HallowMoonshadow

I'm hyped!

I just hope the cynic in me isn't right about these being a chore to grind or worse overly priced microstransactions/cosmetic DLC 😅

While these might be two critically acclaimed games, it seems to me that is a bad month for the service as a whole.

You've got one game that's two/three hours long with limited replayability and a multiplayer only (basically) game that's better with friends on the couch/sofa

They're both pretty niche to the more general gaming public so I'm not surprised there's such an overwhelmingly negative response to this month's offering.

I've never had plus myself (barring a free trial) and it's the one month where I'm not a tad jealous of the offering

... You're kidding me?! 😂

This is... WOW

Not expected in the slightest, genuinely thought it'd be a switch port!

Touché Atlus!

Seeing as I don't play many open world games (...I think Horizon is the last one I bought?) I still might get this sooner or later

Considering how the Dark Souls board game made barrels of money in seconds as well this is unsurprising in every sense of the word... Looks neat though!

Nice! A good piece of box/cover art is always appreciated by me... And that's top notch!

Would be even better if it was reversible with a take on the original box art on the other side!

Ehhhhh... I think I'm done with Persona sadly.

Or at least I don't want any more of 5. It's a shame but I'll have to pass

That's snow joke

... Seriously though it looks pretty darn good!

Avengers: Age of Microtransactions?

I kid... Hopefully 😥

Genuinely surprised World War Z got into the number 1 spot! I thought it was gonna be in tenth spot or something at best. Shows what I know

Next week will be interesting to see however on whether this is just because of a slow week...

Still no desire to get it, but that's a nice playful sleeve

No problem @Athrum apologies for not being clearer in my original post👍

I didn't even know there was a UK branch til this morning to be honest

As @ztpayne7 says @Athrum a Kotaku UK article accused the song "Life will change" of saying retar- (you finish it off) instead of "retort it" and accused Atlus/Sega/Nintendo of being offensive to disabled people

People then called the journalist racist because of Lyn's thick Japanese accent of singing in English which she isn't fluent in

... and then when proven wrong, Kotaku failed to take down the original piece and put out a half-hearted apology on a separate page which still ended up doubling down on the original article

Then the journalist who wrote the initial piece tried to go on social media to defend herself and explain that her editor removed contextual parts of the article, and published it without her knowledge.

Her editor demanded that she stop talking publicly because it was making them look bad, in full view of everybody.

Both articles have since been removed.

All in all an absolute farce!

Thanks goes to @RogerRoger for the extra detail about the aftermath!

No Mileena no buy!

I didn't find X's story that good at all honestly (sloppily written in fact) despite the praise it got (Cassie is just as awful as Jacqui, Kung Jin and Takeda)

So I'll wait til 11's Komplete edition is £5... Though maybe it'll go up to ten if Ash Williams and The Terminator really are DLC Kharacters

Spooky! Been talking about this at length in the chat thread about the Kotaku (EDIT Kotaku UK) controversy that happened over the weekend!

... Also looking forward to finally hearing more info!

Just hoping they don't say tune in 28th of May to find out more after only learning that the thieves will get an alternate costume or Morgana will say go to bed an extra 20% 😂

... Terminator, Ash and Sindel are pretty cool...

Where's Mileena though?! I need my sai crazy rolly ball MAIN lady! Fangs for nuthin' Netherrealm

Waiting for my copy of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth- Hacker's memory

So BioShock on PS3 still for me!

Didn't David Duchovny voice the main character?

Remember playing this on a Official PlayStation 2 Demo disc... was pretty fun if I recall

@Wesker & @carlos82

If being pedantic then yeah they actually are part of SoTN's and in turn the Metroidvania genre as we wouldn't of had it if not for these previous entries (I understand these play and are different though)

... Perhaps I should've said series instead... had I known the dumb catch all name for the genre doesn't mean jack for these eight or so titles in the series (That's incredibly dumb)

Thanks though guys for the info!

As someone who's very first Metroidvania was Hollow Knight... I'm quite interested in going back to the genre's roots and looking at these

@ShogunRok

Perhaps they're saving the mass effect trilogy for a FF7 style remake?

Except BioWare doesn't want to admit that it's the best it can do? Or realise it's the only card they've really got left to play at the moment...

Not to mention there's the whole BioWare putting job listings up for: a system designer for item creation, a second system designer but for combat balance, another system designer but this time for store management and reward pipeline, and last of all a senior system designer for the loot systems

... doesn't sound too good at all

This whole game is a complete joke and I don't understand why they're bothering making a Dragon age 4 with the Anthem framework if it's just gonna be another absolute farce like this has been

I wouldn't touch Anthem with a hundred foot bargepole and I certainly wouldn't touch DA4 with it either despite actually enjoying Inquisition over DA 1 & 2

Good initial tease/reveal, I'm currently all in!

... not that after 4 generations of playstation I was suddenly gonna go Xbox... But so far Sony's got me once again

Ok... I'm in! This looks real fun!

... I haven't even got that free theme yet nevermind the actual game!

I do hope to give it a whirl soon though as it does sound like a wonderful experience!

And yet Dragon Age 4 is apparently "Anthem with Dragons" now with ALL the monetisation?

... I'll wait til it's out before believing any of this tripe 😂

Going with the classic BioShock 1 on PS3 (I forgot how much I love this game) and maybe some Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga for PS2 on the side.

Best part is it's the Easter Holidays so while I have a few meetings and a bunch of lesson plans to crunch through, i can actually get some gaming done too!

Next you'll be reporting that the Push Square towers kitchen sink is best mates with Kojima and is in awe of Death Stranding! 😉

There's:

• Komodo Moe
• N.Brio
• Tawna
• Koala Kong

That could quite easily be added to the roster from the N.Sane/original Trilogy (Yes. I'm a bit of a crash nerd 😊)

There's also;

• Baby Rex (For another animal slot)
• A lab assistant (They're recognisable enough characters)
• The four Trophy girls (Ami, Isabella, Liz & Megumi they're called apparently) from the original CTR (A very long shot, but it'd be pretty neat nod to the original)
• Rilla Roo from Crash Bash (Though why would they ever bring him back?)
• Nina Cortex could also appear seeing as Crunch is confirmed to be in it and wasn't in CTR at least
• The ones from CNK already listed

And of course Spyro.

Which could open up a bunch more characters from his series...

Aww no problem @ShogunRok ! Happy to help 😄

Now all I need is Tawna confirmed! Or heck even the trophy girls if they wanna keep the weird never seeing Tawna again thing going.

I don't like doing this to the kids at school (Despite y'know... being a teacher) But @ShogunRok Dr N. Tropy and Pura are a touch misspelled in the guide... or at least Tropy's was down to autocorrect 😅

@Flaming_Kaiser

Not really, I've never played either version of SOTC and never looked at them either... Just know the basic premise and don't recall the reviews mentioning any changes 😛

And

Dark Souls >>>>>>>> Dark Souls III >> Demon's Souls > Dark Souls 2 + Bloodborne

Then I'd have no problem with it @geordie

I mean... It COULD be a less drastic change of Demon's souls then I'm imagining... like say all the maps becoming interconnected à la Dark Souls 1 or your suggestion of the Sixth Archstone content being added in.

Problem is that doesn't sound like much of a re-envisioning if I'm honest (to me at least).

Your suggestion is, like you said, more of a remaster and from Bluepoint's comment in the article it sounds like the company is doing something much more radical, going beyond a remaster/remake of a game to something along the lines of a complete overhaul and change to an established game/series.

I haven't actually played Shadow Of The Colossus (either one in fact), but I seem to recall that bluepoint's game added in some minor collectables that wasn't present in the original.

It's not much but they've already added slight changes to a game.

So... I'd be surprised if this project turns out to be nothing more then adding some cut content and slapping a fresh coat of paint to Demon's Souls (Even if that's pretty much what I'd want, maybe make the gameplay a little more like DS III too or at least a little more fluid)

...That's what I get from the word re-envision anyway... I could be completely wrong in my assumption and focusing far too much on one word and it's connotation! 😄

If by "re-envisioning" it means fundamentally changing the game...Then I wouldn't want it to be Demon's Souls they're working on.

People (me included) are rather fond of the Souls gameplay, not to mention the storytelling and the likes... I'd rather hate to see that changed.

Plus I'm incredibly unsure of WHAT it could be changed to

Though @Areus ' mention of Legend Of Dragoon was quite interesting... As that's a game I feel COULD actually do with a re-envisioning.

I only played the game for the first time a few years back (Enjoyed it quite a bit, much more then the overhyped FFVII) but switching it up from a turn based RPG to something action oriented could be fairly beneficial to the series...

And it fits in with the whole character artists with armour and weapon asset experience job that Bluepoint put out

... Though as the article suggests, it could have absolutely nothing to do with Sony... Still a woman can dream! 😅

... I'd definitely go for a persona 3 FES port! Best story of 3, 4 & 5 in my opinion (Though basing around the moon means it has some VERY poor pacing)

I know what they're going for here...

... But that's some pretty garish and (to me) quite ugly box art! 😲

Maybe it'll have a reversible cover? Or maybe I'll just reverse it anyway...

Persona 5: Super Royal?

Persona 5: Suplex?

Persona 5: Soccer?

The possibilities are endless!

Least it's not "Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army"

That's like kingdom hearts level of bad naming... Though this isn't exactly stellar 😅

Elder Scrolls: Blades will probably take up half the presentation... Y'know that wonderful little mobile game that's totally not filled with greedy microstransactions like opening chests for like five, ten or thirty one bucks a pop depending on the chest rarity...

...oh wait... 😜

You gouda be kidding me? 😉

£5 a pack isn't TOO bad to be honest... Especially for some co-op/multiplayer fun

Just let me play it by myself without needing my rubbish internet connection on at all times and you've got my money right away Gearbox 😅

That was a pretty slick trailer not gonna lie... Looking forward to seeing more!

Something about Sekiro just hasn't grabbed my attention... Not quite sure what exactly is causing my hesitation though.

Hopefully I'll be proven wrong eventually and it'll go up there with all the souls games as one of my best gaming experiences.

... Learning that I need to un-learn the Souls combat shouldn't be too hard though... I beat Demon Souls (After six different starts as six different characters) by rushing into everything headfirst like a madwoman... not sure to this day how I managed that 😅

Good review though! @Quintumply

So EA isn't there just yet then at being the world's greatest games company? 😉

I have no particular love for Bioware (Dragon Age origins was alright, I enjoyed Inquisition a tiny bit more and haven't touched anything else they've made) and on one hand I'm kinda sorry for them...

...but this is somehow even worse then Fallout 76! I didn't think things could get lower then that...

Thanks very much for the answers @ShogunRok !

Looks like I know what I'll be playing over the weekend!

Ha ha Well considering I've got a 100+ save file of SMT3: Lucifer's Call for the PS2 going on at the moment, I think I'll manage this just fine! @Wazeddie22

Oh and how's the soundtrack/score @ShogunRok ?

That was a well written review @ShogunRok ! Always heard about it (in particular it being compared to persona) but never got around to getting it on PS3... Definitely on my radar now!

How long is the average playtime?

Sounds pretty darn good for a new game+

... Just need to actually finish it first!

It was... ok... I guess? Average at best, and poor at worst?

There was some neat new announcements and a few new details to stuff already revealed (So excited for Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled!), but at the same there isn't exactly a whole lot they can show either without going on about the same things they've already mentioned fifty times over already.

Couldn't quite believe how negative every other comment section was that was reporting on this though. It's not like they were threatening puppies on stream or anything 😐

I'm from the UK and don't own GTA V... haven't played it and I don't plan to.

... Are people using the discs as coasters or something? 😶