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I wonder if it'll also do the new pre-loading thing. Not that 5.7GB is going to cause too big a delay if it doesn't...

I definitely want this game, though I could be be put off if it's not possible to play without motion controls.

Had a quick go last night after downloading. Couldn't beat the second new level in world one after three attempts, so I'd say there's definitely enough difficulty there.

What'd be really great is a licence for the Switch version came included with the PC or Mac version. That way you could do the more complex setup with a keyboard and mouse and then continue with the more poke-and-hope style tinkering on the move.

Well, let's not forget what your excellent sister site RPS tells us about 7/10 action games, including this one...
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/04/best-average-action-games-on-pc/

Hmmm, might wait to see some sort of review or 'quick look' before I commit to this, I want to know that it's enough content to be worth the price.

Also, does buying it mean you get directed to where the secret areas actually are, or do I have to laboriously trudge round the whole game world trying to find the stuff I just paid for?

So wait, this would give me exactly the same end result as purchasing it directly in the eShop but is cheaper than in the eShop? Have I got that right? And if so, how does that make any sense?

Still not bought a micro SD for my Switch. That said, I think this story has convinced me that when I do it should be a 200GB one instead of a 128.

I nabbed Zuma's Revenge when it was free on Origin a couple of years back. It's a decent concept but I think one game of this type is enough for me, pretty much forever.

Saving my pennies for Mario at this stage.

@masterLEON Ha! Wait, they actually intend to port most of the library? I was just being sarcastic, really. I suppose they probably only need about ten people to buy each one before they're into making a clear profit...

They must surely be going to run out of Neo Geo beat-em-ups to port soon, right? I don't even remember the system having this many games the first time around.

Wow, they're really coming thick and fast now, aren't they? Can't believe it was only four months ago we were happy to get three new Switch games in a week.

The footage of DOOM looked pretty impressive. I probably won't buy it because I already have it on PC but if Wolfenstein 2 is just as smooth at the same quality I'll definitely hold out for the Switch version.

Thinking about it, this shouldn't be that big a deal, should it? Destiny 2 for instance, can make decent use of a 6th gen i7 with a 1080Ti and yet no one makes a fuss about the fact that the 'same' version runs on the drastically less powerful XBox One.
It's just nice to see that the Switch is liked enough by developers that they take it into account from the outset.

@the8thark

It's hard to define but I suppose it's because (it at least feels like) those other types of game require thinking your way around a slightly more complex pattern in deciding how to deal with the next thing, however similarly repetitive the resulting joypad input might be.

Anyway, since making that post I've Googled it and it seems a very large number of people have similar complaints about Musou games, so I'll stop being so unoriginal.

I really loved my Tamagotchi for the lifespan of the first creature. Then after that died and a new egg appeared, it just didn't feel like my one any more.

I've still never found a satisfactory explanation of where the fun is in Musou games. I've played them with friends, hammering the 'normal attack' button and occasionally venturing across to the 'slightly better attack' button, getting apparently fairly decent scores.

It's just busy work, though. Why don't you get bored?

@exDeveloper Hmmm, sounds like it could also dampen my acceleration just for the sake of trying to appear analogue. I think given the choice I'll turn that off and keep the traction control on.

"We are simulating analogue on the digital triggers by converting pressures through a software gauge that is progressive."

Well that doesn't make any sense to me but regardless, I'm definitely interested in this if it gets half-decent reviews.

I've literally never seen one of these in real life. The main thing I remember from articles I read about it at the time is that it gave everyone who used it a headache.

Hmmm, I dunno. It could have done with more games but I think it's a good enough selection that I don't want to void my warranty.
Not that I suspect this is likely to break the machine but if it failed for any other reason then I bet they'd just refuse a refund because it was hacked.

Eeehh, I dunno. I had it on PC and I definitely see how it hooks people for a while.
Still, by the start of the first winter I was pretty much sick of doing the same few minutes worth of chores at the start of every day and I don't really see how having it on a portable machine would negate that.

It strikes me as perfectly fair enough that this is basically FIFA 16 with a FIFA 18 reskin, since that's all the hardware can cope with.
It'd be nice if the price tag reflected that, though...

