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Link Spoke in Latest Game but then...
Devs took it out because, "but it felt too wrong"
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Been playing this gem of a game I bought for £2.
Manual Samuel.
You play as this guy who dies and makes a deal with death. You have to function as a living corpse and control yourself manually for 24 hours.
It's hilarious, you have to use button controls to move your character. So a shoulder button to move one leg, the other to move the other leg.
You have to blink and even breathe in and out. Your body flops about and there's a narrative commentary, fully voiced that narrates all the things you do and mistakes you make.
It's an adventure game. Same devs have a demo out for their next game the Holy Gosh Darn which is different but similarly appealing.
So the latest Switch 2 "leak" from Nash Weedle says that Switch 2 will have two different power modes in portable play.
A battery optimised mode and a performance mode. But only those two.
Given how most powerful handhelds bleed dry in like an hour, is this really a good choice?
I guess playing it plugged in will be good. Switch should have had an unchained performance mode. Because the screen is only 720p, they could have used the extra performance for increased resolution and better framerates.
Playing Switch 1 games handheld on Switch 2 will be great, if it uses the 1080p screen and DLSS.
Okay, I see now how my upcoming weekend will go 👍
More racing games?
And the Switch Batman Trilogy games can now be purchased individually.
I bought and started Mario & Luigi Brothership. so far it's pretty underwhelming. It looks like a decidedly B-effort, which is not something you'd associate with Nintendo's crown franchise.
The characters speak in Animal Crossing like jibberish, but not all the time. The graphics are unimpressive where you'd expect them to be lush and ripe with detail. Very little of the environment is animated, which makes it all feel flat and more like a set. Different elements are also not fitted together with care. In Mario games edges will often be rounded and there'll be small details where say a grassy area leans against a stone wall. Here they're just coldly joined. Animation also feels off, especially on the brothers themselves.
Worst of all the writing isn't witty at all, which is a shame for a Mario RPG. I'd call it functional at best. Could be part of it is down to sloppy translation, but It's a real shame.
I'll stick with it some more, but if it doesn't improve I'll consider looking up how long the game is and if I really want to invest my time in it. Which is an odd thing to have to say about a Mario game.
That's disappointing. Sounds pretty bland. I thought of gifting it to my children for Christmas but they seem only interested in Roblox and Zelda.
Yeah, I think I’ll pass on Mario & Luigi Brothership.
Last Sunday, it was on sale for $20 on Amazon. I gave it to her last night with a note on the package saying, "Do not play until Christmas!"
She said, "oh hell no!"
She's enjoying it quite a bit. Played it all night.
I miss those times when a new game captivated me enough to play for hours longer than I intended.
I'm a little bummed I won't be playing it anytime soon, but on the other hand, that's probably a good thing. As much as I love the game, I've played through it over half a dozen times in previous versions. The 2D HD version has a few extra features, but nowhere near enough to really make it a different experience. So justifying $60 to replay something I've played so many times before won't have to be a round of mental gymnastics for me.
Square Enix seems to be their own worst enemy. Don't support every platform that millions of people are currently using, then complain their games underperform.
Honestly, I don't think the Dragon Quest 3 decision is solely on S-E. Sony is struggling like hell to sell ps5s in Japan. The two companies have a really good relationship, and I wouldn't be shocked If Sony gave SE some financial compensation to forgo the PS4 In hopes of moving a few more ps5s.
Yeah, pretty sure Sony threw some money at SquareEnix to hold off on a PS4 version of Dragon Quest III 2D-HD.
S-E is putting it on every other system in the world. So why not PS4? It wouldn't have taken any more work to make it cross gen. So it's omission by choice. And to me it seems like Sony has more to gain by that than they do.
I downloaded Valve's free Half Life 2 20th Anniversay update. Lots of improvements and bug fixes. I have it running at max settings 4K resolution with HDR. It looks amazing. It could almost pass for a current gen release, certainly more enjoyable.
I'm playing Jet Set Radio Future for the first time, and I don't know what people are thinking believing this is superior to Jet Set Radio.
The level design is confusing, constantly pressing start to find graffiti markers is annoying, graffiti dumbed down to just pressing the right trigger is dumb, grinding is too easy, wall riding is rare, and the soundtrack is far inferior.
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I kind of got burned out on Prince of Persia and moved on to Red Dead Redemption 2 and Metroid Prime.