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It's a strange world to me this whole leak business. Seems the leakers are really just people exploiting other people (honey trap) hacking etc. they are actually bad people to get that information - either doing something illegal or grey area like stalking but not stalking. And mostly it's now about credibility of leakers Vs how they get the information. It's not journalism although they think they are, verging on the side of extreme egotistical or extreme narcissism. It's a dark side of humanity simply to just get information a couple of months early. And yet Nintendolife is happy to use Reddit gamingleaksandrumours and use it as reporting.... So it's even worse that's now used as a source of reporting, when the way this information is obtained is no better than rupert murdoch's method of hacking people's phones and tailing people. Except because it's by a layer of extension, a report on a report - it's ok.

But it's not really is it? Sign of the times, we are too short tempered and impatient to wait for the next game...

Mvc2 is a great win! I wonder if they will make it like the Dreamcast version where you have to buy* extra chars and costumes? Think that took me 50 hours on the DC to unlock and that would be great fun to do again!

• Please note this is a proper in game currency, you buy the game, then while in the game you earn points, you use those points to buy characters and costumes. No DLC, no real money required to buy in game currency, just plain old unlock.

What is that thing that comes with homelander?

I don't think I've ever noticed that he has pacman eyes - intentional or not that's cool

If they included the controllers I would have considered buying like the Japanese version, but as for this version is just really nostalgic junk!

Mine is always a game that lasts no more than 20mins, but has Replayability. My definitive example is always marvel Vs capcom 2 - each game, 10 mins, overall I clocked 50 hours getting all the characters and costumes. Virtua tennis, soul calibor map modes are also examples. So each iteration of a game - no more than 10mins, but overall - 70 hours is fine.
Having said that, as a family person now, I struggle to find an hour a week!

No despicable me 5 for a good while then!

No brainer that one! And this week the majority actually agrees with me for once! Woo!

Well you could say this is intentional in prep for selling the switch 2 upgrade to 60fps? That would be classic Nintendo!

@SuperRetroArt not really, it's only 1 developer and the person actually said about a day after release they were looking at rebalancing and making more jokers useful. Also there are still more features to be added which will add some more depth to the game.
I haven't seen anyone just give up. Normally people quit but always come back quickly. It's a good game in that sense - it's harsh enough to stop you playing 24/7 but additive enough to pick up for an hour a day and get a couple of runs in.

@Picola-Wicola it's really pleasing to hear people in a similar boat - well done on completing the game 5 times!

It's a great game, but lovely to talk to a real human and not the Reddit nonsense abuse. Cheers and keep going!

@Joeynator3000 I thought I was just rubbish but seems unless you play this game 24/7 and you're a noob, you get no real help anywhere. I've only just completed 5 decks after about 30 hours, i.e. I've only won the game 5 times in 30 hours!
It's very hard - basically my current tactic is to level up pairs to the extreme and grab jokers around that that add x multipliers. Still doesn't gauretee a win however! Also for the first two ante's, never skip any of them as you need the money and the jokers, not just the jokers (if given away free).

I feel I've turned a corner but yer it's bloody difficult this game!

The entire Dreamcast backlog wouldn't go amiss, sonic adventure 2, soul Caliber 2, shemnue (on the move this would be amazing). Basically I miss my Dreamcast and would happily play the games again if they were available

@JohnnyMind even the usual manufacturers you have to be careful as there are fakes, wrongly advertised and also used ones being sold as new (having their rewrite counter set to zero). It's an absolute minefield and basically I've just stopped ordering most things from Amazon as I really don't want this hassle and have to deal with refund procedures of bad resellers. Although even when buying retail you still have to be careful!

This is just cruel. A few games and you will be hooked, best to either just admit it and buy the damn game or don't play at all. You have been warned, it's still got my most played hours of any game....

Not one mention of the doomsday zone? That was simply awesome! Mushroom hill was also quite chilled and fun.

Love the inflatables.... Probably a bit too much...

This is a bit early for April isn't it? Love all the in jokes here though. I wonder how much will be accidentally correct!

Looks like a mix of GP2 on the pc and virtua racing. Sadly that will be a pass from me - I've got virtua racing and that's enough. These games don't typically have much depth, Forza generally has the right level of depth for me.

Oh common you young farts - this is probably my seventh generation of consoles. Blindme the switch is youth! What about the commode or even older the Atari...

Nintendo swIItch
(Roman numerals for 2).

Although this is a bit over saturation of switch nyz, so maybe it will be Nintendo "something else brand new"

Ooo I would love more sega arcade machines again, roll on naomi 3 hehe!

GTA: sonic - confirmed, sega going properly bankrupt this time and immediate buy out by Nintendo or Microsoft - confirmed

Well I wasn't going to buy it for some time (as too many other recent games) but this makes it sound like a brilliant purchase. Tempting for sure!

