TheFongz

@coolaggro yep, just logged in to say West Of Loathing is a must-buy if you love great writing and humour.
It's an RPG without the bloat, it's a point-and-click without the frustration. Just sink your teeth in and enjoy.

Can anyone inform me what this news is about? As they said at the end of the article, the Switch is already compromised at a hardware level so if you are not afraid to short circuit your joycons it can be jailbroken regardless of the firmware.
So what actually happened here? Did someone make it easier or safer or less of a nuclear option?

I love the term brain-computer.

"Careful Bart, you'll damage my calculator - by which I mean my head!"

What's the point without the real humans?

@Bondi_Surfer amen, brother. Mario Kart is not a racer. It's a party game.

Kemco games are like if someone rigged up a procedural generation algorithm into RPG Maker and asked it to spit out and publish a game every month please.
And they don't just look like that from the outside.

Sony was right this whole time!!

So many people here completely clueless about this game. "Just a meme game", "just a physics test"... It's a freeform sandbox game, packed with wacky fun stuff to do and find, and yes it has meme-worthy hilarious physics to play with. The devs constantly stuffed more and more content in, all for free for a while until they started charging because it was getting ridiculous. It is a full blooded game and worth being priced as one. And if you'd prefer to play it on mobile for 1dollar then go right ahead and enjoy the misery of virtual thumbsticks and onscreen buttons, i.e. the whole reason why the switch has been so successful.

@Gerbwmu with Lynels, cooking is your friend. Eat something super-tough, come in stocked with a few roast durians for extra lives, and from there you can concentrate on offense instead of defense. Of course the old freeze-em-with-stasis trick always helps. And once you kill one, you can use its kickass weapons to go after some more.

@Iacobus goes to show how tangible the growth in strength and knowledge really is in BOTW. I first stumbled upon a guardian (immobile) in the great plateau at the beginning; I was one-hit annihilated, then came back 5 more times to give it a try before realising that this thing was a god of death compared to me. From that moment on, the best I could hope for when seeing (or hearing) one of those things was to escape with my life. I was hundreds of hours in and well past the point of being beefed up enough before I was able to take on a guardian without literal fear sweats... But yes eventually you get to the point where you can just run up and chop them like candy boxes.

Why "T"?
Why "T"?!?!

So Japanese.

Surely I'm not the only one who sees something... suggestive... In the button layout of that BX-250

I have to admit I find it amusing reading this reviewer trying to write something intelligent about a game clearly designed for babies to bat at on their ipad. The enemy design is stock standard! The platforming is floaty! The challenge never really ramps up! I love it!

@aaronsullivan yes, they even wasted like 30 seconds on the boring text crawl from the start of the game!

I'll give them this: that is a trailer that knows exactly what it's doing. If this was a real PS1 era JRPG it would have been 100% prerendered FMV. But no: static field backgrounds, hanging on QTEs, menus... These guys seem to really know what will make the real nostalgia connection.

Genius executive: "Remember the NES?! I know what you're thinking: if only there was some way to play those old classics again today!"

How about one of these games actually having good outdoor tracks to hoon around in? Something like MX x ATV, I loved that game.

Gorogoa is an unforgettable experience. I read the glowing reviews and bought it at launch, then sat on it for a couple of months... Then one day at a dinner party, all the kids went to bed and on a random whim us adults collectively completed the game in one sitting. It's beautiful, it's breathtaking, it's ingenious. My friend figured out (what I feel is) the trickiest puzzle and to this day I am in awe of his lateral thinking. It's not a cheap game and it's not a long game but it's worth every penny.

This left Nintendo's hands a long time ago.

@IceEarthGuard true in theory... Even Mario is a good example of #notalljapaneseculture, but take a look at those VR avatars and tell me that close to 99% isn't the same style

I love Japan, but it never ceases to amaze me how the same anime style is able to dominate what seems like 99% of their entire pop culture for decades and decades...

Guys I'm pretty sure they are boasting 60fps VR, not 120fps. 60fps per eye = 120 if you're in marketing.

In other words, worse than the existing PC VR units. These go up to 90fps which is said to be the minimum comfortable frame rate for VR...

Last time it was on sale, I picked up that water racing game Riptide Renegades. Yeah its a smartphone game, and I'd been turning my nose up on it ever since I saw it on the eshop. But you know what, these things can actually be pretty fun when you have a proper controller instead of shonky touchscreen or accelerometer stuff.
The sad (current) truth is, for all of its success the Switch is still a wasteland for genres like racing and sports, which tend to be magnets for "graphics showcase" games so we get passed over in the AAA space. But mobile has its graphics showcases too, and they can legitimately fill a hole in a discerning gamer's switch library. At least until the real things come along...

