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@Vyacheslav333 Bloodrayne 3

@MTMike87 thanks for the explanation. game has gone through a lot of iterations. I am sure with the experience Bloober team have now they will make this FINAL edition as good as it can be

about frickin time. I had honestly lost any hope this would happen, so a pleasant surprise. 15 new levels is a decent amount of content as well if they are as long as the OG games levels were.

some British guy got jail time for carrying a Zelda toy sword that goes in the pocket lol. no joke, look it up. Def interested in these but gonna be sure not to take them to the UK

@Desy64 yeah. the price is obnoxious but that shouldn't be part of the reviewing metric. even if someone released a game costing 1million USD, the review should still review the game based on its merit as a game, even if no one would buy it.

@Athropos it says in the article a Switch 2 version is confirmed for 2026

@charliecarrot yeah, this all feels like it is just morphing into consolidated HR managerialism mode, with no character. ugh

didnt realise there were quite so many Atelier games. never had any desire to play or look into those games at all, but obviously must be popular

@FragRed well I am pretty sure Johnny Gioeli is not bringing this lawsuit on behalf of a publisher he had 25 years ago, but is bringing it so that HE can get so called royalties from an agreement that was never actually made. This isnt some weird thing where he is looking for royalties for someone else, but he wants to be paid beyond his original payment for making the track. You never see any of the other creative forces making the artwork or whatever demanding 'royalties'. he got paid to deliver a product like anyone else, no dev is saying 'I made this game as well give me some royalties'. But musicians act like they are an exception and should be raking in cash forever.

@Kamen-S he would have been commissioned to make the song, paid for that, and there was no contract for loyalties, but because the game had legs the writer feels they were unjustly treated not receiving further payments beyond their initial commission.

imo its a kind of entitlement of musicians. When someone is commissioned to make an art piece for a game (game cover or whatever) they get a one-off payment. they don't get royalties because that piece continues to be seen and used over the years. Same with writers and any other creative aspects. But musicians feel they should get cash every time music is used.

@WheresWaveRace its also just that Nintendo don't overthink or really give massive thought to these things anyway. They have admitted as much a number of times, and said that there is no coherence in the Zelda series. But fandom insists on trying to build coherent narratives (or 'lore') because I think when someone is a fan of a series it makes them feel uneasy to think that the people making the game are not working with a timelines and inter-connected narratives where everything makes sense. Fandom has these weird psychological needs and reassurances, but Nintendo mostly dont give much thought to narrative interconnectedness at all.

looks like the art work is hand drawn as well, and they really paid attention to that aspect. The 'Artstation' digital drawn style has become so ubiquitous it's hard to not to process digital work as a kind of proto-AI generic looking slop; and now that digital drawing tools are incorporating more and more AI functions into them it kind of in the end all just becomes AI art. Its great to see that old school hand drawn art again.

'Retro boomer-shooters are, of course, ten-a-penny these days'

hmmm, I wouldnt say so. obviously they are a thing, but they are way less common than 2D metroidvanias, rogue likes, or 2D scrolling games in general. It think Overkill was the last 'boomer shooter' one to release. Hasn't been much for a while.

@DarthXenos I wonder about these review criteria for insane durability. I mean 99% of the time what is needed is gentle-to-moderate protection, but it's usually 'can this survive a fall into a volcano'. I dropped my switch 1 without anything on it countless times. fell down stairs and everything, and nothing even happened to it without any protection.

Mario Kart World is such a poor MK game I would actually love to see Sonic take the mantle away and get good success for this title. I have never been a huge fan of sonic racers and always stuck with MK, but if this game is good I can see myself swapping over for a time

it has to be a bit rough for Daemon X Machina guys that Armored Core VI is still in the top 40 and has rebounded into the 20's whereas X Machina dropped out of the charts after 1 week. Glad to see Cronos still in the charts, although the Switch2 split on that is dismal.

@ImpromptuR no, I am simply interested in observing reviews, what others say about a game, and the inconsistency in reviews. other than that, you are reaching.

yeah very trollish in a stupid way. I would be mad as hell as well

@SirVick I guess the advantage of not having a PS5 or another console outside of Switch is that I dont even realise I am getting the inferior product lol

man, its kinda hard to reconcile this with the fact that Cronos got 7/10 and by every metric seems to be a far superior title. Bloober making an effort as a growing studio to make something toward a AAA title, and it is getting its game evenly
ranked with FMV game with dodgy acting. Plus Cronos losing points for performance issues whereas this retains the 7 even with performance issues. all feels so wrong.

edit: watched the trailer and dead reset looks like a dodgy straight to vid C class movie with obvious terrible acting. Whereas Cronos is actually a high effort title. My goodness

gotta love how there is general agreement that Bubsy games are terrible, but there is support for the series regardless

