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Re: Jennifer Hale Says She Was "Thrown Under The Bus" Amid Bayonetta 3 Casting Controversy

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@Yalloo once again thanks for your advice a d thoughts. I did go ahead and redownload and..... actually quite a bit better. Whilst the Switch 2 improves many things with performance I was unaware that it had received a large update a few months after I finished it that fixed some of the issues it had. Still has those teeny little cars though..... Much better, but still doesn't match 2 or 1 in my opinion. But I am enjoying it much more.

Personally liked the missile and plane mini games that threw back to Space Harrier and Afterburner (put that in a Like A Dragon Club Sega please Sega, and Golden Axe).

The story was a bit of a mess though although I didn't know there was a planned 4 at the time. But I do hate the (SPOILERS SPOILERS) trope of the person you rescue actually being the villain, it rarely makes sense when you think about it in most stories (END SPOILERS).

But thanks again, enjoying it much more now following the fixes and changed expectations (and better personal work life 😂)

Re: Metacritic Shares Updated List Of "Every Metroid Game, Ranked"

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I am enjoying Beyond more than any of the other Prime games so far. Only a few hours in but all of the concerns about the extra characters seem overblown so far (Sol Valley, even with radio calls seems like the most isolated place in the series, genuinely like waking up on some distant planet).

Those saying about Dread I think a lot of people (myself included) took issue with the insta-death sections and occasionally massive difficulty spikes (the final boss probably accounted for about 30% of my total playthrough!). I think they patched in an easy mode later though.

Re: Jennifer Hale Says She Was "Thrown Under The Bus" Amid Bayonetta 3 Casting Controversy

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@Yalloo unfortunately I feel the same way in reverse though. Changing the weapon system and introducing the demon slave system as well, neither of those things worked for me. On top of that there were rough edges that also affected the gameplay IMO. I died a couple of times on one of the chase sequences and to this day I have no idea why. And the camera seemed to love getting stuck behind the large enemies all the time. The mini game segments (like the Kaiju fights and the rhythm one) felt dull and unfinished. Add to that the visually uninteresting and often indistinct, enemies (compared to previous entries), the occasionally PS2 level textures, weird and illogical dimensions in many items and places and the naff story (which felt like it lacked a lot of her personality) and, again in my opinion, awful Jeanne sections and it just did not work for me.

I am no hater of the series, B2 is one of my all-time favourites, and of course this is all subjective but I am curious how those who loved it dealt with the things I've just mentioned. I will also confess that I was in a bad place when I first played it (awful job in a dreadful town) but I have tried to revisit it and run it alongside B2;and it still didn't work for me. I think I will take your advice though and give it a try again on S2 at some point.

On topic though, I still think that Hale did a fine job with what she was given. Just these other factors that did not work for me.

Re: Jennifer Hale Says She Was "Thrown Under The Bus" Amid Bayonetta 3 Casting Controversy

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Bayonetta 3 was a massive disappointment on every level after the sublime Bayonetta 2. The story was meh but the gameplay and design were just..... Poor. My biggest gaming disappointment of 2022. Look at the tiny police cars in the Paris stage! Where was the quality control? I really don't understand the 10/10 reviews some sites gave it, including this one. I have replayed the first two but never bothered with this one. It felt unpolished and unfinished, even after five years of development. I would have been happy with just more of the same at Bayonetta 2 levels.

None of that was Hale's fault though. She did a fine job with the material she was given.

Re: Shuten Order - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Out Now, Includes Paid Upgrade For Switch Owners

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It's a pretty hefty download (about 11GB I think) which is a bit worrying when thinking about storage and the size of Switch 2 games, even a visual novel like this one. Honestly, and sadly, I can't see much difference so far. Admittedly I am currently doing the school romance route which is largely flat images. And my eyesight is pretty bad too. Plus it is a very cheap upgrade.

Played the first AI on Switch 2 last night and the performance improvement is almost night and day.

Re: 'The Duskbloods' Could Be FromSoftware's Most Ambitious Game Yet, According To Leak

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A few people have also touched on this but for those berating people who don't have interest in it because it's online only - if the community dies in a couple of weeks or never even gets off the ground, you're unlikely to get a refund. Quite a consideration given the recent general price hikes on games.

Also, sure FromSoft have a lot of similar games out there that we could maybe replay - but not on Nintendo systems.

The game might be amazing within it's field but sites like this (which a lot of people seem to have forgotten are for discussing opinions on games and the industry, good and bad) and the comments thereon seem to suggest that this is not a greatly-loved genre. Not saying it won't be a great game in and of itself, but that seems like a bit of a risk for your first real foray into a new potential customer base.

