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Not sure why but I am kind of expecting a Doom-style shooter with the Metal Slug artwork and style

Nobody Does It Better for me, such a great opening.

This is fine but doesn't really stand out to me. Would have liked a bit more flavour given that this is meant to be a younger less experienced Bond.

Yooka Replaylee and the Impossible Re-lair.....

@vanYth Little Computer People!?!? I thought I was the only one left!!! I should probably be ashamed of how hard single-digit-years-old-me tried to kill that poor little guy 😵

I quite liked the first one but not really this one and my thoughts on it have become more negative as the time passes. It's just a bunch of pretty, colourful things that happen rather than an actual movie with characters and a story.

@Quarbit unless you count the really good remake of the arcade game on the last collection, it was pretty much a new game.

Edit: and I just remembered the 3DS Lords of Shadow spinoff which was 2D, I think that was later on too. Pretty decent as well if I remember rightly

She was above average height for the era it seems.....

Looks good though. Hoping there is more from the 40th anniversary to come (you know what we want on Switch Konami, so come on)

@Max_the_German dare I say they were better times.....? And if I couldn't afford a new game that month the demos and free "indie" games often held me over until I could.

@Skunkfish not release but unveil. The rumored handheld (Canis) which some have said might be the actual PS6. By and large Sony have gone with about seven year windows for their consoles and, depressingly, PS5 turns seven at the end of next year. All I am saying is that at this stage I am happy to just wait another year and see how their new console(s) look rather than spending $500 on a PS5 when almost all of the games I want on it have PS4 versions and their next console(s) will probably be backwards compatible too.

Was going to say that I'm not sold in the art style but many beat me to it. The talent involved means I'll still keep an eye on it though

@iLikeUrAttitude I don't think the PS4 has stopped being supported, or do you mean that they now release a significant number of games that are PS5 only? Any games I have wanted have still been on PS4 too. The PS5 is the first Playstation I'm going to skip because the support for PS4 was still going at the start of this year (plus my old eyes can barely see the difference in graphics 😥). I also think they are planning to unveil their new hardware in the next twelve months or so too.

I think McMillen said this was his first platform after the PC release was done. I will be picking it up if it all turns out well anyway.

Also DMC 4 for completions sake. There is the Ninja Theory one too but not sure if people are bothered enough about that reimagining.

There are probably quite a lot of underrated DS games really. Possibly my first choice for a Switch 2 upgrade might be a bit surprising but I would choose The World Ends With You Final Remix. Mouse mode would really improve the controls there.

Mr X. Old enough to remember him busting through a pre rendered wall in the original. Very unexpected back then.

@zidane4028 oh well. My nomadic lifestyle makes physical a chore anyway but really, these days, with all the patches and DLC you're rarely getting the full game on physical media anyway

@zidane4028 I'm sure we can get some more of these. Come on gang! 😁

Mouse mode for Mickey Mouse. Sorry, I'll see myself out.

Even my crappy old eyes can see the difference in The Hundred Line.

@DashKappei I already said it to brakeman90 here but there are now some gameplay videos on YouTube. Not sure if you can adjust the text size but it looked fine on my much smaller phone screen (and I often have trouble with small text - what's with the modern drive to make game text so small anyway!? You're only reading that when it's onscreen, not doing anything else at the same time)

@brakeman90 you're welcome, I might be too. Daedaelic do massive sales all the time but given what PJ said in the review (reads like the most enthusiastic one he's written despite the 9) I feel like I would like to support the developers here.

Handheld boost sounds great. But, after nearly ten years, would it kill Nintendo to add the ability to delete multiple save files? The improved speed makes the S2 better in this respect but it's still a chore on a par with unblocking my toilet.

@brakeman90 text size is a big issue for me too despite my swanky new glasses. But some gameplay videos have just gone up on YouTube and on my much smaller phone screen it seems to be a decent size

I would rather of had a second memory card slot

@kmtrain83 yeah pretty much 😵‍💫

On topic, I wasn't keen on this on PS4 because punishing gameplay plus open world's seemed to waste a lot of time but as a portable outing that I can play when I'm out and about it might be a better option.

