Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@Ralizah I beat the league with a level 56 Steelix, the rest of the team was dragged along for funsies, but they pulled their weight.

Yeah, I know. It's quite annoying. You're stopped at every route. There's always something going on. The older games had plenty of areas that just let you explore and do your own thing. There was the occasional encounter with an NPC here and there, but it didn't feel like it was distracting from the exploration. But the happy friends club they started doing in BW and XY, yuck! I found the phone calls you got every route in BW pretty annoying too, especially when I got interrupted by that young lady person five steps later anyway.

Just 100%'ed the Octo Expansion for Splatoon 2.

It's easily the best DLC pack Nintendo has ever produced. It's challenging, funny, atmospheric, and is filled with character and attention to detail.

@KratosMD It's not surprising since Let's go is aimed more at fans of the TV series.

They're doing all the things I've wanted them to do in a Pokemon game for years and then pulled the guts out of the game to make it something I can't imagine ever wanting to play. First it giveth, then it taketh away.

@KratosMD As soon as I heard the soundtrack I was in. It looks like an incredibly faithful remake, which is what got me.
It’s more my curiosity of seeing a place I loved as a kid reimagined then a need to actually play it.

I wonder what Pokemon will be game exclusive. Both Pikachu & Eevee we’re available in game before (Veridian Forest & Gift from Bill), but it seems like Sandshrew & Vulpix might be two? Think I’ll get whichever one has Mankey .

Good point on the 3rd Pokeball. I’m thinking it’s maybe Clefairy, that the other girl (Gary’s Sister?) picks?

I still have my Pokemon blue cart with all 150 on! Kinda interested in these Let's Go games, if only for the nostalgia.

I was optimistic about Pokémon Let's Go when it was first announced, but the E3 gameplay was pretty disappointing. This would have been more promising if they tried to make Kanto a more interesting region to explore considering this is the fifth time they're using it in a game (R/B/Y, G/S/C, FR/LG, HG/SS, and now this game), but the focus is on minor stuff like dressing up your Pokémon and the stupid throwing mechanic for catching wild Pokémon. I don't think most of the changes are really meaningful to the gameplay, and they seem to be trying way too hard to make this game casual friendly when Pokémon has always been really easy. I want to be excited for Let's Go, but I feel like it won't even be as good as Fire Red/Leaf Green which came out over 10 years ago.

@KratosMD Jessie and James being in Let's Go isn't really a surprising feature because they were in Pokémon Yellow.

@kyleforrester87 You sure? What about the battery?

@Octane Well, I did think that and although I don't have my own Gameboy anymore I did get to try it out on somebody else's around 3 years ago and they were all present and correct which was pretty great to see.

Of course, they could have since died.

Schrödinger's cat, I guess.

@KratosMD Its cheaper to get Mania and then Plus DLC digitally I believe.
At least in the UK it is. But the physical release does come with some bonus goodies like an art book and such.

Mania has frequent checkpoints, you can restart your game from a save file at the first Act of any given zone, and yes there is autosave, like in Sonic 3.

As for the bonus content in Plus...er….how would we know?

From what they have told us, there is a FREE patch coming that adds the unlockable bonus abilities as options in save file runs, whereas prior it was just in a no-save run. They also modify one of the bosses, add level transitions between each zone now, so on so forth.

The DLC adds 4 player multiplayer, an upgrade from 2, Ray and Mighty as playable characters, new bonus stages, and whatever Encore Mode is. Some weird pallete swap mode where you can have two characters at once that you can swap between. It's been really poorly explained.

Apparently you unlock characters in the bonus stages and swap who is in your pair by breaking certain monitors, and you can switch between your two characters as and when you like? It's weird.

Finished Ys VIII. It ends rather suddenly.

@Knuckles-Fajita There are multiple endings. You apparently need 200 reputation points to get the longer, definitive ending.

@Ralizah I got an ending.

But the bulk of the game is done. 97% of the map I think?

@Knuckles-Fajita Side quests seem to be the things that amass most of your reputation.

Anyway, everything I read says the non-definitive endings stop short.

Of course, if I was in your position, I'd just watch it on Youtube or something. I had to do that for Xenoblade Chronicles 2, given the game bugged out after the final boss for me.

@Ralizah The ending seemed definitive. Got epilogues for all the party members, Dana got the ending that kept her promise of parting ways on her terms and being true to herself: Doing stuff with reckless abandon and always watching over the world, and it explained the name of the game, with her new role controlling the Lacrimosa.

So I think that was the definitive ending?

@Ralizah Just checked, you need reputation 200 on PS4/PC/Switch, I had 218. We good.

I just finished up Chapter 5 (in YS VIII), but have only 152 or so reputation. I've done every side quest so far, just achieved 90% map completion, and have given every gift I can give at the moment, so hopefully either a ton of quests open up in chapter 6, or I'm missing something...

@RR529 Hmmm. Do you have most of the castaways? There are 24 total.

I didnt bother checking until after the ending just to see which one I got.

Have you done all the available hunts and raids?

I'm just in the postgame dungeon now and Im glad its on Switch. No crystals in sight and its hours long...

@Knuckles-Fajita, I currently have 23 castaways. Just rescued Sir Carlan. I think the last one may be in a region just north of the Hall of Kings or whatever that dungeon was called, but last I checked I can't access it. Right now the entire north end of the map is off limits to me as well, to boot.

@RR529 You get the last one very late into the game. Wait until warping becomes available again and do the next Dana sequence to make a path.