darksnowman

Four great goals required just to squeak a home win v Fulham. Opposition managers for the next spell: "Lads, it's Kelleher. Fill your boots."

So I'd put some charge into my N64 controller and there was a slot going begging?

Played the first few stages of JFG. For whatever reason, my eyes were trying to read STARTWINS first as Starwins (like Starwing) then Start Wins before I got it. It's like one of those optical illusions that once you see it, you can't not see it: Star Twins. Duh. Game's good and looks great. High production values for the N64. Just need to let the old muscle memory kick in with the buttons and you're away—it's simply third person GoldenEye. An extra joystick for independent camera control would be nice but only because it's the norm nowadays. Treetop snipers and flying enemies are the most bothersome though with further acclimatisation to the controls their threat will easily be nullified. You gotta love the sound of shots zipping past! And widescreen to boot. Rare were majestic.

Absolutely no rush. Their other 2024 offerings will serve as appetisers while Decapolice stays on simmer.

Thanks for the heads-up. Went ahead and got it. This one had pretty (weird and) relaxed music however at times I found it difficult to discern between the background art and the Tetris action.

Won't make it tonight but should be a lock for next week and the following few after that again.

Game Awards is so easy to take a pass on—life's too short to be giving views to all these Geoff Keighley vanity projects. I'm infinitely more interested in what will come from Level-5 Vision 2023 II.

Is this a banking thread now or wot. Excitement Direct was where to place your orders over the phone in quainter pre-online days.

Can't wait for Kameo et al on the Xbox NSO app. Same. So long since I played it I can't mind what exactly the control scheme was but it must have followed whatever was standard at the time because it wasn't out of place. Remember multi-targeting the bugs and having many a decapitation party with the shurikens. Good times. And a disco on... Ichor? Remember thinking the ship landing scenes were reused for Starfox Adventures (and likely Dinosaur Planet along the way). Tribal Hunt aside, I was slightly disappointed the game wasn't bigger. For some reason I expected it to be more sprawling... perhaps got sucked in by the NMS hype machine on that.

I've read the calendar isn't so great. How you finding it? When the number expiring gets too unwieldy again, I'll probably order the rest of the posters to join the Gameboy set I already haven't displayed... the t-shirt I haven't worn... the keyrings lying there in their plastic...

December for US and presumably rest of the world. Great game but never finished it properly due to the Tribal Hunt padding.

I'm sure the greyed out "Play Game Trials Software" Mission will go live again tomorrow. I've 3,500+ platinum coins, 125 of which are expiring this month so I'll just get some more Animal Crossing icons if nothing decent cycles in. Taking a pass on the Mario RPG and Warioware ones incase they see it as a sign of interest.

Will download now. Nice timing since it's on sale on the eShop at the mo. Don't think I'll be rushing to get it, but I'll be trying it to see!

Haha, enjoy would be an understatement; it's great! Groovy of you to have nudged me into taking advantage of the sale price. I've got plenty of laughs out of it—like desperately opening an unidentified present, getting rocket skates and going careering down a couple of levels before I could get away from the edge. Classic. It's cool there are some unlockables so it doesn't have to be a one-and-done sort of game.

The eShop is wild for this—even for games you are sure about. I've recently been playing a pair of games I nabbed twelve months ago*, and slowly sifting through the current sale, I've spotted a good half dozen I wouldn't mind getting. Need to decide if it's buy to play or buy for a rainy day. Which with the Castlevania Anniversary Collection might be something you want to factor in because you never know, it could be 99p in January! Contra Anniversary Collection is down to the same price too... *not even my oldest unplayed eShop purchases.

Watched the first two episodes over the weekend. Expected to enjoy it, didn't expect to be intrigued about where it's going.

Disappointing to hear that. Didn't look too intrusive in the above video. Thought this would be an auto-buy but with some reflection I realised nothing about it stayed with me from the Wii VC. Massive contrast to other 16-bit RPGs I also played after the fact as a virtue of being on this side of the pond.

Yeah, retrying was my approach to those previous encounters that gave me bother—it always seemed to be down to how battles went rather than levels. I'd played Legend of FF II not long before where dying just meant reloading until victory, so I may have carried some of that mentality over as the random nature of the card battles sort of followed on from the random way battles go in SaGa. Glad to hear you got through it. Malpercio didn't hit me too hard and I always had a green tea or something in someone's hand to top up when he tried something. How'd you enjoy the ending(s)? The twist was pretty pointless but all's well that ends well. Agreed that it's very solid. Some things I'd change and improve but can't be too critical overall. Any gripes don't overshadow all the variety and good aspects of it. Well now they've released you, is it straight on to Origins?

Did you finish Cris Tales, @MindFreak? Just going through the eShop sales and spotted it's dropped to £3.59 so might get it but it's been a while since I played the demo.

This is going for £15.09 on the eShop currently. https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/Double-Dragon-Gaiden-Rise-of-the-Dragons-2401420.html

Gave it a go on the standard batch of cups to varying stars of success. I enjoy the extra speed but it would be better on tracks with more forgiving corners as I've never braked so much in any Mario Kart before. I'll crack on with Mirror Mode on the Expansion Pack cups then see how they fair in 200cc after that. At least with the city tracks still being an unknown quantity, there won't be too much muscle memory to do battle with in Mirror Mode. Same goes for the Tour tracks.

Remember seeing Suzume at the flicks. Thought it was pretty decent!

3-starred the four last cups in 150cc. They gave me the most argy-bargy in Koopa Cape of all places. As Pauline, seeing DK heading up the chasing pack certainly gives you extra impetus not to get caught.

Watched the Performance Analysis portion. I would like to hear someone that can't stand that after one level (just one!) of online multiplayer in Mario Maker 2.

Sounds like an opportunity to get the Let's Tap box out!