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Completed chapter 1 last night. I am liking the balance of difficulty quite a bit. I have had to go back to base from the dungeon to heal my EP gauge a few times from one dungeon and a couple of the bosses have killed me outright before I improved my strategy. Those savage enemy encounters - do they come (in principle) from SMT or Persona (I have never played either series)? When should you fight them? They seem to OHKO each member of my team, each time I try them.

So it would seem that the NX will not compete with the Neo/Scorpio in terms of power and will have something else technology wise (that is not VR) that will make the system stand out. It had better be self evidently useful to games in general or they better have at least 5 good ideas that make use of it if they are going this way again.

When playing Xenoblade X, there were quite a lot of caves and sub areas to explore that were not massive. I actually quite liked that because it meant that a lot of the tasks could be completed quickly (relatively) and it felt like it was worth exploring more of the nooks and crannys. They rarely outstayed their welcome. Also it meant that each section of the game need not be a massive commitment of time. So I quite like the shrine idea, especially if there is a genuinely useful reward in each of them.

For me it was in the so bad its good camp. Spent a lot of the film laughing at it, some of which was intended.

Which one? The pause menu with them all relaxing in the field or the battle menu? I love both. I also love the fact that there are no english voices. Brings me back to my youth of importing japanese super famicom games (not that there was too much speech then, but still). Its a shame that they could not have figured out a way for offscreen play to work.

I was only joking about the name change. I feel the same way.

I am gutted to be leaving the EU because it is an institution that showed that separate countries can work together and cooperate, despite nationalistic tendencies. Perhaps not, now, in our case. I hope that this does not cause a ripple effect across the whole of the EU and @Ashley does not have to change the name of the site to http://www.n-ukandeurope.com or http://www.n-28countries.com or something. Its also a bit scary now that effectively the leave campaign side of the Tory party will be more or less in charge of the country...

My special edition came yesterday, and I have played about an hour. The time it takes to complete the prologue. I love how japanese and crazy the game is, and the combat seems fun. You get quite a few moves just from the prologue section of the game which makes playing it at the start seem a lot less fixed and dull than other RPGs can have.

Ok, so if the two scenes aren't at the same point in the game why do they look like they are? Even the toad with the yellow head is in the same spot.

But they fired her after her harassers (not actually Gamergate, but similar) brought the moonlighting to Nintendo's attention I thought. Whatever the rights or wrongs of her moonlighting, that is not nothing to do with the problem. EDIT: I don't get the five guys thing - what is that about?

Thanks for the impressions. The lack of off tv play is a bit of a bummer on this one. I may set up the ipad for football/grinding sessions.

Cheers for the review @Nicktendo. (And thanks to @Ike for the title change). All of the reviews are looking good. Weird that thus far NintendoLifes one is the lowest score. Getting more hyped now. A new Wii U game is a rare thing this year. A generally well reviewed one is even rarer!

My special edition has shipped from the Nintendo UK Store. @Ike, perhaps we could get a thread name change?

So this is out this week then! Time has flown - and I have not even completed Fates yet! No word from the Nintendo UK store yet though.

Wow, castle invasion 3 is hard on birthright. Must have taken me about 20 goes to get a completion with no one dying. In the end I had to use tonics and rearrange my whole castle to protect various important health giving buildings. Other than that, just about to play the last chapter.... The Royal Family (Takumi, Ryoma, Hinoka, Sakura, Azura(*)) are by far the best units in the game it would appear. If you have let any of these die, I would restart. If you haven't, then there are quite a few more that join you after chapter 10 so it might be worth going on. (* She is not powerful, but sing is very useful)

They have not committed to Zelda being a launch title, and Zelda delays are always expected - espcially seeing the scope of the game. Whilst all larger games have a long lead in, by the time the NX is out they will have had 2 and 1/4 years since Captain Toad (and I don't believe they won't have been working on the next mario game in some form during the development of that title). A launch that had a smash and/or splatoon remaster and Pikmin 4 would have to have a pretty awesome Retro game to make it seem special.

They might have a new Mario to show next E3? Might? What has the Mario team been doing since 3D world then? I must admit I thought all of the delay and all of the new games that aren't being released was to make damn sure they did have a strong launch line up. There could be a brand new IP I suppose.

Yes! +1 for the BoxBoy fans!

I believe there is a limit, yes. Not sure what it is though.

Yes, it uses the same controls as Splatoon - stick for large movements gyro for fine tuning. EDIT: Source http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/06/hands_on_wide-open_wanderlust_in_the_legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild

Umm, I think you mean 'some point in 2017'....

Could die? Makes it sound like you have plans.

Not the PS4 because it is Rare developed.

I am a bit concerned that the things you can do still feel slightly scripted rather than relying on a physics engine. It would be cool if you could set alight to a whole forest by being careless with flames or move tens of boulders to the top of a hill and knock them all off to create an avalanche style effect. As it is I still cannot shake the feeling that there are specific locations for this sort of thing. I would also like to have to build the raft from chopping down trees....