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EGGCONSOLE Sorcerian PC-8801mkIISR comes out next week, on 13th June. It will be £5.39. The main game and gallery are in Japanese, How to Play and other menus are in English. There's a video through the link.

Don't suppose anyone knows if this Persona 3 Aigis G-Mode thing is any good? (Yes, to follow up on the previous post, I finished P3P last year, in 2023. It outstayed its welcome.)

Wonder if that's why it's the only thing here that got through the filter I'm using. A short-lived victory.

Thanks for the races. Everyone else after GP1 to Glen-i: Ego: No.

I can never remember if it was this or Yoku's Island Express (Yuka, Yocku, Yooka, Yoku) you said to skip so I always pass up both.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/cw0010vjr2dt?post=asset%3Abe5ddcbf-ed54-475e-8f56-476e14be2931#post Credit to kickmaster Southgate for some of these exclusions. Plus he didn't even call up the likes of Hendo, Rashfad and Sterling to begin with.

This is currently free as a game trial. It is also 50% off. I will try to give it a go to see what all the fuss has been about, but mainly to snag the +100 platinum points for playing game trial software.

It's 100 years before text crawl. We are being treated to a look back at this part of the Jedi's past*.

HK is 50% off on the eShop. Smacks of a clearance before the sequel... Indeed. I started with a nice reminder it could be time to check out a new Story of Seasons and/or Rune Factory (or get Harvestella off the shelf), to seeing some weird and quirky stuff in the Next Indie Direct, then when I read INDIE3 was set to feature 180+ games (not all new, admittedly) I decided I just don't need to know.

Not sure if they're having their own this year or if their news is just folded in with Summer Geoff Fest?

Checked Tee Lopes on Wikipedia and I don't have any of the games he's worked on so this will be the first, provided it turns out well. Which I really hope it does.

Lol. The bar was so low already you'd think they'd have trouble to get under it, yet the hype man wants those expectations kept in check. Much like the release calendar being out of control, I feel these showcases and directs have followed suit—too much to keep up with. I managed two so far before tapping out.

Hope the sax life is paying off for you.

Downloaded this demo due to seeing it flagged up on N-E but yet to try it. Kittey 64 looks all right, though not totally like an N64 game. I have gold coins to get through by the end of July so I'm going to keep it in mind.

Another forum has been having troubles with slowness, even to the point of going down. Also Powered by Invision Community.

Donkey Kong icons are available this month a long with a mission to play the featured software: DK to get 50 platinum coins. There are nine icons; one of DK is not in this image. Afaik, the top row of four above are new whereas the others were previously offered.

Anyone bother with the Marvelous Game Showcase 2024 (Marvelous AA4?), feat. MC Sora Amamiya? Project Magia : Now Farmagia. Intro video and characters shown. The theme song is sung by two of the character's voice actors. Story of Seasons : Diligently under development! Footage shown (in-game but not gameplay). Focusing on the graphics and presentation. It is about feeling like you are truly experiencing nature and the four seasons. The nighttime lighting and fireworks that illuminate the sky are unlike anything the series has seen before. Flowers and veg updated. They are hard at work tweaking the seasonal weather to be just right. There will be a glider. Fluffy cow plushie out in July 2024 in Japan. Bikkuriman Wonder Collection : Japan, mobile. Pokémon arcade : Japan, 2024. 50-inch touchscreen. Win collectable plates— insert ¥100 to throw a Pokéball and you're guaranteed to get one. Try Catch : Japan, Nov 2024. A crane game. Naruto Arcade Battle : coming to North America this summer. Marvelous Indie Partner Line-Up Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus : July 18th 2024 Death the Guitar : 2025 Moonlight Peaks : 2026 Rune Factory: Project Dragon : Diligently under development! RF series already marking its 18th anniversary. Protagonists shown, Earthmates with a new twist... the art of dance. Earth Dancers. Use parasols, drums, swords, and more. New weapons. Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion : nothing more than a teaser. No link yet for the Next Indie Direct, but it should be on their YouTube.

