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@Shigurui You're quite right, fixed. Apologies for the oversight!

@themightyant Yes you can.

@bluemage1989 This is my genuine opinion of the game, I really love it. Having said that, I'd encourage you (or anybody) to read and watch other reviews and coverage and make up your own mind.

Updated the text — I've been informed that user-made content will in fact not be available on consoles. Sorry about that!

@JackiePriest He has his little cape, it's just not visible in these images

@Fiendish-Beaver No connection with Wreckfest

@Andee Nah I don't think so, it's a fairly self-contained story.

@Fiendish-Beaver It's not too bad to be honest. Square for light attacks, Triangle for heavier attacks, and many combos just have you mixing them up.

There are some command inputs for special attacks but they're actually uniform across all weapons, such as a circle motion on the left stick then Square/Triangle, or left stick back, then forward, then Square/Triangle.

I honestly wouldn't worry about having to remember a thousand combos — you'll be fine just attacking with the basic combo strings and using Bloodraven form when needed.

If you want, I think there's actually an option to have auto combos, if you're playing on the easiest difficulty.

@Ricky-Spanish On the Nintendo eShop it's listed as £24.99, so it'll almost certainly be the same for PlayStation Not sure about the physical editions.

@Nf157 I think split screen is only available offline, but I'll double check when I can.

@rjejr It has online multiplayer but I was unable to sample this. I don't think there were enough people trying to matchmake at once, at least at the times I tried.

It worked perfectly fine for me during the online beta though!

@ShadowRJ The Sonic R theme gets a remix of sorts in the game But yes, would love to see more of that OST in CrossWorlds.

Happy to answer questions

@Nalim 🫡

@Ypmud I'd say they have, this is my personal favourite game Lizardcube has made so far. Streets of Rage 4 was great for what it was but this is more up my alley. Really love this one.

@Kraven Doesn't seem too hard, most of the Trophies are about 100%-ing the game. There are some tough ones though, like beating the game in under 10 hours, earning S rank on every stage in Arcade mode, and beating Boss Rush mode.

@PuppetMaster Upon completing the game you unlock Arcade mode and Boss Rush.

There is no harder difficulty as far as I'm aware; there's the standard difficulty and you can make it easier if you want.

New costumes (just different colours basically) are collectibles in stages.

I think the art/music viewer stuff is only a bonus for the Digital Deluxe edition.

@Bingoboyop My personal preference is Shinobi having played them both, but they're doing slightly different things. I really enjoyed both and think both are very much worth playing, but Shinobi takes the biscuit for me.

Happy to answer any questions, as always!

As some have already said, it was okay but the real problem was the pace of it. It was two hours, but it was two hours that felt much longer; it really dragged in places.

There were many interesting games shown, but it would've been more impactful if the whole thing was condensed down. If it was a really snappy one-hour show instead, I feel like impressions would be better.

Gamescom Opening Night Live always has the problem of only being a couple of months after Summer Game Fest. Gamescom itself is fine, but the opening showcase suffers a bit because, of the two, SGF is the prime spot. There's not enough "big" news to spread across the two summer shows and so ONL tends to be weaker.

@KundaliniRising333 Strange, the post has been taken down. I've updated the article, thanks.

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@Simulated-Soul Unfortunately there isn't a platinum Trophy.

@Ellie-Moo Yeah, I’m not a fan of the animation style in general on the main character and enemies. It’s that sort of puppet-y style that’s quite common in lower budget games. It doesn’t look very good in my opinion.

@ear_wig I didn’t notice any issues at all playing on a standard PS5.

@somnambulance From what I've seen, other critics are kinder to Ruffy! It wasn't really doing it for me at all sadly. Thanks for reading

@TechaNinja I think it's a different singer.

@Blauwe_Chimay Not quite, it's more focused just on making deliveries — hitching up a trailer, hauling it to its destination, repeat — with some maintenance/survival aspects. RoadCraft has a more diverse range of vehicles and mission types.

But it has some similar sensibilities, like the slow pace and "realistic" approach.

I agree with basically everything Sammy's said; I think it was an absolute rock solid State of Play, probably one of the better ones they've done so far. Maybe I just got lucky, but there was quite a lot in the show that had me really excited (Lumines, 007, new Astro Bot stuff, Pragmata). Really good.

Easily one of Sony's best State of Play presentations, in my book. I thought every game shown looked good to great, and there were lots of neat surprises. I'm not much of a fighting game guy, but Marvel Tokon is undeniably a major get (and it looks excellent).

Personal highlight is probably Lumines Arise — I love that series and I'm so pleased it's getting a new game in the Tetris Effect style. Suits it down to the ground. Can't wait

@Oram77 Yes — Light No Fire.

I think God of War would lend itself to a Metroidvania structure very well. Could totally see this. Kinda want it now!

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@Drago201 It's more a time issue than a difficulty issue, really.

I love this damn game but there's no way I'm doing the Platinum grind for it. Tip of the hat to Cerny, though, what a legend.

This only makes me more interested!

@LogicStrikesAgain They can probably sell this comfortably for $50 because they know how much money they're gonna make on GTA 6 for $70-$80!

@KidRisky It's like Blue Prince except for the many ways in which it isn't at all like it

@FuriousMachine I went with the information from the official site, it's possible the earlier time shown on Twitch is an error, or maybe it'll be live earlier with a pre-show of some kind. Guess we'll find out soon enough Thanks!

@wildcat_kickz My assumption is they're co-developing with Bit Reactor, but perhaps we'll learn more at Star Wars Celebration

Hey! Thanks for reading as always Happy to answer any questions, but obviously won't be spoiling anything. Just copy me in

@Nekomichu The demo skips the prologue where a lot of details set up the story, but essentially it's the start of the game, yeah.

@Dodoo Croc has a far more interesting and worthy legacy than that, including ties to Nintendo before SM64 was a thing.

@Shigurui Fixed 🫡

This looks lovely!

It's a strange move. 4's levels were much larger, built to be played with no time limit, and they were filled with goals you'd trigger yourself — each of which necessitated two minutes. It sounds like the game's stages will have to be quite significantly truncated to fit the older style. It'll be interesting to see the result, but to fundamentally change the structure and level design of 4 — I get why some people are upset.

@Perturbator Brothers was developed at Starbreeze before the team splintered off to form Hazelight.

@Deadhunter There's no requirement to chat, but what I will say is there are a few moments throughout the game that would be pretty tough if you weren't communicating (platforming you have to do in-sync with each other for example). Not impossible, though!

@Kienda Where possible, we do drop a second opinion into big reviews — it's nice to include another perspective, as you say.

@Deoxyr1bose I'm fairly certain it's a $50 game