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@SpaceboyScreams The Fast And The Furious sees your stake and raises.

@Lady_D that is true, but it's less of a "to play optimally, return here in 3 hours 59 mins" and more of a "if you want more coconuts, come back in a couple of days. " The countdowns in pocket camp created a weird sense of urgency for me that was at odds with the spirit of AC.

Tried this for a short time, have to say I thought it was terrible. They take the relaxed pace of AC and stick timers on everything. It's committed the ultimate sin : It's an animal crossing game that's devoid of charm. It looks every inch the part but it's an AC mask on what amounts to a turgid idle tapper.

@Sligeach_Eire You survived the hurricane! I was sure Dorothy's house would have landed on you

Neither this nor the Crash rumour are hardly Uncharted landing on Switch, I don't see what the fuss is about to be honest.

@MagicEmperor How about "This is why Donkey Kong Country should not drink Baccardi Breezers when Pitfighter is in town"?

The director gave a decent answer in the lack of features recently - "we had a year". In that regard, if they maintain a commitment to the Switch, 18 bodes well for the future.

Still playing the 2017 demo with my kids. Between that and the snipperclips demo, who needs to buy anything? Another free song? Yes please!

Link is on a bike. Zelda is on a bike. The whole game is on a bike! GET IN THE SHIP! GO! GO! GO!

Preordered from Smyths, they came through. Been introducing my daughters to REAL video games all weekend. Overdid it with preorders if I'm honest but have been able to find loving unlikely-to-resell homes for the spares.

@sleepinglion aren't the shoulder buttons in the regular place and also in the additional top-side column? So best of both worlds? Or they too far in from the curve of the top edge? They might be missing a few cm of curvature on the shoulders.

@tanookisuit lucky you were unable to make your point succinctly, that was in grave danger of ending up racist...

The review makes it sound like Lylat Warriors - Wonder if Koei Tecmo have any plans to revive this for the HD generation?

@SLIGEACH_EIRE In fairness, the fact that you don't own a Switch precluded you from ever buying this a second time, so why the outburst? Did they abandon DLC on the Wii U? Or did they abandon something else? Show me on the doll where Nintendo hurt you...

I anticipate the announcement of the Wii U 2 E , their PS4 Pro-level dedicated home console that they've managed to keep under the radar simply by employing the Wii U's publicity team to brand it and get the word out there. 4K 60FPS, VR and AR support, an actual Voice Chat system that uses more than yogurt pots and string, and a revolutionary new couch-co-op solution (firmware support required) that supports plugging in up to 3 RealDolls to act as your co-players.

Or... you know... a couple of Amiibo.

@Stu13 Pleased to meet you. I'm a CHUD and I'm not ashamed of what I am. I would gladly give up 30fps for a resolution boost. And you know what? I'd give up the other 30 to feel the sweet kiss of the sun on my face while I gnawed on your ribs. #CHUDlife

I can't help but feel that this is a deliberate design decision born out of Shiggsy spending 18 hours crouched 4 inches from an 18" CRT playing Turtles in Time and realising that what's wrong with gaming today is that the kids are too far away from the action.

@Curlynob Didn't they say a while ago though that they couldn't do anything with the price, all they could do was add value to the package, hence the extra goodies?

If there's one thing Capcom have shown themselves capable of doing time and again on 3DS and WiiU, it's deep discounting their games. Roll on next Hanabi!

reminds me of a really old side scrolling C64 game where you controlled the top and bottom half of the screen simultaneously but all actions on the top half were mirrored on the bottom... at least in this one you only suffer the consequences of 1 screen or the other.

@SegaBlueSky "....and in other news, sources in France are reporting yet another tragic 1-2-Switch related fatality..."

@essiw Doesn't that make it a better challenge then? There are a finite number of monsters in the world, but also a finite number of weapons to kill them with (excepting those that recharge or can be reformed for a fee which includes the use of other finite resources)? Iron Man mode!

I want to like this game, I really do, but the combination of long load times and that one pick-up item in the first hub area that requires a series of fairly precise leaps from window ledges to air ducts in order to traverse the edge of a tall building... well I was spending a lot of time reloading. Might not be so slow on Digital though.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE I hope your Shovel Knight heard you and you're up all night mopping up his tears. For shame!

I guess the difficulty is in having the Amiibo offer functionality that's worthwhile without undermining the game proper by gating off content that should have been there from the start. Splatoon was a terrible example of the worst of both worlds, locking out single player challenges that saw the overall out-of-box 1p experience drastically shortened, and only offering some mid tier on-disk dlc that you outgrew very quickly.

If things stay as they are they need to make cheaper amiibo cards of the existing statues available transparently. No blind bag poodledoodlydoo. The only thing the Animal Crossing amiibo got right was the portability of the cards.

Oh man they had this in a hotel we stayed in when I was a kid. This and some girl trying to escape a fire on a series of escalators. Loved it. No doubt it'll be €40 though so I guess I'll just have to watch other people play it and save my money for ice pops... just like back in the day!

Since they're selling a system aimed at families I'd like them to have a software vending model also aimed at families, with a unified parent-controlled account that the kids can check software in and out of on different consoles. No one should have to buy Tamodachi Life twice. No one.

@Garage he has his hand up Bullet Bill's hole and he's laughing about it. This is the '70s in the BBC all over again...

@ThatNyteDaez The issue, as I said, is the lack of consistency and definition in terms of Amiibo, what they do, what they're compatible with; a problem the other 2 don't have, and a problem Amiibo would have regardless of whether they came first or not. Some Amiibo do next to nothing, some are very versatile. And it's a fluid situation as new games are released and old games are patched, but there's no clear vision, it's all a bit ad-hoc. And that's not good for business - if a shop assistant has to ask me what they're for, they clearly are not going to be able to answer the same question for prospective customers. (And that's happened a few times, I always answer the same way : There is a hole in my heart that can never be filled, but I'll keep cramming plastic tat that looks like Samus in all the same)

Regarding "toys to life" - maybe playing as the character is not the only use or even the best use, but that doesn't address the fact that it's not a use of the Amiibo.

@ThatNyteDaez At least in Skylanders and Infinity, you could play as your character. The relationship between what you buy and what you get is very linear. Amiibos offer no defined or consistent payout and sometimes seem downright backward. I mean, you buy Ryu for Smash Bros, but you can't play as Ryu unless you also buy the character as DLC? Twice, if you own both platforms? Bananas.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE This is no worse than BotW locking certain unnecessary armour sets behind amiibo, which is very tolerable. Hopefully this is a good sign for the Single Player campaign which REALLY suffered if you missed out on the boost in content the Amiibo gave it on the first one.

Bring it back in DLC, new story, Ganon returns in hat form, the hat latches on to Links head - by day you fight for justice, heart containers and a search for the cure; by night you're an agent of chaos with your ever-dwindling health only renewed through creating a maelstrom of destruction. #GreenHatsMatter