Why are so many people attacking @HauntedMasque 's comment? It's no different from the "getting it on physical", "gamekey card equals no purchase" and most of Anti Matter's comments on here about Dance Dance Revolution. Plus they were kind enough to offer me Apfelkuchen the other day. Not sure what's so offensive about it.

I wonder if this means we'll get a Simpsons collection at some point too.

@The_Nintendo_Expat I remember it being very good at the time and often regarded as the better of the two similar games that came out round then (can't remember the other one's name). It's not a shooter, more of an action adventure. If you have found a playable version then I strongly recommend that you go in as blind as possible and don't look into story or gameplay elements. It had some good character work and cool reveals as I recall.

EDIT: I might be wrong but I don't think it sold well despite critical acclaim. Think I found it in a bargain bucket not long after launch which is a shame because it had great production values. Might be why it passed you by though because it did kind of vanish quickly. Pretty sure the main character was called John Vattic without checking, so it stuck in my memory. Enjoy 😎

@tecniko no idea, but this remake looks similar to the previous which would be expected to a degree, but to my eyes it doesn't look all that upscaled and the animations look the same. Been about ten years since I played the Wii game though admittedly

@TYRANACLES @The_Nintendo_Expat I'd buy that for a dollar! But what about their oft overlooked other game Second Sight? I'd love ve for that to get a revival, seems like it's mostly forgotten these days

@HauntedMasque Indeed it does 😎

As an English teacher I can confirm that English is anything BUT simple

@HauntedMasque vielen dank, I could really go for some of that right about now

@canaryfarmer hm, hope that's not the case. The original version seems to be available on Steam and GOG so I would hope they could work with that. But I know nothing about remastering games.

@tecniko yeah, I'm wondering why nobody anywhere seems to be mentioning that. In fact I'm still a bit confused as to whether the Wii game forms the foundation of this remake or not? Like is it an upscaled resolution and texture improvement or a full ground-up remake with significant differences? Even the FMV elements in the trailer look the same as I remember them being in the Wii game

How about MDK 1 + 2 and Dark Forces 2 as well.

My choice of Tony Todd for Yoshi goes unfulfilled.

@Eel now that's progress! I've worked with some pretty inefficient and incompetent people but I don't think I've ever met anybody who would put the three parts of a thing (in one very specific location) in three separate buildings all 500 meters apart from each other.

Really enjoying it so far. But, and this goes for all games, can we start winding down on the "there's no power" puzzles and tasks?

Having played RE Requiem last night and watched the trailer for the Oblivion remaster I found myself thinking that I really don't need games to look better than this.

Blast from the past, I think I liked it way back when

Needs to release on a Tuesday

@Lizuka yeah, unfortunately you are probably right. Might be nice if they licensed it out to Grasshopper themselves since they now seem to publish too (and Suda at least seems to remember it given Dan Smith's appearance in Travis Strikes Again). But I suspect it is a dead property in most ways now sadly.

@RoomWithaMoose agreed, Beat is one of my favourite gaming memories. And I like Runner 3 but it felt like it threw too much at the screen (played the Denshattack demo yesterday which reminded me heavily of 3, great at times but at other times less is more). Anyway, if the Runner remake comes to Switch (2) then I will certainly pick it up.

Almost certainly not but..... Killer7 port / remaster.....?

@RoomWithaMoose thanks for the info. Still wonder why they didn't just call it Runner 4 then though. And I would still love some attention to be shone on the other Bit Trip games. I know Runner was the most popular but they all had appeal (was not much of a fan of Core though).

First I gave heard of this despite liking the series. Seems a bit of a superfluous remake really and would rather they did a modern Beat, Flux or Void

Only played it in handheld so far but it looks great there. Doesn't hurt that the game is a lot of fun too.

And 7 and 8 also look great too.

Looks pretty good, albeit quite Uncharted-y. Wonder how it will run on the S2 though. Hope that we are moving back to the suave charmer Bond, rather than the mopey one.

@joventer567 agreed actually. Perhaps the voice of dissent but I found Neva, at least, to be pretty but also pretty dull and I never even finished it despite it's apparently short runtime. Also, the camera pulling out so far made it hard, for me at least, to see where to go. And I just wasn't invested enough to care to figure it out, simply not enough going on. Looked nice though.