darksnowman

Good job you held off. Yeah there's several I want to get off Play-Asia so it's nice to see a few gradually make it over here. Fingers crossed that physical may follow.

This has appeared on the Nintendo AU site with a planned release date of 03/09/2024!

Nice one. Had to look it up as it doesn't ring any bells. Wish listed.

Something I will say about FF VII is that even though you are just selecting moves off the menu, it still somehow manages to feel good. If you go for it in one of its current releases (like eShop), it has a speed up option and you can even fully heal whenever you want at no in game cost. You can also disable random encounters if there's a stretch you just want to get from point A to point B. I have Chrono Trigger on DS and Wii VC, and as much as I like gaming on the big screen, DS is easily the way to go. Regarding the additional stuff, one of the extras isn't there in your first file so its nothing to concern yourself with, the monster arena won't blow you away but feel free to dabble in it, however, if you find yourself in the Lost Sanctum doing boring fetch quests... abort immediately and move on with the game! CT is a short game in RPG terms, but there's no need to rush through it either. Enjoy the various settings, the music, talk to the characters you come across. Just go where the game leads you and do the sidequests when you're presented with them towards the end. It's a lovely ride that may surprise you by becoming one of your favourite games, even this long after it first came out. Fully recommend it. You could do both FF VII and CT in less time than Xenoblade. Throw in Golden Sun 3 and you might run it close. You may even be missing/ not appreciating a lot of stuff in life if you haven't played Crisis Core. Not a remake, but reminds me of playing Persona 5 Strikers. I just accepted they'd been on a world saving adventure previously and went along with it.

I still like Mario Golf 64 because it is just a good golf game—something I feel the series has moved away from. I've a preference for first two courses as they provide a normal setting. The other modes are nice inclusions.

+1 for d/c twice. Donut Plains and Rome. Ditto with the city tracks. Always seems to be some corners I never read right.

Lucky ranks normally reset once a day so this is good to see.

^ Everyone fixated on Princess Zelda + bed.

I think this is the missing link I needed before BotW. Or improperly since the Switch is the original hardware for it. Unless they've made this from scratch, the Link moveset could be lifted from Link's Awakening and the BotW NES-style prototype. It's still anyone's guess as to what extent he will be playable in this. Yeah and it's not like they've redone the map since the reveal so the similarities remain. Funny when he says "getting around Hyrule can prove challenging" as Zelda jumps down off a clifftop. Enter the steed! That can... only clear small obstacles. At the very least, Zora characters and Zora enemies were in the Oracle games, iirc. Yeah, I'm leaning towards getting something else next month. This'll be evergreen anyway. They can wait for my sale.

I'll highlight the white text if* I'm unable to puzzle it out. 👍Reckon at least one of them is about beating it within three turns, and the first one said something about breakings its shield. Maybe with a higher level team the trials can be steamrolled. You've definitely done a lot of fishing. Think I'm around lvl 10. I used albino bait on a white fish shadow then out of curiosity, normal bait on another, and caught the fish in both instances. Maybe it took longer to reel in with normal bait? Not really sure. Unless the type of bait has some bearing on what the shadow might be, you are probably right enough about sticking with normal. I've only got about two vouchers per area so far, but I haven't replayed any (except the first one now). I'll let you know if the drops don't happen, thanks! I went back to the first cave to see what else is up for grabs. Had to do it twice because I forgot opening the blue chest after the boss boots you back to your island. My lvl 40 party had no bother going beyond the lvl 21 door. I actually got 2J in there, so when I get another I'll spend it on one of the catch events to see if I can get a goldie as you recommend. Have you tried the August ghost area? I might do runs down it and leave the story parked for now to see if I can get all the ghost equipment down there. Needing to top-up your oil kind of puts a different spin on it—even if it was extremely lenient on my first exploration. I wasn't much the wiser after listening to all the old mans long stories but it appears it boils down to running it for drops. *when I'm inevitably unable to puzzle it out, more like.

Don't see a way to check now the event is over. No way was I anywhere near the top—you'd have to be on it full-time. Yeah, I've read there are some "hidden" icons for leaderboard placement. Could be something to go for eventually if it looks like the competition is dropping off because I wouldn't like to devote a week to it and still not get up there. Overall, I'm around 4,400 this week with minimal play. Team battles are still as they were during the event (five teams). Was wondering if it'd revert back to two again. Weekly challenges are back again so you're missing out on those.

