gcunit

Buy in the dip. Buy in the dip.

Surely there's always a dip after Nintendo announces some brand new hardware that turns out to be using 10 year old tech.

The joycon designs all these mock-ups are based upon look fake to me.

Like the art; suspicious about the choppiness of the editing in that video - too much cutting away before enough time has passed to really judge what's going on, obviously done on purpose, so either they're teasing us because they want us to get a proper taste of its full majesty once we've bought it, or they're trying to cover deficiencies that exist because it's a kickstarter.

I can't remember: should I be celebrating this, or condemning the illegitimate proliferation of copyright property?

"It's the Wrong Tropius, Gromit!"

I'm yet to see everything that Aardman has created, but I've seen enough to be very keen to see the results of this partnership. Hope it results in a claymation style game and not just an animation.

Oh boy, the stories I could tell you lot about transmission line theory and how it constrains practical PCB design...

I'm glad and thankful that Nintendo goes to the measures that it does to protect its IP. Only wish George Lucas had applied a similar level of care when he sold off Star Wars.

The little melange of genres had me on board until I saw deck builder. I don't think I even have anything against deck building, but there's just this stigma in my mind for some reason. I'm intrigued, but what with the underslept mood I'm in today, my brain just doesn't want to entertain the idea of cards in an action game.

Pretty much ditto. The game looks to have plenty of potential, but the main character's visual and aural design is putting me off a bit. Not insurmountably, but my hype is tempered by it.

Bummer about those cons, but I think I'm going to be regrettably coerced by the attractive visuals and then curse the shortcomings about plot and extended combat later.

It's harder to justify manufacturing capacity for alarm clocks when you're MAKING A GAJILLION SWITCH SUCCESSORS!!! SHAMONE!

I found myself asking, "Why have they chosen to make these voices such a feature of their trailer, cos I'm not sure they're a selling point". Reassuring to see others had a similar reaction.

@PtM Thank you for attempting to set me straight, but are mammary glands not epidermal appendages?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3706056/

Some women happen to have very large appendages on their chests. Are they not deserving of fair representation?

Our courage has pulled us through.

I'm fine with the use of 'boring' here, and feel it is only really a reflection on the game itself. I've not finished the game, so won't commit to final conclusions yet, but so far I wouldn't score it as highly as 9/10 and one of the reasons for that is that i have just found it a bit boring, repetitive, flat & monotonous. I don't dislike it, but it's the least interested I've been in a Zelda game so far, I think.

If I had bothered imagining what a Donkey Kong Country theme park entrance would look like, it would have been pretty much that.

I already have 1, 2 & 3 together on one cart, I ain't gonna be dropping £45 on a tarted-up version of just one of them. Not immediately, anyway.

Was just watching the trailer before seeing this review. Looks good enough to be worth a punt, if not quite standing out from the crowd.

I wonder if it covers Metroid Prime 2 Remastered and Metroid Prime 3 Remastered...

Poor Other M.

Ooo, looking at that tweet, the way they just state '...and Remastered' really leaves the door open... I was just joking initially, but now I'm unjustifiably hyped and expectant.

Saw these at No.1 in the UK eshop chart a day or so ago. I was a bit surprised.

At first I was taken by the art style, but as it went I was getting distracted by how all the characters in the game are bobbing up and down incessantly. I appreciate I've mentioned this before, and I appreciate animators have to do something that minimises resource use but shows the player that it is a character you can interact with rather than an inanimate piece of the background. But if they could do something other than the bobbing, that might be nice.

This seems very positive. I'm a fan of pretty much everything cited in this article under the Koei Tecmo publishing roof, so hopefully, with good management, this expansion will be good for all.

PS. I can think of a reason why they might ignore Xbox...

Was watching the trailer for this last night. Found it intriguing, but not quite fully appealing. I tend to like games that employ greyscale, but there was something about this that left me unconvinced. Ima wait for word-of-mouth.

If I was a 21st century snowflake, I might think it a bit misandric that 'dick move' is used pejoratively.

I'm not, so I don't, fyi. It does indeed seem like a bit of a dick move, but I'm not sure that going public with that opinion is going to help GSG going forward.

I really love RiME, had a great time. Haven't heard of the other one, I don't think, but wish everyone the best and will look that game up.

I'm both embarrassed and proud, in roughly equal measure, about the number of times basically the same game can be released over a 30+ year timespan and we just keep buying it up. Here's to the next 30 years of Tetris 🥳

I've never licked a cartridge, but I do find the bitter coating transfers to my fingers when handling a cartridge, so I have experienced the taste on more than one occasion.

Good job @Nintendolife - presenting survey results always feels like a ballache of a task to me, but you've done a good job with this.

