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Did the Address to a Haggis back in primary! If you’re not into the sheep stomach mystery mince then there’s a chocolate haggis from Simon Allen that is incredible. It’s like a brownie with shortbread and fudge.

The surprise is that the main theme, written by Crisp Rat himself, will be We Are Ma Ri O, We Carry The Flame.

I thought this game would be good when I finally played it last year.

She looks a bit like a Star Wars senator. Can’t be worse than Bowser.

@MirrorFate2 Could do Mario and Sonic at the Enhanced Games, Super Sonic versus Fire Mario with dubious refereeing taking place in Las Vegas. Better than my idea for Mario and Sonic at the Paralympic Games.

Bring back this series! Honestly, I’m so excited for Wii coming to RetroAchievements in March cause it gives me an excuse to play these sorts of more casual games again.

I would say this is stupid but I had Night at the Museum 2 on the DS and I played the sh*t out of it. 100%-ed the game even though it’s one of the most bog standard crap platformers on the DS.

Meta are more pushing towards their wearables than it being a clear trend from VR to AI investment. They’ve really set their stall out with these Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

Good thing it was a gyoza bar. Raising your Daddy Rank at an okama bar means something else entirely.

A shame about Massive. They’ve been solid for years.

@GammaPhonic Comparing EA to a fascist death cult that rounded up Jews, ethnic minorities, LGBT people, Communists and others, funnelled them into squalid camps and systematically massacred them in their millions sort of proves Fares’ point here. Come on now.

@BrazillianCara It’s instantly explained when a click reveals “Location: United States”

@BBBBBBBBBBB It’s basically a pyramid scheme, the sheer amount of investment is the only thing keeping it afloat. My big prediction for this year is that at least one of the big players in the industry will catastrophically implode, they’re desperately launching things like Gemini Pro and other tiered paid services for different models but there’s absolutely no way they’ll make much money when regular users will just use the free tier. It’s a tale as old as time, they test the market with the free app and then nobody will want to pay for it when the paid version launches.

@PharoneTheGnome Tools do the jobs they are given based entirely on human input. These AI models are working outwith the boundaries of the prompts they are given. The issue is that AI hallucinations are funny until they happen in an operating theatre or in defence reports.

He’s right about GenAI being the bigger issue. But like all things, the bubble relies on investors seeing potential earnings at the end of the tunnel. Which categorically will not come.

Can’t believe these are still around. Genuinely though AC Amiibo Festival would have soured people on them.

Radiant Dawn basically never coming outside of a miracle is a shame, they make a proper duology. They can get Wii working if they try though, I’ve been playing Dolphin with my joy-cons and it works pretty well.

Give me cow or don’t even bother

Lego pricing has become insane already. Sticking a few of these bricks in will be at least another £100 added on.

THEY NERFED HIS BUSH

It’s not art. It’s a plagiarism machine. I fully expect Nintendo to be the one company to not use this crap.

#REMOVEKAGAWA

@Kid_Sickarus I can’t think of anything Fates did better than Awakening. The cast didn’t feel particularly memorable outside of a few select characters and the story was oftentimes painful because of the number of routes making motivations incredibly muddled to justify why they won’t listen to reason in each of them. The sheer contrivance of a lot of the conflict in Fates goes beyond simple plot convenience, its fanfic levels at times. Gameplay wise, it’s just OK, but the child unit justification was incredibly weak and again felt like them trying to use features from Awakening that actually had narrative purpose there. Fates is probably the least inspiring FE game out there, everyone remembers it for Camilla’s design but I don’t know a single person who’s went to seek out their old 3DS to replay it, it’s just not really worth the effort.

@cedarhyped This isn’t Reddit. Yankified snark was left in the previous decade.

@cedarhyped Who cares? If everyone had the exact same opinion on here then it would be even more dull than it already is thanks to the relentless toxic positivity. Personally, I think Three Houses is a huge step back from earlier entries. But I can’t deny that it impacted the general direction of the series in a way that Engage did not, considering the next one coming out is an obvious attempt to recapture Three Houses’ glory (and sales) with them showing Sothis front and centre in the trailer. That’s not even controversial, just basic economics. Since Three Houses released, they’ve been relentlessly pushing their Gacha crap on mobile, made another mobile game that was panned and made Engage which sold about a quarter of what Three Houses did. That is a complete failure to capitalise on recent success.

@Krlozgod I’d pretty confidently say Fates is a bad game.

@JR150 Three Houses was 6 years ago. Engage did not even come close to a fraction of that game’s impact. It’s not controversial to say that the series is going through a lull and this new one has to be a hit.

This sort of stinker is indicative of the general reputation of Fire Emblem these days. Somehow went from barely localised niche strategy game to a series that sold pretty big numbers and now it’s become a bit of a punchline between the Smash Bros roster and the awful VTuber designs.

@Sonicka It’s not unlockable in game. You have to buy the Amiibo.

@SilverM Fake news. 100% completion adds more tracks to the radio but only if you’ve already unlocked the radio with the Amiibo. It’s locked behind it.

I can’t believe anybody is taking this seriously for starters but yeah, £10 for something the Wii or even Wii U would have included for free is ludicrous. Look at how much free software the 3DS came with!

Ehhh was never a fan of the other human characters. Prefer them to be aliens or to just be full on isolation. Feels like it’s erring slightly closer towards Other M than the main series.

I’ve been following this for literal years. Can’t believe it’s finally here!

Oh god this game. Hold on, did I just shift REALITY?

My sister got this, Harvest Moon DS and Nintendogs with her pink DS Lite and that had to be about 2006 I think, cause me and my brother got the Wii the same year. Funnily enough, our mortgage was with Northern Rock and a year later we were homeless and the parents were getting divorced. Always read into overly generous Christmas presents kids!

They look AI. I dunno, some sort of weird smoothness filter.

This game is amazing. The port does not sound amazing.

The EU version has better voices than the US version too. You get Luke from Professor Layton saying “Inerzoomer Eleven”.

@Dr_Wright Being able to actually ride the rides was worth going 3D imo. None of the later entries even come close to the first 3 anyway.

Still own my original PC copies of this and the expansions. Great game.

Good. Support human made.

Yeah, this is what I expected when they hinted at some changes to the story. It’s a pretty bold move for the genre what becomes of Kiefer in the original. So of course here’s a remake that changes things.

It’s a kids movie. Just put out a trailer and be done with it.

This is the series now.

20 years is mental to be fair. I’ve been here about half of that because ONM’s death was my pathway here but it’s still the best Nintendo site out there!

Difficult to decide between this and Wild World for my favourite AC soundtrack. Probably my favourite game in the series though, NH felt like a step in a direction I’m not fond of, and the mayor powers in NL were right on the line of what I really want the player to have control over in their town. You’re a resident living life in the town, that’s what the series should be, a collective group of villagers as equals.

Anyone who buys this needs their head checked.

Hm. I worry that this will become a PS5 situation where tiny upgrades become a substitute for new games. By now they should really have been working on the next game for a good while.

@GoombaJMR I’ve easily put 300 hours into it. It’s genuinely brilliant.