Why not just say Bowsette and leave it at that?

You know, the very first sentence in the e-shop description of Rain World tells you exactly what type of creature you are

I never received nothing for xmas... my parents thought video games were a waste of time. But I saved my money and bought a master system... Then an n64 and actual games... So you can talk forever about goldeneye this and sm64 that but I'll tell you xmas is nothing... Games themselves are the great thing. If you get given them, great, if not then do what you can to afford them. Games are the greatest medium in entertainment. Get games. Get LOZ. Get GTA. Buy or pirate or steal but get them into your life. TheFongz says so.

Good on you mate

And of course Hebra Mountains from BOTW... I poked my nose in there and ended up spending weeks trudging around on a polar expedition. At one point I made a horsey friend who got me out of some tough spots. I had to abandon him to do some parasail exploring around the cliff edges. I couldn't bear it though, so I eventually hiked and climbed my way all the way back. There he still was, waiting obediently... I continued on with him and eventually led him out of the tundra, took him to a stable and made an honest horse out of him.

When final fantasy 7 comes to Nintendo next year I'll be saying give first place to the Snow Fields. Getting lost after crashing your snowboard... Getting really lost in a snow storm... Climbing a mountain and having to keep yourself warm... Unforgettable.

@carlos82 I agree, I have never seen a store as fair and straightforward as the eshop.

Let's show some love for Spintires Mudrunners!!

I remember back when I was a 10 year old with a sega master system I visited a friend who had an atari... A strangely boring afternoon and I never visited him again!

Back on the iPhone 4 this was a revelation of indie aesthetics, although the game still couldn't hold my attention for long. It's now almost 2019 and this kind of thing is a genre unto itself, with many other games surpassing it for meatiness and indeed the aesthetic too. Maybe try Hyper Light Drifter instead...

Sounds intriguing...
(clicks)
(first word is "Kemkco")
Never mind.

Get Hover at half price for sure.

Looks amazing, I'm going to be all over this.

I absolutely adored this on PS2 but even in the height of my katamari honeymoon I had to acknowledge that the controls can be rage-inducing.

If you guys don't like the demo then imagine trying to roll up a narrow path on a steep hill, avoiding bears.

But it's the most charming, stylish, Japanesiest Japanese game of all time and there's nothing else like it. We have Octodad and Goat Simulator now - katamari is a piece of cake!

Ah I love this site, but I honestly don't believe that any other corner of the internet has so many prudes.

What I don't understand is: in games like these, why is it that the first thing people do is put pants back on?

@rjejr I guess you could say the Switch will be... Bringing up the rear.

But what are they like to paly?

Clearly the extra time was spent on that amazing soundtrack

What with this and the two Ace Of Seafood games we could be looking at the new zombies

Gluten morgen!

I don't even like shmups but this was a fantastic review.

@bilboa just the digital triggers for throttle as far as I can see,although I haven't tried to play around with the settings. Still works great though, just tap tap away like we used to in the 90s

Personally I'm loving this game. Forget Doom, this is the true "miracle port" on the Switch. CPU intensive simulation, vegetation everywhere... There is a real zenlike feeling to chugging your rig along at 10km/h, carefully maneuvering around every dip and puddle... At that speed you can fiddle with the camera on the right stick the whole time too. Then the trail you've been following crosses a raging river and you find yourself up to your windows in water, winching and re-winching just to make it 5m further forward... It's relaxing and satisfying and surprisingly beautiful in the graphics department too, although handheld takes a big hit to resolution. It's worth every cent and there's nothing else like it, especially on the Switch.

@Quincy Yep, sounds right. Except I grew up in Australia; we didn't have MTV but we did have other means such as SBS and VHS to get Beavis & Butthead... Normal stations played Looney Tunes and Nickelodeon shows, my friend had Cartoon Network on cable, and I know every line from the first 10 series of The Simpsons by heart. I can't say I was disappointed in TV at that age...

@Quincy wow, that only took 10 minutes!
Well ok, I guess I'm not raising kids in this internet age so you may have a point. I grew up in the 80s & 90s and the golden age Warner Brothers cartoons were the very earliest of anything that I could say I grew up with. Turn of the century cartoons were museum pieces. But I guess now one can raise one's kid on whatever science-experiment selection of pop culture one likes

@slider271 unfortunately that reddit advice is wrong. If you're subscribed to anything, you'll get both the English and Japanese versions of it. And the Nintendo News channel is 80% Japanese.