Month: August 2019

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You have many roles in Fire Emblem: Three Houses–teacher, soldier, confidant. But you also have to babysit the people around you, because they tend to leave their stuff all over the place. Each month, starting with Chapter Three, you can find Lost Items while exploring the monastery. Every item will have a vague description of who it might belong to, which can be very confusing. In this guide, we’ve outlined every Lost Items we’ve encountered by chapter and listed who they belong to so you don’t have to run around Garreg Mach for ages tracking them down.

Like with gifts, Lost Items will increase your support bonds with characters and, if they’re in your house, increase their motivation by half. We recommend only returning Lost Items to your students if they’re not at max motivation. Also like with gifts, you can only return Lost Items to the house leaders and their bodyguard/retainer figure (Edelgard and Hubert, Dimitri and Dedue, and Claude and Hilda) if you’re in their house. We’ve been able to pick up Hilda’s Lost Items while playing as another house, for some reason, but we’re unable to give them back to her. Note that this list does not yet include Dimitri and Dedue’s Lost Items; we’ll continue to update it as we play more.

Chapter Three

• Hand Drawn Map — Leonie
• Sketch of a Sigil — Hanneman
• School of Sorcery Book — Annette
• Tattered Overcoat — Caspar
• White Glove — Edelgard (Black Eagles only)
• Wooden Flask — Jeralt
• Wooden Button — Raphael

Chapter Four

• Artificial Flower — Lorenz
• Badge of Graduation — Catherine
• Bag of Tea Leaves — Ferdinand
• Confessional Letter — Marianne
• Mysterious Notebook — Alois
• Noxious Handkerchief — Hubert (Black Eagles only)
• Thunderbrand Replica — Caspar
• Used Bottle of Perfume — Hilda (Golden Deer only)
• Wellness Herbs — Manuela

Chapter Five

• Art Book — Ignatz
• Curry Comb — Ingrid
• Encyclopedia of Sweets — Lysithea
• Exotic Feather — Petra
• Feather Pillow — Linhardt
• Needle and Thread — Bernadetta
• Portrait of Rhea — Cyril
• Sword Belt Fragment — Felix
• Unused Lipstick — Sylvain

Chapter Six

• Agricultural Survey — Ferdinand
• Antique Clasp — Flayn
• Bundle of Herbs — Ashe
• Hammer and Chisel — Hanneman
• How to Bake Sweets — Mercedes
• How to Be Tidy — Marianne
• Silver Brooch — Dorothea
• Silver Necklace — Gilbert
• Spotless Bandage — Hilda (Golden Deer only)

Chapter Seven

• Black Iron Spur — Felix
• Bundle of Dry Hemp — Shamir
• Burlap Sack of Rocks — Raphael
• Hresvelg Treatise — Hubert (Black Eagles only)
• Letter to Rhea — Catherine
• Jousting Almanac — Ingrid
• Small Tanned Hide — Petra
• Time-Worn Quill Pen — Edelgard (Black Eagles only)

Chapter Eight

• A Treatise on Etiquette — Lorenz
• Clean Dusting Cloth — Manuela
• Crumpled Love Letter — Sylvain
• Crude Arrowheads — Leonie
• Foreign Gold Coin — Alois
• Fruit Preserves — Mercedes
• Mild Stomach Poison — Claude (Golden Deer only)
• Old Map of Enbarr — Flayn
• Still-Life Picture — Bernadetta
• Songstress Poster — Dorothea
• The Saints Revealed — Linhardt
• Unfinished Fable — Seteth
• Well-Used Hatchet — Cyril

Chapter Nine

• Animated Bait — Linhardt
• Big Spoon — Raphael
• Blue Stone — Ignatz
• Book of Ghost Stories — Mercedes
• Carving Hammer — Gilbert
• Centipede Picture — Shamir
• Evil-Repelling Amulet — Ashe
• Lens Cloth — Hanneman
• Old Cleaning Cloth — Cyril
• Old Fishing Rod — Seteth
• Princess Doll — Lysithea
• Unfinished Score — Annette

