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Legend of Grimrock 2 is the only ever game like this that I have played, and I bloody loved that game. I'm interested to see if this is on the same level of quality, although tbh it doesn't look like it from screenshots.

If this has all it's UI issues sorted I'll be purchasing immediately. I haven't played FM properly since I was a student 10+ years ago, and I don't have time for the super in depth direction it has gone recently. To be honest I just wanna buy wonderkids from 3rd division Brazilian sides for a pittance, play 4-4-2, and take Accy Stanley to the premier league title.

Really happy about this because it's the one 3d mainline game I haven't played.

I thought this game was absolutely terrible once I got bored of beating random bystanders to death with a giant dildo.

Leave Lady in Red alone you monster!

@MH4 this is great, I have a 2 year old and I'm not letting him near tablets (for games, I don't mind him watching movies on them). I've seen other nieces and nephews spending hours in front of awful tablet games that they play for 2 mins, uninstall, get an another, play for 2 mins etc etc. I bought an old DS Lite recently and I'm letting him play Mario and Tetris. He obviously cannot play them, but he recognises that pressing a button creates some sort of reaction on the screen which amuses him. I really want him to be into good quality games that we can play together, I cannot bear the thought of him becoming some Candy Crush/Infinite runner moron while I'm sat on my sofa playing Mario Kart alone!

@carlos82 I'm the same I cancelled my pre order as soon as I read about the control scheme. Nonsensical. I still may play it but I'll watch some vids etc first to make my decision.

@NewAdvent ha, I was thinking exactly the same! I worked at Game about 10 years ago while I was student and there was always a huge stack of pre-owned copies of this selling for £4.99 or something stupidly cheap.

@Valdney this is a crazy attitude, first of all do you really think somebody is ever going to take a digital game away from you somehow? And second, you're literally missing out on some of the greatest games ever made because of this stance. I sort of get where you're coming from but it doesn't seem worth it to me, and this is from someone who always buys physical when given an option.

This looks bloody wonderful.

I like the sound of this, after reading the preview last night I went and preordered it. I haven't played a Pokemon game since yellow, mainly because I don't like JRPGs. As soon as I read there would be no random battles, and that the esoteric grind had been removed I thought it's for me. Should be a nice enjoyable chill game to play over Christmas along with occasional bouts of Smash. I also went and preordered NSMB U to play with the wife to try and cheer up a depressing January. Some good Nintendo times a coming!

Also, buying a physical game that one day very soon (as in like a month) won't work is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard

My little boy is 2 and I've already got him playing Mario Odyssey and Little Big Planet. Until he's quite a lot older he's not gonna know multiplayer games exist because even if he does like multiplayer games one day I 100% want a kid that loves finely crafted single player games like his old man.

Never heard of this but the artwork looks great, as long as the puzzles aren't stupidly obtuse like a lot of old adventure games I'll pick it up.

@Rohanrocks88 ha, this guy is absolutely typical of the horrible attitude of so many gamers online. "Someone has a different opinion than me, therefore they are stupid and must suck at the thing they are talking about".

@Rotroid yeah that's what it is, I just need to git gud.

@Rotroid oh, and a massive LOL at comparing anything in a Sonic game to real world physics

@Rotroid Basically what you are saying is that is meant to be sluggish. I'm not a hardcore Nintendo fan, I have various consoles and if you read my follow up you'll see that I was a Sega kid back in the 90's. Platformers are 100% about how they feel to control, you can pick almost any platformer, particularly modern ones, and they are responsive and feel great to control. Sonic doesn't. I don't give a hoot if it's meant to feel how it does, it feels bad. And why does expressing an opinion mean I'm throwing [removed]?

Yeah I'm not saying the levels aren't well designed, Sonic just feels so awful to control. It actually stresses me out when I lose momentum because it's tedious to get going again. I think it would be way more enjoyable if Sonic was zippier to get going! I've been playing Mario Bros NES since the online service launched and that's the complete opposite, such a joy to control. And this is coming from someone who was a Sega kid back in the day.

