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Retro impulse got me again FF Tactics with box, manual and innards I think is a pretty good deal. It’s in pretty great condition, too Then Turok 2 was just sitting there. Not the best condition because it doesn’t have the inside cardboard just the cartridge and manual. But I think I only have the cartridge and it was £25 so I thought why not. I love Turok

Latest big box arrived. 😊 Also backed Broken Sword reforged Kick Starter.

Couple more pickups. Super Mario Wonder I think I'm in the mood to play pretty soon. Deadalus, despite the space themed cover, is actually a fps. Very cheap for the Japanese version, but it's called Robotica over here. The box art is cool though

GOBLINS!!!

^ nice one glad the unicorn stuff arrived. not posted in here in a while, this stuff is from the last few months

If I get back to No More Heroes 3 I think I'll start again with this version

Been looking forward to this for a while. Also bought Balatro since it’s Payday and every fucker on podcasts keep going on about it.

Ooooooooooooh yeeeeeeeaaahh *Base kicks in*

Red Dead Showtime! and Princess Peach Redemption.

Got Shiren and Unicorn Overlord on Switch

A fancy new hardcover, for the art book shelf.

Donkey Kong is here

This is £4.24 today on eshop.

Tactics Advance is a great game. inFamous Second Son I bought after watching theRadBrad revisit it, I didn't know it had a PS5 update and runs at 60fps. Definitely want to play through this again at some point. £4, a steal. Ring Fit Adventure mint and complete, doesn't look like it's been used at all, £25. Burai Fighter Deluxe, never heard of this before but took a punt for £6 at CeX and it's a decent horizontal shooter. Wario Blast was £7 on eBay, loved the game as a kid and looking forward to playing again. 3D printed stand for my Analogue Pocket.

I listed a 3DS game a few weeks ago for a high price as it's quite rare. It was the only UK green spine copy on eBay at time of listing. It sold today at full asking price...

I cropped this so there wasn't so much wasted space, and it's ended up emphasising the boobs SNK 40th Anniversary, a collection of some of SNK's older arcade games

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk - £4.99

I bought a couple of games last weekend as there was a promotion at Curry's Mario & Rabbids 2 was £20 combined with various selected games. The other games didn't look up to a huge amount, but Spirit of the North had good reviews I was also given a Pikachu cushion from my new job

Wasn't planning on buying this so soon but after hearing DF talk about its backstory I just couldn't help myself.

£12.49 in current sale. I have to know.

Easter present to myself, Bitmap Books’ extensive guide to JRPGs. 650 pages, need a bigger bookshelf at this rate 😄

That Donkey Kong game is really bloody good. I’d certainly recommend it. Gone for Darius Burst: Chronicle Saviors, and Slaps And Beans 2 in the Spring Sale.

Let's go!

Weird timing. We've gone to Budapest for a few days and I took my Ocarina 3DS to use one of those 208 in 1 cards. It still works beautifully:

Nice. Even though I have most of the boxes for my consoles and stuff, most of them don't have all the inside packaging because I can never get everything back in how it was first packed. So end up throwing stuff out The only console of mine I can't find is the Wii U. I have the box and everything, but god knows where the machine is (Before anyone like "No great loss" shuddup, I like the Wii U) Here’s everything all lumped together

It survived the amazon circle of hell: Really nice bundle and surprisingly compact.

Yeah, we’d never claimed on it before. New TV has arrived anyway. Was half the price of the old one and paid outright, trying to wean myself off finance with the mortgage coming into play within the next few months.