Shame they don't keep all these 99 games running all of the time, they are simple pure genius fun and I find I play these sort of games more often.

I had this on pc and man this was a dark game. Doom at least was a bit comical but this was sinister and silent until baddies came out of nowhere. The colours were dark and not bright, and the level design was confusing. It was really sinister for a young teen and I'm not sure it's worth a remaster because I don't want to open that nightmarish box again!

@Noelemahc hmm I'm not sure, I'll give that a go later and see if it helps. Thanks!

My 5 year old son likes to play this however it has some bizarre frustrating physics when going upside down or when jumping with any monster truck and landing it's pretty much 50/50 landing properly Vs bouncing off in any random direction. It's also heavy on DLC and too costly for not much. I'm happy with it on gamepass but I don't think it should be anywhere else....

As a software engineer, this is why I didn't go into gaming - it's far too cutthroat and exploitative of the developers, playing on the fact a lot of people want to become game designers, therefore large supply and the same demand = cheaply paid Devs. I went the system integration route which isn't flash but it's interesting and has paid me well for nearly 20 years so far.

And I was expecting some sort of low grade mario game for the blueray. I guess they will pump the money into a new game based on the film and a new film so they can maximize profits!

I know it sounds stupid, but what's the easiest way to tell if I have drift or not? As far as I can tell I don't have drift and I have two original sets of joycons. But can I find out via the switch?

Good job I own the originals and I can rip these to the steam deck. Saves me buying all of these again, although I'm not sure how these fair compared with today's games

Took just over a day to sell out. Not sure if this is going to be scalped or not. Probably the people who want to buy it have and only a couple missed out, or it's not been widely advertised due to numbers and may have a cult following later on...

Still available.... Might not be in such short demand after all!

I've preordered, got between now and then to decide if I actually want it and I may yet refund it. Or I might flog it on eBay depending on prices...

It's funny I always see big games like this as inefficient, they have not reused objects and textures as much as they should etc.
This sonic could either be a new sonic adventure and play brilliantly or be an unplayable mess. I'll wait for a real review and not pre order.

This kind of reminds me of the early levels of sonic adventure too. So rehash of rehash, let's charge em £70!

Balls. Enough said.

@Zoda_Fett It depends on if you have played many fighting games. I would say Garou Mark of the Wolves is a class intro as the animation is on overdrive and has some great mechanics. However if you need it simple and fun, then fatal fury special would be a good shout. If you want a game with longevity as there are lots of fighters, any of the KoF games are great. Each KoF game has its own style and gameplay mechanics so they are all worth playing, but perhaps try KoF 97 or 2000 as an intro.

@KitsuneNight and pocket gem fighter while they are at it!

@vio 100% this. No more hacking around and homebrew following this. I'm amazed it took them this long after the major exploit was found last year. "System totally compromised" I believe!

Reading these comments is a trail...

gets coat

Glad to finally see a bad review on this website! Happy days! This game reminds me of mid-late 90s games on the PC, most looked great but were super dark and really boring and buggy to actually play. E.g. RoboCop 3, liberation on the cd32, dark forces etc. Shame to see a memory of that dark time returning!

I miss sensible world of soccer, before rights for teams and player names - it had every team in the entire world! The couple of updates were cheap too. EA can't use this "update the teams only" model as they make more money by the appearance of a new game every year, even if its mostly not!

Hurrah another racing game! Even if its from a studio, series or brand I never heard of! At least it's not a mobile port right?
OK, I just be getting dirt then

@Heavyarms55 no excuses unless you have a marketing based management who only care about deadlines over quality, then one of the big three goes - developed functions, systems engineering/design or testing. Usually for gaming its testing as patching after now seems to be the habit, no matter what state the game is in. If you also have a toxic work environment meaning long hours, high pressure and stupid management - then your not going to see quality for a while if ever. I give it 6 months or longer....

Holy cow, some early 90s classics quoted here! Megarace was actually playable and the music was addictive, so much I can still remember the main race theme now! Microcosm had an amazing intro, made me buy the cd32... Then I played it and its rubbish! But I would love to see a resurgence in these sort of games as the amount of video they could incorporate would be immense, a black mirror game for instance would be fun!

Got this and its great fun! I would recommend it for any fighting game fan!

So I would like to try this demo, how do I go about switching my switch account to jap region? I'm led to believe you can do this, play some games then switch back - is that right? Will this game still remain after I switch back?

@Indominus_B that's the way its always been though, humans basing their choices based on other humans. Reviews have been around for over 50 years in the current style, so its nothing new. What is relatively new is the amount of money a publisher has to pay a reviewer to get a certain rating, which is probably why all the reviews for this game come out at 7 - because that's how much the publisher wants to pay for the review.
Anyway, where can we play this game for free before buying so we can review ourselves? I'm not sure there is an option for that!