Mr Party Hat

It's been a while since any Nintendo weirdness, but you've got to appreciate just how mad the Animal Crossing update is.

They've split the Switch 2 update into two. One is free, and that upgrades handheld visuals to 1080p. One is paid, and that upgrades docked visuals to 4K.

I'd love to be in some of these meetings. I'm picturing a dartboard, post-it notes and a blindfold.

This Path of Radiance malarkey is great. Bonus points for letting you make the dialogue boxes instant, turn off the text beeps, and disable the battle animations. That's not a given in Japanese games even today.

Once you've done that, it's a lovely 60fps presentation that zooms along. And I'm enjoying just being taken along for the narrative ride, rather than investing a hundred hours in the social side of things. Unless that's coming later.

Haha that's all fair, I can totally see what people dislike about it. And yes, it's the worst Prime game (although I can't REALLY remember Corruption).

But for whatever reason, I was able to enjoy it for what it was. As you say, basically Halo with a teeny bit of backtracking. I just thought the moment-to-moment gameplay was super satisfying.

I've said this already, but I'd LOVE a candid retrospective at some point. I can't even imagine what the other devs were making, based on the poo stains they left behind.

Well, I thoroughly enjoyed that. Got all the mech parts, but gave up on the green crystals. Life's too short. I checked on youtube and I only missed one boss fight, and presumably more terrible cutscenes with the A-Team.

It's much more linear than it should be, and the desert can do one, but I still had a blast.

Apparently they are doing a rerun of 12 Elusive Targets later this month, and then another 12 a couple of weeks after that, so a good chance to catch up on any you've missed or haven't seen before.

I'm using a custom server on PC, so I actually have all of the elusive targets available whenever I want. Which does sort of defeat the point of them, but it's a godsend for a middle-aged dad who can't be online at precise moments.

And yeah the amount of content is just mad. I spent a little while trying to find a level yesterday, I vividly remember playing it years ago but it wasn't on the list. It was night time, somewhere eastern european or middle-eastern, and I was on a rooftop sniping people at a fancy party. After about 20 minutes I realised it was an alternate layout for one of the daytime maps; hours of content just tucked away in a sub menu.