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Translation... "Hey Guys, fucking guy got arrested in my pub and the guys made them close so I decided to go to the other pub and I got there I couldn't feel my fingers were... *gives up* I'm so drunk, woooooooo! Fuck you guys!!!!!111111" Or something to that effect, It's got to be close though, right @martinist?

Just got home, hopefully I'll be around just after 10PM.

The simple answer is: You don't. I mean, if you are selling the Wii U then as far as I know you can system transfer to another Wii U and then sell it but I'm guessing you're selling it and then not rebuying it again? It really is simpler to keep the console, someone else will be able to explain it better than I can but it's pretty convoluted from what I understand so unless you're prepared to lose your downloaded games I just wouldn't sell it unless you're sure that you won't want to play them again. I'm pretty sure the games are tied to your account in some way, unless you delete just the account, the games are on there and then whoever makes a new account on there can just claim your old games or something, if that's what you meant? I'm not sure if that's possible and my head hurts just thinking about the whole process. The sooner Nintendo announces its long term plans for digital content for the Switch - which has to happen at some point - the better.

I'm downloading the Beta now, it'll be done before I leave for work so I should be able to play this evening by around 9:30PM maybe 10PM assuming people are still playing by then. I'll likely just be able to play in the evenings as I'll be busy sorting stuff out most of Sunday I reckon but I can probably play at around the same time on Sunday as well. Probably on Monday night as well, seeing as that'll be my last chance for some monster hunting action.

I didn't say that I wasn't going to play it, it's just the realisation that it's launching now and well... I've got work most of today and tomorrow, though I could possibly get on for a few hours on Saturday night. Then on Sunday I'll likely be busy but, I could get on for a few hunts at some point. Is this Beta timed in any way or is it available until the game comes out?

This is good news and all but... if Japan is getting Bayonetta 1 on a game card as well and the rest of the world isn't then, that really isn't right. Make the dual game cards exclusive to the limited edition by all means but don't just not give the rest of us an option. I don't mean to sound nitpicky, it's fantastic that the games are being re-released for the Switch but, it'd just be nice is all. Otherwise, assuming there is English language in the JP version with its exclusive game card for Bayonetta 1 then it might be the first Switch game I import... ...and then get a Pal case for the Switch shelf.

Yep, DC's all round it seems like. Here we go again!

Just over five hours in now and I finally reached the first "Open Plains" moment where you can see the world sprawled out before you... ...then I ran into a high level enemy and died pretty quickly. I'm officially playing a Xenoblade game now!

I'm sorry to hear about your losses @Jon & @Nolan Also I'm sorry to hear about your place of work not being more understanding @Animal as it must be a tough time. In fact, I wish nothing but the best for the entire N-Europe community going forward, as I think we're all due a bit of happiness.

Well, I've finally put in just over three hours into the game and I've just got past the introductory part of the game... ...what an intro it was! No spoilers obviously for anyone who is yet to play it but I kind of went into this game expecting a slight refinement of the earlier Xenoblade games, taking the best bits while probably compromising heavily in other areas; so far it has been nothing but pleasantly surprising. I see what @Hero-of-Time means now about the cutscenes being rather epic but in all the right ways. Oh and I had my first "I'm knackered!" moment out of Nia which certainly got a chuckle out of me. Now I'm off to explore the world of Alrest for a bit before resting up for the night.

Have you been collecting all of the red rings? If you collect the five red rings then go back to the map, you'll see the numbered rings icon, collect all the numbered rings then go back to the map and you should see another icon appear which is the timed silver rings challenge; in summary you'll only encounter these if you have been replaying stages in addition to collecting all of the red rings. Mania is still better by far, I had a lot more fun with Mania but I would call the enjoyment found here as, flawed fun with Forces... it's still good but a different type of good where the game doesn't have to be god-tier to be fun but I think it's more of a case that Sonic Forces is a partially refined 3D/2.5D formula. Don't play the Shadow DLC until you've finished the main game, I would say... I mean I'm not going to stop you but it does reveal certain things you might not want to know until you've seen the credits roll on the main adventure.

Thank you, I only just read this but yes, I do indeed read every post in this thread - whenever I'm still awake at that time - and I will generally react to the majority of posts where possible. I was considering joining in at one point as I'd just started playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 but I only started drinking at around 1am so I didn't get anywhere near drunk enough sadly. Though I did manage more than a couple of hours of gameplay time after a long shift at work which is pretty good for me but I only had the one drink of vodka in the end as I was pretty engrossed in the opening section of the game... and then before I knew it, the time was 3am so. We'll see though, it is December afterall so I may end up buying a decent bottle of Rum pretty soon, so I may post in here yet, when you least expect it. In the meantime I'll be sure to keep checking in on this glorious thread though.

