You didn’t feel any rubber banding in Horizon Chase Turbo?

It's obviously there, but nowhere near enough to bother me.

I think the part I noticed the most was the CPU players in the lead slowing down considerably in the last lap, but it honestly felt like a reasonable implementation of this "feature", keeping the race from getting stale without being excessively punishing of mistakes.

Every single complaint or frustration I had with the game was related to the layout of some tracks - besides what I mentioned about narrow tracks or visibility there's also issues like awkward fuel placement in some of them.

Finished Horizon Chase Turbo!

An excellent arcade racer and a nostalgia trip for those who played those games during the 16-bit age of consoles. Loved almost everything about the game, with the only negatives being a handful of tracks that were annoyingly narrow or had horrible visibility.

Finished Witch on the Holy Night!

Absolutely stunning presentation, I haven't played any VN that comes close. Not only there's an immense amount of CGs, but the director also uses many tricks like panning, zooming, changing character placement and lighting to make the game more "fluid" - background and characters and never still, shifting every few lines of text in a way that feels very "cinema-like".

The main cast and story is also pretty good, though I think there's some pacing issues, in particular in the in the slice-of-life segments. I'll also drop some praise for the "Extra Chapter", a very fun mystery story taking place some time after the main game.

Definitely interested in playing more Type-Moon games after this.

Away from home for my brother's wedding so won't be playing much this weekend. Still undecided about which game I'll play next.

The review chart is hilarious.

Doubt Sony or the developer expected this would happen.

Edit [May/04, 14h UTC]: Updated chart. More than 70k negative reviews already.

So if it were clearly written on the Steam page, I don’t really get the complains.

It was optional for several months and the info on the PSN page contradicted that, so there was a lot of room for confusion.

Not surprisingly that PSN page was edited earlier today, but there's a million screenshots floating around already, plus you can check the previous version in the Wayback Machine.

And even if it was clearly written on all places, it's still a "too bad you didn't read the fine print, now you're past the limit time for a refund, so either let Sony track you or lose access to the game" situation which is very shitty. There's also the fact that they sold the game to people in countries where is PSN is not available, which should not have happened if that requirement was going to be enforced in the future.

Not hard to see why people would get pissed and lose trust in the developer. I also think that players have been annoyed for a while with this type of requirement (not specifically in this game), and they are now getting a good outlet with a lot of publicity around to vent about it.

Not surprising considering that most 3rd party games are:

1. Ports of old games so anyone who has a PS5/Xbox/PC can get them for cheaper.
2. Overpriced ports as well, and in a system that is already rather expensive.
3. Game Key Cards which won't appeal to collectors who could still buy them despite #1 and #2.

There's a lot of videos and articles like this one discussing how Stage 1-1 of Super Mario Bros for the NES is a cleverly designed tutorial for the core game mechanics.

This controversy is pretty much "You're having fun in a different way from what we intended. This is not allowed so we blocked it.".

Which is a very "Nintendo" thing to do. But hopefully they'll change things in the future and give a "classic" option or something similar.

That's a massive improvement in some games for those who play handheld. Probably should've been there from the start, but it's good that Nintendo finally implemented it.

The Switch 2 launch felt oddly rushed.

Lack of details, initial backward compatibility list having only ~20% of games with basic testing finished, the need for SD Express cards that are hard to find. Even the GCK situation is probably due to cost/availability issues that will improve over time.

This DevKit situation looks to me like another example of this.

Like others said, it's not just Gen-Z.

Funny enough, the main reason I'm spending far less is not the shitty economy, but rather the gaming industry's push to kill physical copies.

I used to buy a lot of physical games at full price because they would be much harder to find later on, but if I'm forced to go with a digital copy this is no longer an issue, so I just let them sit on my wishlist until they're massively discounted.

There's also the problem that they're clearly rushing this without much thought, they don't even have an answer to the obvious question of "what happens to people in regions not supported by PSN".

Played a lot of these in the last two years, with Ender Magnolia and Nine Sols being my favorites among them.

All-time I think I'd still go with Super Metroid, despite its age and having completed multiple playthroughs I still end up playing for hours anytime I boot it.

Honorable mentions for Rabi-Ribi (don't let the cutesy anime artstyle fool you, this is a fantastic non-linear game with some of the best boss battles in the genre), the recent Momodora games and the Team Ladybug games (with Touhou Luna Nights being my favorite of the three).

There's many reasons, here's a few examples:

• See how easy/hard it is to repair it
• See how easy/hard is is to mod it (say, add a bigger battery)
• Understand the internals, see which components are being used and their quality

As an example of the last one, I'm really curious to see a Joycon teardown so we can find out what kind of sticks they used and how likely it is for them to show drift problems in the future.

If you didn't like Hollow Knight you probably won't like Silksong either.

The game is good, and incredibly polished, but feels aimed at the people who 100% the first game and wanted more.

Crossover sets like Marvel, Final Fantasy or Assassin's Creed.

A lot of people dislike those sets, but so far you could ignore them depending on the format you played. From now onwards it'll likely be impossible to stay away from those if you want to play competitively.

Besides the overall dislike of this new "Fortnite the Gathering" world, there's also concerns of pricing, these sets so far have been more expensive than regular sets, and also even more product burnout - we're up to 6 major sets/year from the 4 we used to have not too long ago.

Nice, I love my Ultimate and I'm glad it will also be usable if/when I get a Switch 2.

The company said more updates are coming soon.

Also nice to hear. Hope the Micro gets an update, I often use it for "low interaction" games like VNs and it's also good for small kids, my nieces really like it.

It's a reasonable replacement/alternative for "code in a box" games.

The problem is that it's effectively replacing physical games on the Switch 2 - so far we have 80%+ of 3rd Party releases are using this model, and it's a significant downgrade for "true" physical - forces the customer to pay the "storage cost", requires internet access to install the game (not great from a handheld that should work everywhere), is bad for preservation since the game is not on cart.

Also, despite this being a low-cost alternative to carts some publishers are being extra-scummy and INCREASING the price - the Switch 2 version of Trails Beyond the Horizon is a good example, being $10 more than PS4/PS5/Switch 1 despite being effectively an "empty" cart.

No, I'm the same. But I've been underwhelmed by most Switch 2 news. 🙁

Asides from the prices and the overuse of Game Key cards by 3rd party publishers there's nothing really negative on what they've announced.... but I'm also having a hard time naming something about it that really gets me hyped.

Nintendo probably uses more than one screen manufacturer.

Nintendo seems to be breaking these patches in 3 "groups".

• Performance upgrades only -> Free
• Performance upgrades+ additional functionality -> Free with Online+Expansion, Paid otherwise (BOTW, TOTK)
• Performance upgrades+ DLC-like additional content -> Paid (Kirby, Mario Party)