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This will be a welcome palette cleanser after repeatedly slamming my head against Final Fantasy Rebirth’s legendary bouts.

@Mikey856 if you’ve played the original FF7, Rebirth is a most faithful reimagining of the story beats from disc 1. Can’t really get into the controversial stuff without spoilers unfortunately.

I think Sony would do well to nurture this talent. We need more Nintendoey experiences on PlayStation.

Comparatively smaller and easier to develop games like Sly, Parappa, Ape Escape and MediEvil would absolutely fill out the release schedules while the big AAA stuff cooks, pleasing the PlayStation faithful in the process. Astro getting the biggest response by far is indicative that the quirky side of PlayStation is sorely missed.

I think the remake looks good. I’ll be waiting for reviews but when people say it’s bad, I have to wonder if we’re looking at the same game. At worst it will be fine. The discourse surrounding this game is absolutely rancid and at times it feels like people are rooting for it to fail, which is disappointing. I get that Konami and Bloober have both blotted their copy books in the past but the comments on the YouTube stream were insufferable.

@GagaOooLaLa AAA games industry is falling apart big time this gen. Every game games that manages to release and result in the team getting laid off is a miracle in my books.

Very solid showcase I thought. A good mix of interesting new stuff, the debut of a promising new PlayStation IP, Monster Hunter and Silent Hill 2 deets and, of course, the return of the king, Astro.

I saw rumours of a MediEvil 2 remake being shadow dropped. Please god.

@Artois2 it’s a small mercy that at least one small studio got out of dodge.

@Korgon I played a lot of Zangief and getting bullied in the corner was such a demotivating part of the game for me. I also never really gave drive reversal much thought whereas now I will. Such a sensible change.

Planning to jump back in when the update hits. Need to get Manon and Zangief to Master rank.

Both FFs on PS5 are some of the most fun I’ve had with the console. Rebirth seemed like an extraordinarily expensive game to make but I’m surprised Square haven’t seen much return on investment for XVI. Great game but it didn’t strike me as having a monstrous budget.

At any rate, I don’t know what the solution is. Sony did their part and pushed both games pretty hard. If nothing else, it seems Rebirth had a pretty smooth development and many of the assets are now ready to go for the 3rd game.

Makes you wonder what the point of Skulls and Bones was if they’re just remaking the inspiration anyway

Rumour of a MediEvil 2 remake has my heart racing

@UltimateOtaku91 let’s not act as if Playstation gamers weren’t having an aneurysm over slightly covered up boobs a week ago.

Seems pretty disingenuous to me to brand this solely as PC players having a meltdown over having to make another account. Annoying as gamer entitlement can be, it’s been pretty obvious for a while that this is not what this is about. Sony never should have sold the game in countries where PSN is unsupported. No sympathy for them and I wouldn’t be surprised if this damages their relationship with the PC market for a long time. Make no mistake, Helldivers 2 would not be nearly as successful without the PC playerbase.

Really scummy move from Sony and a frankly bizarre act of self-sabotage.

Tunic is excellent. I never finished it on Switch because the final boss kicked my butt. For the Zelda/Souls lover, it’s a must play.

@glennthefrog you’re right: this isn’t important and is a waste of time. Have fun.

@glennthefrog respectfully, crying censorship about anime boobs is not a rational concern. It just perpetuates all the worst assumptions people have about gamers.

1000s of staff are being laid off in an increasingly unstable economy industry, but no, yellow paint and not being able to ogle a digital facsimile of a real woman are the actual crises facing gaming. Actually embarrassing.

Excellent to see quality platformers that aren’t Nintendo’s doing well. Crash 4 isn’t perfect but as the first genuine attempt to push the series forward and not coast on remake nostalgia, it was everything I could have asked for.

The game is incredible but at every turn, you can feel just how expensive it was to make. I feel it’s only going to be more problematic for Square because they are very much stuck with this project until the final game ships. The cost of banking on nostalgia.

The amount of projects in development hell over Ubisoft is nuts.

Curious to learn more but if it’s just Star Cry, I’m out.

MediEvil 2 needs some love. OG MediEvil 1 is fully playable as an Easter egg in the PS4 remake.

A far better outcome than nuking the project outright. I’m glad Sony were able to recognise the hard work of the dev and reach an agreement. Still, this is one of the most brilliant and hilarious bits of fan promotion I’ve ever seen so I don’t know why Sony would have a bee in their bonnet about it, especially as it’s free.

Meanwhile, there are people on Twitter trying to convince me that yellow paint on climbable surfaces is the worst thing with gaming at the moment.

@TheIdleCritic isn’t Balrog Ed’s mentor in the storyline?

One has to assume the Xbox brand is in truly dire straits. Seems pretty disastrous that the first crop of Bethesda games since the acquisition are seemingly coming to their main competitor.

Grim Fandango is amazing. It’s also really hard.

Generations is a great game. Hopefully a remaster would include content from the games that have come out since, even the lame ones.

Ace Attorney iconography has penetrated the mainstream in a way most games could only dream of. Everyone recognises the finger point, the haircut and the “Objection!”

Wasn’t the intent of Aerith’s death in the original to convey the same sense of disorientating loss that the director experienced when his mother passed away during development? I feel as though it would be rather disrespectful to tamper with that moment.

Kim Kitsuragi for me

In the age of digital libraries that transfer between consoles, the PS4/Xbox One battle was the one to win and Sony crushed it. Xbox could have released the most brilliant thing in the world this gen and I would still be hesitant to drop Playstation because so much of my time and money has been put into it.

@nessisonett yeah my jaw actually hit the floor when I pulled back that particular curtain. I’m not particularly invested in Naughty Dog while they’re all in on Last of Us at the moment but I probably won’t support them it regardless so long as Druckmann is a visible and influential force within the company.

That’s one way of getting around being outsold 9 to 1 in France

Just got all the Batman Arkham games for €10 so I’ve more than an enough to keep me going.

@Triumph741 lazy is such a disingenuous criticism. The game has flaws and might be a safe product to some but it’s clear the devs had a lot of passion for it.

Absolutely loving Street Fighter 6. The best fighting game I’ve played in years. Wish they’d dole out some character costumes and new arenas instead of going all in on the avatars I never use. Can’t complain too much since they did just release a new character.

All I remember about this guy’s tenure as boss was his woeful old games are obsolete take and bungling his Roe v. Wade response so badly that a bunch of PlayStation studios had to do it themselves.

I’ll probably wait for a Halloween or Black Friday sale.

Definitely would be interested. I would prefer if there was no dialogue, however. I think the game was at its strongest during the opening when you had to purely intuit the world as the cat and not have robots explain what’s going on as if a cat would be able to understand or empathise lol.

I think the robots were good characters but I would have preferred if they and the cat, two non-human entities, used non verbal cues to communicate. Trying to bridge the gap that the humans left behind.

Hopefully the game continues to receive heavy discounts on PS Store sales. I’m interested to play it post-update but the full price ship has sailed for me.

Literally just got the platinum trophy last night. The game certainly has its flaws but it’s definitely become one of the definitive experiences I’ve had on my PS5 thus far.

First Tales game and I fell in love with it. Will be hoping for some new content of substance.

Medievil: Based on a True Story

We’re living in a fighting game golden age, you love to see it (sans aggressive monetisation).

Nigel West Dickens would be proud of this con.