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@thenewguy unfortunately doesn't say in the PS blog post. Here's the full article :

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/11/18/playstations-black-friday-deals-2021/

Nothing for me in this sale... The PSN Black Friday sale on the other hand, that's the one that looks to be where my money will be going instead (so long as the discounts of the listed games are good).

As a commenter said on Twitter... "Shape of Mew"...
Do it Ed! xD
#1 Christmas Song for 2021

Ahh, that's a shame. I saw this on the eshop the other day and immediately got Endless Ocean vibes from it. (that was such a chilled out game and thought it was amazing at the time that it could read music from your SD card in the Wii and play in game)

Never played KOTOR before, but always hear praise (especially from my brother in law, he loved the original Xbox release) so I've bought it for £7 after using some gold points. Super reasonable price!
Downloading now and looking forward to trying it out after work.

That 300billion yen was just the bill from Microsoft to have Banjo be part of the N64 expansion pass

A precursor to how Kingdom Hearts will run on their cloud service?

I actually told a colleague at work (who's ex Square) how disappointed I am lately with a ton of their decisions for Switch, to which he replied "only lately?! jeez, they have been disappointing for a long time" .

Probably a good fit for the Switch BUT saddened that not even the Keeley Hawes trilogy (Legend/Anniversary/Underworld) has made the cut (surely could port the PS3 HD collection over?) let alone the 2013 reboot and Rise (which I would definitely double dip for).

@Clyde_Radcliffe @Bustacap Cheers for clarifying!
Would have checked Mario Tennis on my actual N64, but couldn't find the RF cable.

Only played Mario Kart 64 and Mario Tennis so far and using the NSO wireless N64 controller and I've seen framerate drops in Mario Tennis a few times.
The music disappears in Mario Kart 64, but only when I accidentally pressed L, pressed it again and the music resumed... So is that a feature you can turn it off and on? (I don't ever remember it in the original!)

Well this article headline was definitely one way for me to run and grab my switch to see if i was going mad thinking it was tomorrow!
(already made the mistake this week of inviting friends over for a game night tomorrow, thinking Mario Party Superstars is out tomorrow when it's actually Friday! xD... At least we can try out MK64... We're N64 era kids)

@anoyonmus @YusseiWarrior3000 I was very clearly joking when I said it will be 540p.
Thought my emoji would indicate it was a tongue in cheek joke. But obviously didn't work xD

@anoyonmus that's good to know. Let's hope Rockstar/Take Two don't cheap out on the physical carts.
If they choose an 8GB cart for example, we'll have to download the remaining 17.4GB

So PushSquare notes that gyro-aiming is Switch exclusive. Not available on the other consoles.
That'll be the trade off for it running docked in 540p

I'll wait till Dec for the physical version (although I suspect they'll pull an LA Noire and ask you to download 16GB or more!)
At least by then, we'll also have info on how it performs on Switch. Would be nice if it's like those screenshots, but expect stuff to be paired back a bit.

That opening immediately takes me back to my 10 year old self booting KH1 up on Christmas morning 2002, shaking with excitement when the CG cutscene started!

Such a shame Simple & Clean didn't make it into Smash. As someone who works with music rights in TV shows now, I dread to think how much the license fee was for it for it to have not made the cut!

Just like I wanted a first person found footage horror game playing as Toad after witnessing the splendour of a specific cutscene in Luigi's Mansion 3.... Give me a Blair Witch style Pokemon horror game any day! xD

BTW Nintendo UK just posted an overview trailer for NSO + Expansion and it's £35 per year.

Nice to see Banjo footage on a Switch

A precursor to Pokemon's Cinematic Universe, First it was Detective Pikachu and now doing a "Step Up" style movie with Pokemon break dancing to this 25th anniversary soundtrack, battling it out with the elite 4 street dancers xD

Pretty generous score for a PS2 bargain bin looking game.
Not seen many other reviews yet, but Metro gave it a 2/10.

The setting an oddity of it all had me curious initially. But now sadly nope!

Might get for a laugh with friends over to watch n join in once it's on sale for a few quid.

@Turnips Nintendo of Europe said today that UK/EU will get 60hz for English language.
Nintendolife even reported it today.
Would you be playing in a different language? I think only then you'd have to play in 50hz

I'm expecting this to bump up another £18, exactly double of the original sub, to £36
And I'll be one of the muppets who accepts it because I want to play my favourite N64 games handheld.

