Demolition Girl when?

Dead to Rights would be cool. And Beatdown: Fists of Vengeance. And God Hand.

Cool to hear about this stuff though since PlayStation haven't really been vocal about what's involved in the emulation effort.

(I want trophies for all of them though)

I appreciate the YO-KAI Disco gag. I guess I'll have that stuck in my head for the foreseeable future.

Decent month at face value, but better than usual for me because I don't own any of the games. Mainly interested in Eiyuuden. And Deus Ex if it has trophies. If not, it's dead to me because I am an idiot. Firebreak is a maybe.

I may have to give Katamari another go; I gave up just short (kinda) of the platinum on the first one. Maybe it was stick drift, maybe it just wasn't for me.

I doubt I'm young enough to be part of the demographic they're talking about, but I watch a lot of anime and I have very little interest in anime adaptations of games in general outside of visual novels, let alone PlayStation IPs. That said, I can genuinely imagine an Everybody's Golf anime working. And maybe Gravity Rush if they ditch the made-up language (I've hated made-up languages since Star Wars Episode 1...).

Yeah, I can't think of any reason Hideo Kojima would put Hideo Kojima's favourite VTuber in a Hideo Kojima game full of cameos.

40 consecutive trailers of games in the same genre doesn't seem like a great idea. I imagine a lot of them will be Chrono Trigger inspired and similar-seeming. I hope it raises the profile of some cool games though. I really need to get around to playing more JRPGs.

Huh. I'd forgotten it was made in Australia. As a Melburnian, I suppose I should get around to playing Hollow Knight and possibly checking this out.

I liked CRYMACHINA a lot and thought the Caligula games were pretty decent. They all half-arsed the cutscenes though, so the voice acting did some heavy lifting. I also find it difficult to get excited about a school setting.

Seems like a great update and I'll probably have the platinum soon, but I wouldn't mind them adding more story stuff. The big updates have only added 1 to 3 hours of sidestory stuff, which is not a lot for a whole month. I've still somehow wasted over 250 hours on this game despite the lack of content. I suspect the new outfit will be another insane grind of stuff requiring daily energy.

As the article suggests, I'm sure they make way more money from their mobile games than from Stellar Blade. I'm keen for a sequel, hopefully with better story and characters.

Also, I had no idea there was a Raeliana mobile game, let alone that Shift Up made something like that.

As a fan of the series since the PS2, this doesn't seem like much of a loss if they're just George Lucasing it, but I wonder if there'll be any meaningful gameplay tweaks.

I wouldn't be too surprised if it came to PS5, but I'm not really expecting it to.

No Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive Xtreme, huh?

(I haven't played that or anything else new)

I'm not going to buy it at launch, but I'm interested. I only played half an hour of the original, but I still get the battle theme and opening music stuck in my head.

If they're overhauling the combat, that sounds like the kind of thing that remasters/remakes should be: fixing games that were originally flawed rather than just giving us the games that were universally loved at higher resolutions.

It's a shame they're Atlussing it by not releasing the two games in one package and also adding day-one DLC.

I think any decent kart racer is worth playing. Doesn't sound like this would've turned out well though.

I'm sure they'll release a watch and a Crono bored ape JPEG to celebrate, but I hope they release a straight port with the original graphics to current consoles.

I'm sure it'll sell fine, but won't meet Ubisoft's expectations of 8 billion copies in the first 6 minutes.

It's worth keeping in mind that they mention players and not sales. You can play it on PC with a Ubisoft+ subscription, which wouldn't contribute to Steam numbers.

I think most of the controversy around the game is valid, but I've never been interested in the series anyway.

That's a fun article title to parse.

Tales of Kenzera is fairly short (even to platinum), if anyone's wondering. It's pretty good, played it at launch.

I'm not deep into anything at the moment, so might give Animal Well or Nour a go.

I'm one of the people who bought Lost Crown recently to ensure it would come to the catalogue immediately. You're welcome, guys.

The minimum specs don't look like that much of a stretch for the PS5.

You think that's bad? Every time I visit the PlayStation Store in a browser it pops up a modal dialog in the corner telling me Assassin's Creed Shadows is coming out soon and that I should preorder it.

What's funny about the stroking and jumping varieties of shovelware is that they're not even that cheap. They don't get steep discounts, so they end up costing as much as actual games that do. I strongly recommend people who want to track prices or scroll through what's on sale use third-party sites to do so, since you can just hide games you don't want to see.

I must say though, Stroke The Dik Dik is a 10/10 title.

More importantly, Noah has his eyes closed in that pic.

@PuppetMaster Oh, I meant the way combos break and result in no points if you get hit while they're active, so you have to wait around for them to time out to get the points. I only did a single playthrough with a friend around launch and never went back to it. I'm sure I could get used to it, but I hate it as a design decision.

