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Utterly bizarre, I loved this game! You’ve covered its quirks and there were plenty of confusing and frustrating aspects, but I agree that it’s totally worth checking out. NSO maybe…..

Thanks @S.C.G for the kind words, and both you and @Dcubed for your advice. Let’s see how it goes, and yep I’ll definitely let you know what I get then@Will. I went ahead and sold Legacy of Darkness for £350 through eBay. Hoping they’ll be no shenanigans when they receive it…

Wow! In every way, that’s fantastic! Just reading you post about getting that one it must’ve been incredibly satisfying! Congrats!

Quick question I’d love to get the opinions of you lovely people: I’ve just been offered £350 on eBay for my boxed copy of Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness if I stop my auction & put it up for that as a “Buy it now” price. Worth it? They’ve got good feedback and seems a good price to me, but I haven’t had this kind of request before so wonder if anyone else had too?

That’s a fantastic collection you have there! If it helps decided what you’re going to do with them, I’m selling my N64 collection on eBay so I can tell you what I get for them if that helps? I see you have a few N64 games on your list and some are the same as ones I’m selling. I’m trying out a few of the rarer ones with 10 day listings, the remaining 19 I’m putting up for 7 days on Sunday. Here’s my link to my Mario Party 3 eBay listing. I’m hoping the likes of Paper Mario and Conker do well, but I’m not sure about many of the others.

My wife and I have just finished Split Fiction too. Brilliant game! Full of inventive and creative co-op gameplay. Your write up was great @Cube, and thorough. While not a difficult game, I’d put it as tougher than ‘It Takes Two’ which my 8 year-old is currently playing through with my wife. It’s also more ‘videogamey’ (technical term…), in that more of the scenarios are very reminiscent of recognisable games (morphing into a ball for 2D sections, Gradius-style shoot em ups for instance), but that’s not a criticism, especially considering the volume of ideas they’ve come up with for the players. There’s so much variety, and the narrative decision that side-stories are based on stories outside of the main storyline frees up so many creative and fun scenarios, we were excited every time we came across one in anticipation of whatever we were going to come across. They provided some of the most memorable moments too. I think I can get away with saying “sausages and sweets”… IYKYK. The final act plays as if Hazelight had so many mind-bogglingly inventive ideas they hadn’t managed to include earlier that they threw them all out there in bite-sized sections, and most were fantastic! The start was a little slower for us, and while we enjoyed it we weren’t sure it was as good as It Takes Two to begin with. By the end we were hooked though and had an absolute blast! Here’s my short minute-and-a-half video review: YouTube link.

Same here. I had to double-check it wasn’t a spam message at first! I’d better put my DS/GBA on charge!

I expect that have, but I do hope Nintendo have kept plenty of secrets about the game for people to discover at launch. The number of tracks is the biggest thing for me, as I hope they have more, including those classic tracks. That’s likely to be a hangover from the incredible volume of tracks in MK8. Missions returning is brilliant, as I loved this in the DS game, so hoping there are plenty of these to expand the single player experience. Smaller things they’ve improved upon are nice to see too, such as the accessibility options (auto-accelerate, etc) being easier to find. Like pretty much everyone has said though, there must surely be a way, either at launch or via an update, to make it easier to scroll and select your character & outfit. I’m cautiously excited and can’t wait to play it. It looks great, but as it’s Mario Kart you just want it to be as close to perfect as possible!

I’ve just seen the Zelda trailer on Nintendo’s X account. Did I miss the announcement of Achievements within the Direct? They seem to have added them to the Nintendo mobile app!

He’s finally back, to kick some hell tail! 😁

Wait. What. Silksong? Just like that!??

GameCube! 😁 Guess there’ll be no Wind Waker HD then.

Ok, let’s move on to new games now please…

Just one? So I can’t mention The Witcher 4 being announced as coming to Switch 2, or Microsoft allowing new Conker & Banjo games to come to a Nintendo console, or Mario smacking the snot out of Master Chief in a new Smash Bros game? A Chrono Trigger remake? Or even a collection of old point & click games (Toonstruck, Monkey Island, etc) to show off the mouse? 😃 Fine, a new 3D Zelda game, but showcasing a realistic Zelda as playable & with abilities similar to what we’ve come to expect from Link (so not just focused on magic) & hinting at a raft of recognisable villains from the series.

I’m so confused by the sandwich talk… 😂 Storyteller (Mobile) I found this to be a charming little puzzler that feels a good fit in mobile (the caveat being the need for a Netflix account), but sadly stops just as it starts finding its stride. If you don’t know it, you’re tasked with filling in pages of a storybook by creating short ‘story mountains’ to correctly represent the story given by the brief title of the page. Each page has between 3 and 8 blank panels. You’re given a selection of 2-3 different scenes (e.g., “Wedding”, “Death”, “Cliff”, “Kidnap”) that you can drag into the blank panels and add to them a few characters from a small selection. The order of scenes and characters dictates how they react, and most pages were about figuring out how to create the right motives. For instance, the “Kidnap” scene has a cage and lever, so adding one character by the lever and another in the cage naturally causes one to become the ‘villain’ and raise the cage trapping the other. To rescue them you’d add the same panel again, but include your ‘hero’, who will now lower the cage, causing both characters to also be angry at the ‘villain’. The story may end there if the title just wanted you to show a rescue, but if the page hinted that you needed a story focused on revenge then adding an “Execution” panel would give a darkly different ending! Of course you could skip the rescue and simply add the “Throne” scene to see the ‘villain’ smugly get the crown instead! The stories are mostly familiar tales, with scenarios based on the likes of Snow White, Shakespeare and Adam & Eve. This helped with identifying what I needed to do (the Evil Queen, or “Witch” in this case, was naturally intent on ridding herself of Snow White “Snowy”). It had plenty of chucklesome moments, often seeing characters react to situations even if they weren’t the right answer, and the game rewards you for doing this by having an achievement system for creating those moments, although there’s no other reward other than sniggering at the various predicaments you’ve created. The whole thing is very short, I finished the main game within a couple of hours. Sometimes the solutions weren’t obvious, but I found it easy enough to ‘trial & error’ my way through the limited number of possible combinations. There is some short post-game content, plus finding all the stamps/ achievements took another couple of hours, mainly because the game doesn’t tell you what levels the non-solution scenarios are found in. (Spoiler of an early-game solution) It was a little repetitive by its nature, but each puzzle being so short meant I could spend a few minutes here and there at a time, and I enjoyed the whole concept. It’s just a shame that there are only a few puzzles more than 6 panels long and it abruptly stops just as it gets more challenging. I hope that they expand on it in future, as I was rather charmed by it. Here’s my 70 seconds-long video review: https://youtu.be/3fnqBEKeC5Q?si=_uTFY-SHZy7EwKF2