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@Silly_G I was certainly being hyperbolic on the price point, but the idea still stands. Even £30 or something off would be great. Same with now opening options for people to just get the dock for the Lan comparability. It would be great to have these revisions also spur interest in current owners more as well, especially when Furukawa-san (or Kimishima?) wanted there to be many switches in people's households.

I am glad at least that we aren't getting shafted badly with the UK price. Most was talking to earlier today were dreading it would be £330-£350.

Now they just need to release the console without the dock for us more cheapskates that don't need to spend an extra £100, for the dock addition.

@moodycat I was going to say. Someone needs to let the weather gods know it's summer already. Though the constant showers has been quite nice - especially as all my work is done from home !

It's nice to see something from Nintendo that isn't for the States or Japan though. But 64gb (retailed at 19.99? yikes you can get double that for less practically anywhere online) just doesn't cut it.

I thought they already had a normal physical release for this game, or was that only for Europe or something? Glad to see them reissue another release with the DLC on card.

It should be Krabby day #CrabNewsThursday.

@Snatcher @Friendly Flower with gyro too please.

@Shambo Rogue Spear is the bee's knees.

Hopefully none of those poor additional employee's are subject to the horrors of Ubisofts leadership and are allowed to just work on the game.

Already seen it, the movie is a good action romp, just don't over think all the missing details in history and the game it glosses over. Definitely deserves more eyes on it considering it's unsuccessful launch in Asia.

@KateGray How rude of them to not wait until the illustrious Crab news Thursday for this announcement.

No word on what the limited online for the switch port? I really hope it isn't super gimped compared to the other versions.

(The trailer showed at E3 said the switch version doesn't have the same online functions as the other consoles)

Story seems a bit fishy, but if the game isn't coming out til late 2022/2023 then perhaps yeah would make sense. Either way sounds like they just trying to look good in the public eye. Much better job than certain other publishers (Your EAs, Activisions, Ubisofts etc).

Reaching a lot about this meaning game releases are certain. The posters also firmly show OOT and other Zelda games just as much as TP and WW.

Also "free" and having to spend so much to get the poster don't add up. Either way I assume we won't see anything like this over in our neck of the woods

@Whitestrider @Bizzyb @yuwarite I just want to point out that this review is likely fully based on the review code without the day one patch. As for video reviews and footage, they have to be of footage after the update. (Cough embargo stipulations cough)

Playing the games a few weeks ago, I can affirm the frame rates were no where near like they are with the day one patch. With it crawling and freezing in places along with causing input delays across all three games. This review should rectify things as it states at the end of the review regarding the patch could resolve more issues, which seems like it has.

Sigma 2 definitely feels a lot better since the patch at least.

@Emceehamster The ninja gaiden collection download is only of Razors Edge. You should see 1 and 2 in your 'redownload software' if it doesn't appear automatically. Hope that helps solve your issue.

@westman98 KOEI Tecmo were also hacked over Christmas. Seems to be a group effort with a grudge against the game industry this past year. Lockdown has given people way too much free time!

@Retrogamindaddy @COVIDberry Quick correction, Ninja Gaiden 3 Razors Edge is the 3.8gb title, with Sigma 2 being 4gb and Sigma 1 being 3.2gb.

@EmirParkreiner To make it a little clearer. The 'gore' patch just enable head decapitations to be visible in the game. Previously you would still chop the head off but visually the head would be unharmed.

There seems to be something specific with head decapitations in Japan that is more gory than limb dismemberment. The gore patch does not bring in the gore from Ninja Gaiden Black or Ninja Gaiden 2 Xbox releases.

@Whitestrider I would say the games are worth it still. It is also possible that there was a performance uptick from the day 1 patch also.

Through my review copy I had input delays and frame rates crawling to a halt (mainly on 3). I have yet to check them again after the update so will be interesting to see.

My main disappointment though is the cut modes and cut online. My poor unknown ninja doesn't have a chance to shine in this collection

*Note I played exclusively handheld for all three.

@GrailUK Same here, comes off much cleaner and easier to view. Ray tracing is cool and all, but this game really doesn't benefit from it. It's Lego, we want those bold plastic look and colours.

It'll be interesting to see if Sony will allow this as they have gone back to blocking Cross Play stuff again.

@MrGlubGlub @jump In fairness the headline makes it sound like it was that big of a leap.

@steizgr8 5PM UK time

It really should of been both 1 and 2 for that price, along with online for coop. Great games just cheap treatment unfortunately.

@the_beaver Hm yes you have a point. I didn't notice they tagged on various releases after July at the bottom.

Perhaps No more heroes 3 doesn't have a physical? Or perhaps most likely the physical hasn't appeared on a store this place does the affiliate program with. Believe it is still planned for end of August (24th or something?)

@BloodNinja Yeah there are difficulty settings, but if I recall for the Sigma games they don't make the AI smarter but just amplify their damage and give you less healing opportunities.

Ideally you want to play all three on Master Ninja difficulty (that even puts the hardest of souls games to shame haha), but believe you need to complete the game on all subsequent difficulties before it.