Ah, fair point. My opinion on it would be that although the number part isn't memorable I suppose at least there are multiple ways for people to add you, if you are already friends on another Nintendo platform, so I like that aspect but I agree that it would be so much simpler to just have the user name to deal with. But so far I haven't had any issues with using it even though it could be better, it's nice to see that it has improved a bit on the Switch. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Anyway, in another attempt to move the conversation on, I'd just like to say that the first... almost year that the Switch has had so far has been simply phenomenal, to the point that me even mentioning it at this point just seems like reiterating a point which has been stated a lot recently around the internet and indeed in the world in general thanks to Nintendo actually properly advertising this time. (and the console itself being well worth picking up) Just the other night I saw an advert for Arms... and I thought to myself "why are you advertising Arms when there are so many other titles out there now?" then I thought again, because I'm pretty sure I remember seeing an advert for at least every major first-party Nintendo game but soon after the console launched, Arms perhaps seemed forgotten about even though it was advertised, so now with all the extra content and events which seem to be happening, I can understand why they would want to boost the visibility of the game. Let's hope for equally strong Christmas sales but I get the feeling, that really won't be a problem at all.

You'll want to be taking full advantage of those daily missions then, if you're not already. They make it so much easier and actually fairer for some stages as playing at my best I could only get just below an S rank on some stages. As soon as I started using my daily mission boost though, no problem, first time just so long as you don't have to retry too many times. I went through the game grabbing all the Red Rings, numbered rings, silver rings and S ranks right up until a few missions from the end I think. So I've got nearly all of them and will likely go for the rest when I feel like it or when more dlc hopefully gets added. Also, don't forget about the Shadow DLC, I think you have to redeem the code in the box and then it will appear as free dlc in the Nintendo eShop next to the "Sanic T-Shirt" dlc.

I am not a number! ... ...also, what's all this Friend Code talk about?

If it makes you feel any better, I'll be Quadruple-dipping... I have the PS4, Xbox One and physical PC version. Technically it's even Quintuple-dipping if you count the 64-Bit Edition... but that's just an N64 box (a lovely one though) with a flash drive N64 cartridge which doesn't have the game on (obviously) but still. My point is, it could be worse...

Yeah, I don't even get that... I mean obviously people can do what they want, it's their money etc etc and if they decide to stop being a Patreon then that's fine I suppose. But of all the reasons to stop supporting Easy Allies, I'm quite surprised that people would use this as an excuse... Although thinking about it, it's more a case of "I'm shocked... shocked! Well not that shocked" as nothing surprises me anymore. To think that it all stemmed from a relatively harmless tweet - possibly ill-advised in retrospect - but an ultimately harmless tweet which was clearly quite joking in nature. (from my perspective anyway, I really don't pay much mind to these kinds of things and I only just bothered to find out what all the "fuss" was about) You could say that it's all... ...kinda funny. (not the outcome of someone having to quit their livelihood but more the general overreaction of people) In any case, I'll still be keeping my pledge, Easy Allies for *life. And incidentally my notification just came in to tell me that the next edition of the Easy Allies podcast is just in - for Patreons anyway - so that's my evening sorted. Love and Respect. *"life" turned out to be two and half years, as I found a much better reason to cancel my pledge, one which was easily justified.

Same, I'm up to #367 and that's after taking a break of years as I used to watch it regularly, at one point I was just about up to date with the episodes as they were being translated, now I just tend to watch a few here and there, when I feel like it but there's just so much other stuff to watch at the moment; not even just anime, I tend to spend a lot of time watching videogame related content on YouTube... currently watching the latest three and a half hour Frame Trap from Easy Allies while sorting out game stuff. When I feel like I have more time though, I may well return to One Piece... as I do miss it.

Nidhogg 2 for £7.99? Might as well at that price.

Controller sync issue possibly? If not then...

It just so happens that this was the one game I endeavoured to finish during my week off, before then I had only played Sonic Forces for a couple of hours and my feelings were mostly the same as yours are at this time in writing. The more I played of it though, the more I ended up liking certain aspects of the game design, this is after the initial playing all three main different types of stages with my thoughts which transpired in the following manner... "OK, modern Sonic is mostly boost to win, lock-on attack, reasonable camera, this is fine..." "Avatar stages are... interesting, I've got to use the triggers for the weapon... OK... the lock on is... different, I probably won't be using it much..." "Oh god... they've somehow made Classic Sonic worse?!? How can the physics go from Sonic Mania to this? No momentum from the moment you press Down?" *sigh* Then I carried on playing, accepted the limitations of each scenario, checked out the missions and would then find myself getting sucked into a loop of activating the daily mission bonus, burning through stages to get S Ranks for that half hour, then going back to get all of the red rings, numbered rings and silver ring challenges (taken from previous modern Sonic games) and beat all of the time-based challenges as they actually made the game more enjoyable, despite the shortcomings of the game. I agree with your excellent review btw @Hero-of-Time n-europe Review And I wanted to personally thank you for reviewing it for us. (It's been on the main page for almost three weeks but it's still very relevant, especially with more people playing it now) I think the aforementioned DLC will only be the start of it as well, as I'm pretty sure there's some content which is somehow available in the PC version only at the moment but will hopefilly be patched into the console versions, I won't say what it is in case of spoilers, it's pretty obvious but at least it explains why it isn't in the game, even though it was obviously planned to be at least in some capacity. Overall it's decent for a modern Sonic game and if Sega are embracing it with future - hopefully free - dlc then that can only be a good thing.

Well, that happened! "Sanic Hegehog" is now officially canon. The T-Shirt is available as DLC to download right now (presumably for free) on all versions. "Cumon step it up!!!!!"

Yakuza 0 & Yakuza Kiwami are both £20.99 each on Zavvi.