Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Except, as reader’s of last week’s edition will know, this is a lie. There are no industry folks, cool or otherwise, in this week’s column. It is simply a placeholder – as voted for by you ravenous spine-fiends – while I take a break for the rest of July.
Worth a thousand words.
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Nathan goes mapping the pixels…
What is your greatest video game pet peeve? That one thing that, when present, ruins your experience, no matter how good the game is otherwise? For me, it’s a bad in-game map.
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BAT!
Welcome back to another edition Box Art Brawl!
Last week, we matched up two covers from Capcom’s Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness and oof, it was a close one! Japan’s action-packed cartoony take just about walked away with the win, taking 53% of the vote and leaving Europe and North America’s shared design with the remaining 47%.
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A new Limited Run release.
Lollipop Chainsaw is making a comeback this September on the Switch, and ahead of the remake’s release, pre-orders for the Limited Run collector’s edition and standard edition have gone live.
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Celebrating five years.
Good Smile Company has this week announced some new figures based on the Nintendo Switch exclusive Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
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After a long week, the weekend is finally here, and we’re rounding up some of the best deals you can find. This weekend, you can expect to save on new video games, accessories, and monitors. The best deals for Saturday, July 27, include the Kingdom Hearts All-in-One package, Final Fantasy XVI, the Sony 27″ INZONE M9 Monitor, and more.
If you’re itching to start a new series, Kingdom Hearts is one of the best out there to jump into. From Tetsuya Nomura, Kingdom Hearts mashes together the worlds of Disney and Square Enix to tell the tale of light and darkness. This All-in-One package contains a total of ten games, with everything up to Kingdom Hearts III included. Now is the perfect time to get caught up before Kingdom Hearts IV, so pick up the All-in-One bundle today and jump into Sora’s journey.
Years later, God of War Ragnarok is still one of the best PS5 games you can pick up. This action game acts as the sequel to 2018’s God of War, following Kratos and Atreus as Fimbulwinter looms. If you’ve yet to play this game, this is a great time to pick up Ragnarok at a discount and see why so many players love this series. $37.99 is a fantastic price, and you’re not likely to see anything lower outside of major holiday sales toward the end of the year.
Final Fantasy XVI for PlayStation 5 has hit a new all time low at Amazon at $29.99. As one of the biggest titles of 2023, FFXVI brings a wide variety of new systems and elements to the world of Final Fantasy. You play as Clive Rosfield on a mission to track down the one who killed your brother as a child. You can expect larger-than-life setpieces, mesmerizing boss battles, and a memorable soundtrack from Masayoshi Soken.
The Sony INZONE line of monitors is a fantastic choice for anyone looking to upgrade their display arrangement. This M9 model features a 4K HDR display with a refresh rate of 144Hz. With HDMI 2.1, the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S can take advantage of higher frame rates. Backlighting is a major focus as well, with 96 local dimming zones to ensure no detail goes unnoticed. This is the lowest price the M9 has been at, so now is as good of a time as ever to pick up a new monitor.
You can always use an extra controller, and this PowerA Kirby controller is perfect for Nintendo Switch! One of the best features of this PowerA controller is the addition of two mappable buttons on the map, which can come in handy in fighting games or any other title. Additionally, two AA batteries will power this device for over 30 hours, so you won’t need to charge it.
Amazon has Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition listed for $37.99, which is one of the lowest prices we’ve seen. This is an amazing deal since you’re essentially getting both Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Spider-Man Remastered for under $20 each. Both rarely go on sale for that low, so this is your best option to pick up these games.
For the second time this year, you can pick up Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on sale. This sequel to 2020’s Final Fantasy VII Remake brings Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, and Red XIII outside of Midgar for the very first time, with Sephiroth looming and moving in on his goals. This experience offers well over 100 hours of content, with 36 sidequests and a main story over 40 hours long. If you haven’t played Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, now is the time to score one of the best 2024 titles out there at a discount.
This deal on One Piece Odyssey is fresh, being the lowest we’ve seen this RPG yet. Offering turn-based combat, One Piece Odyssey looks to create a fun experience with an original story featuring the beloved Straw Hat Pirates. If you’ve already played Pirate Warriors 4 and are itching for a return to the world of One Piece, now is the time to do so with Odyssey priced at just $19.99!
HAL be there.
Unless you’re a dedicated Famicom collector, it’s unlikely that you’ve heard of Metal Slader Glory. Released right at the tail end of the Famicom’s life in 1991, the year after the release of the Super Famicom, Metal Slader Glory never made it out of Japan, and it proved to be a massive flop for HAL Laboratory. But the very magnitude of its failure helps to explain the close relationship that exists between Nintendo and HAL today, with the latter producing games like the first two Super Smash Bros. entries and the Kirby series exclusively for Nintendo consoles.
“It’s famous for being one of the most expensive Famicom games of its time,” said Satoru Iwata of Metal Slader Glory in a 1999 interview with Used Games magazine (translated by Shmuplations). Iwata, who became president of HAL in 1993 and then president of Nintendo in 2002, worked as a producer on the game, which took four years to finish in a time when game development was often measured in months, not years. “It’s actually kind of amazing that we stuck to it, persevered, and eventually released it,” he continued, “but from a management perspective it was a mistake.”
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Grimdark hack-and-slasher No Rest For The Wicked has received its first major update – or the first that isn’t focused on bug fixes and performance improvements, anyway. It focuses on revamping the Crucible, the endgame’s repeatable roguelite, adding more randomisation to arenas and a new system of player buffs.
What a horrible night to have a curse.
It’s been a pretty quiet few days in the world of Nintendo, but as we’re all gearing up for a another weekend of gaming, let’s take a peek at some of the highlights of the week.
First up, there’s a new Nintendo Lego set incoming! Hooray! This one looks spectacular and is essentially a replica of the Mario & Yoshi sprite from Super Mario World. It’s gorgeous, but like all Lego, it’s got a hefty price tag. Speaking of Lego, Eiji Aonuma also commented on the upcoming Lego Deku Tree from The Legend of Zelda.
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