@the_beaver In August, so not for this article.

@BloodNinja The sigma games are watered down ports of Ninja Gaiden Black (Xbox) and Ninja Gaiden 2 (360). Though Sigma 1 isn't too bad, mainly just easier and some poorly paced missions for side character Rachel. Sigma 2 is quite the crime however that removes all gore, dumbs the AI right down, cuts the amount of enemies you fight down and adds very poor missions for 15 year old Ayane. I mention her age as the big selling point of Sigma 2 was being able to swing her bewbs around with the sixaxis controller. Sigma 2 did however add co op trial missions which were contained arena fights, but believe the collection has removed all online functions. Likely still in the game hopefully rebalanced for single player only.

3 Razors Edge is a good all round fun Fest so no worries there. Just uh get over the story, pacing and characters and enjoy the extremely fun combat. Gore and all.

@BloodNinja They are the Sigma games to boot. Make sure the good ol' Ninja council takes that into consideration before sending out those approval stamps!

As for me, disappointing to see all the lack of physical versions for Europe/UK and the dollar/pound horrific comparison. Too much coming out July, I remember the days when the Summer months were considered dead weight to the publishers, oh how times have changed.

@KillerBOB What about all the perdaughters out there?!?!?!?

@RupeeClock If the artbook is smaller that is a real shame. I'm a sucker for them, but then doesn't look like we would be able to get it on its own anyway.

@Thwomp_Stomper Agreed, an awful lot of tat to inflate that price. If it was just the game, box and artbook I'd be more happy to dip in, of course if the price is rectified for such as well.

Just give us Onechanbara already.

"We feel like this is the next step in the way Overwatch ought to be played.”

Shouldn't that be down to how the playerbase plays? I don't know that statement rubs me the wrong way weirdly. Comes off as one person wanting it to be one way while the players enjoying the game another way is wrong.

@dluxxx Apparently according to some replies on Twitter the game has numerous crashing points and AI bug outs. So not stable enough yet!

Glad it's finally here. Assume still no news on if any online will be added?

Of course. Nintendo treat their Japanese paying customers to more and higher quality titles while we have to pay the same for less. Been like this since they started and you would of thought they would of balanced it out by now instead of regional preferred treatment.

Still no more RPGs.. the defining genre on the SNES. Nintendo got a grudge against the genre in the West or something?

@sikthvash The UK release is both games in one. No idea why in the states they are separated.

I bought the collection for £50 (well bit cheaper with the NSO ticket stuff) yesterday.

Bought them yesterday and started the first game around 1am. Picked it up with the NSO ticket thingy and pre ordered Mario Golf with the other.

Curious what's with the dual release in America? Seems weird to be vastly different to us over in the UK.

Been enjoying the game a lot, though a missed opportunity with only being Japanese audio, mainly as I recently played through 999 again. But then there is a LOT of dialog and everything is voiced (least first few hours has been).

I don't get the whole 'There is no Nintendo gsmes' or 'Nintendo need to release more games' when they have been releasing 2-3 games a month since March (be it developped or published) and still continues to at least July so far.

Even weirder these get mentioned on a day Nintendo launches two games on the Switch.

@Itachi2099 It balances out the gigantic lack of RPGs on the SNES app.

Needs Dynasty Warriors Advance and I'll be in.

Tinybuild hm, wonder if we can get a port of their recent published management game Startup Panic. Would totally dig that.

@Kalmaro Seems a lot of it is down to technical issues, that hopefully will be sorted by time this launches on console. Also a strange forced time limit for any play mode seems stupid for a game like this.

@Dracavius I would say that most valid complaints come from everywhere outside of the US are paying a lot more for it. They pulling an EA thinking every currency is identical. I would jump at this personally if it had online, but unfortunately doesn't look likely, and a shame if 2 ever comes will be without online too.

Still got 2 on my PS2, though I recall it hogs so much of the memory card.

So question, what needs supporting still with Crash 4? Does it have an active online mode or something? A buggy mess needing continued patches?

Or more likely situation, a way to add in more mtx as it's been enough time since release to dodge review blasting and esrb/Pegi warnings?

I genuinely am curious though to what they would mean by that. I've not played Crash 4 though so forgive my ignorance if it's something simple.

@AnnoyingFrenzy Re Silent Hill, don't forget it will be based on broken code that the porters will have to try and fix immeasurable amount of bugs again.

In fairness, E3 isn't really the place to announce pachinko machines. Would of said gambling in general but most AAA announcements include that nowadays.

Would be nice to see but personally thought this sequel was a massive step backwards compared to the first. Plus without the Studio Ghibli involvement it falls flat on design and story.

Shame we won't likely see anything new in the series unless Bamco get a new studio involved, and even then without Studio Ghibli it won't match any of its potential.

@Anti-Matter I agree. I find the most fun and often well designed games come from developers with a limited budget, so they actually have to put effort into making the games fun or interesting. AAA due to its needless high budget nature always play things safe which pretty much makes them all feel like the same average poop.