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If you've never played 3D World, you need this DAY ONE, Dennis.

Thanks for noticing that, I made a late edit and forgot to shift it along. I'll get it fixed and re-uploaded.

You'd be surprised at how good it is. If you can wire up, you'll get a very smooth experience. Outside of Mario Maker 2 I've never had any problems with Switch online. It's fine, sometimes even *gasp* good. At least it doesn't take 5 hours to download a 15gb game (Hello PSN!). But seriously, if you do get Monster Hunter, it should be played online, and it should be played with forumers and voice chat. So get a LAN adaptor, download Discord and embrace the future - NINTENDO STYLE. I'm hoping a lot of people here will be jumping in day 1 and questing together in late March.

Or just make a Discord. It's 2021! But seriously though. Screw Nintendo's app. Screw party chat. We have our great 3rd party apps now! I've been playing Animal Crossing vicariously through Discord for the past 6 months and it has been quite the ride. Text + voice + WTF is going on = win.

Oh yeah, sorry for the garbage audio from my side this week. Recorded using the wrong microphone...

Mark of the Ninja to add a bit of spice to the voting.

Just came to post the same story. Great news! They’ve been a solid studio for a long time. Luigi’s Mansion 3 was excellent and it will be exciting to see what they can do with closer collaboration.

Colin's Last Stand is levelling up! The first few mins of this video are goddamn hilarious. Especially when he picks up the Switch. @Hero-of-Time, I know you listen to SS, so you'll appreciate the little references. I still listen to Sacred Symbols every week, despite having no interest in PlayStation. I Love the chemistry Chris and Colin have and their "industry" takes, which always makes the podcast a fun listen, even if you aren't PS centric. A new Xbox podcast, which is not really of interest to me, but good to see Colin's business going from strength-to-strength after being basically blacklisted from the industry. Shows just how talented and hard-working he is that he's managed to build a second company from the ground up. Massive respect to the man.

I will never, ever get that achievement. I can barely finish most levels on Normal, let alone Legendary You have my respect though, I think the library took me 1hr 45 this time round. Absolutely insane, it's just corridor after corridor after corridor. As for the Flood, I'm not keen on them because it's almost impossible to outsmart them or use tactics that work on the Covenant. Yes, it's cool to have two completely different enemies, and the exploding ones are super fun, but it is often just too relentless. I often end up get stuck between the beefy lads and a wall with no where to move. It's frustrating as hell. Tearing through small waves of them is great fun, but when it is just non-stop, I just can't be arsed with it. I haven't checked out any of the books, but will definitely look into them! Speaking of Gears, I got GOW5 on Steam at the back end of last year for a pitiful amount. Not played one since the first so it'll be interesting to see how that holds up later in the year. Not very high up my list, just thought I'd give it a shot when it had such a low price tag.

First game of 2021 down. Last night I finished off the final few levels of Halo: Combat Evolved on PC and my god I fucking hate the flood. I finished this game WAAAAAY back in 2002/3, I think and had forgotten just how annoyingly relentless they are. I was thinking the only appeared in The Library for some reason, which I slogged through back in September. I had the final three levels to finish off and thought it was basically - Assault on the Control Room backwards, Truth and Reconciliation 2.0 and then Pillar of Autumn (encore), which it essentially was + a shit ton of Flood. The par time for the final three levels was 55 minutes, and they took me over 3 hours and many, many deaths. The experience was not a great one, to be honest. Combat rust + not remembering what to do made it quite a laboured experience, especially the final level where you need to destroy the engine and the enemies just never stop respawning. The first Halo game is such a tale of two halves. The opening few levels are absolutely sublime, right up to the Library, then it seems to nose-dive a little once the Flood appear. Can't say I enjoyed it anywhere near as much as I have done replaying the first 5 levels over the years. There are some nice set-pieces to experience in the final three levels, particularly swiping a Banshee in Two Betrayals and the Warthog section at the end of the game, but the Flood just get tiresome well before the game's conclusion. Anyway, it's done, and now I can move on to Halo 2.

This is some crazy shit.

Yeah it’s a cart issue. My copy of Puyo Puyo Tetris is troublesome. Usually only works from the 3rd or 4th try of pulling it out and re-inserting it. I always get it working eventually, but maybe you were better off swapping it for another one.

