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Looking forward to the Digital Foundry on this one.

This makes it look like his full name is Cloud "John" Strafe.

Seemed to be getting loads of errors last night, failing to join servers. Did have one match where my teammates got killed and amazingly didn't quit, I took out their killers and rezzed them and later on they repayed the favour. Went on to be me and one guy in the final circle but I choked

Bumped into this guy last week.

She used to have a fireball but it only went a short distance, a rubbish dp and a rekka. Now her whip seems much more whiplike.

A fun win here, I had zero KOs and knocked out the entire top 6 in one go.

Wasn't this the problem the N64 had 20 years ago?

Had a pretty crazy run this evening.

I think every single potential suggestion I have for this thread is 99% due to the music; game soundtracks do so much heavy lifting. One exception is Playdead, Limbo and Inside have very little music if any and create a sense of foreboding and existential dread through ambient sound, minimalist visuals, swift death, darkness, water, creatures, buzzing industrial machines, and uncomfortably close proximity to the above.

Do you hold it at arms length? In handheld I feel much more connected to the game as I can press my nose up against the glass*. *plastic

Also remember that any lines you make before the queued junk actually arrives will be deducted from the incoming pile, so even singles and doubles will help chip away and will buy you time; the red flashing junk won't enter your screen until you place a block that doesn't complete a line. That means if it is already flashing you can take a little bit more time to choose where best to drop your current piece, or even switch to your hold piece, but don't wait forever as there'll usually be more on the way. And finally, if you can just clear away your own pieces you'll be able to clear the grey blocks easily with a long piece or 2, so you could even play slower at the start.

@bradigor Same!

No you misunderstand, separate entities. A handheld and a console, not the handheld AND console we got, which none of us could have predicted would work as well as it does. I adore my switch, but I couldnt argue that it isn't compromised in any way by having to be both, and Nintendo have obviously listened to demand for a cheaper smaller model.

From brad's video the new theme looks gorgeous. Very, er, clean? Maybe not the right word where Splatoon is concerned.

I seem to remember before the Eurogamer switch scoop there was a rumour that the next Nintendo consoles would be a handheld console and a home console that both played the same games, so this is very tenuously a step towards that. The next step of course would be a Switch Pro which isn't portable.