Nice... Now just to let us know what kind of price hike and release this will be!
i'm betting they'll announce it all the week after the AC direct (Fri 22nd) for a Monday 25th release.

A year ago I might have said no as I wasn't into the genre. BUT NOW since playing Ori 1 and 2 and absolutely adoring them, looks like i've gone a full 180 and is now a yes.

@Bunkerneath I have that exact console too! I registered a 3DS game on My Nintendo UK and it automatically put me in a prize pool. 100% didn't expect to win one. And I thought the toad one looked the best and went for that.
Still have the box it came near mint with the AR cards unopened etc. I will never sell it! too pretty.

Check out Nintendo with the October combo hits!
First Smash final fighter, then Metroid Dread/OLED Switch launch, now the AC direct on the 15th and N64/Megadrive games coming to Switch Online (hoping that's in the next week or so)

I was tempted to buy Smash and all of the DLC packs after the reveal of Sora yesterday (Big KH fan).
But being out of the loop with Smash, I didn't realise that overall it's around £100 for everything! (base game, DLC packs and Mii Fighters)
Granted there is a ton of content, but considering I played previous entries for only a few hrs overall, sadly Ultimate might remain a miss for me.
(and yes I could just buy the base game and Sora standalone, we'll see!)

@Cyberbotv2 yeah there were meant to be high capacity 64GB carts available starting from 2020.
Not heard of any games that utilise them though. Kingdom Hearts could have been the first!... But ofc Square cheaped out.
Saber Interactive did an amazing job squeezing Witcher 3 onto the 32GB cart!

I personally really don't need these as I still have all of the games on their original consoles and the collections on PS3 and PS4.... But still! Seeing the Switch versions being revealed as cloud only was painful!

I kinda get it though. From memory 1.5 + 2.5 is 58GB on PS4. Cant fit that on a cart unless you cut the framerate back to 30fps and lower/compress the hell out of it!
Although they could have worked from the PS3 versions and sold 1.5 and 2.5 separately (they are around 22GB each)

Damn 11pm! Had to do it the one time I need to be up at 4am the following day for a 10hr drive.

Time for outrageous, never gonna happen predictions! xD
1) Two Zelda Bundles - WWHD/TPHD in one, Oracle games and Minish Cap in another.
2)N64 Games come to NSO - Did a deal with Microsoft/Rare to have Banjo, Jet Force Gemini and Blast Corps back (Sadly Conker and Perfect Dark deemed too violent for NSO and Goldeneye too complicated legally)
3) Nearly all Tomb Raider games come to Switch - PS1 era titles in one bundle. Keeley Hawes Trilogy in another. Tomb Raider 2013 , Rise and Shadow don't make the cut.
4) Reveal of Next Level Game's new title (been a while since Luigi's Mansion 3)
5) Metroid Prime Trilogy shadow drop
6) To celebrate the 20th anniversary of GC, some titles have barebones HD ports (similar to Aksys's Star Wars games) drop on the eshop. Includes Eternal Darkness
Lastly! The Sheik game by Retro is back in production but by Monolith Soft

Looks a very nice n sweet game, but now I feel there's going to be a succession of "Short Hike" a' likes now!
First Haven Park (Which was alright) and now this.
The fact it's published by Playtonic's new publishing arm is what has me more interested in it.

Ah yes! That totally reliable guy who pushed so hard that the Pro was a definite and when the OLED showed he was like "Well that's not what I was shown by my 'sources'"

Sure someone's already said what I am about to but, I personally think Nintendo should just remove online multiplayer games being gatelocked behind a paywall. Make that free again.
But just have essentially Nintendo Classics Game Pass: GB, GBC, GBA. N64 maybe even GC games all in one place and you pay for that subscription.
Even if that bumped up in price a bit, i'd bite.

