BowserBasher

Look how far things have come. Now we have the F1 film due out soon that was filmed a lot on race weekends in the pits and on track with a lot of input from people in the sport. I know Hamilton had a major role in helping make it Never heard of this game. thanks.

Tour and Home Circuit are not recognised as main line games confirmed.

Took some time off from the pledge as I had picked this up in a recent sale on the eShop. I love the lego games and had seen that this one played differently but still thought it looked pretty fun. Right so the main story is that your Grampa has this old theme park that's going to get taken away as it's all dilapidated and when you go to see him you end up taking on the task, with the help of your new robot friend, to fix things. The Whole game is set up in these small squares of worlds. This is the main hub and as such is only the one screen. Each world has multiple screens though. The way you are going to fix the park is by activating a teleport device (that blue portal) and go into the different worlds to help people. This will get you happiness crystals which power a device that fixes things. Everything, like most Lego games, is entirely built made using Lego bricks in the world. The floor, the grass, the structures, everything could be made with Lego if you looked closely and copied it. One of the things I have loved is the writing and storytelling in the game. Like other Lego games there's seem to be a fair few nods to films and other media. Like above the guard did his best Gandalf impersonation there. that wasn't the last LotR one either. There's many other very funny pieces of writing in there too and there was one later in the game that I'm not sure how they got it past the censors really, I mean can you see it: So unlike all the other Lego games, the main difference here is the rather fun (or frustrating) sandbox building mode that you have to do throughout the game. As you walk through the levels you will be faced with an obstacle in the form of a broken bridge, someone needs a cart, someone needs help to collect something. Instead of the normal press a button to make the bricks on the floor build it, you are tasked to build it yourself. You go into the sandbox/building mode, in here you get given a set number of pieces and a canvas on which to build. The canvas may have the start to the build, or certain parts that have to be there, and then you have to fill out the rest. Usually you also have two or three pieces that you must place. You get a generous number of pieces and usually there seems to be a couple of ways to go about the build. Generally I found most of them to be pretty easy to get what was needed. There were a few that had me sitting there for a while trying to figure out how I was going to do what I needed with the pieces if gave. But with the freedom, you could pretty easily mash something together. Like here you had to build a bridge\path that would get you from the start and you had to be able to reach all three of the switches. As with all builds you had to build it so that it wouldn't break under stress of a test robot walking over it. This one had me annoyed because of the middle bit that I couldn't seem to get to stay. In the end slapping a few brace parts seemed to do the trick. Others were a lot simpler and you just needed to build a cart. the bottom of the cart was in place and you just had to build the edges up and make sure that nothing fell out. All in all these are actually really fun parts of the game, it gives you freedom to design the cart/car/bridge how. you want to yet still has you stick to a set set of pieces and a footprint in which you have to build in. However, and this is the biggest let down of the game. That editor is finicky as hell! grabbing pieces, fine, it's easy to move them around and turn them, but you want to place it in a certain position that where it starts to fall down. You've built up a bit of a wall, you want to then place something on top, so you grab the next piece, start moving it into play and the game then may decide to suddenly flick the piece higher up in the filed of play and make it suddenly move over the other side of it too. All because it got stuck on another piece and couldn't quite sort it out. Many a time I thought I'd got it set to how I wanted and then suddenly it would move and be somewhere else. I think if there was some kind of a more snappy grid system it could have made it so much better. I'd hate to think how it would be on larger builds. Yup, after you have done the build to satisfy the objective, the game will then allow you to redo the build in a more free sandbox mode. So unlimited pieces and access to regular Lego bricks too. You can even unlock more bricks in the shops in each world which include colours and themed sets. This is the final park after I beat therein story. So the ride is what is restored but it then lets you build the cars of the roller Coaster, the seats in the ferris wheel. The boats and the last one is that it lets you build a whole pirate ship. Again letting you go back in the do again in a free sandbox mode. As always there's lots of collectables in each world and I may go back to collect them, not that they seem to give you much, maybe some currency for the level to get the Lego parts. But it seems that most of them will be easy to get now that the little robot guy has all his abilities. There are five worlds and there have been four DLC worlds added, these are a lot smaller though and much simpler. they are all based off of a season too, Beach (summer) Easter (Spring), Halloween (Autumn) and a winter one. It's a fun game and a nice twist to the Lego games. I love the little worlds and how they are designed, love that everything is Lego, love the jokes and funny lines. Just fix the damn building mode to make it less fiddly and you got a great game that any Lego builder could enjoy. I'd love to go find some creations that people came up with in the levels to see what people came up with. Even with the bad editor and solid 8/10 game here. Bonus photos

Shows what I know, I always thought the 2K was just shortening 2000/ That's why all these new games were called 2K20 or 2K25, just shortening the year.

Yay, I'm the best Fox! Fun games there, the no item setup does make for some really close matches, and some great finishes too. But let's now put that away for another 10 years. Back to item and mayhem.

I’m going to assume it’s stuff on stages that can hurt you or interact with. So something like the Mario Kart stage where the karts race around, wouldn’t have the karts racing around. Sorry @S.C.G possibly no bridge braking tonight

He’ll just play on @Dcubed he don’t need it

OK, last weeks first as I never got around to them. And now for this weeks and curse you @Glen-i Certainly not my night. Baby Park. I went 6 and a half laps without getting hit. Easy win then I got hit once, was OK, but then on the last corner, I think it was lightning again that screwed me over to come third or worse.

Just popping in to say my Switch is all fixed and like new again. I looked at the link @Dcubed sent and was going to do it that way, but 1. I found someone close by that fixed them for £40 so thought with postage id probably be paying less this way. and B. I didn't want to mess it up this close to Switch 2 release just incase I did something wrong. It does look an easy job though. If the Switch 2 was out and I could have transferred everything before doing it than I may have tried for the experience. But thought it wasn't worth it when I could get it done for the same cost. At least I'm back in time for Mario Kart on Thursday.

I’ve had the official one just like that for Switch and it’s done me well. I’ll probably just get this one for S2

Generally I've noticed that it's usually a week between them sending these emails and them taking the money. So hopefully it'll be the same with this.

I hope this is just a very early email from Nintendo but I just got one saying they will take payment soon for Switch 2 preorder. They don’t usually take payment till about a week before release date. So this seems very early.

Thanks guys. Feared it was the battery. No idea how long it’s been like it either. I just know I noticed it when I put the Smash Bros cart in last night. The fact that nothing happened last night is a good sign nut I know they could go without any notice. So I’ve unplugged it and will look at getting it replaced.

You also need to remember that you can pretty much follow up an A attack (one arm) with a B attack (the other arm) almost instantly. She is a fun character to use when you remember that her B moves are just another arm and can be used in tandem. Shoot one forwards then one behind if you have a person either side of you. Fun games tonight. Quite a few instances of double teaming throughout. Also poor @RedShell got stuck between Mother Brain and my Shulk with Buster. Ouchy

Can I get a quick couple opinions from any one that may have seen this. I have just noticed tonight when playing Smash, that my Switch has either just come loose a the seam or is bulging on the top. As you can see it's between the power button and the top fan. Just played 2 and a half hours of Smash with no isseus so I'm hoping its just coming loose and not a swollen battery or something worse. Switch two can't come quick enough.