Raz Review: "Beautiful, polished, and a stronger focus on what made the
first PoP great...traps, puzzles and lots of cool wall-running moves.
Ceilings too!
You also no longer go it alone - a lot of the
gameplay involves moves that require the assistance of your partner, a
princess who wields magic. There's even a 'banter' button you can press
during your travels - say, between platform leaps - to engage in witty
conversation, which is very well scripted and voiced; and will also
earn you a couple of trophies for being a good traveling companion.
Similarly
to 'Sands of Time', you don't need to worry if you slip and fall - this
time, it isn't a mystic dagger but your partner who steps in and uses
her magic to return you to the nearest platform. While this allows you
to enjoy your beautifully rendered surroundings at greater leisure, it
also (IMHO) makes the game a little *too* easy; as there is seemingly
no limit to this ability.
Combat is fun and engaging, but
infrequent (see my above comment about what made the first PoP great).
It's well balanced at any rate, and the campaign looks long enough to
enjoy over a week or so (assuming you also have other things to do).
If
you enjoyed the others, chances are you'll like this one as well
(though die-hard fans might gripe about it catering more to casual
gamers than previous installments). If you've never played any of the
others...you're in for a treat."
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Rated: 7.5/10
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