The trailer music doesn't make me optimistic about the soundtrack, but it could go either way.

The combo system in SOR4 was a big turnoff for me. I'll just hope this turns out well.

It didn't bother me in gameplay, but the proportions of her head looked off to me. I think Tachy, Adam, Lily, and the girl from the junk shop looked better.

I like the facial features and hair of the prototype better.

I played Castlevania Portrait of Ruin. If the PSN had been up, I would've played Castlevania Portrait of Ruin. It was from another of my accounts (the collection was cheaper on the Japanese store), but both accounts have my PS5 as a primary console.

I assumed Infinity Nikki wasn't going to work (though it sounds like it would've), so I tapped a few buttons on my phone to spend my energy.

I think a lot of the backlash is valid. Especially around things like the disc drive requiring the authentication server to pair, or people who set aside time in their busy schedules to play or let their children play something. It was only a day though, so it's more of a wake-up call that things will be a bit worse than last time if the network gets 2011ed again.

It was funny seeing people post the screenshot of what it says when you try to launch a game without offline play enabled, including the explanation of how to enable it. Not that they could enable it without the PSN, but at least the reason is clear.

@Member_the_game I'm on the Deluxe tier (no Premium in Australia due to no streaming) and was able to extend my sub by a year at the discounted rate in early December, so it now expires late next year. I'd checked a week earlier and it didn't look like it was going to apply the discount, so I don't know if they changed the terms or what. Either way, it's worth giving it another shot.

Easy. 9/15. Would've done better if I hadn't second-guessed myself on a few of the guesses and if I'd remembered the name of that planet.

I've only played/platinumed the HD trilogy (third one bugged out when I'd almost maxed all the weapons and I had to start a new save), Q-Force, and All 4 One, so I've got a lot left to enjoy. The trilogy getting emulated versions on PS4/PS5 at some point is almost guaranteed.

I don't care much for The Sims, but if we ever got ports of the GBA versions of The Sims: Bustin' Out and The Urbz with trophy support I would be very happy. It'd never happen though.

It's worth keeping in mind that CERO isn't just strict on violence. You won't see any female nipples or illicit drug use in Japanese releases of console games.

ANNO and Citizen Sleeper are what I'm interested in. The latter doesn't seem like my kind of thing, but I've heard very good things.

I fear the ending of Gaiden won't have much impact for anyone who hasn't played most of the series and none of them are on the catalogue anymore, aside from Ishin. It's a great game for fans of the series, though the story's a bit iffy outside of a few key moments. Good soundtrack too.

If I'm buying around the launch of a game, I'll buy physical. The RRP for full-price standard-edition PS5 games is $110-$125 in Australia (AUD, tax inclusive). Digital games sell for that price, while physical prices are never that high unless you go out of your way to get a bad deal. I bought Infinite Wealth at launch for $99 (not including a 10% off everything deal the store had that day) instead of $115 and Stellar Blade for $109 instead of $125.

I haven't bought Astro Bot, but it was $89 physically at launch compared to $110 digitally. It was down to ~$60 by Christmas. Digitally, it's dropped to $93.45 a couple of times.

Also, very minor, but physical games often launch here before the digital versions due to timezones and Australia being part of Europe as far as PSN is concerned.

I don't sell my games since I'm a bit of a hoarder, but I do lend them to people.

I do buy a lot of digital games, but only if they're heavily discounted or not otherwise available.

As I've gotten older and realised how many people deal with reading difficulties (dyslexia, etc), I've softened a bit on the concept of dubs. That said, I have low cringe tolerance and English dubs still give me a similar feeling to when amateur scat videos wander into my line of sight. But stronger. It just feels like people who may well be good actors normally putting on silly voices.

Plus, I know just enough Japanese to understand a lot of the jokes. Understandably, they have to be rewritten completely to work in other languages, but I don't really feel like listening to the localisation team's open mic material. With Japanese audio, I can hear the original dialogue and just pick out any keywords I didn't understand from the subs.

I've also heard the argument (very recently, in person) that dubs are good for multitasking, but if I try to watch or play something while doing something else I get absolutely nothing out of either activity. Which is probably a me problem, but it feels like the entertainment is being treated as a chore on a checklist.

I'd be happier if I didn't already own Sonic, FIST, and Coffee Talk 1, but I wanted A Space for the Unbound and Coffee Talk 2. The usual feeling of being "punished" for buying games aside, it's a great month.

I'm happy to hear they're improving their PS2 emulation too. I'll play the Sly trilogy again at some point.

15/15; not bad. I had to guess the last one, but the rest were easy. I'm just happy my brain can actually retain information sometimes.