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I loaded up the Xbox version and I’m not sure I’d have noticed much difference apart from the fact it had reset all my settings which was very annoying. I’m sure if you put the two versions side by side there would be a clear difference but to me it just looks like the Witcher 3.

Do you mean you've finished Part 1 with one of the characters, or have you gone all the way through to the end of the game?

I'm on chapter 10 with Cai now and I feel like I've played a full game already. It's so good though, and the story battles are always absolute highlights. It would be good if it was all slightly more streamlined - I know you can skip the animations for mundane things like meals and training, but it would be nice to be able to bypass them completely - but I've also spent a lot of time recruiting people I neither want nor need, so I'll definitely be cutting back on that on other routes.

Being the massive pedant that I am, I’m going to point out that Last of Us part 2 ran at 30fps on PS4 Pro. But it was an amazingly good 30fps, and did indeed look spectacular.

Fortune's Weave is absolutely amazing, I'm completely hooked on it, but it's a very odd Fire Emblem game.

Calling it a strategy game is like calling Persona 5 a dungeon crawler - yes that's the heart of it but there's SO MUCH STUFF around that core that it's almost become its own genre. I'm spending anything up to a couple of hours between story battles doing side quests, training, exploration, dungeons, and all the other time-consuming activities that the game offers - I suspect you don't need to do all this stuff but it's all lots of fun. There are tons of characters in it too so everyone's going to have quite a different experience.

It's quite low on anime boob ladies too, which is refreshing for a series that appeared to be going down that route.

It's very hard to see any sort of future for an industry that thinks there's going to be demand for £1000 consoles, and is banking on people buying £80 games that each take five years to develop (and/or a tidal wave of indie slop). With the major platform holders laying people off in their thousands and consolidating on titles that were hits twenty years ago. Cloud gaming is dead, mobile gaming is an advertising/gacha hellscape, and PC handhelds/living room devices look like they're going to always remain a niche thing.

Increasingly it's looking like Nintendo is the industry's only real hope right now - the Switch 2 is still relatively affordable, they're not chasing the tech in the way the other two are, they're actually releasing platform exclusives at a steady rate, and their games hold their value. I think they'll weather the storm better than Sony or Microsoft, and I'd be surprised at this point if we even see another Xbox.