@AG_Awesome I personally would say maybe no, but with the blending/transparency tools available on Colors I guess you could try to emulate the look. But the real thing with real paints would be better to duplicate Bob Ross.
I found someone's done a landscape drawing with Colors:
https://www.colorslive.com/details/4638250
Is that the kind of thing you'd like to draw?
Maybe good to check out the colors site overall to get a vibe of the art you can create.
This is the kinda stuff I have drawn (on 3DS) but alot of the features are the same if not more options on Switch.
https://www.colorslive.com/details/4466876

I've had this for quite a while now as I was a backer. Overall it's good: the nub on the sonarpen is a bit unusual and I personally preferred the 3DS version because the resistive touch screen made drawing feel better (so not the devs fault), but it's nice to draw on a bigger, HD screen with Switch.

So just gave it a try and it seems to be mixed bag.
Menu's you can hear a slight lag and when I tried out Skyward Sword HD, then there was a slight delay in sound when I swung the sword to hear Link's "Hyah".
But then I tried Avicii Invector (Music Rhythm game) and it seemed pretty spot on.

Guess it's time to say farewell to my USB-C bluetooth adapter.
It was a nifty lil thing. So tiny I more often than not forgot there was something attached .
Hopefully there's no lag on the new official way.

Gameplay looks cool, but visually, I think I was spoiled with the Ori games because, I think it looks rather basic with some textures n stuff and shimmering/aliasing abound.
Still excited for it though!

I've just seen that the Baldo devs have set up a Facebook group page for people to list any glitches they find.
Almost sounds like it's an early access game for £25!
Maybe I'll see how the game stands in year's time! Hopefully with SwitchUp doing a "patched up" look at it then.

So glad I chose to get Psychonauts 2 for my PS5 over this in the end!!
Such a shame the game mechanics here are so janky. Was looking forward to a older school Zelda like. Seems a pass for me (unless they do a hard revamp which I highly doubt)

Wasn't Starbreeze accused of money laundering and fraud a while back?!
Why Double Fine initially dropped them as publisher for Psychonauts 2 and ended up with MS.

It's a real shame that it's launched like this.
Doesn't sound well optimised in general as even the new gen consoles appear to be 1080p 30fps.
I've also seen a few videos saying that the first dungeon is needlessly difficult because it's so unclear.
Will wait for a while to see if it gets fixed up (I can imagine SwitchUp will check it out again in their "Patched Up" series).

For now i'll go for Psychonauts 2 on my PS5 instead.

Sadly the Metroid games never clicked with me over the years Bbut have recently really got into Metroidvanias like the 2 Ori games and Yoku's Island Express so really hoping this might be the one to get me into the franchise.

@CharlieGirl totally feel the same way!
Surely it'd be fairly simple to port the Legend/Anniversary and Underworld trilogy.
Even the 2013 reboot Tomb Raider and Rise ran on Xbox 360!

The first two lines of the heading hyped me up a little too quickly thinking the Keeley Hawes games were Switch bound and was showing early footage xD

Really cool to see this footage. Those were the days where they made bespoke versions for the weaker consoles.

I had Legend on PSP (It was near on par with the PS2 game but with lower textures) and remember thinking how amazing it was to have a fully fleshed out Tomb Raider game handheld.
Also got the HD collection on PS3.

Sweet! Cheers for the heads up.
Clive N Wrench has been in my line of sight for a while now!
Love me some N64/PS1 and PS2/GC era style 3D platformers

Very intrigued by the game after seeing Cyndaquil return (was my starter in Gold on GBC, so very fond memories)

It's it bad of me though to say I hope that maybe Bandai Namco pop in to help Game Freak with it!?
Granted New Pokemon Snap is linear and has the occasional slow down, framerate hiccup. But to me the game looks so much better than Sw/Sh!
We need that chimchar we saw in the trailer to be running higher than 5fps! xD

Own 9 of those 10 games listed.
A decade ago I would never have touched those types of games. Guess as you get older, you just yearn for more chilled vibes.

(also have Littlewood too which is very relaxed and wholesome 👍)

Fantastic! Nice QoL fixes.
I thought the game was great already, excited to play the new levels after work.

Also bought Snap for my 6yr old nephew for his birthday next week as he's getting a Switch. So these fixes and new levels is great!

@Broosh @Tandy255 I see! Is there quite a big difference between Target in 1 and 2?
i've only ever played Monkey Target on SMB1.

(Thankfully I still have my GC with a Kaico HD adapter and copy of SMB1 if Target ends up a bit meh in Banana Mania)