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@Vileplume2000 let me know when you'd like to race on Super Mario Kart as I should be able to do most evenings.

Another quality episode. I liked that there was some crossover between N-E Café and A Smashing Cast with the talk about Capcom Beat 'em Up Bundle as that was great fun to play. Really good on the news front, especially consdering it has been a slow news week and I enjoyed the game even though some of the voices I had no idea what they were. Guessed the transition tune within the first few notes, it's one of those ones where you know it if you've played it and probably even if you haven't.

Oh I know, I just wanted to combine Street Fighter, Fatal Fury and Final Fight in one post. Haggar for Smash! (after Rick, of course)

Yep, and on the last battle as well, which made for a heck of a Final Fight. Thanks for the games, everyone.

Happy MAR10 Day from N-Europe In the absence of anything else, I decided to trawl through our past reviews, firstly looking for reasonably high-scoring or entertaining reviews... ...then I thought it would be good to do the same for old editions of VC Weekly to fill in some of the gaps for older Mario games. I started at #400 and worked back to #246 as that's as far back as I can go to get most of the reviews, after that it's a bit of a mess, something I'll address at some point. Anyway, enjoy... highlights for me were my review of Mario Smash Football or how not to review a Football game. (It's from 2006... so make of that what you will, I'd like to think that I've written a few better reviews since then) Also it was interesting going back through some of the later editions of VC Weekly as it's something I really very much used to enjoy writing. Happy Mario Day and if you've got any anecdotes about Mario games from any point in time then why not share them?

The same as this time last week, except this week it's MAR10 Day! Any favourite Mario memories? Or anything to do with MAR10 Day. Will get the finished article uploaded later with a list of Mario games etc and any comments which are in this thread related to Mario.

I will say that Steamworld Dig is a solid choice if a lot of people haven't played it yet. I can't believe that it has been nearly two years since I reviewed it on the Switch, easily one of the most enjoyable games to play and review at the time. This also means that in another month, the sequel; Steamworld Dig 2 will have been out as well... another game I need to play.

After another session this evening I'm now halfway through Normal Rank and I've made some progress with the main story. So much for grinding too much though, I didn't make it through the story mission I'm on at the moment, had to use an escape orb. Did some more dojo training and grinding after that, will have another go at it tomorrow, still very much enjoying the game though.

My brother and I started a file on it probably a few years back now, played the opening chapters... it's certainly interesting and one to return to.

Hmm OK, thanks... I thought it might be but I wasn't sure. In that case, I'm wondering if there's an ideal level to be for the end of the game as there has to be a balance between grinding a bit and still having levels to get in the post-game. Being that I'm level 25 or so, it's probably time to rescue that Diglett later, maybe.

I've got one for this week... Have any of you played a game in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series? If not, why not? And are you potentially interested in picking up Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX? You knew this question was coming.

Diglett check... who has actually rescued that Diglett? Also... completely unrelated question but, what is the level cap for this game? Asking for a friend.

Always sad to hear of anyone selling up their GameCube collection, I hope you get a good price for your games though. I just had a look at Cubivore... that should do well I'd have thought, I can't believe copies of it seem to be selling for nearly £200... in the U.S. at least but that should apply here too. In fact, because yours is the only UK copy on there, that should work in your favour because if anyone in the UK is bidding on it they won't have to pay huge U.S. postage fees. Wishing you all the best with the sales, I'll be keeping an eye on Cubivore purely out of interest, it's such a cool game but very niche. Ironically... if Nintendo were to release it today on the Switch in ANY form, I'm sure it would sell even though it probably has a small audience.

Well, after nearly four hours on the clock, twenty-odd levels of exp and a load of items later, I think I'll call it a night now. I'll rescue that Diglett tomorrow... maybe. This game... it just has that 'one more go' loop which all the other titles in the series have, once it gets you, that's it then... in until the post-game. It has so much charm to it as well, especially with the redone visuals; excellent stuff.

I just got to the point early on where you can go off so some mountain to rescue a Diglett? *continues grinding levels in Thunderwave Cave* Level 10 at the moment, might as well keep at it for a while longer.

In that case, I'll just call it Anything. Although I wanted something with a pun... ... N-Ething Nailed it!

Not enough characters... Thanks for the suggestion though.

I've just started playing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX and it's safe to say that I'll be playing it from now until whenever... The adventures of Sam the Bulbasaur and Reginald the Totodile have officially begun! Now I've just got to figure out what to call my rescue squad...

If either Turok or Turok 2 is picked, that might advance my plans to get on with that Turok retrospective article/feature I'd planned to do at some point soon.

Here we go @londragon I've gone through the games and these are the titles which stand out to me... An ACA game (Arcade Archives Axiom Verge Celeste Doom (original) Killer Queen Black Oxenfree RIVE ThimbleWeed Park Toki Tori Turok Turok 2: Seeds of Evil Undertale World of Goo Virtua Racing Those would be my picks, taken from your list list and a few additional titles added for good measure.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate hosts a spiky vs round tournament, starting today Starting today on March 6th, 2020 there will be a tournament for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate which will have a theme based on spiky vs round character and items. This tournament will last for three days, will almost certainly have spikes in difficulty but at least there's a well-rounded cast of characters to choose from.

Yeah, while Random fighters can be fun, sometimes I get a bit miffed when it gives me a character I probably wouldn't bother with as I'm not good with them. Other times though, random makes for some of the best matches ever. That's why I'll often play a few rounds with selected characters before setting it to random. That match with the Wii Fit Trainers was probably the most fun I'd had playing as the character though as I felt like I finally 'got' how to play as them almost. I really enjoyed playing as Byleth again though for a match, one of the best dlc characters to date, which really surprised me.

NES controllers are back in stock as well, half price again too... I ordered some and now I'm not sure why but I'm sure they will be good for a handful of games.

Another fantastic episode. Kudos on the Chinese bots reference and the Podcast E-x-t- -ra- -s! After listening to Nick talk (or not talk) about Undertale... I definitely want to check out that game soon.

Agreed, absolutely amazing stuff from Sucker Punch. If you want to make the trailer even better though, turn on captions, auto-translate and set it to English. As for the game generally though, I can't wait for it.