Take your adventure into the wizarding world, with the all-new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them™ Story Pack! Play the complete movie in the LEGO® DIMENSIONS™ multiverse and help Newt Scamander find his escaped magical creatures in New York City, across 6 action-packed levels of gameplay. Use a variety of spells, including Diffindo, Reparo and Lumos, and interact with creatures like the Niffler, Swooping Evil, Bowtruckle and more. You can even build the Niffler and then rebuild it into the Sinister Scorpion and Vicious Vulture. Customize the LEGO Toy Pad with the MACUSA gateway build, and unlock the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Adventure World and Battle Arena.By far, the most popular DIY project for the Raspberry Pi is to use it as a retro game console. So, with the release of the Raspberry Pi 3 a lot of people are curious how it performs in comparison to older models. Adafruit did a live stream showing just that. Adafruit’s video is just a stream with a base setup of Retropie, so some of the glitches they run into are likely things that you could troubleshoot around.
Regardless, the video does a good job of showing how the emulators look and perform on the new Raspberry Pi 3. If you don’t feel like watching the video, the basics are pretty straightforward: NES, Game Boy, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo 64, and Playstation all work great. They had decent luck with some PSP games, but had some sound glitches along the way. They also had trouble with emulation on Saturn games and Dreamcast games (which could just be a control setup problem), and couldn’t get Nintendo DS or Sega CD games to load at all. If you head over to YouTube, they’ve included time codes to jump to specific parts in the video for each console if you’re curious about how one system looks. Raspberry Pi 3 Emulator Testing with Tony D! | Dragon Quest WarriorWarrior IiNintendo VideoNintendo NesNes GamesGames I VeNes DragonHilarious DragonNes DreamsForwardDragon Warrior II - One of the first games my father and I played. It has a special place in my heart.The creator of Sonic The Hedgehog returns with a new Wii and Wii U game that attempts to revive the glory days of his earlier creations.
For a game that’s all about the magic and euphoria of flight there’s something very sad and melancholic about Rodea The Sky Soldier. It will probably end up being most famous as the last officially licensed Wii game. Although we’re sure the developers would prefer it was remembered as a spiritual sequel to NiGHTS and the redemption of Sonic The Hedgehog creator Yuji Naka. In the end though it’s not really any of those things, just another Wii and Sonic-related disappointment. To be fair, being the last Wii game is not something the creators themselves have claimed. And in reality that dubious honour will probably go to Just Dance 2017 or some obscure shovelware. It’s not as if the game was started late either, as it was actually finished in 2010 – two years before the Wii U was even launched. But publisher dithering never saw the game actually released and in the end it was converted into the Wii U version you see here. The Wii version does still exist though and is included with the first print run of the Wii U game.
Both versions have the same premise and story, but the control systems are vastly different. We’ll get into that later but in terms of plot and characters everything is straight out of the big book of Japanese role-playing cliché. That includes a robot character given a human heart by a princess, a convenient bout of amnesia, and an evil empire that only you can stop. In terms of gameplay there is a strong resemblance to Saturn classic NiGHTS, although Rodea does attempt to be more open-ended. Your flight time is a limited resource, but as long as you keep on top of things you’ll spend relatively little time running around on the ground. Once your flying meter runs out you don’t actually have to land but can jump off any object or enemy in the air and still recharge yourself that way. The game never gives you complete freedom to fly wherever you want though, as you always have to be aiming at a target – even if it’s just a small platform for you to recharge from. It’s not exactly on-the-rails but a curious halfway house that presents a fairly unique skill to master, as you’re always on the lookout for a new target to get you closer to where you want to go.
The level are extremely large but the draw distance is not, and sadly the graphics show the game’s origins on the Wii all too well. The maps are extremely sparsely populated in terms of enemies and things to do, to the point where it seems reasonable to speculate whether they’re even properly finished. The art style is relatively attractive, but the game’s riddled by slowdown, object and texture pop-in, and lots of minor bugs and glitches. The Wii U version uses the analogue sticks to aim, but it’s horribly over sensitive and imprecise. And yet Rodea’s movements when flying are the inverse: slow and unresponsive. Even more irritating though is the camera, which can only be moved in 90 degree steps and seems to specifically aim to get stuck behind every enemy and piece of scenery available. To defend himself Rodea has a charge attack that’s straight out of the 3D Sonic games. But he also has a small variety of guns, which inevitably begins to create comparisons to games like Star Fox and Sin & Punishment.
Apart from a few spirited boss battles Rodea’s combat doesn’t even come close to their quality, and the shooter aspect is best left for when you’re on the ground. There’s almost nothing about Rodea that isn’t deeply flawed in some way (well, maybe not the music – that’s quite good) but the baffling thing is that the Wii version is actually notably better in terms of controls. It uses the Wii remote to aim at targets simply by pointing, and even if Yuji Naka hadn’t made it very clear that this is his preferred method it’s obvious simply by playing it. Why then that option isn’t included in the Wii U version we couldn’t begin to imagine, but it completely ruins any real hope of enjoying the game. Whether Yuji Naka has another great game in him we can’t be sure, but whatever his original intentions for Rodea they haven’t panned out. Which is a shame, because NiGHTS deserves a proper update and the sensation of flying is a curiously rare thing for video games to simulate nowadays.