@The_Nintendo_Pedant yeah, Zwei was the absolute peak of the Sega Saturns aesthetic and graphical possibilities, and it's kinda impossible to replicate that quality. it doesnt look bad judging from those screens, but it doesnt have the quality of the OG and what made it special

@Kraven In todays market/world it is maybe misplaced to expect originality always. there is only so many times something and a genre in particular can 'do something new'. I wonder if this requirement is over-rated. Doing the genre well and doing it justice, even if there is not something 'original' seems to me a merit in itself

@Polvasti nah it really isnt amongst the 10 greatest games of all time. I concede that it will be in the 10 greatest Metroidvania games of all time (Super Metroid and Symphony of the Nights are superior metroidvania titles) but NO WAY top 10 games of time. top 50 games of time, OK, sure, thats plausible.

@SpaceboyScreams I just got the reaper crest and died on my first fight with moorwing. Dont get me wrong, I do like Hollow Knight, and Silksong is great. but I also feel like I am just playing very well made metroidvania games, and these are not the greatest games of all time or anything. (btw anyone reading this, for a recent metroidvania that is (at least) equally as good as HK, play Cathedral)

well yeah, because Hollow Knight has been sucking all the oxygen out the room and when Chronos released people were like 'oh, I didn't realise that was releasing. For what is ultimately just a good 2D metroidvania, this Hollow Knight hype has been kinda unwarranted tbh.

questions 8 and 9 should have a 'none' option

this game was released with such little fanfare, which is a shame for what seems like Switch2's first major horror title

when you discount the games that are on Switch 1 anyway, poor

seems every game has frame rate problems these days

Snake Eater with a 93% split in favour of PS5. I kinda really wonder that the Xbox is still around...

@chardir ah right I see. thats kinda wild for the original backers then, getting the second game (which is gonna be huge), for free

they ran a kickstarter for Hollow Knight 2? it hardly needed a kickstart

reading the official description is like reading a paragraph from Derrida or Heidegger

please review it!

would have thought this game would have been reviewed here, but see it hasn't been

@AJWolfTill @Anachronism Yoko's island was fun but way too short. dread was good, but Super Metroid and Metroid 2 are the greatest Metroid 2D games imo, and two of the greatest MV's and games of all time. Obviously Symphony of the Night is an all timer but is not recent. I am a big fan of the Bloodstained games as well. It's a massive Shame 'Ritual of the night' was bugged to hell on Switch, but I personally think it one of the greatest recent era MV's. Curse of the Moon games are top tier as well. An underrated MV that not enough people talk about is Cathedral, which is a gem of an MV and huge like Hollow Knight. Honestly I think Grime is an absolutely amazing MV as well, maybe even the best for me personally.

@sketchturner well, I am not gonna argue with someone with a hollow knight avi!

no offence to Hollow Knight, because it IS a great Metroidvania title, but it aint all that either. Everyone acting like the four horsemen of the apocalypse are arriving. It's just a well made MV, but there are equally good (and frankly better) MV's out there

I dont think losing 2 illustrators/character artists and a 'narrative designer' is gonna be fatal, or even much of a blow at all, to Capcom. Japan has more than its fair share of mega skilled concept artists/illustrators

this whole key card thing is really stupid. just do game on cartridge or dont.

twitter being rebranded to X is one of the worst renames ever

anyone remember Herdy Gerdy on PS2?

I never got this series. I tried a couple of the games and it is literally rolling everything into a ball within a time limit. its there more to it? I never played long enough to find out

Knight Rider? they done that once

Man, if they revived Shadow Man that would be epic though

@Krull hmmm, I am not so sure. I think this could be a hit. Drag X Drive however was dead on arrival

my conspiracy is they made MKW intentionally a bad MK game so Kirby Air Riders will be the new racer and franchise on Nintendo systems

@Orwellian87 for sure, but realistically I dont see Nightdive getting ahold of any Nintendo IP. Nintendo want all their legacy titles on an online subscription service.

@Questionable_Duck not long back they did express some desire to move toward remasters of PS3 games, with the FPS game Haze being a title they mentioned in particular. I am in the camp that really loves what Nightdive does and want them to stay that way though. There are a ton of PS1 and earlier PC titles that need remastered, and of course PS2 titles. Some of the titles they have remastered are historically important titles, and really they are resurrecting those historically important games (games like PO-ed for instance) and bringing back to life something really important in gaming legacy/history. I notice their choices are very careful. But I mean they seem to be growing strong and steadily, and they are involved in an impressive amount of stuff. I imagine a fair bit of PS2 stuff/early 2000's PC stuff will arrive in the next few years.