This had a cool demo so I decided to treat myself to a little sidegame over the long weekend. I'd actually encourage giving the demo a shot, because the game looks like a run-of-the-mill pixel indie title but it has an amount of quality and polish to it that really makes it stand out. In a Nintendo-ish way, it's entirely designed around a singular idea and that's the drill your character carries around. It allows you to drill through certain areas of the map, be it ground, snow or other, it works as a propellor underwater, it can revv up certain machines etc. I'm not going to spoil in detail what the developers have cooked up, but there are genuinely cool surprises here throughout and no two levels feel the same – again, very much Nintendo-like. This seems to have been in development for about seven years, which sounds absolutely bonkers, but it shows, because it's really an incredibly accomplished take on one of the oldest genres out there. There is one caveat though and those are the boss battle. I'm not going to mince words, they're all pretty bad. Well, at least the three I played so far. The first one was okay-ish I suppose, but the two that followed were just very tedious 'death by a million cuts' affairs that don't use its central mechanic in an interesting way. The third one, in fact, is easier if you just don't drill into the ground at all. It's weird to see how devoid those fights are of ideas considering how excellent the rest of the package is – almost as if they had been made by a completely different team. So while that might sour the experience a tiny bit at the end of every world, I don't think it drags the game down overall. From what I read it's not super long, but quality over quantity seems the focus here, and there's time trials for crazy people to get a bit more out of it. As a final commentary, the soundtrack is extremely good as well and I wish I could link a few samples but nobody seems to have uploaded anything yet. It's on Spotify though, if you want to give it a listen. Completely misrepresenting screenshotTM

Ed's treating himself to some Lurpak with that kind of money 💰

Yeah, the first DS felt a bit like a prototype. I kind of like the dated, bulky design and the better D-Pad compared to later models, but it certainly wasn't an attractive piece of kit. Still have mine though, basically mint condition, too.

And it is done Now I need a rest as well

Both Söldner-X games are getting a re-release on Switch this year: I was actually thinking about the second one relatively recently, played that quite a bit on PS3 (and Vita I think?). Not quite up there on the Pantheon of shoot'em ups, but a really enjoyable game with lots of secrets, unlockables and whatnot. The first one, Himmelsstürmer, is very mediocre though, didn't grab me at all. But I'll be picking this up, cool that it comes with a manual, too (my 10-year old self is laughing at that sentence).

Hardly extensive or impressive I know but I was just looking at what Vita/PSP games I have I actually have more Vita games on download but that’s it for boxed. How long have I been buying Monster Hunter games for and never playing them lol

Launching April 26th. I'm in the mood for a new tennis game, it's been a while. I might pick this one up on day one.

I haven't played much, but: Positives You can pet cats. This makes it worth the asking price alone. The accessibility options include being able to automatically pick up herbs and collectables. This needs to be in every game. Negatives I can't figure out how to view the credits to add a screenshot of Rosie's name (because that's something that still isn't getting old yet) Anyway, imagine they finally made an assassin's creed japan, gave it a soulslite gameplay loop and you're somewhere in the general area for this. Nothing is massively sticking out as an "oh my god, that's amazing" addition to the game, but it has a fun feel to it regardless.

My local CEX had Silent Hill 4 The Room for what seems to be a decent price, so I thought I'd buy it before the Silent Hill 2 remake comes out and makes the price jump back up In the bag next to it is a scart splitter, where it takes 1 output and sends it to two places. I'm thinking, coupled with a multi-scart adapter, then a scart to HDMI adapter, I could possibly use it to play lightgun games on a crt and capture them

Started earlier this afternoon around 2ish and got around 4 hours with it... with around half of that mucking around with the character editor... Made my Arisen... Tried to make Fighter Jill Valentine, to be fair I don't think she turned out too bad...🙂 Next up my Pawn... Who turned out to be a hot Elven Archer called Laurana... Although I've made both of them too bloody tall and they both tower over the male NCP characters wondering around... so once i get the chance to modify them I'll shorten them down a bit. As for actual game play it's very familiar if you've played the first game and as far as I'm concerned that's a good thing... it feels really weird feeling lost on the map because of that though as I knew the previous games areas like the back of my hand. It also seems like the Pawns are really ferocious in this as half the time they've demolished the Goblins and Harpies before I've managed to draw a bead on them... It's nice to be back in this world and I can already tell I'm gonna have a ball with the game.

