Garwoofoo

It uses them on the NES and SNES emulators and they look fine. I honestly think it's just Nintendo being Nintendo.

I didn't expect my resolve around the Switch 2 to be wavering so much already. Bananza looks great - the Mario Odyssey sequel we never expected to get. All the reports of Switch 1 games actually running decently on the new hardware are very tempting too (I saw a video of Three Hopes running at a locked 60fps which honestly looked amazing). And - one of my most requested features - they've added CRT scanlines to the N64 emulator! (Switch 2 exclusive feature, I kid you not, fuck you Nintendo).

Captain America: Brave New World is strangely forgettable - it's not bad, exactly, as just a bit pointless. As the sequel to two of the worst MCU movies (Incredible Hulk and Eternals) and one of the worst MCU series (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) it has its work cut out from it from the off, but Mackie's decidedly unsuper Captain America and Harrison Ford's regrettably recast Thaddeus Ross make for an uninspired pairing and the whole thing seems to have been assembled in the edit, with action beats arriving at precisely regulated intervals and a weird final fight where a load of CGI beats itself to death in a place that apparently has no people in it at all for miles around. The movie's big reveal could have been pretty good had it not been comprehensively spoiled by the marketing numpties well in advance of actual release.

The whole purpose of the thing seems to be "hey, we have Adamantium now" and once you know that, there's not much point in watching this.

They've settled into a nice vibe with this now, with these "celebrity elusive target" missions dropping every few months. At £3.99 for the Elusive Target Arcade missions and a bunch of cosmetics, I think they're fairly priced and a good excuse to return to the game. I've just done the Bond tie-in one that's live at the moment and I thought it was great (and also, perhaps, the first time in nearly ten years that we've seen the Paris mansion at a time when it isn't hosting a fashion show).

Been playing a bit of South of Midnight and really enjoying it - I'm not going to repeat what cav's already said about it because he's spot on really:

South of Midnight is an absolutely wild videogame for the current climate. It features a black female protagonist, with dreads (who isn't "conventionally" videogame attractive), in a deep south setting animated in a sort of stop motion with a sometimes dissonant, highly evocative folk soundtrack. In the initial few scenes it's largely women talking to women (and black women, no less) without a single man present. The husband has also been fridged, not the wife. It's like Republican nightmare fuel.
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It's absolutely beautifully put together, the animations are flawless and the flat storybook cutscenes between chapters are lovely. The opening level has some really impressive set pieces. The entire thing has the feel of a team really having a cohesive vision and absolutely executing on it. The issue is, ultimately, the actual gameplay is utterly generic. It's Uncharted wall climbing (complete with a blue tint to show climbable ledges - though weirdly, and frustratingly, no grab visual cue to know if you can jump on something or not) and a sort of creaky, button mashing combat where you kill videogame gribblies to clear locked glades.

I'm quite enjoying the gameplay for its simplicity though - it requires no thought (there's a big glowing white line that shows you where to go), you get all the upgrades in a specific order at specific points in the story, and every combat encounter is the same - and that's fine. It's the most 360 game that ever 360'd but the basic platforming and combat are allowing me to soak up the incredible atmosphere and set pieces. It's kind of the opposite of Expedition 33 really where the gameplay keeps on getting in the way of the atmosphere. A great Game Pass game anyway.

(Oh, one thing I don't like is that this would be quite a good game for older kids, with some pertinent things to say about slavery and inherited trauma and just generally a kind of magical realism vibe that you don't tend to get in videogames, apart from the fact that the main character shits and fucks her way through every conversation. I wish they'd toned that down, it's not a game that needs to be edgy in that way).