Mr Party Hat

Mixtape just got added to Game Pass. Everyone play Mixtape immediately.

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I'm going through a bit of a Resident Evil binge at the moment. 6 is ridiculous, 4 Remake is still sublime, Zero lost me when I forgot to save and knackered an hour of progress.

I'd never played the 2 and 3 remakes (in fact I'd never played 3 OG either), so I picked up the double pack on PS5. (12 quid at the moment, bargain!) God these games are great. I don't have any real attachment to the originals, so I don't care about any missing content. They just feel so damn good to play. Capcom are essentially just a bunch of wizards right now, aren't they.

I'm getting slightly burned out on Leon B, so I might put this to one side for a while. (I'm in the sewers, Ada has a crap gadget, and I'm a little bored.) But it's been 8 or 9 hours of first-class gaming up to this point. And 3 is equally great for different reasons. I can see me going back to 3 every 12 months or so, just for another run (the first run only took me 3 hours something!). A wonderful rollercoaster of an action game.

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The current 'to buy' list is: the new Story of Seasons, Yooka Replaylee, Pragmata, Kirby Air Riders, DQ7, Octopath 2, Borderlands 4, Sonic Crossworlds, Ghost of Yotei.

If people could stop releasing games for a bit, that'd be grand.

The biggest change, for me, was letting you bump up the music volume.

That had to be one of the best soundtracks of all time and they buried it under all the sound effects.

The boost mode has been a gamechanger for me. It's like being back at launch day, downloading all my old games and seeing how they look now.

This is performance that was always available of course, but on a big 4K telly it never looked great. But on a small handheld screen at native resolution, it transforms quite a few games. I'm now playing through FFX (decided I could be arsed replaying it) and Resident Evil 5, old Switch games that I wouldn't have picked up otherwise. And Mario Wonder, in handheld at least, effectively has a free Switch 2 upgrade. I don't care about the co-op stuff in the paid upgrade, so this is perfect.

I downloaded the demo for 5 (4 doesn't have a demo) to give it a go. It's definitely not a solid 60 with boost mode - it drops slightly when there's a lot going on. But it seems to spend most of its time at 60, and the enhanced resolution is lovely.

I might actually buy 5 first, when it goes on sale. I realised during the demo that I have no memory of it; I'm not sure if I even played it. The only thing I know is that it has an annoying AI companion, and it's racist.

But I have no morals, and it's cheap.