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Worth watching that purely for the ending shot. The visuals with that eShop remix is hilarious!

Stamina matches tonight at 8pm.

Mario Kartma thankfully hit @Dcubed like a ton of bricks after that.

World Ends With You songs are now out. 3 from the first game, 3 from the sequel. I recognise the final boss music of NEO from the title and that is a very fine choice! EDIT: It's the full version! Even better! There is one song that I probably would've swapped in NEO. It's not bad, but that game has better options. Good pack. DOUBLE EDIT: OK, no. I do have some misgivings with "Calling". It's half the length then it was in Curtain Call and it doesn't have the Tokyo backdrop. Which is just wrong. It's made me realise that all the field music in DLC songs don't have unique backgrounds. It wasn't as noticeable with Live A Live and Romancing Saga, but it's very noticeable here.

Technically, I didn't remember it, so I'm still right.

I've finished Temenos' story now, meaning I can remove him and let all the other characters start catching up. Time to start exploring all of these optional level 45-ish dungeons in the hope I stumble another new job. BTW, I previously said that Scholar was the most nerfed job. I was wrong! Advanced Magic is a skill that "increases the intensity of spells". I didn't quite realise what this meant until I tried it. And then realised that it makes his spells become the 2 hit versions I believed were cut. The downside of having to use a turn to set up is mitigated by the fact that the SP cost of these spells don't go up! Which makes it cheaper then using them in the first game! And then the Divine Skill goes one step further and makes the spells the 3 hit versions! You know? The Latin spells from the first game that were restricted to a superjob and cost an eye watering 35 SP to use? Three of them are here, on Scholar, for a measly 14 SP! Broken! Sorry, Thief, you're the most nerfed job now.

Player's Choice tonight at 8pm.

I don't even remember a GB roadmap... I just remember the GBA one. Anyway, told you it wouldn't just be one game (Metroid Fusion). As if 5 consoles wouldn't give them room to drop more then that.

Welp, I've figured out how to say I've only watched a handful of movies and Lower Decks without actually saying that. Cheers.

The key difference here is that the typical strategy of waiting until it plummets in price doesn't really work with Nintendo. I'm in the mindset that this blatantly opportunistic, because, come on, this game in particular doesn't need help to make a profit.

I'm no Star Trek nerd, but this made me laugh. Isn't this hilariously out of character?

They're not connected in terms of plot, so I'd say the second game based on the various improvements they've made. Give the demo a go, it lets you play the first three hours of a fresh file. You can transfer save data if you decide to bite.

I have no idea how 12 year old me pulled off 100% in less then 2 hours, because I thought I did this pretty snappy.

You got me to look up what this was all about, because I'm not into football one bit, and after looking into it. Yeahhhhh... I agree with @bob in terms of the long run. The only reason this is backfiring in the BBC's face is because it's football, and if there's one thing you don't do with the general British public, it's mess with football. The majority couldn't give a toss about the more and more obvious right wing bias the BBC is showing. Good on Gary for sticking to his guns so far. And good on all the other pundits for backing him up.

Right, demo thouroughly given go, here are my thoughts. Pretty obvious, but the tone is drastically different from the main Bayonetta games. While the main games involve over-the-top and silly comedy, this has more of a bedtime story vibe and aesthetic, with a narrator reading out loud during cutscenes and while you play. I particularly like that the "Lost Demon" is blatantly the female narrator trying to put on a masculine, demonic voice. It's charming. Gameplay is also very different. If I had to sum it up, I'd describe it as "Zelda meets Brothers: A tale of Two Sons". For the uninformed, Brothers main feature was that you controlled 2 characters at once and used their different abilities to solve puzzles. Cereza is controlled with the left stick and the ZL button, while the Lost Demon is controlled with the Right Stick and ZR Button. They each have different capabilites, Cereza is small and light, and can use magic spells, while the demon can jump further and fight any enemies you encounter, etc. Unlike Brothers, which was a purely puzzle based affair, this game has combat. The thing is, Cereza is pretty helpless in a fight, only able to stun a single enemy for a bit. You have to use the Demon to fight while keeping Cereza out of trouble. The demo took me about an hour and a half, and the save file said I was at 10% completion. Whether that refers to just the main game or 100% completion is unclear, but that could provide some kind of measure for how long you could expect the game to go on for. I'm intrigued, I'll be adding this to my wishlist.

You can't use it on your PAL account, but if you were to make a new Japanese based account (I think you change your region in the settings, then make a new account), then you can use that to have a yen based account. You can then download Kirby's Dream Buffet, and use it just fine with your normal account. @Dcubed does a similar thing to get the Japanese NSO apps, so it should work here too. Hopefully, he replies quickly to verify it for me. EDIT: Found a Reddit post with a step by step for how to make a Japanese account. Just substitute buying stuff with a credit card with your game voucher.

Yeah, you beat me the second time we dueled. No ties in that one, so it's not as funny. That said, you gave me the idea of nabbing the final results screenshot from the stream, so I'm gonna quickly do that. Anyway, Mini-Game Trial isn't as long as normal boards, even at 20 turns, so after Mario Kart next Thursday seems like the best time to go.

Stock matches tonight at 8pm.

Out of those two, I would lean more towards being interested in Bond.

The actual best thing about Octopath Traveler II is that it supports the Switch Capture feature, which means you can record all your Bewildering Grace shenanigans! It's not all been killing myself in amusing ways, though. I got my first EXP X100! Well haps! Went on to fight the boss of the dungeon I was in, only to get another EXP X100 on the boss! Absolutely floored! Although it has caused a biiiiit of a gulf in levels. Basically not using three of the characters for the rest of the main game, am I?

Oh, BTW. I fibbed... Mini-Game Trial No picture is available of this board, I'm afraid. But if you remember Mini-Game Stadium from the first game, then you'll get what's going on here. There are no Stars, victory is purely determined by your coin count, which you will mostly get from mini-games. Blue spaces and red spaces have no effect on your coins, but you get an extra 10 coins from completing a lap. Instead of the single player game spaces, there are 2 Battle Spaces, and I'm sure we all know by now how much influence those have! I'll have to get back to you for when we'll be able to play next.

Uhhhh yeah. Kinda forgot to take a screenshot of the final results. Woops. Luckily... (Cheers for the save, @S.C.G) Got a lot of clips this time, it was a great finale! Disgusting @Dcubed, I'm sure everyone on this entire site will back me up that I was warranted to make the Bowser Parade go in your direction afterwards!

Some of us refer to it as the Smash Ultimate problem. Expanding the roster and course inspiration to include other Nintendo EPD IP's seems like the best way to mitigate the inevitable cutback on quantity.