Re: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's File Size On Switch 2 Is Making Us Sweat

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Storage has been my big issue for ages. It was already a bit of a problem on Switch 1 and whilst the Express format is obviously better on a technical level we seem to be back in 2018 so far as capacity and cost goes. Also, if they keep the 2TB cap that's really not going to be enough with these file sizes, patches, DLC and the like. Unless the idea is simply that we keep erasing and downloading when we want to play a specific game. Which I think is bad for flash memory anyway, right?

Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Kirby Air Riders

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@BaldB3lper78 yeah I know, hence my comment. I'm just going to wait and see what the community says since it's Christmas and my wallet is raining like a monsoon so I need to be a bit more conservative with non-essential purchases like this.

Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled

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If this is all censorship then I do sometimes wonder how Persona gets a pass. And I say this as somebody for whom Persona is one of my top two game franchises (along with Like A Dragon). But in Persona 5 there is literally teacher dating, both as a social link and the implied story near the start. In the real world this can lead to certain criminal charges starting with "statutory". And given that this does happen in the real world (and apparently quite often) it seems a bit more problematic than the generally silly or comic fanservice (a lot of which is already available in the first and third games already on Switch and the PSP releases).

Re: Multiple Switch Games Get Switch 2 Compatibility Fixes

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@Andee9001 I like to play devil's advocate with Arkham Knight and say that a lot of the complaints were very overblown. For a game that was apparently "unplayable" I completed far more of it on Switch than PS4. Personally, just my opinion, I think that the real issue is that Arkham Knight just us not that good. The Batmobile felt awful on PS4, the endless tank battles were dreary, the idea behind it all just seemed to be bigger and more which didn't equal better (looking at you Riddler challenges), and the fights descended into massive crowds where bad luck (Batman punching, unbidden, an electric thug 🤬😡) was the main challenge. Now obviously the Switch's performance did not help with any of these things but we did basically get the "pocket version" of a not particularly good game that did at least complete the Rocksteady trilogy.

With the Switch 2: performance I haven't had the space to re-download it but I know that Switchup and I think DF looked at it and said that performance had improved across the board with it, but the textures remained ugly. Didn't mention any crashing. Those are on YouTube.

Re: Mini Review: Yakuza Kiwami (Switch 2) - Kiryu's Debut, Smoother Than Ever

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@Doomcrow I would be surprised if it doesn't especially since early signs are that the newer Kiwami 3:and the Dragon Engine run well on Switch 2. We have basically received the latest versions of the chronological first four entries (if we include K3) in the Switch 2's first 9 months and the developers were apparently pleasantly shocked by how much the first one sold and think Zero did well too. They are putting them out, so far, at reasonable prices too. So, whilst nothing is openly confirmed, if I was a gambling man I would definitely bet on it. Before the end of next year in fact.

Re: Mini Review: Yakuza Kiwami (Switch 2) - Kiryu's Debut, Smoother Than Ever

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@dskatter I have been on board with this series since the very first entry and remember the pretty awful dub of that one on PS2 (complete with five-minute celebs of the hour). So I spent nearly 20 years with the Japanese cast and can't really hear any other way now. But I have seen the trailers and Kiryu sounds like a mud-twenties average Joe rather than the grizzled late 30s to mud 50s guy that he is. Except in Zero of course. These games are popular with many for their strong Japanese-ness and the voices and cultural expression are a part of that to me

Re: Xbox Reiterates Its Support For Switch 2

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@GoldenSunRM they own some studios with some big name outputs but beyond that I don"t really know what they do these days. I think they have finished in third place in every generation they were in and only seem to be popular in the US. I think even the 360 had some talk of inflated numbers because of all of the faulty RROD units. But I would still like Rare Replay which is under their ownership

Re: Xbox Reiterates Its Support For Switch 2

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@MotivatedMage but hopefully not impossible. Seems like a lot from that generation was awkward for preservation. I think my personal desire to see a "Nintendo" version with the Donkey Kong games replacing the 360 offerings might be a pipe dream though.

Re: Nintendo Direct For Kirby Air Riders Announced For Thursday, 23rd October

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I'll be the voice of dissent - this is overkill. The last direct went into excruciating detail over very basic details and personally I thought it could have been fifteen minutes long. Some of the joy in games comes from discovery which is hurt by overexposure. I am interested in this but as I said after the last one it reminds me of the Smash character reveals that ate up huge amounts of Direct time for two years with individual move breakdowns. Ultimately it is Air Ride, not Baldurr's Gate.

Just my opinion, flame on 😜🤪