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Jurgen says he's leaving at the end of the season.

Wonder what sort of hodgepodge Mute City I + Mute City II makes if it isn't Mute City III. The X Cup must still be on their minds.

Lylat Wars was, as far as I remember, the first Nintendo game we got that was fullscreen. I think until that point only Rare was putting out N64 games that were properly optimised for PAL tellies.

Apparently if the F-Zero 99 mode is glitching out, you can vote for ??? to have the chance of competing on a secret track, which is a mashup of two existing tracks. Haven't been on the game myself but I still wanted to know what these secret tracks are all about.

Thanks for the races. Getting the winter version of the AC track was a treat.

Super effective advertising.

To Be The Very Best Like No One Ever Was™.

Good to see they had something lined up for the end of the winter races. My ask would be that they put the event/GP schedule online, even just the next 24-hour period. Or add it in the NSO phone app because I did find it useful for Splatoon 3 to pick and choose when I'd go on it.

Fine statement. Level heads have prevailed from within the company, at least. Will their fanbase follow this lead? Chance'd be a fine thing.

Haha, more like sextuple dipping. You need the GBA carts in your Ace Attorney shrine.

Must admit I'm not too bothered about this. Chalk it up to a combination of being done with the game, not being into (paid) DLC and a lack of intrigue since it was revealed to be some sort of roguelike—but they are welcome to convince me otherwise. Hope it delivers for everyone still on Splatoon 3. Is it this time of year again.

Would be good to give it a send-off. Not sure what online games I have except MK7 and Fantasy Life.

I'd be hesitant to doubledip. Thanks for the endorsement, though. It's the sort of kick up the jacksy I need to get me back on it to see what transpires after that malarky with the pink haired bird.

I got the Phoenix Wright trilogy off the 3DS eShop years ago but never got far into the first one. I enjoy a point-and-click as much as the next person, but I dunno, for whatever reason PW didn't capture me. Would prefer to give it another go some time before potentially continuing with the series. Remember there being a huge buzz around these games back in the DS days.

Had the first one or two of these on PC. Thought they were pretty substandard and demonstrated the style over substance divide introduced by Playstation. At least I could say on the playground I'd first-hand experience of gunning down tigers and whatever. Then one time at a friends house, he put on 3 and wanted me to do a swimming bit. Maybe on keyboard but there was no chance on the Playstation controller. It wasn't long before we were back on WCW vs nWo on the N64. Saying that, I'd probably have one or both of the new Tomb Raider games if they were on Switch and I'm keeping this rerelease in mind for an eventual pickup. Always nice to see a familiar name/ avatar!

Informed and favourable. It mentions Skies of Arcadia, when I got that far in the demo, the ships reminded me of it too but also Etrian Odyssey III, despite both these being turnbased.

Oh, nice. Now you bring it up, I remember seeing that mentioned on RPGamer or somewhere last year. You read it? I'll definitely want to give it a look sometime after I get through the game first. Last thing I did was the Ghost Ship. Got gunman Hummel in the active party for a while now. Felt like the conversation at the end of it with Captain Reed lasted longer than going through the ship. Still, a location like that is always welcome. Then, back at camp we got the ability to warp. Which is a bit weird since I've been able to warp around the whole time so I'll have to see what the new implications are exactly. Previously in this chapter, I spent a fair bit of time bumbling around with Dana on her tod. Apparently a door was ripe for the opening in her underground area but for whatever reason when I went to it nothing happened. I looped around the available rooms several times, checking for a switch or something to interact with, then headed outside to see if there were any sidequest icons I could hit to up her virtue and potentially open that door. All to no avail. Turns out (and speaking of warping), you just have to come at it from the "most recent" warp point. Which makes sense once you see it because her objectives are listed at each warp point on her map! Not that getting through that door was required to progress the story, I'm just enjoying the act of playing the game so I'm happy to go wherever there is something to get on with. Next up, there's two or three new sidequests in the camp and I only covered like ~83.3% of the Ghost Ship so I want to see if I can board it again.

Did not think Eastward was going to be an action RPG with a turnbased Dragon Quest game inside it. Seems like a good game, even if it's a bit slow going, at least to begin with. Interesting style, atmosphere and music. Not looking for this sort of thing right now but will be keeping it in mind so that's somewhat job done as far as the game trial goes. Reminded me there's a few other eShop games like Jack Move and ANNO: Mutationem I'd like to get, too. Just wish it had d-pad movement.

You're an artful dodger!

Leg bender on Diaz. Play went on, VAR check cleared. Not even so much as a freekick given.

Ordered some tat since the icon rotation has been cack for the last while. Animal Crossing coasters Mario bag DAL bag Multiplayer poster set GBA poster set Immediate regret that I didn't throw in more to get the balance nearer zero, but at least it provides some breathing room with no more points expiring until May.

I'm having flashbacks to the guy last year. The faithful should be true to form and say he was oh so different on the train up. Hope they start getting those blondes out because I've a hard time differentiating between 2/3s of them. When they took on Miles I thought she might have been a decent candidate but she's disappeared into the mix a bit since those earlier days. Must say I've come around on Harry. He wants that money and I think he's going to get it. He's right to not be chuffed to see them get rid of the stronger mission performers. The faithful are a lost cause—left to their own devices, they vote off each other.

Nice find. They do come through with a good deal now and again. I'm not really up for replaying this any time soon but it's an easy going game you can cruise through on autopilot so it might handy enough to have around.

Have to say, I was starting to think the faithful don't deserve to win it but the cat is certainly among the pigeons.

Seems there was some interest in it here but no discussion once it came out so perhaps it didn't end up being so great like you're alluding to.