Chapter Ten

• Animal Bone Dice — Shamir
• Bag of Seeds — Marianne
• Board Game Piece — Claude (Golden Deer only)
• Dusty Book of Fables — Flayn
• Fur Scarf — Leonie
• Handmade Hair Clip — Hilda (Golden Deer only)
• Introduction to Magic — Alois
• Letter to the Goddess — Ignatz
• Light Purple Veil — Manuela
• Lovely Comb — Dorothea
• Noseless Puppet — Gilbert
• Pegasus Horseshoes — Ingrid
• Snapped Writing Quill — Seteth
• Toothed Dagger — Felix
• Weathered Cloak — Catherine

Chapter Eleven

Stay tuned…

For more Fire Emblem: Three Houses tips, check out our best tips for sharing meals, our guide to recruiting students, and our rundown of how gardening works. You can also watch our videos on the things we wished we knew before we started playing and how to make the most of your time in the game. Finally, if you want general info, check out our list of the essential tips for Three Houses.

Xur’s arrival in Destiny 2 has lost some of its excitement as the game’s second year of content draws to a close. Most players who login to Destiny regularly already have most or all the Exotic weapons and armor the weekend vendor carries–which are those from Destiny 2 Year One and the Forsaken expansion. Anything newer isn’t available, which means if you’ve been playing Destiny for a long time, there’s usually no reason to bother tracking Xur down.

Sometimes, though, Xur’s wares are worth checking out. While Exotic weapons in Destiny 2 always have the same perks, Exotic armor gets random perks–which means that Xur’s version of an Exotic helmet or pair of boots might be slightly different from the one you already have. This week, Xur showed up in the Tower in Destiny 2 with a great role on an Exotic piece of armor, and if you play Titan, you should pick it up.

Head to the Tower’s Hangar to find Xur, who is positioned on a catwalk on the north end. You’re going to want to pick up the Exotic helmet he’s offering called One-Eyed Mask. This Exotic is great for the Crucible: its special perk marks enemies who damage you, and if you track them down and get your revenge, you’re granted a damage boost and an overshield. That makes One-Eyed Mask a favorite in Destiny 2’s competitive modes by itself, but Xur’s version has another great perk: Enhanced Hand Cannon Targeting.

Targeting buffs in Destiny 2 make guns more accurate, boosting their Target Acquisition stat–which basically helps you land headshots. The Enhanced version of those perks are pretty rare, so to get one on an Exotic helmet is great. The Hand Cannon version, though, is probably the best for Crucible. Most of the best PvP guns in Destiny 2 are hand cannons, like Not Forgotten and Luna’s Howl.

This combination of perks makes One-Eyed Mask a pretty phenomenal find, especially if you’re preparing to head into the Crucible to grind Destiny 2’s current seasonal event, the Solstice of Heroes. The Mask will run you 23 Legendary shards, so hurry over and pick it up–you only have until the weekly reset on Tuesday, August 6, to make your purchase.

With MachineGames at the helm, Wolfenstein has enjoyed a resurgence during the last couple of years. Wolfenstein has managed to captivate with its strong characters and intriguing world-building, giving you a glimpse into an alternate future where the rules are rewritten and whole new terrifying possibilities are waiting to be explored. None of this is present in the series’ first venture into VR, however. Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot isn’t just lacking the elements that make its universe intriguing, but it’s also dated by recent VR standards, with flat, unexciting action and little reason to return after one short playthrough.

Set in 1980s, Cyberpilot puts you in the shoes of a pilot working for the French Resistance at the same time as the events in Wolfenstein: Youngblood. Your piloting skills are alluring to two French hackers who have managed to smuggle away a few Nazi war machines, giving you the chance to aim these monstrosities back at their creators. If you’ve ever cursed at being mauled by a Panzerhund, Cyberpilot initially seems like a great opportunity to flip the script.

It doesn’t take long for that feeling to fade, though. Three of Cyberpilot’s four missions give you control of a new machine to pilot. The Panzerhund lets you dash towards enemies before melting them down with a mouth-mounted flamethrower, a small airborne drone makes sneaking around a Nazi bunker simple, and the more straightforward Zitadelle arms you with a high-powered machine gun and rocket launchers. Despite these varied abilities, Cyberpilot doesn’t provide interesting challenges for you to test them against. Each mission is linear and frustratingly one-note. You keep moving forward through cramped and visually bland spaces, mowing down enemies in your way and occasionally taking a breather to heal up before the next encounter. The drone mission at least tries to shake things up by pivoting from all-out action to stealthy engagements, but the unresponsive AI and cramped level design don’t allow you the satisfaction of a well-planned stealth kill.

