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Lots of positive comments here. I have a question: Despite really looking forward to it, I personally found Jotun to be extremely disappointing. The visuals were great, but I thought the gameplay was dull and repetitive. is it worth taking a risk on Spirit Farer?

@FantasiaWHT Thanks! Good point - I didn't notice there was a demo, we'll try that. She's actually busy gettign to grips with Breath of the Wild, but mainly to ride a horse around so controls should be ok

@LEGEND_MARIOID Thanks for the reply - I really appreciate it, very helpful.

@FantasiaWHT and @LEGEND_MARIOID - would you say this is fun for a 6 year old? I've been looking for something new to play with my daughter.

Still can’t bring myself to buy anything from Nicalis.

Good to see those Capcom titles back to their normal price. I'm always confused when they occasionally double the price for a short time.

Here’s a neat study. The South African store just raised the price of new games by over 20%. Presumably to be equivalent to the rest of the world taking exchange rates into account. Problem is that is too much of an increase, especially right now. I can’t really justify buying new games anymore.

I’d love to see sales data for the SA store. I’m pretty certain I’m not the only one who will simply stop buying new releases, and reduce my overall purchases. I have a budget for games. My spending won’t go up, but will in fact likely go down based on the value I receive.

Life after Nintendo is actually NintendoLife.

Does anyone like Altered Beast?

Its always on everything. I have like 3 versions.

Huge tracts of land!

There is no game I want more on Switch than Skyward Sword HD.

Nice to have on the go, but I recently got a Gbros adapter to make my Tatsunoko vs Capcom arcade stick useful again.

And its brilliant!

In South Africa we got ‘Asia outside Japan’, which looks best to me, maybe just for nostalgia.

I wish there could be a new Metal Arms game. It’s just fantastic.

It must be such a pain hand drawing pixel art. Imagine having to get all those little squares straight...

Ironically I used to power my way through games like this as a kid, but kids mode is going to be a life saver now that I'm old and grey.

Hell of a time to release a brawler.

Until they're legally required to cancel the event, they will not be able to collect on insurance. If they cannot collect on insurance it will be financially disastrous. As in they may never be able to hold another event. This underpins the cancellation of all the recent events. They're not cheap.

"Have a good fiddle and see what fits best for you" is pretty much the best advice I've ever heard.

Kickstarter is such a great platform for helping small unknown companies find an audience for developing new IP.

That is some genius marketing right there.

Not really interested in the games though.

Zero Wing, Truxton, and Hellfire are all games that defined the Mega Drive for me, and are some of the games I'm proudest to have beaten. Love every one, this is fantastic news!

I did not actually know they were all made by Toaplan!

Tired the demo of 6, which I've always been tempted by. The motion controls would surely help, but if the demo is remotely reflective of the overall game, its a worse game than I'd heard.

Looking at the screenshots 1, 2 and 3 look appalling.

No scanlines basically kills my interest. For me these games just don't look right without CRT filters. I was so looking forward to this, as I'm a huge Mega Drive fan, but now its just not as good as the retropie pirate box I already have. So disappointing.

[Edit] But wait: according to Destructoid there is a CRT filter....

Not only do I appreciate shorter games in general, but my experience of Mutant Blobs when I played it on Vita was that it was over just before it got boring and repetitive.

Brilliant - I only ever played the Wii version. Day one for Harold Ramis alone!

I enjoyed this so much right up till the ending. The ending forced me to do things I really did not want to do. It felt really badly designed.

"Still, once the end credits roll there's little reason to return, and that certainly counts against the game."

Totally disagree with this sentiment. I hate the idea that games need to keep you hooked and coming back. It's the underlying principle of the worst elements in modern gaming.

I have a busy life and a lot of games to play in my very limited spare time. I want more games to be done when I finish them. Especially when they're cheap and brilliant.

Gunlord is fantastic!

Any word on Flip Grip compatibility?

Well it ISN'T something I already played to death on Wii U, so that alone makes it pretty interesting to me!

Technical point, it's not motion sickness, it's simulation sickness. Similar but works kind of in reverse.

What I think is a real shame is that they used that body shape and did it digitally. If he's gonna look like that, why not go all the way to a rubber suit, it would be so much cooler. Well maybe not cooler, but I would just love that.

Never ever wanted them, never will.

I'll get this straight after 90's Arcade Racer

The point is not to have a physical game, but to have shelf space in stores. Because of selling things to make money. Shocking but true - gamers obsessed with collecting plastic don't matter as much as selling. It's very practical.

Everyone seems to think this is a censorship debate. I guess it is in a way, but I recon its really about sales. Highly sexualised content is increasingly niche. Soften (har har) the sexual content and the game is opened to a wider market and more sales. Its business, not a morality judgement.

@HexagonSun Thanks! really useful to know. I'd not heard that about it yet :/

Graaaaahhhgh

Finally emailed Fangamer today to ask what has become of my Flipgrip and they had forgotten to send it! Now I must wait some more

Any opinions on the 8Bitdo NES30 Arcade Stick? I read varying reviews with some saying its brilliant and others talking about input lag and connectivity issues.

Keen on getting one, but importing to South Africa makes it a hell of an investment.

Anyone have one? Is it good?

Personally I'm still so attached tot he original Mega Drive controller, which I loved dearly. I never had one of these, but I'm glad to hear is great.

Looks much better in motion than in stills. Looks really good.

Surprised no mention of that one background that looks basically identical to Last Resort level 1 to me.

Doesn't really need 60fps. Definitely does not need that 3D makeover. Yucky.

For any Suda fan, the spoiler is in the title.

I don't care, just pointing it out.

So basically wait at least 7 days to purchase it? weird

For me the main, possibly only real weakness of the Messenger is that it's too long! I've not finished and I doubt I ever will. I absolutely loved the first few hours, but got totally burned out.

Got the SNES / Super Famicom visual compendium and Super Famicom Box Art Collection for Christmas, and they're ... alright. Some nice visuals. Not a patch on the ROM Mega Drive book, which is one of the best books I ever bought.

If physical meant you got the finished, complete, unbuggy version that could sit on a shelf forever I would prefer that. Like my collection of Mega Drive games. But physical is normally version 0.9 these days so we're all basically buying digital to a degree.

The last one will shock you!

Hamster, M2 and Retropie have spoiled me with good scan line filters. I cannot go back.