Muzzy Kondo demands spark joy

I got a game and watch and I kind of regret it now.

Think it’s a shame they didn’t put the 1988 Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch title in there instead of Ball but I’ve bought one for my wife for Christmas after she mentioned Mario was a game she enjoyed the most growing up. Hoping it gets at least some nostalgia points!

Have a feeling there’ll be 35th anniversary Zelda and Metroid ones to follow, which I’d guess will be a simple re-branded version of this.

It’s exactly the sort of thing that’d end up in a drawer but I’d quite like a proper Game & Watch system (maybe two, one dual screen) with all the titles emulated on it - sort of thing that you can pick up and put ‘just fifteen minutes’ into before realising it’s been hours...

I loved 3D Land - more than 3D World actually.

Agree, a second compilation would be great.

Loved the coin hunt in 3D Land. They could probably chuck those two in a collection and get away with it. I expect we'll see a NSMB compilation at some point too.

Meanwhile I'm hyped for 3D World/Bowser's Fury. Pre-ordered

It's crazy that the leaderboard records ms in addition to minutes and seconds.

no RNG as such. Bowser is seen as the RNG as his behaviour in the final level is dependent on the frame rules built/buffered through the run. People seem to know which they have done and which they haven't to pretty much determine a pattern. I think that's right but not 100% sure.

From what I’ve seen of it, Bowser’s Fury looks like an experiment, so it’s not a surprise they haven’t quite got an engine to back it up yet. The areas are larger than Odyssey, which is 60fps, and it’s running on the 3D World engine, which will run the base game at 60fps on Switch. I think it’s just the open world nature of it and scale that’s pushing it down to 30. Still looks fun though.

I kinda wonder if it's a style of gameplay they investigated when they were working on Odyssey and discarded due to the technical performance, or maybe a prototype for what they want to do on the next Nintendo hardware.

No, 3D World has assist blocks (blocks containing a special power-up that appear after you die a certain number of times).

So we saw the credits roll on Odyssey than this popped up? The boy wants to carry on playing. IT said new Moons available? What is the end game can anyone tell me?

monkey wrote:

Mushroom Kingdom unlocked. And in each previous world, there’s a box which once you activate scatters new moons through all the world. More green pipe challenges etc.

Ah! we saw those boxes.. how do you activate them?

Bob, you seem to have 146 moons in that screenshot. There are over 900 to collect... Lots more fun to be had.

Wait. What?

davyK wrote:

Games are still hamstrung by the medium on which they are implemented. Maybe they always will. Unlike with music, books etc the way they are created and consumes is itself still under development. Imagine not being able to play a old album or read an old book on your Kindle. Remasters for me shouldn't be done. They are either experienced as they were or just left alone. For most people going back isn't a good experience. A remaster won't fix that. Just leave it alone and get on with the next game. Colourised and/or widescreen transfers of old films. Dear oh dear. Or else go all in on retro.

There's an argument between profit and development that must happen at some point between makers and management in all games studios and that business model must compromise the artistic integrity of the final product in some way. 

It's not purity of vision, it's development costs that hamper a release. BOTW is an absolute stunner @4K and 60fps on the PC. Like open-mouthed sort of stunning. The argument about remasters I agree with, mostly, but I don't think that applies to making the original look better via emulation, and Mario Galaxy looks way better on Switch.