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@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

Hi! Hope you enjoy the review. If you have any lingering questions, tag in myself or @AaronBayne and we'll try to help.

@Nalim Appreciate that, I've updated the article, thanks.

@CrispyMango92 It's just a silly pun on "virtual" haha

I'm not a huge fan of Sonic Colours but will gladly take the other two. Veilguard feels like a huge get!

@Northern_munkey No Man's Sky isn't on the list yet because its user score simply isn't high enough to rank in the top 20.

@Slippship It's about a robot who flies through space and explores dozens of planets so he can rescue his crew and defeat a giant alien. Sounds like sci-fi to me!

@Mostik Haha, I mean it's a fairly popular game so it's definitely doing something right. There's fun to be had with this, it just didn't really gel for me. Thanks for reading

@AdamNovice Tren is fantastic. I still throw the soundtrack on every now and then.

Brilliant. Would love to see UK mags added in future, but what's already here is amazing.

@Hyena_socks No narration!

For me it depends. Rest mode is very useful if I want to download something overnight or charge controllers, but if there's no real need for the PS5 to be in that state, I'll shut it down. I suppose it's just a holdover from habitually shutting down computers and older consoles when I was younger; leaving it in Rest mode unnecessarily feels wrong

@PuppetMaster I'm 34

To be clear, I have absolutely no problem with, and in fact very much relish, a game presenting a challenge, and I completely understand the old arcade sensibilities you and others are describing. However, with all that in mind, it's my opinion that the lack of ways to earn more continues is a step too far — especially when combined with ill-placed difficulty spikes and inconsistent input recognition.

@RZ-Atom Once you choose a difficulty you are locked in, so if you decide you want to play on easy for the unlimited retries, you've got to start again.

It's not a long game, so it isn't the end of the world, but I still think the inability to earn yourself more attempts in the higher difficulties is too much. At least the easy mode is there, but again, I found the difficulty modes too rigidly designed. More power to anybody who's looking for that tough challenge, of course, but I believe there are friendlier ways to achieve that.

@RZ-Atom Typically, games with limited lives or continues will give you ways to earn more, by collecting coins or finding 1-ups or rewarding skilled play. This doesn't have any of that, so if and when you run out of continues, your run is done, and you aren't afforded the opportunity to try and extend it. It just struck me as a little too restrictive.

@somnambulance Free-to-play.

@Mikey856 Best of luck and congratulations!

@Member_the_game The majority of our audience is from the US, so we tend to default to USD these days, but GBP prices should be in there when relevant, you're right. Added them in (though not for our poll results).

Updated. Very likely a false alarm, sorry folks.

Another one I've been itching to play all year, really pleased it's coming to PlayStation.

@Wario_Waha I understand your point, but whether it constitutes its own separate experience or not, it's still just part of a whole. If it was truly standalone that would be different.

I think the best solution would be a Best DLC or Best Additional Content category where stuff like Erdtree can be celebrated, and Best Game/Game of the Year can remain for full games. The way it is right now simply doesn't make sense to me.

@Wario_Waha But it literally is not separate. You have to already own (and have played a significant amount of) Elden Ring before you can play Erdtree.

The category is Game of the Year; Erdtree is an add-on for a game. In other words, it isn't a full game in its own right. It shouldn't be eligible.

I think DLC should have its own category, where Erdtree would likely take the award, but it feels out of place among full games. It doesn't matter how good it is.

Very cool, and hopefully the start of a series. Being able to build all the machines would be great.

You can make an argument for remakes/remasters being eligible but any DLC that isn’t completely standalone shouldn’t be included.

@JimmyRiddle @Cerny One thing to remember is that you can toggle on an option in the settings that replaces motion controls with the left stick, which makes climbing quite a lot easier.

Been meaning to play this, glad it's coming to PlayStation!

@rjejr I think it's four main chapters, each with five or six levels. If you beeline it through the story, it's probably below 12 hours. My save is just above 20 hours but I was messing with customisation and doing apex hunts etc on top of the main story.

I want to be clear — the people saying that this is just like the other LEGO games? The level design here is much simpler even than any other LEGO game you can think of. I haven't played them all but I recall levels having secret areas, collectibles to find, alternate paths you can take with different characters — none of that is in LEGO Horizon's stages. It's very pretty, and the combat is good fun, but the levels themselves are painfully straightforward.

@ThaBEN Once you finish a chapter's set of campaign levels (I think five or six typically), Apex Hunts for that area become available. I think there are four of these for each chapter. After you finish those, Free Mode unlocks, and you can do that as often as you want.

The Free Mode stages don't have any cutscenes associated with them but, content wise, they're pretty much identical to the campaign levels. The combat throughout the game is fun and definitely the best part of gameplay.

It's fun in co-op but there's a real lack of collectibles, diverging paths etc that normally motivate exploration.

It's tough because LEGO Horizon does have its bright spots and your son may well enjoy it, but I'd argue that LEGO Marvel Superheroes and other past LEGO games have more going on than this does, moment-to-moment.

Personally I'd sooner recommend Sonic X Shadow Generations as there's simply more to do; particularly in Shadow's half of the game, the levels are intricate, there are things to find, you can replay stages for improved scores/ranks etc. The downside is no co-op, but I suppose you could take turns?

@Rob_230 The level layout in Free Mode is randomised each time, so no, you're not revisiting levels from the campaign.

Happy to answer any questions, as always

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@Maubari Haha, I've played all stages and challenges, but not collected absolutely everything, so that's all it is. I haven't seen those other two tracks either yet, as it so happens!

@Maubari I've not collected every single track, though I have most of them, and so far I haven't seen Endless Possibilities.

@AdamNovice Sonic Generations' remaster is definitely better constructed than Colours'. It does have one or two odd hitches, as I mention, but it's mostly very smooth sailing.

Happy to answer any questions

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@MARl0 Hopefully the parrot's improvements will make that portion a little easier.