I will feedback that I pulled out of completing the survey when being asked how many kids were in the household and what their ages were, kinda felt a bit too personal and that was just a few questions in, so I decided to cut my losses and bail, not knowing how the rest of the survey was going to turn out.

For the amount of difference this makes, and the amount I play handheld or tabletop, this isn't worth more than £10 to me. The people behind this were dreaming when they thought £100 was a realistic price point. You're selling to a very small number of people who would entertain the idea of this at full price. What do the parts cost? Take off that silly m and it would be even less.

Aww man, this is just plain teasing. Just injecting us with that little bit of hope to feed our addiction.

Coulda been worse, I guess... coulda been a Mother Trilogy...

Nearly everything about this game's ongoing existence makes me want to play it and love it. I bought it Day 1 digitally and also have it physically...

... But for the love of all that is pixelated, ERIC... PLEASE LET ME STAY UP AS LONG AS I WANT!

@Miss_Moon No offence taken; thanks for the reminder. I'm not particularly into episodic game releases, paid or otherwise, but I'll try to retain this useful info this time around.

There'll be a physical release of the whole thing eventually. I'll wait for that. I don't buy chapters.

^^^^ Edgelord in the house 😆

@cedarhyped With 5 separate paragraphs making reference to the game releasing later than originally expected, I suppose there's not much room for those trivial matters.

Does this game have any sound? If so, how is it?

Is it single player only?

What sort of longevity can I expect out of it?

Well, better to confirm the 2025 releases than to announce more delays, but I'll believe it when I see it. Not sure about the release strategy for Inazuma Eleven, what with the demo already having been available for so long - maybe they were just testing the interest levels before committing more resource to development...

I think this might actually be a bigger announcement than Switch 2.

OMG, not only does this sound right up my street, but there's a physical available Day 1!?! At a pretty attractive price too!?!?!

Bought. £23.99 from Argos is the cheapest I've seen it.

PS. Thanks for the tip about avoiding content that might demystify the game. I tend to do that anyway, but it's nice to read it should be rewarded in this game.

Shame about co-op being online only. Would be nice to try with the kids but don't really wanna shell out for another copy. Fingers crossed for a fire sale on the eshop.

Edit: Oooo... it's under £9 from the Mexican eshop. That does technically meet my 'No digital purchases over £10' requirement. Could be a Day 1 double-dip coming up for gcunit...

Update (10hrs later): So I have indeed double-dipped and begun playing immediately. I knew nothing of this game before and only skimmed a few snippets of this review, but my gut instinct on it is proving justified so far. Despite spending the first couple of minutes running round feeling stuck because the game doesn't introduce you to the most fundamental mechanic, and it was the last button I tried that turned out to be the one you need to get anywhere, I'm totally diggin' it. It feels a lot like a SteamWorld Dig X Stardew Valley (minus the NPCs) experience, but without that feeling of slog from SV - things just seem to continuously open up to you; it just flows and let's you go. And the UI seems more intuitive than the SV version, so no issues for me there.

Delighted with my purchase(s). This one's a real... keeper 😏

Aside from the slightly (understandably) lacklustre Smash battle footage and the over-animation of Link and Zelda's hair, that was pretty stonking.

This is what technology should be used for: less of that dystopian megacorp destruction of society and drone warfare; more Smash fighters.

I think I'm in agreement with the 'They should be working on a Yooka-Laylee 2' rather getting bogged down (again) in the original. I have the original and I don't need or want a remaster.

Generating type, clicks and buzz, I'm guessing.

Certainly helps me understand Japan's population shrinkage. I have no knowledge of Sakurai-san's personal life, but that approach to work scheduling doesn't seem particularly in tune with 'work-life balance'.

Having avoided all articles, comments etc. about the Playtest so far, to remain spoiler-free, I'm lol-ing at the continued 'not meant to talk about it' fauxtroversy.

Free Advertising 101: Tell everyone it's a secret.

Very fun and exciting getting to playtest something like this. Looking forward to whenever it's realised as a published title. Just imagine all the internet points I'll be creaming in the future from "I was there..."

"we were able to complete it over the course of a couple of nights. Naturally, younger children will take longer than that to beat the game"

Concept art reminds me of Yooka-Laylee.

What mad lad - 30 episodes recorded in a row, only to flush them all cos he didn't check the recording output. Just having the will to start again is somewhat superhuman.

I'll remain cautiously optimistic about it. A few turns of phrase in those review snippets let on that we're still in the 'lite' territory that Gris came from. Understandable, but as someone who doesn't particularly buy into the idea of a tear-jerking video game, I think I'm perhaps still not within the target audience.

@the_beaver Don't let them through the door unless they've got a Switch with them - they obviously can't be trusted 😉

@Late @Anti-Matter

My interpretation of that bit in the review is that you can turn the motion controls off - i.e. still play the game, but with standard controls. But I could be wrong, I've not researched further.