I do kind of want FIFA. I'm just not sure if I "fifty five quid" want FIFA. Hmmm.

According to stock checking bots, Tesco had these available today from 14:48:17 to 14:48:57. Forty seconds.
Anyone think that someone not prepared to fight tooth-and-nail might ever see one of these on a shelf at some point?

I never realised hitting your brother with a massive hammer was such a useful way to solve problems. Going to try this at the weekend.

Is this post from a parallel universe? I've never heard of anything mentioned in it except the Dreamcast and the country of Japan.

If they could stuff a dozen or so of these fairly mindless, Flash-game-esque puzzlers into one package and it still only cost a fiver, I might well be interested.

Amazing how the mechanics of this genre have hardly needed to change since Rebelstar and yet still feel as compelling as ever.

If their advert slogan isn't "Are you beach buggy ready?" then someone needs to get fired.

If they patch this into the download version I might at least make it to the end of the free demo. Maybe not, though. The music in that game is really not my thing.

Mustn't watch. Must... preserve... sense of wonder... NNNNG
(blacks out)

Well, if a big name publisher is going to make mistakes on the Switch that others might learn from, I'm glad it happened with a franchise I don't particularly care about.

Cappy is kind of scary if you think about it. If you take control of a guy, what happens to his mind? Is he watching through his own eyes but unable to intervene? Or is that his consciousness is now dead and we are using his corpse as a puppet? And even if it's just like he instantaneously falls asleep when we put Cappy on him and wakes up when we take it off, is that really okay?

The DOOM / Wolf2 thing seems like a real commitment of effort from Bethesda. The minimum PC requirements for those things have got to be way above what the Tegra X1 can cope with, so they've surely got to be recreating a whole new set of lower res graphical assets just for the Switch.
Very encouraging that a studio like Bethesda thinks that would be a profitable move.

@Rudy_Manchego I must have completed that game about fifty times. I think once maybe I tried as a Double Dragon character and reset it after the first level.

Also, if you jump and then leave it half a second before doing the shield flip, it's a handy way of jumping slightly further than some of the shrine puzzles are designed for.

GOOD
GOOD
YOU ALMOST HAD IT

This is seven quid on Steam. If it's a fairly similar price on Switch I'll give it a look.

Any know what an Axiom Verge might be? Can't really think how those words could be related. I reckon they named it after the pre-configured password on their BT HomeHub.

Clicked through just out of curiosity and then saw their 'Nintendo Switch Store' linked underneath. They're fully in stock. So then I checked Argos and they've got Switches too. The drought is over!

Ha, they've made a pleasingly 90s-esque website out of it. Well, I mean really it's a lot better than most 90s websites were but it evokes the feel, at least.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE I really can't fathom how people are doing this in any reasonable timeframe. I've nearly reached 100 hours on my current playthrough - started already knowing how to do all the major stuff from my previous one - and I've got like 300-ish. I'm even using the Korok mask. It must take an eternity!

Still of the opinion that the Warriors games are just a bit silly. I want them to get rid of the peons, so that the majority of enemies you encounter actually bother to attack you. But then of course, that's not really going to be a Warriors game any more...

It's fine as a background. Maybe if they wrote the name of the game on it somewhere...

Nintendo Switch rewards have been 'coming soon' for a long time now. Until that happens there's no reason for me to spend any points on anything

The SNES version is still the only Sim City game I've liked enough to keep coming back to after any length of time. Second only to Cities: Skylines in the genre, IMHO.

@Roam85 No, I don't think so. It was very much its own thing, written at the then-mighty, now-somewhat-underwhelming Future Publishing in the UK town of Bath. It was endearingly silly.

It never occurred to me that these would ever become collectors' items. I had a big stack of Super Plays, and I think probably the complete set of N64 magazine, which my parents promptly threw away after I moved out.
Ho hum.

@Menchi187 Yeah I know, and we just had the 25th anniversary of that. But apparently this is to mark the 30th anniversary of a different game. If it's about the amount of time that's passed and they clearly don't want anyone using the product to actually play the game, then why not make it the right one?