Glen-i

You and me should form a club of "People who don't recognise any 'Personalites'"

Eh, you had your fair share of victories. You and your Byleth Sniping Sudden Death Shenanigans!

Yesterday, I took a Wi-Fi setup that has recently become available to me out for a test run and I can confirm that it works a treat. So I'm reviving the regular Thursday Smash ups! 8pm tonight. Time Format.

Honestly, if you skipped the 3DS version, I highly recommend jumping on this. It's a delightful, crazy RPG where I, a pop star who can't sing, went on a quest to stop the evil Kanye West with the help of various N-E members.

Got my second vaccine yesterday. Just like the first, I'm coming down with headaches and, well, just aches all over. So far, it's not as bad as the first dose. But I can't stomach passing the time on my Switch. Annoying too, because I've got so many materials to find in Monster Hunter.

Nope, that's 3, 6 and 9. Best Mario Parties are always the ones that are multiples of 3, @Dcubed will back me up on that.

Yeah, but I want to play those with N-Europe. Otherwise, what's the point? And the thought of doing a gathering hub rampage quest by myself sounds like a miserable experience.

There isn't an autosave.

It takes you as far as the HR3 urgent (A Rampage quest with an Arzuros). But that's it.

I can't fight any of the new monsters because they're locked behind getting to HR7, even the village quests... And now the red tick on 6 star village quests has turned blue, so the game is actively telling me that there's more single player quests, but I can't have them. That's just torment, man.

Well, that's not really true. Super Mario Party sold plenty of copies without online play.

Yay! Now if only this game had some kind of Dinosaur mask that covers the face completely... EDIT: Awwww, the monster masks don't change the Hunter's voice anymore? Lame!

I'd be more enthusiastic if it wasn't for the fact that the Joy-Con's awful control sticks has made this game effectively unplayable.

Not quite. The Impossible Lair not only takes away checkpoints, it also takes away all of the Bee Shield. So you have to do it all with just the two hits you get with Yooka and Laylee. Yeah, good luck with that.

Counterpoint... He's also a car!

Come on, man, it's not even that obscure of a Pokemon.

I've done it, I've completed a game on my Mega Drive Mini (That isn't Sonic 1 or 2)! I hope you're ready for un-centered images! Shining Force: The Legacy of Great Intention is the first game in the Shining series. Despite being the first entry, this game felt the need to have the stupidest subtitle I have ever seen. No, I'm not moving on. I'm gonna rant at this a tad more! First of all, why even have a subtitle? It's the first entry! "Shining Force" would have done the job perfectly fine, but no! You have to elongate things unnecessarily! And then there's the actual subtitle itself. Legacy? What legacy? Nothing gets inherited in this plot! There's no legacy! Especially not one of "Great Intention". And what does that even mean!? What's intended with this legacy, and why is it so great? I mean, when you're out-stupiding "The Sword of Haj..." When you're out-stupiding "The Sword of Hajy..."" The Sword of Hajyagdjwosvdjak", then you know you've messed up. At least the Sword of Hajdualsbdjajdbsiaj referred to a plot-relevant item in that game. Anyway, you might remember that I played that Game Gear Shining Force a while back. That was the first game in the series that I tried. I very much enjoyed The Sword of Hajydvwlagdkdiwgag, so how does this one hold up? The game follows Max, as he is tasked with leading Guardiana's Shining Force against the army of Runefaust, who are trying to revive something called a Dark Dragon. How nice of him to let you prepare for doom. And that's about it for the plot. There's really not much there. Shining Force is best described as "Sega's answer to Fire Emblem". There are some key differences between the two, however. The first being that permadeath isn't a thing in Shining Force. Instead, when a character loses all their HP, they spin around and then explode. That sounds worse, but all you have to do is go find a church and pay up some cash and they'll be back, good as new. If Max goes boom though, you're forced out of the fight and lose half of your money, so he needs to be protected at all costs. Secondly, weapons don't break. Equipment works much like you'd expect from your typical RPG, although there's only weapons and accessories. And finally, instead of magic being cast via equipment, Shining Force follows a more typical MP system. Now that I've played two Shining Force games, I'm even more confident that I prefer Shining Force to Fire Emblem. I like having the option to grind if I feel I'm underleveled, and thanks to Max's ability to do a runner and reset the battle, this is always an option. I also just generally dislike permadeath, so it's good this game doesn't have it. I also really like the variety of character designs here. Fire Emblem does have it's occasional oddball, but Shining Force really taps into it's imagination to give some proper weirdos. You have your standard warrior people and a few typical mages, but as you progress, you start getting the likes of centaurs, bird people, a baby dragon, an old man in a helicopter thingy, a magical flying octopus, fox wizards, a robot, a werewolf, and an armadillo in steam-powered armour to name a few. No, really, not making any of it up. That guy was definitely the MVP of my playthrough. He just steamrolled everything with a mobility ring equipped! If you have to ask why would you put an armadillo in steam-powered armour, then you're no fun. I wish more RPG's these days would go more off-kilter with their playable characters. Makes things more interesting, you know? Quite a few of these characters are optional as well, so it's worth exploring each town you come across and speak to everyone, just in case. That said, it's not all good, the game is a tad slow-paced, not as slow as the NES Fire Emblem, but it is slower than the Game Gear Shining Force. I can forgive it though, first installment weirdness and all. The music is also a bit repetitive, you're gonna hear the same songs quite a bit throughout. Shining Force is fun, but it's not quite as good as "The Sword of Hajacalifragislisticexpialidocious"

Oh boy, I can't wait to have my Powercharm jacked!

But what if... What if... That's disabled for New Pokémon Snap? I just have a horrid feeling that might happen.

Yes, thought that almost immediately, repaint the white background with the greenish one TMS used and it'll look very similar.

As someone who was born right when the Sega/Nintendo conflict began in 1990... No, I really don't.

No, it won't, if it was gonna happen, it would've done so before this.

Huh, I never really thought about the more personal relations of the jurors. I can't speak for anyone else, but if I was on that juror, I imagine that would be playing on the back of my mind. You know, if I actually had real life friends I cared about enough to worry about that in the first place.

But the reason they halve the price is because people aren't really buying it anymore at full price. So they actually get more profit overall by lowering the price. No disagreement, I was more referring to the claim @Eddage made that selling double the copies at half the price is better. Because it isn't for the majority of publishers.

Ah, but that's not how it works. Most third party publishers get a fraction of the money from each sale, so halving the price will more than half the profit. Anyway, I also support a thrip.