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I can't draw it very well, but: Surprised? Otherwise it'd be Bulbasaur. In fact, my favourite starter is pretty much always grass type, apart from two or three times where it'd be fire instead. The water starters are bad 100% of the time.

There's no way off, I think... I hope. It actually took quite a bit of tinkering to get it to work like that though, as stage builder really wanted to spawn a player on the actual stage instead. Wouldn't make a difference on stock either, everybody's losing one. Shame we didn't get a Sudden Death on that stage, let's just say it'd be pretty sudden.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2052465761?t=0h4m57s Sorry.

What's the verdict on the latest DLC then? It's the only one I've skipped so far as I didn't really like the look of it. Just doesn't seem like a good fit for the theme of this game.

Already on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1072420/DRAGON_QUEST_BUILDERS_2/

Anyone managed to play a secret track yet? I've done loads of races since that update dropped and still haven't encountered any.

I didn't realise it was that much. Yeah, probably better to wait for another price drop.

Did you ever get around to playing Nobody Saves the World? That's a fun game which isn't too long (took me around 12 hours or so IIRC) but still has a decent amount of content to it, could be a good one to check out. Cocoon is a really interesting game as well with some very unique gameplay mechanics, but only takes a few hours to play through.

Managed a couple of SD KOs last night... Not today, Yoshi: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2045604805?t=0h10m27s Being cheeky as DK: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2045604805?t=0h49m52s Always fun.

Hiiiiiiiiii!: @Glen-i, give us a heads up on theme week next time if you can, and I might be able to make a matching stage.

This gave me a chuckle:

That, or there's a new Wrecking Crew game in the works.

I think you just have to find these towers that are scattered around the world and defeat a certain amount of bosses. I’ve only encountered 1 of them so far though. As for plot, it seems pretty much nonexistent. There are some documents that can be collected, but I haven’t actually read any of the ones I’ve found yet, so don’t know whether they reveal a story or not.

So the curiosity just got too much for me to handle and I resubscribed to Game Pass to check this out. Well, and Season 11 of Sea of Thieves has just arrived too. Initial impressions were absolutely atrocious, the game wouldn't even start at first! I was stuck in this weird "cannot connect error" loop. After trying several times I just gave up and played Sea of Thieves. After a while I tried again, this time I managed to get to the title screen and into a game, but I was greeted by a pretty badly optimised experience and some graphics settings that didn't function at all (DLSS greyed out ) even so, I was able to tweak other settings to get it running all right on my PC. Heads up for anyone that may be considering the game on PC via Game Pass though, it turns out the Game Pass build is less refined than the Steam version. Anyway, Palworld starts out super slow and boring (like every other one of these survival type games that I've briefly played before ) but once I'd harvested enough materials to build better tools and unlock more facilities it became a bit more streamlined and things got slightly more interesting. There doesn't seem to be all that much restriction regarding how you can build your base either, which is pretty cool but I've not had the chance to fully mess around with that aspect yet. As everyone and their dog is already well aware, this game draws a lot of inspiration takes a lot of content from Pokémon but I actually find myself recognising so many elements from other games as well. Zelda (Breath of the Wild specifically), Fortnite, Animal Crossing, Xenoblade, even Dark Souls... oh- and Goat Simulator, although I don't think they meant to copy that one. It's as if the developers are going for a Guinness World Record on how many plagiarised assets and stolen ideas can be crammed into a single game! It's too soon to properly evaluate, but Palworld appears to be a very unusual experience indeed. What I've seen so far is a glitchy and bizarre mixture of loads of other games (not just Pokémon!) that isn't particularly good, but at the same time there does seem to be something about it, and considering the gameplay mostly involves holding a button down to perform menial tasks and watching timers countdown, it is strangely addictive. I shall continue to investigate... BTW, here's an interesting vid with another angle on the copyright stuff:

Yep, I have some Minecraft spirits tarnishing my collection*, despite not owning FP2. *I'm missing 15 in total, but like @Hero-of-Time, won't be able to complete because of the unavailable fighter spirits.

Oh shit, that was fast!: Pretty unlikely that the next mainline Pokémon game comes out on Switch though. Let's hope not, ey? Damn it, Glen! I'm trying to find a silver lining here, yeah? You of all people should be hoping for the Pokémon series to improve.

Makes no difference. I reckon the majority of people still just see a game that looks like Pokémon but with better graphics and superior performance than anything Game Freak has released. The next Pokémon game to be revealed by Game Freak could easily find itself getting compared to Palworld as a result, which has the potential to put some additional pressure on them to improve how their next game will look and run.

I tell you what though, Game Freak are in such need of a kick up the arse, hopefully all the buzz around Palworld will at least get them to improve the presentation and technical aspects on their next offerings. Can't see how they'd get away with chucking out another lacklustre Pokémon game after this. Although, having just looked up the sales figures for Scarlet/Violet, they blatantly could.

Looks... intriguing. Anyone playing it? It released a few days ago (early access) on Steam and Game Pass. Apparently it's doing very well indeed, 4 million copies sold already. Wonder what Nintendo/Game Freak make of this.

Man, that is greedy. I'm not a fan of this multiple edition malarkey at the best of times, but locking a once standard feature behind the most expensive edition? Not cool at all. In this particular case (NG+) it's not something that I'd personally miss, but even so, I'd hate for this type of practice to become the norm. Not sure if I'm going to get this at launch or wait for a sale.

If there's one thing I hate more than the Brinstar Depths stage, it's the Brinstar Depths stage when random select has given me Incineroar. Nothing too crazy this time, I'm trying to make stages that are a bit more normal in terms of layout. Not sure how long that will last.

I've cooked up a new stage...

Nope. The last game I played on there where you have little creatures following you around was The Wild at Heart. Cheers for the recommendation though, will try to check it out at some point.