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Wow, Baldo looks great!

Season 3 trailer:

First trailer for His Dark Materials Looks promising!

After finishing Cuphead in the weekend, I got back to playing HOB: Definitive Edition. It's quite different from Cuphead and I think I find the pace a bit too slow for my liking. The game is a good puzzler with lots of Zelda-inspired puzzles but combat is a bit lacking and hard to navigate, and the puzzles themselves are relatively onesided and repetitive. Some of them are also hard because you need to spot that small thing you can interact with in the environment. I'm about halfway through the game, I think (4-5 hours in). I will recommend it, though, as it's nicely put together with a good - albeit a bit cryptic - story. The visuals are lovely, especially after the patch.

Completed the game yesterday. The second to last boss, King Dice, took a lot of time. I could get to the last phase many times but I had problems with the cards he dealt. I also sucked at the dice game and hit a lot of the fields. The Devil went down shortly afterwards, he wasn't too hard. Ended the game with a 96 % completion, missed some coins on the Run n Gun levels. Apart from the relatively long loading times, I think this game was marvelous. It was never really frustrating as it was mainly down to skill and choice of weapon. Some levels were very hard but overall, they were balanced really well. And the presentation, truly outstanding.

Simply put, it's among the best indie games last year, and would probably be the best if Hollow Knight hadn't come. Truly a gem with a wonderful world and great gameplay with a meaty campaign as well. https://forum.n-europe.com/topic/35935-monster-boy-and-the-cursed-kingdom/

Quite impressive

More reviews: Shacknews – 9 / 10IGN – 8.5 / 10GameReactor – 8 / 10GameSpot – 7 / 10Destructoid – 7 / 10GamesRadar – 2.5 / 5GameXplain – “Liked-a-Lot”Eurogamer – “Recommended”

Dead Cells and Shovel Knight are both discounted - 20 % and 50 % respectively. Just saying...

Pattinson as Batman is a very big surprise (though it was hinted at earlier). And not a pleasant one - I don't see it. He needs to bulk quite a bit for the role for one thing.

Just for the record, full Direct is up:

Again an announcement with no trailer...

Famitsu gives it 9/9/8/8. So not quite as good as Nintendogs, but close!

Not the Direct I wanted but it's the one we got. Won't be watching it live as it's too late for me but I don't expect anything ground breaking either so it'll be fine.

This movie looks terrible. Such a shame. :/

I know

Bump. Just wanted to say that the game is 50 % off on eShop and that the sale ends tomorrow. TowerFall as well.

So we went ahead and bought that water rowing machine. It's no Concept 2 but it actually works pretty well - haven't had a workout on it yet (my wife is currently using it) but I've rowed 500 m just for the feel and it is actually pretty good. It's a tad expensive but the Concept 2 is as well so it's alright. The good thing about it is that it doesn't look out of place in our bedroom and it's actually quite small when standing upright. I'll need to try it properly in order to talk more about it - stay tuned. Also got permission to buy some squat racks - the only demand is that they are small and easily stowed away when not in use. I think the ones that I showed a picture of previously might fit our closet. Once I get those, we have a nice home gym with two kettlebells (20 kg and 12 kg), a barbell (up to 60 kg), a rowing machine and a dumbbell (up to 10 kg). Along with running outside that should be enough for now.

This doesn't seem to have been posted: First teaser trailer for the Watchmen series starting later this year :

Now announced for Europe as well:

I kind of want it but can't justify buying it at that price. I already have Puyo Puyo Tetris which is the exact same Tetris but I like how quick Tetris 99 is to boot. I would have bought it at half the price they are asking.