What to play this week: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake, Hasbro Games Junior Collection, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: Encore Edition
The Ocarina of Time Remake lands on Thursday, Hasbro Games Junior Collection is the easy family yes, and Guardians of the Galaxy is a perfect 5/5 on Switch 2.
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This week at a glance
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Encore Edition (Switch 2), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake start. Plus 3 more below. If you only play one game this week, it is Ocarina of Time on Thursday.
What we’d play this week
Top tip of the week: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake — Switch 2. Thursday, and the week’s only real question. Use a Switch 2 if you are still on the old console. Our remake coverage has the price and the rating; our review of the 1998 original is the case for why it is worth coming back to.
With the family: Hasbro Games Junior Collection
Hasbro Games Junior Collection — Switch 2, PS5, Xbox, PC. Friday: Monopoly Jr., Clue Jr. and The Game of Life Jr. for the youngest players, up to four on one console.
From the backlog: Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Encore Edition (5/5)
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Encore Edition — Switch 2. Thursday’s Switch 2 port of a game we rate a perfect 5. If you never played it, or played it once on another console, this is the replay of the month.
Also releasing this week
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered releases Tuesday 3 November on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2, PC. A ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remake of the 2002 monster-brawler. $29.99 digital; the Switch 2 physical edition is $39.99.
Stellar Blade (Switch 2)
Stellar Blade (Switch 2) releases Thursday 5 November on Switch 2. Not a new game: the Complete Edition port with the NieR: Automata and NIKKE collaboration content plus new Bayonetta outfits. $59.99, rated M, so a late-evening game rather than a family one. In Korea the same release lands at midnight on 6 November.
The whole of November at a glance: Ocarina of Time returns, GTA 6 arrives, and November games worth it. Every other date is on our release calendar — the full list of what lands where, with the picks we would actually spend an evening on at the top.
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