I played through Dragons Lair on the bone (360 bc iirc).
It has various aids (including the bad type).
It has an easy mode which highlights the direction to press and I think gives you a few more frames to press it. There are also infinite continues.

It still took an entire evening to get through the 20 or so minutes of content, it's just frustrating and repetitive. The rooms are randomised and every room can be mirrored as well.

Definitely youtube them, its shameful they are still trying to get money out of them.

I'm enjoying Horizon Chase Turbo, about half way through atm.

Its a bit easy so far, so I'm hoping it ramps up a bit in the final third.

If you was a fan of Top Gear on SNES I'd recommend it. Or Lotus on Amiga, akaik TG was basically a sequel to that.

davyK wrote:

Dragon's Lair appeared in '83 when I was 17.

I was 17 when Titan AE came out.

I finished Dragon Lair last night, and I've played as much of the sequel as I'm willing to without being paid for the privilege.  That's not to say that I didn't enjoy my time with them to an extent, but the sequel requires an item quest that I didn't even know was a thing until it booted me back to the opening scene.  I'd collected none of the 15 or so items, and the final scene is gated behind a complete collection.  I was far too busy keeping Dirk alive tbh, luckily the scene is viewable from the menu.   I also started Space Ace, which I'll finish today. They're bizarre games; I'm up for the memory test to images thing, but the inputs are so demanding that the whole thing is played in a vague haze where you're only partly able to compute what's going on - a bit like when I play Switch while my wife watches Love Island.  Lair 2 is the pick of the bunch by a mile, shite collectathon barrier notwithstanding - I watched it all after my playthrough and it's a quality collection of animated sequences.

Over 9hrs into Baba is You. I'm still lucky if I solve more than one puzzle per session. Good game but I'm not enjoying it.

Skies of Fury DX isn't really doing it for me either. It's fine - good even - but it's dragging on a bit. Considering the missions types are 1. shoot enemies until they're all dead. 2. shoot enemies until your allies escape or 3. Fly through hoops, it doesn't need to be anywhere near as windy as it is imo. I've completed two campaigns but with three of (presumably) the same to go it'll become a chore sooner rather than later.

o/

was raving as I played through last month

Mutant Year Zero first for me, then I'll get cracking with Guac2.

Good to see Guac 2 getting played and enjoyed more.

I'm playing Resident Evil 2. It's magnificent. About 5 hours in and I can't fault it so far. The perfect remake. Half the time I'm panicking, the other half grinning like an idiot.

Hitman 2 - it is the shit

There's still the thing where you can upgrade to Game Pass Ultimate (which is both Gold and Game Pass rolled into one sub) for a quid, it stacks with whatever sub you currently have, so you can get a year's worth of Ultimate for the price of one year's Gold sub +£1. Well worth it.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Mutant Year Zero on Switch is going back unwrapped, reviews suggest it's been squashed down too much

There’s a post review patch that’s dropped. Looking at YouTube, it’s a reasonable impact on the visuals.

Cheers for the vid Syph, big improvement then.  It's still going back though, patch hasn't done much for undocked performance apparently.

And tbh, as someone who's replayed pretty much nothing for decades it's ideal. Now that I've got my games room back up and running maybe I can shake my obsession with handheld gaming.

Automachef, free with Twitch Prime.

It's Infinifactory but in a kitchen and so far it doesn't have the 3d element of that game.  So should be easier, probably not.

Controller and m+k support.

Nice so far.