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I actually did just get one - I’ve been trading things in at CEX and saving up my credit. I’ve been wanting something that can emulate PS2 games and use to remote play PS4 while my wife watches TV. It’s not really something I’m gonna take out and about though, I’d need to buy a bigger bag and more power banks.

@Dr_Corndog I also thought this 😂 I hope the aliens didn’t eat the doggies’ babysitter

@dmcc0 I’ve seen some people have received their PS4 copies, but the lack of any news since September is pretty grim.

This bodes poorly for my long awaited copy of Chained Echoes, doesn’t it 😭

I hope the TO THE WORLDS CHILDREN event doesn’t also get delayed again… and I hope Level 5 are ok

Not me trying to pronounce “Jpt”

It’s only 1 hour 40 minutes so at some point I’ll watch it for Cate Blanchett, but when it’s streaming so I can be distracted by my phone when she’s not on-screen without annoying other people

Honestly I won’t miss GAME when they finally fizzle out. I do already miss hit.co.uk who seem to have vanished last week at some point… or maybe they’ve rebranded again…

@datamonkey check inside your local Sports Direct.

Ahh this sounds COOL. I have Fallout from Epic Games Store but wouldn’t have the first clue of how to proceed from there… I might have to study up

I recently picked up Ring Fit Adventure too, I’m gonna be so buff 💪

Ok fine I’ll buy Little Goodie Two Shoes, you twisted my arm

@CaleBoi25 happy birthday!

Literally just picked it up for Vita but will probably switch up!

Interesting! Is this a follow-up to Rain Code? Art looks similar.

I’ve been extremely comfortable with not owning any Ubisoft games for a while now. If they take themselves out of the physical pie, that means a bigger slice for publishers that continue to provide something that consumers want.

Don’t forget Trails Through Daybreak! Although I will wait and see what the Japanese release looks like on Switch before getting too excited…

Yeah I’d be more excited but the one in Camden is kinda soulless. The gasha floor is kinda fun but not much there for me. Good times for One Piece or Demon Slayer statue collectors though I guess.

Oooh after work I’ll try it with my Super Nintendo controller, great idea 😃

Fantastic, they come out just before my niece’s 8th birthday so that’s one present sorted!

Dragon Wars was mine… I misremembered the name of the game as “Purgatory”, possibly the DOS EXE file was purgatory.exe? Anyway, found it in the end!

@Twilite9 try the r/tipofmyjoystick Reddit with as much detail as you can remember! The people there work wonders!

Alana, I hope you enjoy your Zero Escape sessions! I played VLR last year, Zero Time Dilemma a couple of months ago and then cycled back to where it all began in 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, which I’ve just finished. Haven’t had enough yet so AI: The Somnium Files is in my Switch right now. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is in my other Switch 😅 and been playing some Trails in the Sky on Vita this morning too. Plenty of epic stories on the go 🥰

@Hyrule same! Beat the second phase with one heart to spare and no sunny food at all 😅

I might finish Tears this weekend. Four more lightroots and 7 more shrines left, although it’s feeling like time to seek out the Demon King himself. Really loved playing this game so far.

Other than that, I’d like to play some Picross and maybe Oxenfree. And if I finish Tears, tomorrow it might be time to start Xenoblade 3 at least 🥰

@Simon97 thanks for all your well-argued comments! And for putting me right on inflation. I’m glad you’re here bringing the knowledge 💕

I will however refer you to Sakurai re the price of games. In London, if I take my partner out to lunch it costs more than a game. A movie might cost more to make than a game - though I think that’s arguable - but a movie is done in a couple of hours, a game sticks with you longer (usually! Unless it’s Kirby’s Dream World!). People have different priorities for what they spend their money on and that’s fair enough, but for me games are very reasonably priced for the main part.

@PtM to be fair, I think changes in average price for the top-selling titles will show change in price in general, that seems fair enough. And I think I read that there was a larger than usual number of people who bought the special edition so amount spent is possibly affected by that. But saying that a single game is responsible for “inflation” seems to wilfully ignore the other 100-odd items whose prices are tracked. I guess RRP for Tears is 20% higher than most releases, not that that’s a new thing or affecting the RRP of other first-party upcoming titles. So yeah it’s still bad journalism.

Everything else has increased in price by more, anyway! Everything has increased except my salary 😭

I question the methodology here. Not an economist, but I don’t see the release of Tears of the Kingdom having a significant and enduring effect on the price of games in general. A short-term effect on the amount of money people spent on video games in the specific sales interval of this game, perhaps. But I don’t think that can legitimately be referred to as “inflation”. It’s spending on one thing, once. TOTK being £60 has not resulted in any change in retail price for the other big-selling games. It hasn’t changed the price if, I don’t know, fuel, groceries, heating your hot water. This is questionable journalism as far as I’m concerned, although not surprising comig from the country that invented questionable journalism

Edit: I mean from the BBC Economics Editor, not Nintendo Life, which is obvs a shining pinnacle of journalistic integrity ✌️

I foresee a weekend of Tears of the Kingdom, but I’m also playing a bit of Suikoden and Trails in the Sky on my Vita 💕

I’m not sure if I’d class the older games’ bosses as hard, necessarily - but you did have to trial-and-error your way to figuring out how to hit their vulnerable spot, and it could sometimes take a chunk of time to do that. I haven’t died at the hands of a Tears of the Kingdom boss yet (although I’ve had to run from a couple of mini-bosses due to being unprepared). I don’t think it’s because I’ve gotten better at figuring out the weaknesses over the years, I think it’s because the bosses’ weaknesses are easier to figure out/they just have a lot more weaknesses… but that said, Tears has a whole lot more content than the likes of Skyward Sword or A Link Between Worlds, and if I was having to take several tries to progress I think it would put me off… I guess what I’m saying is that this balance of boss difficulty works for me (not that I’d hate a more challenging boss rush mode or something, a la Skyward Sword 👀)

I might actually not play games this weekend and go and spend some time outside instead.

