DisturbedSwan

It’s time to reconnect

Looks banging this, not quite a Day 1er but seriously considering. The last one I never touched as it looked a bit pants, loved transformed though.

After some time now with my Switch 2 I really like it. I will say that perhaps 60% of that is I was Switchless for about 10 months so being able to play one again is cool. I don’t think if I was an ardent Switch player than plays every night that I’d be thrilled with it though. It feels like an iteration, like the original Xbox One to the Xbox One X rather than a whole new console. The UI and pretty much every about it is so similar to the OG Switch. Backwards compatibility, keeping a sense of familiarity for the consumer with the UI, same carts etc. is all well and good but it does not bring that excitement a new console brings. I’m glad Backwards Compatibility is here to stay but I do kind of weirdly miss that whole new console from the old days where you can only play new shit. A whole new UI, a whole new Controller, different carts/discs, different cases and all that fun stuff but that goes for all consoles rather than just the Switch. In technical terms I think there is an inherence nowadays to look too deeply into the technical aspects of games and consoles, I’m not saying it’s not without merit but I couldn’t really care less about the ms response time of the Switch or any other handheld. Quietly impressed is probably the best way to sum up my feelings on Switch 2, once some more big games drop I think my feelings for the console will only increase.

Way better reviews than I was expecting. 90% on MC and 92% on OC.

Indiana Jones and The Great Circle (PS5) - 21/06/25

More goodies have arrived

Was too tired to post last night lol

Wooo

So cool to see Smyths doing a midnight launch, I had to move my half-day off on the 5th so will be working all day unfortunately. Still tempted to nip over at midnight though, although I won’t be able to play it at all or even unbox it, we’ll see where the mood takes me on the day.

Picked this up yesterday, made a start tonight, impressions to come soon. Really liked 2016 and adored Eternal, looking forward to digging into this more.

*insert heavy metal*

Yeah, just a standard case, slightly compressed on here but no bells and whistles.

I hardly remember playing DK64 so have no real experience playing 3D DK games. This looks like something new and fresh though, I fully expected a 3D Mario which I would’ve taken with open arms but is nice to finally get another 3D DK game after all these years. Red Faction Gorilla indeed lol, I loved that game. My only worry at the moment is the smashing stuff will become repetitive and won’t be fun after say hour 3-4 but this is Nintendo, I’m sure they’ll of thought of ways to switch things up in the game, the puzzle elements with finding the banana ingot things looked interesting too.

Been impressed with what I’ve seen of this so far. I didn’t think Mario Kart could really be perfected or taken anywhere else after 8 Deluxe really, I really didn’t know where they’d go with it in terms of scope, tracks, characters, costumes, all that stuff has already been jam packed into 8. With this though they have managed to take it in a new direction, I have to say I never saw MK being an open-world racer or even a racer where tracks fit certain world segment, I’ve always kind of taken for granted that you’ll go from one zaney N64 era track to one from a GBA game that’ll be completely different. The knockout races aren’t new but are new to MK and almost add a bit of a Battle Royale-esque element to proceedings. I also really like that they’ve ramped up the number of races, it is going to be super chaotic. My only slight concern at the moment is how wide some of the tracks are, there has always been wide tracks like Mario’s speedway and the ilk but World’s tracks all like much wider than previous games. Little QoL improvements like not having to hold a button to keep a shell behind you are nice but feel like a bit of the nuance, a bit of the mystique of MK will be lost in the process. I’m not sure how they will handle legacy tracks either, I’m not saying the game has to have them to be good, and it will be nice for World to have x amount of fresh new tracks but it would also be cool to still be able to race on some of the best legacy ones too. This will be a home run whatever happens, I’ve always liked MK games, DD and Wii being the low points, but they’re always so much fun. It feels long overdue at this point as well with MK8 coming out 10 years ago.