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[Bloody hate when a battle against a Zubat/Golbat turns into a battle against 4/5 of them. Wishiwashi was great for that part of the game. Sadly I dropped him as Wingull/Pelipper and Poliwhirl were taking up my preferred water spots. Barring the wild Pokemon backup, it is very streamlined and user ...

Dragon Quest VIII- 3DS. Never played a Dragon Quest game and haven't played many JRPGs in general. I'm only a couple of hours in, but I'm really enjoying it. Getting a real sense of adventure about it even though I've only just left the first town. Oh bugger, forgot this came out :o ! This has been...

For me, the most memorable and first moment of encountering reactive music is Banjo Kazooie. The way the tempo or instruments would change as you travelled through each world blended in seamlessly and really showed how Rare had absolute mastery over the N64 hardware. This is especially notable when ...

Starting a new game plus on Bastion. Very satisfying that being that bit more levelled up with stronger weapons means that enemies that were a hassle in the beginning of the game (Scumbags, ugh) are now a walk in the park. I do have a question about what to do at the end of the game so for those who...

DoTT is much more logical than Grim Fandango, I think. It's easy enough to complete without a walkthrough, but I'm struggling with Grim to do the same! Do you know about this site? http://www.uhs-hints.com/uhsweb/dott.php It's really good. It'll offer you hints without telling you the solution (unl...

Have got three games going on at the same time which is generally very different to how I usually play but each title offers such a different experience that I find it quite easy to flit from one to another. My first title is Bastion for the PS4. Very nice presentation and now that I have the sword ...

Here is a good article I found that deals with the importance of optimism even in these trying times and to keep fighting for the little victories. While the main area of interest written in the article concerns the environment, I feel it can apply to a whole array of issues that people care about f...

Oh, forgot that there was no leaderboards! They were built for games like this! Real shame. Would only improve the experience even more.

Played the demo of Gravity Rush 2 yesterday. I am completely new to that series but I had a lot of fun with it. The soundtrack is incredible and the feeling of switching gravity takes some getting used to but when you start to get better at it, it is really fun and satisfying! I will tackle the firs...

I'm terrified to the core of what these things mean. It feels to me like western civilization is about to change profoundly, and we have no control or say in what this means. Am I going crazy? Do I need to get on the doc for some happy pills? Or are all my fears legitimate and we're all heading dow...

14/01: Rez Infinite 16/01: Journey This year, even though I will be considerably busy with a PhD, I am going to do a proper list of all the games I finished this year. I thought I would start the year doing short but oh so sweet titles. Rez Infinite - Rez is one of my top ten games ever and so I wa...

This question had me scratching my head for a while. For the most part, I seem to agree with what the consensus dislikes and mostly agree with what it likes so I guess I am a dull conformist in that regard. But after looking at the Spirit Tracks thread in the Podcast section, it seems I am in the mi...

One positive of this, is that because it will only be about for a month, there will potentially been a large amount of traffic playing it for the time it's out. With the reported online multiplayer being included in these titles, that would only be a good thing, as opposed to the little player coun...

No problem Leon, quite looking forward to this episode because it seems I am in the minority when it comes to the trains. Really curious what the C & R team think of it now!

I have a great fondness for Spirit Tracks. I thought it was a more than worthy successor to Phantom Hourglass and fixed the 2 issues I had with the game, the tedious central dungeon that you had to return to throughout the game on a time limit and the forgettable soundtrack. On both counts, Spirit T...

So just absorbed all the news about this presentation and there was a real mixture of bad and good. Nintendo still seem to have a hard old time getting online infrastructure right. This using an app to invite friends to play games, why? Why does Nintendo always have to make the social side of online...

I forgot about that trend! Yeah I feel the same. I don't want to get your hopes up too much though because I'm sure opinions vary. Although I'm also pretty sure the game didn't over-do it like Shadow the Hedgehog. I feel Jak 2 and 3 took their stories more seriously than the first, and I appreciate...

Oh that new Shantae game is out? Will need to check it out, big platformer fan and yet have never tried this series. Loved what I have seen of it so far. I was staying at a friend's place last week on holiday and got to try out a lot of multiplayer stuff. Warioware for Gamecube, Mario Party 2 and 10...

Safe: Splatoon will probably be a launch title and will be a remake of the Wii U version with some extra features to differentiate it from the original.
Wild: Kirby title will be announced and it will be the first fully 3D entry in the series.

Those games were huge parts of my childhood! I find it interesting how in both series, the 2nd and 3rd games feel so different from the first. Sly sort of becomes an open-world stealth game, and Jak becomes a grittier game with guns. (Not too gritty though. It keeps its sense of humor.) But if you ...