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5 absolute legends in one photo. Wonder who else will make it into this one? Basically all of the OGs apart from Daewon Song, Tony Alva, Mike V and a couple others who made it into the later games were missing from 1+2 but there’s a wealth of newer talent to encourage. I’d love to have Sky Brown just cause we need more Brits, and probably Andy Anderson even though freestyle skating doesn’t really suit the gameplay of THPS. Other picks would be Jaws (insane guy) and either Mark Appleyard (he was in Session tbf) or Ali Boulala (unlikely considering his retirement despite being in Skate 1) just to have another Flip guy from Sorry.

If the tips return from THPS4 then there’s one that talks about ‘almost’ only counting with horseshoes and Jamie Thomas or something to that effect, referring to him essentially landing the Leap of Faith but the board shattering in two. Well worth a watch!

https://youtu.be/dqqPCqyAfl4

@PessitheMystic I struggle to think of a game that’s not a perfect fit for Switch. I’d say something like Half-Life Alyx but I’d love to see them attempt to port that to Labo.

I totally forgot about this one. Could be fun.

Every time I have grievances with my government (often) I remember at least I’m not American. Tariffs are just another entry in the schlong swinging compendium and Nintendo are one of many, many companies affected.

Both have their merits. Could do with a definitive version.

I don’t understand at all why they chucked the wider Sega crossover content from the series. Team Sonic Racing is rizzless, a corporate slop branding exercise without any of the charm of the earlier games. Stick Kiryu, Billy Hatcher, Beat and Vyse in there and then we’ll talk.

Just want it to be the same tone as the first game, which is genuinely creepy. The slapstick should complement the scares not undermine them.

We did get some bangers in the late DS and Wii eras but the same cannot really be said for 3DS and Wii U (minus BotW). With this being a straight upgrade from Switch 1, I see support being dropped fairly quickly.

@SwitchVogel Fairly mad that they’ve bothered to make the new engine run that well on Switch, I was beginning to think the old beast had finally met its match with modern JRPGs. Optimisation must have been a big focus for Falcom.

I can’t believe these ones run smoothly, I’m playing Reverie and it chugs like f**king Thomas the Tank Engine everytime you face Crossbell, an issue that remains from Cold Steel 3 and 4.

@Medic_alert FC25 is DREADFUL. I actually quite liked last year’s game as well. This one… the defensive AI is an active hinderance, the player switching is messed up, passes are wildly inaccurate and your wingers aren’t fast enough even with 99 pace. It’s truly a bad game. They had a patch last month that made the game feel incredible to play and then it was instantly rolled back because the pros were finishing every match about 12-11 and that was ‘unrealistic’.

@Anti-Matter Might be possible with Switch 2’s mouse controls! I’ve been enjoying Sims 2 again even minus the H&M content but Sims 1 is seriously difficult and far more limiting than I remember.

Given the size of them, it’ll be fairly easy to use your armrest as a surface, I used to do that with my laptop.

Wii/DSi/3DS/Wii U era ambience is completely unmatched. It still feels futuristic. Bring back those vibes!

There should be a market for queer media that isn’t insanely cringe.

Tale of Two Towns is so insanely clear of these two, now that could do with a Switch port. These two were not great but to be fair, large amounts of that was due to them running like molasses on 3DS.

Celeste is amazing and the pressure to top it just can be crushing at the indie level. I dunno how anyone delivers a follow-up project to something like that especially these days when expectations are so high.

Well that guy needs locked up. I have actually heard of SMAP too, mostly cause of KimuTaku.

It was basically essential. And to be honest, that’s why I loved Nintendo growing up as our GameCube library was playable on Wii, which was then playable on Wii U. And of course DS games were playable on 3DS (had a DSi so no GBA games for me)

It sounds stupid but this series has been legitimately worse since the jump to Switch. Rune Factory 4 is the pinnacle of farming games and the more 3D gameplay just irritates and makes all facets of gameplay infinitely more annoying. It’s OK for games to remain top down, we don’t need to make every single series a third person behind the shoulder game. Stick to your strengths!!!

One of the best things about the community is the love they pour into projects like Pretendo. The PS2 servers are brilliant too. It’s surely the greatest compliment that people still want to play your games.

The Third Age and Return of the King on the Cube are bangers. Never really could get into the Lego game though, as much as I love Lego games.

Yep it’s real. Nintendo wouldn’t even respond if it wasn’t.

I would have liked actual triggers on the Joy-Cons personally.

I have both a Wii and PS3 Les Paul as well as a Wii World Tour guitar. The PS3 one is infinitely easier to connect to PC but the Wii discs are where I played the games first so I have a lot of nostalgia for these controllers with the big Wiimote window.

I played this for the first time a couple months back and enjoyed it for the most part. Bit crazy difficult in places and not as good as the first two but still a solid game. Soundtrack’s decent too.

Kelvingrove! Always nice to see local artists get a shout out, we have a rich history after all.

This looks brilliant. Also excited for Mario in the Multiverse. There’s a whole world of mods out there and some are genuinely brilliant.

@Daniel36 I lost my last shred of patience when the cat that had been in 3 whole games suddenly became a catgirl with feelings for the protagonist. Baffling.

This is where it would be very nice to have a female writer on staff, but we just get male opinions written into articles like this instead. I’m astounded that it’s not been addressed.

Wow they’ve completely stripped the soul from it. I get they want to homogenise the series but Sky’s a time capsule for a certain era of anime visuals which has aged really well. If they ‘update’ the script with the modern Trails writers it’ll end up an embarassing goonfest too, Cold Steel is such a colossal drop in quality.

@Jprhino84 Apparently it’s worthy of being removed by mods anyway. So any genuine discussion is over.

@Jprhino84 …no? I like Skyward Sword, I just think it’s an odd decision to exclude the name of the game in the headline and it results in a clunkier turn of phrase.

Definitely AI generated, the blurbs for the game are too. Funded by cryptobros. NLife do your job.

They let absolute crap on the eShop so there has to be more to this.

SegaLife strikes again!

Two things can be true people, Nintendo can overreach in terms of their intellectual property and the devs can also be egregiously unoriginal!

@WhensDinner Because of a buyout. The site is British, run by British folks. The writer’s bloody British too.

I take more umbrage with the word heck than anything else. This is a British site.

@Mommar Winter 2025 also refers to Jan/Feb. Technically Winter is more at the start of the year than the end after all.

In the most loving way possible, this is going to make a lot of Autistic people happy.

Should have went for the original title during development - Mario and Luigi: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Unbridled Libido

I guess it wouldn’t be anime without rape jokes being aimed at children! The stuff in the Trails games is such a black mark on an otherwise excellent series. But ultimately all it needs to be is classified from the outset, if it gets an 18+ rating for that content then so be it.

It’s only natural to have a bit of a Doronko Wanko after a few beers with the lads.

It’s a publicity stunt. Dear Lord that’s pathetic.

It’s just crazy to me personally, to get Mario 64 running increasingly better on a GBA of all things. They’ve been pushing it for years in terms of ROM hacks and the like but nothing of this scale.

They sooooo need to bring this back. Bond is perfect for the style of the series (at least the only slapstick style before voice acting). I don’t care if it’s not big with kids, Lego games by this point are over 20 years old and hit more than one demographic.

Looks like a rip off of Mighty No 9

@MJF It’s probably one of about a million moments from the movie that would make a cool avatar!