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Sad to say I don't much anymore, though I'll still on occasion pick up Edge if there's a good feature or review, like say a big 3D Mario or Zelda game

Surprised to not see more comment on this game. Put a couple of hours in, it's great fun. I was worried about the lack of a grid this time around, but actually it works really well. Still getting the hang of only being able to move before you shoot, I could swear you could do it in either order in the original. I get the feeling the sparks are going to add a lot more strategy to the battles. The visuals are a step down from Kingdom Battle for sure but that's just the trade off to having more open environments. Exploring the first planet has been fun though so can't really complain. My only negative is the voice acting. Love Rabbid Peach but she and the rest of the crew need to not open their mouths. Her silent gags in cutscenes are way more effective. Also praying that Beep-o gets blown up asap.

Another episode of Andor, another 100% rating on RT. Fully deserved. Brilliant. Even without much action this week, every scene is so compelling and well put together.

Bwahma mia*

I've had the final boss of a game spoiled on this very site, even though there was absolutely no reason to post a picture of it... even in spoiler tags (which had malfunctioned).

It's now come out that the offer was 4K per session, 4-5 sessions = 20K total.

She gets caught and goes from "Jennifer Hale has no right to say she is the voice of Bayonetta" to "I want to put this whole franchise behind me now". I can see the game selling even greater numbers than it would have before all this started.

£290 version announced as well, with an additional demo included:

£210. Amazing. It'll probably have an even worse battery life than the current Dualsense too, if such a thing is even possible.

Five years since this gem of a game released, IGN released a brilliant video showing off a ton of little touches and easter eggs. Loads there I'd never seen before

Getting great reviews as expected, 85 on MC atm. I've only read the IGN one so far and this sums it up And that's coming from Dan Stapleton, not exactly who you'd call a Nintendo fanboy over there.

It sucks that voiceover work doesn't get paid more but calling for a boycott of the game just because you personally didn't like the terms of your contract? Puhlease. And even worse... "[Jeniffer Hale] has no right to say she is the voice of Bayonetta" ... err, yes she does. She literally is the voice of Bayonetta, along with yourself. Fictional characters can be portrayed by more than one person. It happens often. "she has no right to sign merchandise as Bayonetta" Back to the boycott, what about the hard working devs who spent 100x+ more hours working on the game and who may be entitled to bonuses based on sales numbers? Why should they suffer because you ludicrously call for a boycott?

Call the show slow if you want, eps 3 and 6 were anything but, but sure. But don't call the characters "two dimensional pieces of paper", I'm all for opinions, but that's just flat out wrong. The entire narrative structure of the show is three episode arcs where they spend two developing the characters with the third being the emotional and action packed pay-off. But yeah if you want non-stop pew pew action then the show probably isn't for you.

Really excited for this, just one week to go. A little surprised it (might have) taken 5 years to make but I'm sure it'll be worth the wait.

F me Andor is outstanding. The last couple of episodes, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and rightly so. This week's one... wow.

100%'d this last night. Outstanding. A real achievement, especially given the small dev team. The design is ingenious and the use of the instruction manual you collect, so clever. Happy to compare this to Death's Door given it's virtually identical in terms of gameplay, Tunic is one million times better.

Finally a use for the activity cards overlay!

I was looking forward to season 3 but that trailer knocked me down a bit and reminded me it’s the same writers involved. It gave me serious Nemesis vibes, ‘let’s throw cool action and pew pew for the sake of it’. The two reveals at the end had me rolling my eyes, yet more nostalgia bait to rope some people in. At least the villain seems new but even that, yet another revenge mission. She’ll be related to someone we know though obviously.

There's a steelbook on the Nintendo site, also a competition to win an artbook, prints etc for 30 platinum points. Bit weird how there's no collector's edition but Ubisoft sells mini figurines like they did for the first game.

This is pretty cool Obviously the one we ended up with is a classic, but interesting to see what could have been.

As well as the increased resolution, the game also runs at 60fps, as opposed to the original's 30.

That was fucking awesome. This film is going to be tons of fun. Bowser, Kamek and especially Toad were perfect, and Chris Pratt's voice was fine for me, especially the Brooklyn twang in that last sequence. Can't wait. Getting an overwhelmingly positive response everyone else online, which is encouraging.

Another leak, same image of Mario as above but a direct shot which makes him look a tad more like his in-game character? Also Peach and the film's nice looking title logo.