Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a near-perfect game. Near, oh so near and I would have easily lobbed my first ever career 10/10 on it were it not for one massive problem that I’ve taken issue with. I can’t pet the damn cats, and this is driving me nuts.

If 2012’s Fire Emblem: Awakening was the series showing off the potential for greatness that it was capable of, then Fire Emblem: Three Houses is that potential fully realised. A grand saga of love, loss and war, Fire Emblem: Three Houses is monumental in ambition and easily capable of allowing you to write an epic story with your own actions.

Feel like turning your armpits into a sweaty marsh of desperation and bad decisions? Then Fire Emblem: Three Houses and its post-launch difficulty update might be just what you need to lose sleep over.

Here’s a look at what I thought was going to happen this year…and what has actually happened so far.

Battles against hulking bruisers and swift mechanised menaces that task you with using everything you’ve learnt so that you don’t get riddled with all manner of shiny lethal orbs in the process. So how did develper Joymasher come up with these armpit-moistening boss fights while still throwing a few new ideas into the mix for Blazing Chrome? With a little bit of coding magic, inspiration and some help from a previous game.

Anyone looking to buy a Nintendo Switch in the near future could see their sessions extended by a significant amount, as Nintendo have revealed a new iteration of the console. Basically the same device, this one has a reworked battery that should give you anywhere between four to nine hours of playtime.

According to the same fans who presumably want to know why Game Freak can’t just do their job properly and create custom animations for each Pokémon and the attacks they can use which would result in literally thousands of unique animations, the models for this generation’s pocket monsters are lifted straight from the previous 3DS games. Not so!

I think we all remember that catastrophic “Video Game Tie-In” era. You know, when developers and publishers figured out that they’d be able to make a load of cash by taking an already existing franchise or property and warping it into a video game. As was most often the case, most of these games were very much the opposite of …