darksnowman

I've only played Splatoon 3 versus decades of Mario nostalgia for them to tug on, but I'd put the Grand Festival up there with that moon in New Donk City. Tremendous finale.

Consistently pretty useless from my viewpoint and tastes. Unless they snuck them out, Battle Network and Ghost Trick didn't get PAL physical releases on Switch. I just don't get it with Capcom.

At the mercy of the autosave then. I think I skipped a few things when I ran out of red critters, but I surfed around the room again when it was time to leave and didn't spot anything. Is there a bonus for getting everything in each level? End of summer drought.

Was going to get Tinykin and saw there's a demo so I've played it first. Thanks for putting it back on my radar—it's good fun. See what you mean about it being a platformer. The demo let's you play the first level. I've two questions: - Can you do a manual save? - Do you get the ability to "scan" for nectar (gold)? I got almost all of it in the first level and could do with some in-game help to sniff out the last 20ish pieces.

Good point. This is going back a while, but I would have got it at launch or thereabouts, and to my knowledge it was not second hand. There must have been a site or shop selling the game and GameCube separately as new. Not the "game" I would have been expecting to be worth anything. Here's hoping the price keeps rising.

Yeah definitely could have done with it on the SNES too. It was pretty unforgiving as a nipper!

Hmm. Seems there's a third option because mine is a second disc inside Colosseum and I don't/ didn't get the GameCube bundle.

I have the one that came with Colosseum. Is it worth anything yet?

I like how the modern version of Flashback does rewind. Depending on the difficulty, you get a certain amount of total rewind time to fall back on (on easy and normal it is per level, on hard it is for the entire game), and when you die it puts you straight into rewind mode with the option to go back to your last save. Very handy as it provides a way to keep going through clumsy deaths.

Worth saying as I wouldn't have known otherwise. Is it necessary to have played the first? It looks good and the "magnetic gameplay" puzzles could be fun but it has metroidvania as a bullet point which gives me pause. As far as I remember, Hogwarts Legacy is meant to be good as long as you can deal with how it was reworked for the Switch.

Handy to have it all in one package. I might have caved in and used the levelling DLC at a few points. Didn't it perform pretty decent on Switch? Thought it did over a million anyway. It's the Cryptic Kid! Let's brawl! I'm kind of saddened there's no spin-off like this or Treasures this winter, but DQ III will fill the gap handsomely.

Thanks for sharing your impressions, @RedShell. Good to hear about that extra collectable (sounds devious) and the abilities. Nice, too, that you don't have to finish levels when revisiting them to "scoop" up secrets. Re: trivia #150—better out than in.

The indie Pikmin? Thanks for the heads up. Is it long? My gold points will start expiring from next month onwards again so it's probably as good a game as any to spend them on. Don't suppose you know if there's a site that tracks or lists all the NSO icons/backgrounds/frames that have been offered? I've been whittling away at the four Mario games icons that have been on constant rotation this past while but still haven't completed the collections.

There are five Link's Awakening art icons.

Agree with you about it being strangely relaxing. It was a game I thought I'd put on for less than a minute and be done with but that wasn't the case as I went through some of the career mode. I like how you can check your progress with each individual object/ part to be cleaned. When I realised it's generous enough about counting something as done (thought you'd have to pixel-hunt the last specks of dirt), it became quite soothing to go back to during the trial period. Won't be buying it right away, but it's definitely one I'll keep in mind whereas without the trial I would never have considered it. I was excited to do the Santa's Workshop DLC stage. Then when I pressed right on the d-pad to highlight everything to be cleaned and the entire screen lit up... Very much something to zone out with over a number of sessions.