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It is indeed free. As for the catch, well as far as I can tell the paid content is just a way to make climbing the tower easier/faster, but there is actually quite a lot to take in with this game, and I haven't spent anything myself so not entirely sure yet. I'd definitely recommend checking it out anyway, especially if you got a kick out of the trailer. Glad to see someone else on here enjoying this. BTW, you're not alone with having eaten stuff by mistake. I've not actually made much progress yet either, only up to the 3rd floor, where I got utterly destroyed by a boss. I'm also loving the insanity of the game though, Uncle Death is a great character, as is the crazy mushroom chick. Her dialogue cracks me up every single time. Also, how cool is the representation of stamina in this!? :awesome: For those that haven't played it, when you perform attacks or sprint around, the torso of your character becomes slightly transparent, and you can see the heart beating inside, with it changing colour and getting more intense over time. Great way of providing feedback to the player without the need for another element on the HUD. Only thing I'm not too keen on so far is the load times, which generally aren't great. You spend quite a while watching Uncle Death on his skateboard when entering the tower. They mask the loading when you're returning to the waiting room with an awesome playback of every thing you did on your last run though, that's another great feature.

Was glued to this game last night, absolutely loving it! Anyone that's a fan of the Souls series and Suda51, needs to be checking this out. "It's probably the greatest game ever made". Get downloading people, it's F2P and it's awesome! Please don't let it die.

I missed the live stream so have just been catching up with the various trailers, but yeah, both Yakuza Kiwami & Yakuza 6 being confirmed for the West is amazing! Lots of other good stuff too, PaRappa remaster, Ni No Kuni II, NiOh, Gravity Rush 2, Windjammers, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, and LET IT DIE. The trailer for that actually had me laughing out loud. Mental! Can't wait to check it out. *EDIT* Ooh! Just seen the Nex Machina trailer, another potential winner.

I checked out the demo of this last night, all 36GB of it! Probably shouldn't have, seeing as Zero is just around the corner, but I couldn't resist. Game looks amazing and plays really well, but unfortunately the frame rate is a bit rough. Even in the mini-game sections, which are usually always at 60fps in Yakuza games, look like they're running at under 30 in this one. Really don't want to be getting a PS4 Pro, but it's kind of annoying knowing that there will be a superior version of the game available on that. Mind you, by the time Yakuza 6 comes out over here (if it even does come out in Europe) the Pro will probably be a bit more affordable by then.

I'm really enjoying this game, despite being quite bad at it. There are a few moments here and there when I manage to play alright, or even do something cool and make it on to the highlight reel, but overall I'm pretty terrible. I just struggle to keep up with the pace of it really. I'm not a young man anymore, as Soldier 76 would say. So yeah, I probably won't be joining in/ruining anyone's game on here (like I did the other day to Eenuh ) but feel free to join me if you like the extra challenge of playing with a flaky teammate, or don't take the game too seriously.

My Nintendo got an update today, some new rewards (nothing great by the looks of things ) and a new look! They've redesigned the coin containers (removed the Miitomo one) and added a load of cute new interactive animations, one of which had my Mii playing SMK!: *EDIT* Hahaha! There's even one where your Mii is cleaning the coin container. Must stop pressing F5... Think I've seen 'em all now anyway.

I was really into the multiplayer for a while, but then one of the patches completely killed it. Ended up losing relics and my gameplay records for some bizarre reason, both of which really put me off playing it again.

Yeah, the shoot all targets and find 5 missing film reels.I did spend a while yesterday just diving from the highest point of the tower (love the music that plays when you're falling :awesome:) and managed to find a few targets I was missing in the process, but the last few must be very well hidden. Doubt I'd have played this otherwise either. Here's hoping for some more good PS+ stuff in December!

Finished The Deadly Tower of Monsters last night. Took about 5 hours to beat, only had 2 trophies left for the platinum, but they're annoying find stuff challenges so can't really be bothered. Game was pretty fun anyway, and I loved the retro sci-fi/B movie presentation. They did a great job at recreating that classic vibe, and it also helps to mask some of the general glitchyness of the game at the same time.

An option to mute the music would be a good start.

Decided to give this another chance tonight, and man am I glad I did. It was like playing a completely different game! Seriously, I'm wondering if the problems I encountered before were because the game hadn't completely finished downloading. Anyway, made lots of great discoveries in this just now, played alongside other players for the first time, did some challenges, and got to see what the mountains look like at sunset/night, which is actually quite stunning. Controls can still be a bit quirky at times, but nevertheless this now seems like it could be a real winner.

I was very tempted to restart my town, but in the end just couldn't do it. Got quite hooked on the little mini-games, especially the desert island one, but the super slow pace has put me off a bit now. Also looking forward to the snow!

Had a couple of goes on the beta, but wasn't too impressed with it, it all feels quite rough to me. The control is sluggish (not helped by the iffy frame rate) and visually it's pretty dull too. I remember being blown away by the graphics of 1080 and Avalanche back in the day, and hadn't played a snowboarding game in ages, so was really looking forward to a current gen take on the sport, but yeah... disappointed.

Since when does Nintendo do anything like other companies? Fact is they've always put a lot of emphasis on customer satisfaction/goodwill, so I wouldn't really be surprised to see something similar to the Wii > Wii U VC discount applied to the Switch Wii U ports, regardless of extra content.

I like how it's possible to copy (and then mess with ) your friend's doodles when replying to them, you can also use some of the DLC pens they may have purchased in this way too. A couple of things I'm not too keen on though, firstly the loading times when sending/receiving notes. Pretty sure it didn't take that long in Letter Box... I'm on the original XL though, so perhaps it's another one of those things that's improved with the New 3DS systems. The other thing I'm not a fan of is the eraser tool, it does this rough edge thing which is really annoying when trying to create clean lines. Still really glad Nintendo decided to revisit this kind of messaging app though. Not sure yet if I like it enough to invest in the pricey DLC, however, we shall see. Would've been cool if they put some of that stuff up as My Nintendo rewards instead.

Shame that will probably only be possible for digital versions though, meaning people that bought their games on disc will miss out.

Good games everyone (I was Nikki in case you didn't guess ). Been a while since I managed the triple GP win, thanks for not playing tonight @Glen\-i.

Sent out my first Swapdoodle. Man, apart from the missing camera/mic features, this pretty much is Letter Box 2. Great stuff.

Wow! Didn't think they'd ever try this kind of thing again after Letter Box, awesome news!

Yeah, I'm pretty confident the price will be justified by the content of this game. Reckon it'll be somewhere in-between what's expected from a mobile title and a full retail game, in which case the price should be spot-on. I'm viewing it more like an eShop title really.

Sorry I missed the hunts, but I think my Prowler is probably in permanent retirement now. Catch you guys on Monster Hunter Switch! : peace:

Have you heard the news? Seriously glad I held off from buying this version now.

Noticed that the Japanese direct was a few minutes longer than our one, turns out they got extra amiibo functionality thanks to the Monster Hunter Stories set!

New update is amazing! :awesome: I had a right laugh playing through the Island Escape minigame. The combination of characters I had, plus just how silly it all is, made for a hilarious experience: