Might be the most "they hired this man" art style ever.

Is the meta progression still as prevalent as in the first, or is it toned down at all? I liked Hades a lot when I first started playing it, but it quickly began to feel like I was just grinding for upgrades rather than making genuine attempts to clear it; they're very centralising.

Further thoughts: backloggd.com/u/Bradaloop/...

It really does look so much worse at higher resolutions.

Thoughts on the new ones?

Will this one actually be fixed on disk/cart? Laughably terrible QC on the first game.

Does the game precompile shaders yet? Shader comp stutter is one of the only reasons I've not bought this yet. I bought it on PS5 at one point, to avoid this, but ended up selling it again after finding out it didn't properly support KBM there.

I am more interested to see more of MP4 now tho. It seemed like more of the same until now & this could potentially be a welcome shake-up if done well.

The new FE looks very promising - another Fodlan story is really welcome. Rlly hope the gameplay is close to Engage and the story is not at all.

Making this into a Direct reaction thread now I guess:

Pokémon and DK getting paid DLC already is kind of crazy.

Awesome Galaxy is being freed of pointer menus & 1080p, sucks that 3DAS owners will likely need to rebuy for these.

Galaxy and amiibo prices are insane.

Prime 4 open-world looks 😬.

On the flip side, the Dragon Quest 7 remake looked genuinely gorgeous. Better than 11, even. Very likely that I'm going to pick it up at some point, but do still need to finish 11.

It's not his fault he was shown a subpar build of the game.

Will there be subtitles?

If anything, I'm glad that I got it physically so I can potentially sell my copy and get it on any other platform. It seems to otherwise be the best way to play Investigations and seems to perform far better on PS4 and PC. I wonder if all versions of the game have the deadzone issue, or just Switch?

I kind of regret buying this at full price tbh. Game has a ton of issues - stuttering during investigation phases, brief pauses when opening menus, some pauses in animation. Investigations 2 also has completely different deadzones to 1 for some bizarre reason. They did not QA this at all.

Would honestly be very surprised if the MK team did the Booster Course Pass, given the quality of those courses and World's release timing.

This did not fix the discover feed being freaky.