Since you’re using machines armed with flamethrowers and unlimited rockets, combat should presumably be explosive and adrenaline-pumping. But Cyperpilot gives so little feedback to your actions that it’s difficult to feel their impact at all. Enemies, for example, make no sounds when engulfed in flames or blown back by nearby explosions, and they almost always use the same animations when dying before disappearing from sight. The devastating weapons at your disposal offer no satisfying animations and subsequent sound effects that give them a real kick, which makes action feel limp and uninteresting.

In between each mission, you can explore a multi-floored resistance bunker, using a lift to transition from a spacious loading bay to a dimly lit reception area adorned in abandoned Nazi regalia. These spaces look great and do a good job of reminding you of the imposing grip your enemies still have on European soil. Although this bleeds into the handful of missions you’re sent on, Cyberpilot doesn’t offer anything new or interesting to say about this alternative perspective on the resistance. The only other characters are your resistance handlers, who occasionally engage in some quirky banter between each other, but outside of that you’re nothing but a tool to them, and you disappointingly get no new insights into Wolfenstein’s world as a result.

These brief interludes between missions also introduce you to each new pilotable machine in intimate fashion. Before being able to remotely control them, you need to hack your way past their security, which Cyberpilot makes out to be far more complicated than it really is. While you’re being fed descriptions of intricate wiring and defensive subroutines, all you are doing is using motion controls to remove a chip from the machine in question, plugging it into a nearby monitor, and then replacing it after a brief pause. Getting to see the details of each chillingly monstrous Nazi machine up close, in VR, without fearing death is surprisingly fascinating, but there’s not much else to do during these sequences. That makes each of these forced interludes feel drawn out and unnecessary.

Cyberpilot can be played with either the PlayStation Move controllers or a DualShock 4, and neither is great. With a DualShock 4, combat feels more familiar. You use the thumbsticks to freely move around and rotate (either smoothly or in adjustable segments) while using motion control to aim. In this configuration, your two hands move as one, which makes activities outside of combat a chore. The PlayStation camera can only track the front-facing light from the DualShock 4, so reaching for objects on either side of you is borderline impossible in some cases.

Using the Move controllers changes that immediately, and also gives you more freedom in combat. Moving your arms independently from one another lets you bash on your special attack button and heal at the same time, which is impossible to do when you’re tethered together by a seemingly invisible set of handcuffs. As a tradeoff, movement is trickier using the Move controllers. Rotation is mapped to face buttons while lateral movement is controlled using the big, mushy PlayStation button on the face of the controller. It’s far less ideal than the DualShock 4, leaving you with a decision to make between the lesser of two evils.

There’s no reason to jump into Cyberpilot if you’re looking for another avenue to explore more of Wolfenstein’s world.

You won’t have too much time to adjust, either, given that Cyberpilot’s four missions can easily be finished in less than 90 minutes. Beyond reaching its flat ending, there’s nothing else to do to make what time you do have more engaging. There are no collectibles to find, alternative mission routes to explore, or exciting mission set pieces to replay for the thrill of it. It gives Cyberpilot a distinct tech demo feeling; since VR games have become increasingly more adept at using the hardware in unique ways, Cyberpilot feels outdated by comparison.

There’s no reason to jump into Cyberpilot if you’re looking for another avenue to explore more of Wolfenstein’s world. This straightforward shooter lacks the punch to make its action exhilarating and breaks up combat with even more repetitive and slower-paced interludes where you’ll do the bare minimum with motion controls to achieve simple and mundane repair tasks. Beyond looking striking for a VR game in some places, there’s nothing about Cyberpilot that warrants your time.

Free game trials are commonplace on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but much less so on Nintendo consoles. However, if you’re a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber, you’ll soon have a chance to play one of the system’s Mario games at no charge for a limited time.

Beginning August 7, Nintendo will hold a free trial period for Mario Tennis Aces. NSO members will be able to play the full game for free until 11:59 PM PT on August 13. The title will also be available for 30% off from the Eshop until August 20, so if you like what you’ve played, you can pick it up at a discount and carry over any progress you made.

