There are leathery eggs, the metallic catwalks and stairs of Hadley’s Hope, and the moody skies of LV-426 itself. From a movie nerd’s perspective, it looks glorious.

Nintendo appears to have looked at everything it and its rivals have produced in recent years and cobbled them all together one stormy evening in a shed somewhere.

Why would faithful PS3 or 360 owners choose to ‘upgrade’ to a new system which isn’t much more powerful than the one they own already, just to play some Mario games they haven’t been into since they were 12?

The past is another galaxy – not only do they do things differently there, they often do them better