I honestly don't understand the benefit MS get keeping Rare Replay locked away on Xbox. Surely that would easily be a million plus seller on Switch.

How can you find that out? Is there an ability like Scan in FFVIII? I've been ignoring this ability against tough enemies so far. I usually survive by the skin of my teeth so not attacking / defending makes is more difficult. Probably need to level up a bit before bosses to make up for that.

I realise I haven't posted in here for quite a while. The end of the year has been quite busy for me so I'm trying to make up for that now. Having accepted defeat at the end of the year and not coming close to beating 52 games, I'm going to try and start next year with a bang. I have Luigi's Mansion 3, Part Time UFO and Doom 2016 all close to completion, so will get them done in early Jan to get a boost out of the gate - going for a much healthier and realistic target of 40 games next year. Anyway, because I always drop games after a few hours and start a new one, I've been playing through Final Fantasy IX for the first time ever. Because why not..?! I'm about 8 hours in so far. The game starts with a bit of a bang, I was hooked within the first 20 minutes and thought the theatre segment in Alexandria was really well done! The cast of characters is great, especially Steiner and Vivi, I'm really enjoying the dialogue and the active time events which are used to flesh them out. The combat doesn't feel as intuitive at VII or VIII initially and I'm not quite convinced by the ability and equip system, it feels like it needs to be micromanaged too much. The difficulty is also a little all over the place - I can steamroll some battles and get destroyed in others. I wandered into a cave (can't remember the name - you open doors with bells) and I got decimated by the boss at the end. Tried about 6 times and then realised I'd missed a party member when I went back to level up a bit. When I went back with a party of four, I managed at the second attempt thanks to a lot of potions and a couple of phoenix downs. This was the battle, however, when the battle system clicked a little. I'm normally one of those players who goes all-out-attack, but this just wasn't a viable strategy this time. Ended up using Vivi's Slow ability and Silencing its magic via Zidane. It was enough in the end to neuter it enough to get the kill. More strategic battles like this will help me warm to the system with time I think, but enemies really do an incredible amount of damage, meaning you only have two or three turns before you inevitably lose a character. Need to read up a bit more on the systems probably. Overall, a great start and classic Final Fantasy. The world is interesting, the soundtrack is superb and the pre-rendered backgrounds are lovely - you can really see the step up from FFVII.

Yeah, dunno where they got that figure from. I do think it'll be 25M+ this year though.

Thought this was a fascinating little info-graphic which really highlights how well the Switch is doing.

The Power A pad is by all means as good as the original, so nice get! You'll have to give us a review. I can guarantee it'll be better than they joycons.

Yeah I'm with you there. From a "collection" standpoint it's weak sauce. The soundtracks were nice, but the menus are shite. I compare it to some of the stuff Konami and Capcom have put out over the past few years and it's bordering on embarassing. That said, I'm glad I got to experience these great games again looking nice on the "big telly"

This really, really pissed me off. I died so many times because of this. When I actually started playing Sunshine it felt SO much better. Like an actual modern game. The difference is so stark. Honestly, I had a much, much better time with Sunshine overall. It still holds up despite a few niggles that aren't really present in modern games. I'm thinking quickly restarting failed challenges etc. But the game is great, spraying the path ahead and trying to slide for as long as possible is still tons o' fun. I got up to 104 shines, which is actually the most I've ever got, but I didn't fancy the blue coin challenges so ended up moving on to Galaxy. Again, 60FPS is such a stark contrast with the previous games. It feels so silky smooth and looks absolutely gorgeous in HD. It's a shame the Wii hid a lot of what it could actually manage. Some of those textures up-res'd still look great by today's standards. I hated on this collection a lot before release, but after putting a good 50 hours in to it, it's easily sitting close to the top of my GOTY list.

Surprised the SNES app was so high here. I've played a lot of SNES games though, I suppose. Nostalgia always wins. This is actually lower than I expected. Works out at 55 hours a month on average. Too many games started, not enough finished. That ANIMAL CROSSING bump. July was when I started spending hordes of cash on Steam, look what it did to my poor baby RPG should be higher. Next year it will be at the top, I'm sure. My backlog of epic RPGs makes me cry. Edit: oh, it's in alphabetical order. Ok. No thanks.

Lonely mountains is great! You should consider it in a sale