Play
Resident Evil 4 Remake - I haven't played Resi 4 since it originally came out on the GameCube. Despite the general reaction, I remember being really disappointed with it - I'd loved all the Resi games up to that point (the majestic Resi 1 remake most of all) and this linear action game with its constant shooting and crazy bosses wasn't at all what I wanted. Going back to it twenty years later and I feel… pretty much exactly the same. It's fine I guess but I don't like the setting much, gunning down peasants feels a bit unpleasant, I'm spending 75% of my time kicking barrels and the whole thing is browner than poo. I'll stick with it for a bit as I remember the castle section getting much more interesting in the original but on the whole this feels like a very faithful remake in that I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.
Mario & Rabbids: Sparks of Hope - I put about ten hours into this a while back but I've gone back to it this week and it's pretty great. The setting is as uninspired and generic as Mario spin-offs always seem to be (although the actual Rabbids themselves are hilarious, maybe I'm easily pleased) but the combat system is really decent in an XCOM-lite kind of way and hitting goombas in the face with rocket launchers never gets old. The Switch 2 tidies up its framerate and dramatically improves its loading times, too, which is great.
Want
I have… no idea. What's coming out this year anyway? I'm mostly going through my backlog at the moment, with the occasional dip into interesting-looking Game Pass titles.
EDIT: oh, 007: First Light of course.
Bin
There isn't a bin in the world big enough for Trump's bloated, festering corpse. Get a move on, cholesterol.
It's nice to play a handheld console that was actually designed to be a handheld console. It's compact in size, it's not heavy, you can sling it in a bag or a coat pocket without it needing an armoured carry case, and when you open it up the screen sits at a nice height and angle for your eyes. Also all the games are designed for the smaller, low-res screens so text is nice and big and easy to read.
The Switch 2 and the Steam Deck are great machines but they're both ways to play full-fat games on the go rather than being designed as handhelds first and foremost.
Also completed Pokopia now.
It's a fantastic game. Even a fairly functional run through the main story was enormous fun. And I'd imagine those with a creative bent (which isn't me, sadly) will probably spend hundreds if not thousands of hours on this game, it really does give you all the tools you need to create perfect little Pokemon utopias and go nuts with your creations. Although that isn't my thing, I'm still tempted to try and fill out my Pokedex a bit more and wrap up some of the tasks I haven't completed, so there really is something for everything here. I'm glad it seems to have been a big hit.
Yep, I loaded it up this afternoon and immediately got the introduction to Metang, so I was right there.
Trubbish had never asked for anything other than non-recyclable garbage to turn into iron ore, though, so I had no idea it was a general thing. I'm going to see if I can feed him anything else now, I'm sure there are lots of possibilities.
One thing Pokopia does unfortunately demonstrate is how shit a lot of the newer Pokemon are compared to the first couple of gens. Both Conkeldurr and Tinkaton are absolutely awful designs and they've unfortunately got big roles in the story. Also I had never realised how many Pokemon are just straight-up birds. The game very sensibly gives you a load of Gen 1 favourites long before it starts bringing in all the also-rans.
Oh OK, I've got some more building to do then! I've completed the stories in most of the areas but haven't particularly concerned myself with beautifying the areas, and most of my Pokemon are still living in bushes.
Currently stuck because I don't know how to get
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but maybe raising the Environment levels will help with that.
While it is obviously a wonderful game, I am finding some of the wait timers, as I get closer to the end, a little frustrating. It gives it the slight air of a mobile game which is at odds with the quality of the rest of it.
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