They may have overextended themselves with the extra formats, as it was a fairly modest Kickstarter. GC: We had a brief play of the Switch version and that was pretty rough too.
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What’s the deal with the password locked ships? I read somewhere that they will be doing streams where they let people know the passwords?
Plays great once it was all set up though. I can’t beat level 3 yet and I haven’t managed to unlock any ships, but I do have to say that I’m reminded why I tend to stay away from console ports on PC.Īpparently no controller support, or at least it never recognised mine so I had to resort to Joy2Key to get it to work. Nice short levels, with better design than the original Final. Well, as a shoot ‘em-up fan I had to pick up R-Type Final 2 but I don’t have a console that it’s released for and so picked it up on PC. We liked the reader’s idea yesterday, that a film would be an excuse to do things that wouldn’t work or aren’t possible in the games. GC: As long as Link is fairly laconic, we’re happy for him to speak in a show/movie and not in the games.
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I could see the Star Fox games working as a TV show where the team are called in to action during a crisis.
The same could be said for Metroid, as it’s the sense of isolation that really makes the games work. I am not sure how the Zelda show would have worked as Link never spoke. I look at my own son and he seems Mario obsessed so I can imagine he wouldn’t be too fussed about whether the show was good or not.
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The Super Mario film should have been out ages ago and we should have had a crappy animated TV series by now. It really is strange that Nintendo hasn’t capitalised more on the franchises they have outside of video games, seeing as how Mario is one of the most recognisable pop culture figures. Uncharted was obviously influenced by Tomb Raider but while everyone has always known that does this mean it came about because of Naughty Dog/Sony doing a review of it and other games they thought they could copy/do better? I wonder how many games start this way and if we’ll be able to spot the Microsoft one that is inspired by The Last Of Us Part 2? Obviously, that didn’t work out so well though. Of course, this begs the question of what Sony’s reviews of Microsoft games look like and while there’s no need to beat the dead horse over the Xbox Series X’s current line-up I’m willing to bet Killzone came about as a direct result of a similar review about Halo. Not since Bungie left Halo have the had a game with a decent story so I’m going to be very interested to see how Fable fares, especially as it’s from the developer Forza Horizon… I would certainly rather see Microsoft create a new IP, even if it’s inspired by a Sony one, than more Gears Of War or whatever. Especially as they’re obviously implying that they could do the shooting better – not that I’ve heard anyone say it was anything worse than mediocre. You don’t give it that kind of write-up and not want to make something similar yourself. Apple lawsuit is at least good for something: weird video game leaks that we would never have got otherwise! Maybe not new games exactly but seeing Microsoft dissect The Last Of Us Part 2 was very interesting. Now I worry they’re just going to end up repeating the same problems, and readjustments, every other game. Resident Evil is my favourite franchise and I’ll be getting the new game whatever, but I really thought Capcom had learnt their lesson with 7 and things were only going to get better from there. According to the director, Village is ‘tense’ rather than scary, which sounds, yeah… lukewarm.