Hero-of-Time

The PS Blog has highlighted some cheats that can be used in the game, as well as a more modern style control scheme. https://blog.playstation.com/2025/01/22/star-wars-episode-i-jedi-power-battles-launches-tomorrow-cheat-codes-and-modernized-controls-revealed/?sf276149504=1

Not too surprising given the other cancellations. I wonder if Fairgame$ will still make it to release? That thing got slammed just as hard as Concord and it only had a teaser trailer.

Here's the list of games leaving the service next month.

I absolutely loved the original game on the Xbox but strangely never played the sequel.

This one was quite a surprise. The game is a RPG where the aim is to obtain and evolve your weapons to make progress in the game. You start off with a catcher gun that is used on monsters to catch them. These monsters can then be fed into your normal weapons to power them up. Feed enough of them into the weapon and you can evolve it into something more powerful. You can also increase the base power of the weapon by simply killing monsters with it. Both of these things were right up my street and allowed me to do lots of grinding to become pretty OP very early on. The combat system has you gunning down monsters but you can't just fire a constant stream of bullets. You have a power bar that is pretty much a stamina bar. Each of your weapons has it's own bar and so it's beneficial to carry a few with you so you can swap on the fly when you need to recover stamina for a weapon. Monsters respawn when you exit and re-enter an area. This makes for some fast exp farming if you can find an area that suits you. The story is a bit of a mess and isn't helped by the fact that the translation is all over the place. You essentially work with a demon to try and obtain the ultimate weapon. You clear an area, go back to see the demon and a new area will unlock. You just need to work your way through each of the stages, take on bosses and see the ending. The fun is in finding new weapons, grinding exp and then evolving them to see what you get. It was great coming across a game like this. It's one I've never heard of, it's a breezy RPG at around 5 hours long and it offered a nice change from all the fighting games that are in this collection.

Yup, my journey through the Neo Geo games continues. Once again this is another fighting game and probably my favourite so far. The amount of unlockable things on offer is very generous and so there is plenty to aim for. When playing through story mode you will earn points that you can spend in the store on such things as endings, profiles and mini games. There are plenty of characters to unlock as well and I quite like how this is done. When you complete the game you will see a characters ending but eventually you will unlock what is essentially the second half of the game and it's here you will need to play through story mode again to earn the true ending for each of the characters. It gives the player a good amount of replay value. It took a while to unlock them all. Character Endings

I suppose it depends on how easy it is to port games over. If it's a simple process then I can't see why they wouldn't bring everything over. Elden Ring is a must though and I think if they only bring one game over it will be that.

That's the one I've been seeing recently as well.

Nope. The Launch Edition is still sat sealed on the shelf. Maybe it can be part of my 2026 Gaming Pledge.

I don't mind the smooth filter that gets applied on old games like this but with Grandia there are a lot of instances where the sprites themselves become disjointed, with the top and bottom of characters not matching up correctly.

Did you buy another copy or something?

Looks like more levels are on the way.

As seen by Arsenal this evening.

Agreed. We've been incredibly lucky that everyone else else has been dropping points left and right. Huge loss for the Toon today. Crazy result for them given their recent form.

It's a dark day when Nunez has to score to save the day.

What a game and I love the platinum trophy icon. Grandia is certainly worthy of the praise it received back when it released, and the praise it continues to get to this day. The final optional dungeon took some doing. One save point, 10 floors to get through, enemies that hit like tanks and 3 bosses to defeat. How I ended up tackling it was by clearing a couple of floors and then running back to the save point to refresh my SP and MP. As long as I didn't leave the dungeon or get killed, the enemies would stay defeated. After doing all of that I found the end game to be pretty easy. Justin's Heaven & Earth move was completely wiping out mobs and bosses left and right. The rest of the party were essentially there to just provide him with backup. Speaking of the party, I wasn't a huge fan of the final party member. She didn't really add anything to the story and barely said a word when she joined you. I would have preferred Sue or Gadwin to have rejoined the team. The way the story played out was great. It gave you just enough breadcrumbs to follow to keep you intrigued and there were one or two revelations I didn't see coming. I miss this era of JRPGs. I miss the fun of getting to a story point and be treated with a CGI/FMV type cutscene. You knew things were getting serious when one of these showed up. I'm very happy to have finally have played this and it's a game that has certainly aged like a fine wine. With it now beaten, that's game number 2 done from my pledge list.

Yeah, the boxes with Mario on the inside are awesome.

Yeah, these guys are probably the best bet. They also may introduce some kind of screening process like they've done in the past for limited items in order to stop scalpers.

Yeah, that's just absolutely ridiculous and I have zero sympathy for the situation they've got themselves into. Shawn Layden warned them about doing this and it was no doubt why he got kicked out the door. Just the other day you also had Shu saying that he wouldn't have gone all in with live service games if he was in charge. Makes you wonder if his opposition to this model was why he was essentially side lined for the last couple of years. The thing that bothers me the most about this push is that they have used studios that are known for single player games. Just leave these developers alone and use ones that are known for multiplayer games.

I don't think there's a particular title I'm really looking forward to out of their main IP. The ones I enjoyed the most from Nintendo have now changed to the point where I wouldn't buy I console just for them. I think a big draw will be the 3rd party games but having been a PS owner all these years, I've probably either played them already or they are in my PS4 backlog. I certainly wouldn't mind but I can't see me splashing a potential £400 on remakes of games I love but have played to death. Honestly, I think it's just that I'm getting old. New consoles and game announcements just don't excite me like they used to. I kinda feel like I've been gaming long enough to have seen it all before.

Probably £379-£400. Unless there's some stellar 1st party software ready for launch, I can't see me being that eager to jump in on day 1. I'm not a huge Metroid guy and so Prime 4 does nothing for me. Outside of MH, gone are the days of me playing online multiplayer games and so Mario Kart doesn't have a lasting appeal. If they do launch with a new 3D Mario game I imagine they will continue with the open world stuff like in Bowser's Fury, which I wasn't a fan of. Finally, any hopes of a traditional Zelda game are now long gone.

I was. I always watch anime in Japanese. Same when I play most JRPGs.

Probably Ring Fit. Looks like the Mario movie version of DK is gonna be the norm now.

All of the design leaks were real.