Sonic really hasn't stood the test of time. He feels bloody awful to control while you're moving slow. So sluggish! And when you're moving fast you aren't really doing anything. Bad games which are living on because of nostalgia.

This sounds like it desperately needs an easy mode! It does look right up my alley, but I am turned off by the 'constantly on the back foot' side of things. I would 100% find it too stressful.

This sounds like it desperately needs an easy mode! It does look right up my alley, but I am turned off by the 'constantly on the back foot' side of things. I would 100% find it too stressful.

This sounds like it desperately needs an easy mode! It does look right up my alley, but I am turned off by the 'constantly on the back foot' side of things. I would 100% find it too stressful.

@mj2k18 Level/world design, environmental storytelling, risk reward mechanics, obtuse world building, lack of hand holding, these are the things people bring up consistently other than difficulty. If you're asking people you personally know why they like it, they probably don't know to speak about games in a way which can communicate what they loved about it so they just fall back on the most obvious thing about the game.

@frodouk to be fair you make a serious point, there has been issues of intolerance surrounding Brexit. I haven't seen any of it because I live in the north and not in a city, and I imagine the worst of it happens in London. I just find it surprising that someone would leave the country because of it, I'm pretty sure all these problems will be sorted in a few years once Brexit is in the past. Just out of curiosity where did you move to?

@frodouk @OorWullie this guys is nuts, although then again he must have seen it with his own eyes! Genocide happening in the streets, all non white British people being packed and into containers and shipped off! Oh no wait literally nothing has changed at all.

@frodouk lol, we're all done here! Soon the locusts will arrive and the floods will start. Don't believe everything you read in the papers. I bet you're one of these people who constantly bemoans the state of the world and what an awful age we live in, whilst totally ignoring the fact we are living in the safest point in human history.

Played this back in the day. Good concept with the dynamic voiceover but the gameplay in this is a total snoozefest.

@BanjoPickles but...then you would have to play Shenmue. Although admittedly "play" is a very loose term 😂

@DM666 I agree, I have had a real hankering recently to play some ps1 and dreamcast classics but I have a backlog of bloody amazing games on the switch and ps4 so I never get round to it. Although I did play a few hours of resi 1 one night which was fun and gave me serious nostalgia.

@darkswabber this is why I think it's good to have a compromise and have a word based score such as avoid/maybe/recommend. It's far less ambiguous that way and avoids the issue of people's preconceptions of what sores mean.

@Donutman I totally agree, I'm just personally fed up of those traits in games at the minute. And I did say 'my games' in my comment, which implies I don't want them, not that I don't want anyone else to have them because that would be silly. And I think it's reasonable to complain about something if you don't like it, regardless of whether other people do.

I bought this day 1 on PC but I've just double dipped. This is a phenomenal game. The thing that really differentiates it from other similar indies is the game world. It's full of cool secrets and it rewards exploration with meaningful rewards. The combat is lovely as well, initially it is difficult but in no time at all you are swooping around the screen destroying enemies. Going on holiday for a week in October so I will be sat on my balcony at night with a bottle of whiskey playing this gem .

Please be Prey!!! This is the port I've been wanting more than anything else. I managed to get the demo running on my rubbish laptop at about 20fps at 720p so the switch should be able to run it.

This is a nibelsnarfing disgrace

Summer gaming for me is going to be this and Dark Souls. Lovely stuff.

@EasyDaRon it seems that way but think there's probably a bunch of stuff behind the scenes, a UI to create new stories, some sort of API to feed stories out to other channels, a database to store everything, some cloud based setup that can serve millions of users. Plus I guess they aren't using a common well known framework to build this. Not even considering the inevitable redesigns that came from feedback. I'm a software engineer and it's surprising how little small team actually does in a year when you look back on it. It's a tough job.

I thought this had randomly generated never-ending levels so I avoided, if it's possible to actually finish the main game it sounds right up my alley.

One of the few really well thought of indies I find a bit boring. 6/10