Chipping away at Origins. Very early doors. I've shirked nothing to try to get a feel for what's going on in battle. There were two bits (close together) where grunts kept running out of a door so I stood and engaged with them all until the game told me enough was enough. Nothing posed a problem and you get healed up after every battle—don't know if this is just how it is in the early going, or if it'll be like this the whole way. Seems like you just have to go for 0-4 (ascending) combos; if you start on a 3, say, and your next card is a 2, 1 or 0, it'll be greyed out. A 0 card will serve as your defence. I'm just tapping the button because I don't no what beep or boop means my turn is coming up yet. You level up on the spot but the church is still there to class up. As yet, I've only encountered one blue flower. If you run towards the screen in the church it will say you need a ship to go that way... interesting. You're in Mintaka pretty quickly where you'll see some familiar characters. There's a kid that'll offer to trade cards with you but nothing I had was selectable so it must be something to come back to. It seems the shop owners look different here in the past and will allow you to upgrade some cards if you're carrying the necessary essence on a blank magnus—that's new! Then our old mate, Jack the Knife, came back to attack. It took me five goes to get past him. The cards were against Saggy and his Fusion Suit Samus paramachina, Jack did not hold back. The butterfly girl who joins for that battle took the brunt of it but she wasn't invincible. If that was to check how well I know the battle system, it has shown I still haven't much of a clue at all. If you can figure out how to get relay combos going it looks like that'll be how to deal massive damage.

Must have been too far back to a shop on my meagre supplies so I decided I was past the point of no return, then. You don't have to remind me. It was a rough end to a fairly straightforward game. And it will be a grind when you start receiving 1 exp per battle. Be interested to see how it goes for you, especially since the Nintendo hype alone won't carry you through. Don't think you can ever truly coast through battles due to the button pressing so it may become a bit wearisome after the initial novelty period. These beginner tips will tell you how to suck eggs in a variety of ways: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2024/May/A-beginner-s-guide-to-Paper-Mario-The-Thousand-Year-Door-2573663.html

See Balduq as you've never seen it before. Wow. Made my way to the Falcom Music Channel where I gave the Adol Christin –Ys 35th Anniversary Music Works– a listen or three. It features tracks from each game (a Maxima Cloaca rendition from IX). The Ys VIII track was going nicely enough until the second half suckerpunched me and I felt an almost overwhelming urge to drop everything and start a new game + on it. From there, I landed on Ys VIII Super Ultimate and Ys IX Super Ultimate which the above is from. Both well worth a listen, especially if you can associate the music with playing the games. Found out there's a prequel book, The Lost Sword, that came with a special edition of Monstrum Nox.

Indeed. I shelved the game when I got there because you're locked in at a point of no return, iirc? It was many moons before I went back and finished it. After several retries, I'd say I only got through it by the sheer luck of facing a less aggressive attack routine the paltry inventory could deal with. Left a bad taste at the end of a very good GameCube RPG. Far as I mind, something similar happened at the end of Mario + Luigi on GBA. There, I eventually dusted off the cart and started a new file. Didn't fancy that in TTYD so I commenced the aforementioned bang head off brick wall until breakthrough technique. But yeah, @drahkon, there's massive diminishing returns in exp in these games to try to usher you onwards.

That spring time version or whatever it is meant to be is hideous. The Navi street light is lol.

There's a short demo for Duck Detective. 10-15 minutes depending on if you skip through the text or listen to it. You're tasked with checking around for clues in the form of keywords that you use to fill in the blanks in sentences and gather intel on characters... i.e. make deducktions. It seems pretty cool though being able to navigate through the menus with the dpad would be the icing on the cake. Yes, it has a dedicated quack button.

This week we got to see how the Orphan 55 fakecation spot could have been prevented from coming into existence. Maybe. In separate pretend timeline. Or something. Mind your step. Yes, I have been watching back from Spyfall to find out where I fell off because it seemed unwatchable. It's no worse than what we're currently being shovelled.