Yeah, the wonky way things are worded matches the look of it. I've been on it every day so far but more sparingly than you, @RedShell—around nine hours according to the in-game timer. One evening it gave me two hours of unlimited stamina so I stayed on a bit longer. Wouldn't say I'm addicted but once you're on it, it is quite moreish. Have you had much joy with the fishing event? I did the first stage of it quickly enough but I wasn't getting the required fish at a good rate for stage two so I haven't went back to it. There doesn't seem to be any trick to it but I don't know, maybe you're supposed to use different bait but the descriptions don't exactly spell it out. I've done up to the trials. Didn't score the legendary equipment from it so I'll have to get back in there some time and see about figuring out the requirements... easier said than done with the obtuse wording. Been wondering if it'd be a good idea to revisit the earlier locations to see what goodies are to be had in those higher-level spots. Still just using the first eight Denpa Men I caught, no breeding yet and haven't even used a boost item. I've hit the lvl 40 cap (meaning no exp from the trials, boo!) so my next objective, if/when I can afford it, is to limit break them again once their happiness is maxed. The sailing bit was the only part so far I tackled over two days since it was a large open area to explore. If I'd realised where the shrine was, I could probably have pushed on and made it to the healing point in one go. But of course I headed around the map instead of just beelining it due north. Would have saved me using the teleport item (1J!) too. I'd like to spruce up the island if the gold starts to flow a bit more freely as I get deeper into it. Binned some veg as I didn't see the water option at first. At the moment, I'll be content to get through the main adventure (for free) then see if I want to keep at it after that. I saw one of the vendors does items that keeps your plants watered for longer and even forever. These will be good eventual purchases, especially as some I have already are on a 24h timer. The coliseum looks like it'll yield some good equipment too once it opens next month.

Hoping the mega game trials yield mega platinum points. On the very least on that front, it says they're giving an additional 30 a week until Sept 8th if you play any game with online. As for what games, if it's any indication, the news item on the Switch links to MK 8 DX, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Animal Crossing, Minecraft, Mario Wonder, EA Sports FC 25, Smash Bros, Fall Guys and Just Dance. Could be four of those.

Teams to plan teams. Or could be a tinfoil helmet on your Mii.

Noted. You will be held liable for melting Switches.

Ended up with ~29,000/20,000 for the event. Never figured out how you were bailing early because from the point you vote for a track until the race starts I couldn't exit back to the menu. Fairly certain I tried every button.

Nice one. Yeah, the Fire Emblem on NSO is pretty good. Losing people and letting it slide is pretty heartless. Think I got to a desert skirmish before moving on to a different game. Need to return to it. @Jonnas and @Ike explained a few things to me in this thread if you want to browse back to Feb/ March and have a look.

Claims to be completeable for free so paying your way might just be for the impatient. Says in-game there will be an event on the 25th. It'll be interesting to see what sort of support this is going to get.

If Switch 1 is the Switch, Switch 2 is the Lite and Switch 3 is the OLED, then I agree that Switch 2 people are the most in need of this.

Twin #1 was delivered before the outage. Hero-of-Hero-of-Time:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/crowdstrike_falcon_sensor_bsod_incident/?td=rt-3b There is a workaround but if you wait for your colleagues to tell you maybe the weekend starts now. 🤞

It's been due. Bob-ombs are always right in front of me or the faintest whiff of the dissipating blast spins me out.

Without having played Assassins Creed, so I don't know how bad these towers are, I think I'd have welcomed them in Lego City Undercover and Immortals: Fenyx Rising. In those games, you have to look around in first person for things to do. I reckon it would have been handy to get everything plonked on the map, then filter for the kind of activity you fancy. In BotW, I didn't get all the towers because they didn't serve any real purpose. Re: battlepasses. I'm happy enough getting the unpaid unlocks from occasional play or when there's something free going on like Winterfest. I'd a go at a full pass when Fortnite gave them away when it was pirates and cannons. I can see the attraction if you want to put in the time. Going in with a view to completing a challenge makes you look at the game differently—the battle royale is just something that's happening while you go about your business, storm cloud permitting. I would have been tempted to stump up for quicker unlocks in Splatoon 3. Aspects that have passed me by... gamerscore, PlayStation Home, avatars, kinect, move, basically I'm happily oblivious to all those gritty, cool, mature aspects that haven't been on a Nintendo machine or PC decades ago. Raising a chao. I've only got (some) achievements in the likes of Mega Man 9 on Wii and the odd other game that's had them. Yet to play Dark Souls but I don't know if I've missed out on any of its aspects. I've created characters. Assigned skill points. Been beaten by bosses. Went back to collect my stuff in Shovel Knight. Still don't think I've ever purchased DLC for anything, let alone the dreaded season pass of please-play-this-game-forever content... I vow to get all the Theatrhythm songs before the eShop closes this time. The Pokémon Unite genre has passed me by. Immersive sims... walking sims... to the extent I couldn't name one or imagine what they'd be like to play. GameCube didn't detract from my enjoyment of Splinter Cell—loved them! Top games.

I actually activated star in time to survive a bob-omb explosion.

The detective's desk tab on the webpage will be updated with evidence and clues each week until launch. https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/Emio-The-Smiling-Man-Famicom-Detective-Club-2615498.html#Detective_s_desk