Lol nah Tears of the Kingdom for me 🥰 although I’ve also been playing Suikoden and The Legend of Dragoon - really having a bit of a PS1 JRPG revival

I haven’t updated but only because I haven’t closed the game for over a week 🫣 but I also haven’t explored the glitch because I don’t want to, but if people do want to then I see nothing wrong with that. Play how you like!

It’s gonna be Young Link from Ocarina of Time. No one has ever told that kid to take a bath

@SS25 one of whats? If you mean the Zelda SWOLED, there are plenty around. Try a shop.

Physicals are available on Play Asia if you don’t mind waiting a while.

And V > VI, indisputable fact 😉

@JustinCA83 yeah it took me a while to figure that out too! Actually I only keep Revali’s Gale on (maybe Mipha’s Grace if I’m having an off day and approaching a lynel 😬)

Hmm same surname. Are we cousins?

Daruk’s a great character but his ability is a nuisance! Gone with Urbosa because of course

@KoopaTheGamer I mean I have 8 of them (plus Twilight Princess Picross plus Pokémon Picross) in my 3DS Picross folder and it hasn’t been so much hassle

First Zelda and now this. Will all Switch games end up with rewind?!

Yeah this has been one of my top google searches (prob top one since FF pixel remasters and Tears of the Kingdom details were confirmed 😂). Will continue googling for the release date until it’s confirmed 🥰

I’m also in the boat of having resisted the Splatoon version in case a Zelda one was coming, and I’m glad I did. Also preordered the case, and I’d already got preorders for the game and amiibo at The Game Collection. My old Switch is 4 years old and I probably won’t get the Switch successor day 1 so this feels fine to me. That OLED tablet will stay in the box for a couple of weeks till I get the screen protector on it though! Hopefully will use my shiny Tears of the Kingdom joycons to play some Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters on my old Switch during the 2-week wait 🥰

I’m also nostalgic about the demos that used to come with magazines… the Final Fantasy 8 demo had the beach assault scene to play and the waltz cutscene. Good times. But even before then there was the practice of releasing 1/3 of a game as shareware - anyone else remember that? I played a bunch of the first 1/3 of games like Crystal Caves, Duke Nukem, Commander Keen… rarely felt motivated to buy the other chapters if I’m honest.

A good demo needs to hook you but not reveal too much. I thought the Theatrhythm demo nailed it (but I’m a longtime fan of the franchise and knew I was gonna get it anyway). The Sonic Frontiers demo was counter-productive and helped me decide not to buy it… oh, Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star - I played it with my partner and now she’s asking me when I’m gonna get the full game 😂 enough of a taste to know it’s fun, but with plenty of features locked until you hand over the £40

Yes funny how the chart is dominated by slashed-price games… basically free money for Capcom as let’s face it, if these games get ported to Switch or its successor, people will buy them again anyway… (hint hint follow suit Atlus psst Capcom UK price slash pls)

@Tourtus why not Angry Birds? It was humongous, and if we’re saying that Wii brought a lot of new gamers then mobile gaming has continued and surpassed that legacy.

ARGH come on can’t wait

@Tipehtfomottob preorders went up today on ShopTo and The Game Collection

@Bunkerneath I love how you’re already immersing yourself in the world of the game by buying it from Amazon

One of my favourite things to do in LoZ is cut the grass. I like cutting the grass in Hyrule Field. Pretty sure I can expect to cut some grass in Tears of the Kingdom too, I’ll enjoy that

That’s how much Amazon have been charging for amiibos lately 🤷‍♀️ it’s already gone up to £29.54, too. Other amiibos that I’ve found that are actually sold by Amazon (rather than a 3rd party) have been around £30 too. I’ll wait for a retailer that’s not making billions out of fleecing both customers and staff now that it’s put most of its competitors out of business, and if I miss out I miss out

I haven’t used ShopTo as their store won’t accept my debit card for some reason, but I highly rate The Game Collection. Preordered about 8 games there in the last 6 months, they’ve always arrived on release day (or the day before), plus they’ve often had an extra £5 of reward points on preorders (I used them to get about £20 off my preorder of Tears of the Kingdom 💕). Recently I ordered a second hand game but turns they didn’t have stock, and their customer service people were very nice and sorted me out with some reward points to get a bit of money off a new copy of the game instead. Much better experience than the Amazons of the world! I’ll order my copy of Metroid Prime there once I get my reward points for preorders of Theatrhythm and Octopath 2 🥰

@Zimon thank you, point 1 was what I really wanted to know (since the multiplayer isn’t cross-platform 😔)