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Is that it for hat Pikachu now? I got 6 in total.

05:17 on that vid was quite an eye (or should I say, ear) opener!

Yeah, I really wish it was a full game but it’s just the 1 level on a loop with increasing difficulty. I played through it 3 times and unlocked the extra character. I tell you what though, with mainline Yakuza shifting to turn-based combat, I’d actually love a full Yakuza beat-em-up in this style of gameplay, either with retro visuals or 3D characters and environments from the existing games. Imagine a side-scrolling game running on the dragon engine!

Think so, yeah. Anyway, no biggie. Well, apart from causing me to play with randoms.

Well nobody else was using any of those characters, and it’s tradition (or it should be ) for Kirby to show up at some point during a newcomer party. What happened to custom stages last night BTW? I had to jump in to a random battle arena *shivers* to playtest my Bomberman stage.

Hehehe! Don’t they usually charge on dispatch though?

Been checking out some of the preview footage, don’t think I’m going to be able to delay picking this game up after all.

Bloody hell! For those shipping costs I’d expect the items to be personally delivered by Shigeru Miyamoto!

I believe limited availability is only referring to the download, so once installed you can play it indefinitely. Hope so, anyway. But yeah, such a great idea for a mash-up, can’t wait to play it!

As some of you might be aware I recently started playing Monster Hunter World (at long last! ) was worried it might be too much MH before Rise and lessen my interest in that game (which to be honest was already a bit low, due to the removal of Prowler) but if anything it has done the complete opposite! I think a blend of the more classic MH style with some (but definitely not all) of the new mechanics from World has potential to end up being very special indeed. So yeah, excited to see more of this. Has there been any more info on the online aspects for Rise, other than the expected return to 4 player hubs and text chat? Really hope they manage to get seamlessly joining quests mid-hunt in there, if not the SOS Flare system too. It’d definitely be very difficult going back to the old way now after experiencing just how incredibly slick online play is in World.

The first N64 game is one of my all-time faves, and indeed bonkers. Hope you’ll get the chance to play it sometime. Would be great if Konami did a Goemon collection (similar to the Castlevania and Contra ones) but it’s probably pretty unlikely at this point due to the requirement of additional localisation and their abandonment of the series in general.

Great! Going slightly off-topic here, but have you ever played any of the Mystical Ninja games?

Yay! Still can’t believe that it’s not possible to use replay data with DLC characters that you don’t own though, that is so stupid.

Oh poo. Was planning on using Bomberman (even made a new custom stage to celebrate his arrival as a “playable character”) man, some of the restrictions in the game are infuriating.

Mii Fighter for me!