I've always liked this one. It's such a simple concept with a camera panning around different elaborate dioramas, but it really nails the style and the essence of the game. It's too bad this came out before the 4K days, this would look absolutely phenomenal in a higher resolution. Second pick would be the trailer for Mirror's Edge's first unveiling. That theme song still fits like a glove and it's such a good representation of what the game is about, showing off a bit of raw, unedited parkour, how they use colour as a main tool for building different moods and scenarios and just the general sense of freedom and independance it's going for with its storyline. I don't think there has ever been a trailer that impressed me more than this. I also just noticed that both have zero voice over or dialogue snippets, which gives everything else you see and hear more room to breathe.

Insert my usual rant about this being locked behind a subscription.

50 hours or so in and im still not quite sure im playing it right. Theres so many different options it makes me think im a bit stupid. But i am still enjoying it quite a lot. I get the feeling its a very good game if you are good at this sort of thing. Im maybe about half way through. Was really struggling for a bit but unlocked the ability to upgrade the people, upgraded people are very strong so im doing ok now, suspect that might change when i come up against more upgraded baddies. The upgraded ones are so strong because they get double the active/passive move points. i can also now have 5 people in a team but its a big upgrade cost so havent done it yet, been spending the points on upgrading people instead. Seems like there are lots of ways of playing, you can unlock loads more teams so you can have maybe 10 teams on the field at once so can maybe win by having large numbers. Or even less teams but 5 in each. Guess Im in the middle with 5 or so teams with lots of upgraded people. theres so many different things to keep track of im sure im using the wrong words to describe stuff. some good tips here: https://unicornoverlord.atlus.com/media/pdf/unicorn_overlord_tips.pdf also i had been trying to compile a list of all the strengths/weaknesses of the different classes but its in the game under library -> classes, something like that, but only for classes you have iirc.

Came out last week, people seem to enjoy it. It's rather inexpensive (6 bucks or something), super light (200MB on Switch) and made by a team of only two people from Ukraine. Very much impulse buy territory, might pick it up over the weekend, looks like a great fit for handheld play.

Got a really nice new T-shirt, the other day...

Fucking *SIGH* I hope to God not. Fuck every bugger budget game being fucking open world. Fuck off!

I’m kind of bored and been reading Spider-Man comics today so thought I’d show some of the more surprising references/characters/things in the game and where they come from Mega spoilers obviously

In terms of sound design/sound effects, I’d have to have a long think to think of all of them. A few obvious ones spring to mind, the recurring prelude in Final Fantasy, the music that plays in Zelda when you open an important chest. I liked the feedback noise in the Guitar Hero menus. The melody that plays in Outer Wilds is beautifully done as well.

So this is just what the doctor ordered as far as I'm concerned. I've played about 5 hours, and my second session was all about finding my feet with the battle system, getting to know about materia and weapon upgrades, and even copping my first summons, Ifrit - although you get him first in lots of these games, don't you. I'm really liking it. I love the mix of action and commands. Reminds me a bit of S.a.t.s in fallout, rather than anything to do with the old style turn based system. Although, having said that, I definitely wouldn't have minded some modern take on turn based for this. I still like those older games. Just one question for seasoned players of this, is it usual to keep a special move bar available to counter the 'red' move of an opponent (especially a strong one). I've been trying to do this and it's worked a reasonable amount of times, knocking them out of a move. Or should I just hit them with whatever. All these 'pressured' 'staggered' notifications are hard to process in the heat of battle, and I don't think the game has explained them in great detail.

1 Point less than Atlas Fallen, which was one of my favourite games from last year. Just saying. It really is bad release timing though, but they already delayed it to get out of another competitive spot. Sometimes you just can't win, like maf in GG.

Damn, Nag straight up calling Maf 'mid' unprompted, toxic af

Just keep opening objectives, you'll get enough super credits to pay for the premium warbond. Sometimes the game can be a bit stingy, other times it'll give you a few hundred credits in a night. I think it all boils down to how lucky you are with RNG. You're looking for the things that look like squared off poker chips. When you get the watchdog, grab the laser version. The ballistic one requires ammo, which it didn't in HD1.