Mansion will ooze quality for it's 8hr runtime, GotY please Nintendo. The first one was decent but the second one was excellent. I tried Pokémon when Let's Go launched, it's alright but not for me. Animal Crossing isn't something I'll ever play. I'm off Fire Emblem too unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I'll be turning my back on it for Mutant Year Zero.

What's Guns, Gore & Cannoli like?

@Moot, I'm doing a Thursday night eShop browse with B again, and we just stumbled onto a trailer for Odallus, might be something you'd like.

retroking1981 wrote:

What's Guns, Gore & Cannoli like?

Andy wrote:

I’m no expert, but I like it.

I bought the original on PSN.  It's quite good, especially in co-op, but I'd imagine the sequel (also on sale at present - even cheaper on PSN) makes it slightly redundant if you're buying now.

RE Odallus.  There were two or three new 8-bit style games that launched a few weeks ago, that was definitely the most enticing from the vids, looks like it takes inspiration from a lot of games I liked as a kid.  I was so burned by A Hole New World I'm slightly reticent to dive back into the 8-bido-over sub-genre though, as it's tough to tell if these things play right from trailers.  AHNW was genuinely worse than many lesser known NES/MS games, which is such a massive fumble I can't quite fathom how or why it exists.  Perhaps for every Shovel Knight or good half of The Messenger there are stinkers lurking to trick people like me. 

I'll let you know when I inevitably buy it anyway

i remember another world taking me ages back in the day. ran through it in about 25 mins when they did the "HD" remaster

retroking1981 wrote:

I'm not sure on the connection between the two but Flashback always felt like a fully fledged game compared to the tech demo feel of this.

Released by the same publisher.

Smang wrote:

retroking1981 wrote:

There's a lot of trial and error, one of those games that's a breeze once you know what to do. An ideal speed run game I guess. I'm not sure on the connection between the two but Flashback always felt like a fully fledged game compared to the tech demo feel of this.

yeah i guess, it just felt alooot longer than 25 minutes haha. there is some sort of French connection between the two i think...

wasn't there a sequel to AW?

Yeah it was released by the same French publisher Delphine

Twenty five years on and I've just realised Conrad B Hart/Heart of Darkness and Heart of Darkness/Joseph Conrad is almost certainly a nod of some description.

It’s published by the same french publisher though

god fade to black, i'd forgotten that even existed.

it was just PoP with guns anyway

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Eric Chahi - Another World and Heart of Darkness Ok

Delphine Software - Another World, Flashback and Fade to Black. Cool

Flashback ?

Fade to Black - Flashback sequel, Metallica, Dire Straits. Come again?

Spec Ops: The Line - Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness.   What?

Conrad B Hart and Joseph Conrad - no relation. Ok

Spec Ops The Line is a loose adaptation/take on Heart of Darkness. Just like Apocalypse Now.

It’s brilliant actually.

Spec Ops is decent, I rarely play remakes but I'd play through a snazzy version of that. Cover shooting was good for the time, some were better but most were worse, plus the enemies didn't suddenly develop armoured heads in the late game.