraints in mind it really is a minor miracle amiibos have lasted the way they have.

Major 'all the gear but no idea' vibes, alas. Best of luck I suppose.

Let's all aspire to be more Jan this coming year.

Man bankrolled by mega corp defends mega corp. Astonishing stuff.

As people have said, the Japanese cover looks more akin to an art print than a video game cover. It's like they're trying to pretend Mario Tennis is some transcendental cross-media masterpiece rather than a goofy multiplayer sports sim. NA actually does the job of selling the thing and has ten times the charm to boot.

Way, way, way too much Ball x Pit, to the exclusion of pretty much anything else. Maybe I'll pluck up the courage to finally start Metroid Prime: Beyond before the weekend's out, but right now I just can't see it while there's so many gosh darned balls to bounce.

I loved Radiant Dawn on the Wii and it always irked me how much people fawned over Ike and co. essentially hijacking the plot of the game from the new characters introduced as if the Greil Mercenaries were these undeniable badasses whose supremacy couldn't be questioned. Now, at last, I can see what all the fuss was actually about and if it was genuinely justified.

Honestly the only reason I wanted a Switch 2 in the first place. It's finally here!

Removed my last comment since for some reason I had it in my head Bananza and Mario Kart World weren't Switch 2 exclusives. Though I still feel most folks are probably waiting to see a big new Zelda/Pokemon/Smash before jumping on the Switch 2 bandwagon. Once the exclusives come they'll show up. Probably.