Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@KratosMD Make it perfectly clear what you have and havent seen yet then?

All you said is you met Primrose. You never said what info they divulged to you but rest assured you havent heard anything about her motivation, or situation, just the circumstance around her first boss battle and a small bit of dialogue that ended up being darker than anticipated.

I'll delete the messages anyway. I wont discuss anything from a game that someone may or may not have seen yet in future.

@KratosMD

This, as you can see is considered in most cultures an invite to discuss. You stated an opinion on a matter on a forum, what did you think people were going to do?

Again, I apologise for stating anything remotely spoilery regarding any game in any capacity.

@KratosMD I didnt spoil the story. There is a LOT more that happens in that prologue than I mentioned. Nowhere did I spoil "everything" in her prologue and anyone who played the first demo will be able to tell you exactly that fact.

But yes I am sorry and I am to blame for spoiling something. But please stop acting as though it was everything, because I assure you it wasnt.

So am I the only person that's going into Octopath blind here?
It would be only my second Switch purchase of the year (2018 release, Bayonetta #1) so I don't mind shelling out £50 for it.

Also I've just realised something...
As some of you may recall I didn't dock my Switch up for the first 3 months of owning it as I was going to use it exclusively as a handheld.
Between Bayonetta 1, 2 & Xenoblade Chronicles 2- which I only played docked, I have now had the Switch docked for longer than in handheld mode.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Honestly, I wasn't sold by the trailers alone and probably wouldn't have considered buying it right away, but the demo has really impressed me. They were very wise to put some out in order to give the game some exposure. £45 is a little steep considering what 3DS games went for, but I'm happy to pay it as I'm eager to play something new on the Switch! I'll probably play it mostly in handheld mode.

£45 is steep compared to 3DS but compared to PS4 and Xbox One?

I only recently heard of Octopath. The art style is really cool but I don't play many turn based games so I'll be passing on it.

I've had my Switch since launch but I doubt I've played more than an hour in handheld mode. It pretty much always stays in the dock but I like having the option to take it out.

@Fight_Teza_Fight If you like Cosmic Star then you'll like this.

Edit: I'm a bit stuck, in that I don't know if I should get Ys VIII and wait until I finish that to get OT, or hold off and play OT first!

I don't want to rush Ys!

@mookysam I don’t play demos, but I’ve liked what I seen. Supposedly it’s 80-100 hours long, so it looks like I’ll get my moneys worth.
If this was on PS4 I’d wait for a price drop, but this is Nintendo (BOTW is currently on sale on the eShop for £45 😂) so I’ll be waiting a while. Also I’m looking forward to playing a new release on Switch again.

@kyleforrester87 I’m liking CSH! Playing on the Heroine difficulty & it’s been enjoyable. Really well balanced. Might double dip for the Switch physical release.

@KratosMD I'm not too worried about a few translation issues myself, I doubt it's anything that makes the story incomprehensible and FF7 was chock full of them to be honest.

@KratosMD It's one of those that I couldn't say for sure about until I played it myself I think, but at face value I dont see it being a big issue for me. However I am somewhat inclined to wait and get OT first as they may release various patches for Ys..

I'm sticking with Ys VIII. From what I've read in other reviews, most of what was shown off in the GamXplain review seems to be the worst of the translation (that one untranslated line seems to be the only one, for example). And those sorts of issues aren't unheard of even from usually stellar publishers (my favorite 3DS JRPG, SMT IV: Apocalypse, actually has an entirely untranslated line of dialogue near the end of the game as well; hardly ruined the experience). It should obviously be better than it is, but it's still supposedly miles better than the game's initial translation. As for the Switch version, it has few-to-no loadtimes, all of the content from both versions, and is fully portable, so it seems like the best version of the game if you're not too hung up on the framerate (if 30fps was good enough for both the original version of the game on the Vita and the majority of action games on the PS4, I think Ys VIII on Switch will fare just fine).

Story-and-character-wise, I'm not expecting much, since it's a Falcom game. I'm mostly in it for the exploration-driven Action-RPG gameplay and the unique structure of the experience as a whole.

From there, I'll be playing Valkyria Chronicles 4 at launch in September. Beyond that... I'll probably wait for sales on Octopath and Shining before jumping. May or may not nab Tales of Vesperia, depending on when it launches.

I'll probably also download the DLC expansions for Mario + Rabbids and Xenoblade 2 before long, which both sound superb and very meaty.

Limbo and Inside land on the Japanese eShop on the 28th June.

More late ports, woo.

@Knuckles-Fajita Which is worse than the alternative, the games never releasing on the platform in the first place?

Seriously, people complaining about a system getting more games (and, thus, a stronger library) because they're not "new releases" utterly mystifies me.

@Ralizah Nah, if the game was released before the system's first 12 months or so were through, then I'm okay with it. That's reasonable. Going forward though....eeehhh…

Odd release date. Same as Ys VIII, and right around Crash and Wolfenstein 2 as well.

The end of June (And July 10th-13th) is like February 22nd for the other systems.

@Knuckles-Fajita Gotta love how we get very little in the way of substantive releases for months on end, and then six or so "biggish" releases launch in the same two week period.

@Ralizah The same is gonna happen for August and September. So far, Okami, Monster Hunter, SNK. Then October: Mario Party, Starlink, Mega Man 11. November: Pokemon. December: Smash.

@Knuckles-Fajita Don't forget Valkyria Chronicles 4 on September 25th.

August/September are busy, but not overkill. Seriously, why release three JRPGs in the same two weeks and lower day one sales for all of them by competing with similar products? I don't get it.

@Ralizah Ugh...too many games. They could do with spacing them out. Like Crash and Ys VIII are my June 29th purchases, forgoing Wolfenstein 2 for that until later. Then add in Captain Toad on July 13th, Sonic Mania Plus on July 17th, and the Mega Man X Collections on June 2...8th? I am a very busy man.

And then nothing for August or September except Spyro!

Honestly I may end up using August to buy Switch games I skipped over, like I did with DOOM back in January.

@KratosMD
https://nintendoeverything.com/ys-viii-will-have-a-day-one-up...

Ys VIII is getting its text issues patched in a day one update, apparently.

Apparently "other issues" will be patched as well, but this seems to be the most immediately concerning one.