Mario Tennis Aces launched in June 2018 and has received a steady stream of updates and new content since then. The game’s final free DLC character, Dry Bowser, arrived last month, along with alternate costumes for Wario and Waluigi. The game now features 30 playable characters, including a handful who have never appeared in a Mario Tennis title before, such as Boom Boom and Pauline.

In GameSpot’s Mario Tennis Aces review, critic Justin Clark wrote, “The Tetris Effect is in full swing here; days after the credits rolled, I still crave the satisfying thwack from a Power Shot, mentally replay matches and imagine how I might do things differently given a bit more focus and know-how. Mario Tennis Aces does what this series has done best, and for the most part, improves what it’s rarely gotten right prior.”

NSO subscriptions are available for US $4 / £3.49 / AU $6 for one month, US $8 / £7 / AU $12 for three months, and US $20 / £18 / AU $30 for one year. Nintendo also offers an annual Family Membership that costs US $35 / £31.49 / AU $55 and covers up to eight Nintendo Accounts across multiple systems. Other perks to the service include the ability to play Switch games online, access to a library of NES games, and the ability to back up game saves via the cloud. If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can still grab nine free months of NSO from Twitch.

That isn’t the only freebie NSO members can take advantage of. Nintendo is also offering a free Spirit Board Challenge Pack for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The pack is only available for NSO subscribers and includes an assortment of helpful items for the game’s Spirit Board mode.

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When Jurassic World first hit theaters in 2015, reviving the Jurassic Park franchise that had stalled out 14 years earlier, it ushered in a new era of dinosaur adventures. Now, the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios Hollywood has gotten the same treatment, and fans of the franchise can cast themselves in the chaos.

When Jurassic Park: The Ride first opened at Universal’s Southern California theme park in 1996, it became an instant favorite. After all, it’s hard not to love a boat ride with a massive drop. As the years went on, though, and Jurassic Park strayed further from popular culture, the attraction’s luster faded. Then Jurassic World happened, sparking a total revamp of the ride.

But theme park enthusiast can be a fickle bunch, especially when it comes to changing a ride they grew up with. So how do you approach a project like the Jurassic World ride without losing what made the original so special to visitors? “Very carefully,” senior director and executive producer at Universal Creative Jon Corfino said.

Speaking to GameSpot at the new ride’s grand opening, Corfino explained that the key to making sure Jurassic World lived up to its predecessor was a collaboration. “We worked very closely with [Jurassic World director] Colin Trevorrow [and producer] Frank Marshall–really, the guardians of this franchise and brand–because you gotta stay close to the DNA,” he said. “And their contributions were essential because they were very focused on sticking with the initial awe and wonder starting point.”

A lot of that awe and wonder from the original Jurassic Park ride remains intact, with guests coming face-to-face with a variety of peaceful animatronic dinosaurs before things go horribly wrong and the more chaotic of the dinos mess everything up. A lot of these elements, in particular, are pulled right out of the original version of the ride–including numerous dinosaur interactions.

However, even with nods to the original ride, Jurassic World stands on its own. For instance, the brand new first scene on the attraction drops gusts into an aquarium where the massive Mosasaurus is seen feeding on a shark. It’s a fun moment and one that immediately calls the 2015 movie to mind, given it featured this particular dinosaur. It also happens to be thrilling, thanks to some cleverly-placed water cannons that serve a dual purpose of teasing the danger that’s to come and getting riders very wet.

Another aspect of the ride helping to distinguish Jurassic World from its predecessor is the inclusion of the movie’s stars. In the line queue, as well as on the ride itself, you’ll see the characters played by Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and BD Wong appearing in videos.

According to Corfino, including the cast in the new ride was essential to its authenticity. “Whenever you’re dealing with a brand like this, you have to stay authentic. And it just wouldn’t have been right to not have them,” he said. “So we were able to put together an idea, work with them, get them involved, which was absolutely fantastic. They were tremendous partners. Chris and Bryce were such a hoot. Their chemistry together off-screen was fantastic, much less on-screen. B.D. Wong was fantastic. And it sets the whole tone. It just wouldn’t be right without them.”

Jurassic World: The Ride is open now at Universal Studios Hollywood.

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