Calashnikov

Cheers. It was reading this post by @Stanshall in the Abandoned Games thread that made me think twice: Torn, like. I really enjoyed the demo and remember the good press at the time. Should probably just take the plunge for the price of a couple of pints.

Is Yoku’s Island Express worth a cop? It’s £7.99 in the current Switch sale. Had a wee go of the demo and thought it was pretty fun. I know lots raved in here at the time, but I seem to remember some folk found it frustrating as it went on. Is that the case?

I’d guess the clue is in the ‘Konami.’

deKay’s Wurrld

I think a Yoshi’s Island tileset would work great. It has castle, over world, underground, forest and sky themes already in place, and includes coins (even originating the red coin collectibles) and certain other power-ups like stars. I agree it’s not actually a Mario game really, but there’s no reason it can’t be an extra mode, a la 3D World. That option establishes they’re able to include modes with an unconventional-for-a-2D-Mario play style. Get Yoshi’s in there, with throwable eggs and collectible flowers and everything.

It looks like players aren’t tethered to the same screen in multiplayer, i.e. one player can run beyond another’s vision, owing to the fact they each have their own personal screen/Switch. In prior multiplayer Mario platformers, they’d bounce back into the same screen inside a bubble. That doesn’t seem to be how this one plays, probably due to the ‘race to the finish’ type nature of the multiplayer mode. It wouldn’t work with two players on split Joycons, playing on a single screen. Unless they came up with an additional slightly altered multiplayer mode, similar to NSMBU.

^ What a game, man.

Kinda weird seeing Castlevania’s 1 thru 4, plus the GB shanners officially buyable and playable on PS4 and the Bone. That whole bunch of games indelibly seem like Nintendo first.5 party games to me.

Can’t wait to try the 100-ish Nintendo designed courses in Story Mode. Worth the price of admission alone, surely.

Under half an hour to go. Where’s the hype?

Ooh, so close, but you haven’t quite nailed it

Which final boss are we talking about here?

It’s almost sad what’s become of Man U fans.