Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@KratosMD Still hoping for a Trails of Cold Steel 3 port!

I finished up Link's Awakening Last night. Really enjoyed the game, I think largely to the world and art style. Obviously a solid early Zelda game by gameplay. I got a little bored with the last dungeon and figuring that out but that is more my own stupidity than a design of the game.

I then downloaded Untitled Goose Game as I'll have a few hours away this weekend to play it.

@Hego I'm guessing that's unlikely. Falcom has no desire to work with Nintendo, and the only reason we got Ys VIII is because NIS ports almost everything to the Switch. But they won't port Trails 3 without Trails 1/2 (probably), and Marvelous, the company that publishes the first two games outside of Japan, isn't known for taking on the burden of developing brand new console ports.

With that said, I think Switch ports are the only way I'd be willing to play these games. PS4 is great, but I don't really like using it to play long JRPGs. I might make an exception for Ys IX, given how much I loved the Switch version of VIII and how it'll be an action game that's more appropriate on powerful hardware anyway, but that's about it.

Falcom build their games for one platform in Japanese and then move on. Porting and translation have always been done and paid for by publishers after the game’s Japanese release. Which makes it really difficult to predict what will happen and when.
@Hego @Ralizah

And my Switch finally broke... It is the only console I had that failed. My launch Gameboy still works fine but a 2017 system broke easily.

Since I bought it the joycons had issues seemed clumsy and did not attatch that well. The dock scratched my screen protector a second time. Also both cons have this drift issue. It is hilarious having Miriam or Rex running around randomly!

Also somehow it stopped charging, the console AC input managed to bend! The whole unit was way hot in the touch. Moreover all screws in the side of the cons have humidity for some reason.

It is still in warranty though but except the drifting I think they may charge me.

Before all this I beat Link's Awakening thoughand it was a perfect nostalgia trip. The original is one of my favourite games.

@belmont Wow that sucks. I didn't realize they made the Switch so shoddy. I guess Nintendo just doesn't have the same quality standards they had years ago.

@Tasuki It clearly sucks. Everything that was reported to be a malfunction hardware wise for the console it happened to me. I was way unlucky.

Nice extremes. This is the first case I've heard of everything failing on a unit.

Naturally though this "shoddy" hardware that "sucks" is down to it's timing. For the concept it needed a chipset that was capable enough, but that runs hot. But a cooler more efficient variant wasn't ready to ship until...let's see...2019. Reckon they should have coasted on 3DS and the corpse of Wii U for over 2 years before releasing Switch in its current refined factor with the smaller and cooler chipset?

@KratosMD Not played them on Switch but I have played 1 and 2 on smartphone. 1 is extremely dated (and also quote short) but it's interesting as the progenitor of the Japanese RPG. It only vaguely tells you where to go and what to do, and you only play one character. The story is also minimal, but the new script has all the flair you'd expect from any modern Dragon Quest localisation. Some of the NPC dialogue is hilarious!

2 is an improvement, particularly in the story department and is less vague in how the game progresses. You also now battle with a defined party of (though can name the characters).

Dragon Quest 3 is supposed to be the best one and routinely pops up on "all-time great" lists in Japan.

Honestly, I'd save yourself some money and get them for your phone. The prices are alarmingly inflated on the Switch.

Yeah, the Switch prices are about in line with what they cost on Google Play in the States as well, so I don't see where this idea of "alarmingly inflated prices" is coming from, unless it's a regional thing somewhere else. I own DQII on my phone, but I hate playing games on my phone, so I'm debating just repurchasing it on Switch. I did beat DQI on my phone, though, and it's... incredibly basic. Interesting as a historical artifact and little else.

@belmont Sorry to hear that. Sounds like you got a bum unit. Thankfully, aside from some light joycon drift (which I alleviated with some compressed air), my launch unit has never had any issues.

I also purchased a 360 when half of the things were RRODing and also had no issues with it, so I guess I'm just lucky with hardware.

Only console that has ever fully crapped out on me is my Lite PS2.

@Ralizah The prices on Google Play have actually gone up since I purchased them in 2014, which I wasn't aware of when making that comment. At the time DQ1 was £1.99 (it's only listed on my Google account as 300 Yen) and DQ2 was £2.99. Now they aren't too far off the Switch pricing (DQ1 is £1 more on the Switch which is the biggest difference). Apologies for my confusion.

@belmont Yikes. My unit has some problems. The biggest is that it's actually bent a little, which I'm guessing is a combination of heat from the unit and tension from holding the joycons in handheld mode. The joycons themselves are now also a little loose when connecting to the unit.

@mookysam I actually just noticed that I own all three DQ games on Android.

Ugh. Maybe I'll just play them on there after all. It's not like they'll be on my radar anytime soon now that DQXI S is available, anyway.

I’m on dungeon 5 of Links Awakening and I’m loving the rhythm of it, hope we see some more older Zeldas on Switch soon. Also has anyone tried Northgard on Switch yet? Played the first story mission and it seems to work well as an RTS on Switch, love the idea of a Viking themed RTS!
Last thing, my friend code is SW-6988-4295-6095 so feel free to add me chaps, need to fill up my friends list!

@Hego I'll be shocked if we don't eventually get The Wind Waker HD/Twilight Princess HD, considering almost everything else on the Wii U has been ported. Nintendo seems to want a Zelda release every year, so if BotW2 isn't a 2020 game, I could seem them announcing these next year.

@Ralizah I’m really hoping for that, I’d love to be able to play all the major zeldas at some point on Switch!

@Hego Have you play 1 - 3 via NSO? I can't say I think much of the NES ones, but ALttP is a stone cold classic, and, even more than Ocarina of Time, the entire series kind of sits in its shadow.

@Ralizah Enjoy Dragon Quest XI. Have you picked up the full game?

Hmm I reckon Breath of the Wild 2 will be a 2020 release. Hope so anyway. But first, Pikmin 4!

@mookysam Oh yes. I've had DQXI S preloaded for half a month or more. And I already finished the (long) demo, so I'll just pick up from that. It's a fun and gorgeous game. Grinding is much less tiresome with the faster battle speed option, too.

Man, Nintendo said something about Pikmin 4, like, 3 years ago, and it has been radio silence since. Although my personal opinion is that we'll get both a port of Pikmin 3 AND Pikmin 4 in 2020, since they're starting to run out of big franchises to look to for new core entries.

I do hope Nintendo is a bit quiet next year, though. It's going to take all year to play Animal Crossing/FFVIIR/Cyberpunk, and I know for a fact the PS4 is getting a number of Japanese games that I'm looking forward to (Shin Sakura Taisen/Ys IX/Persona 5 Royal/etc.) I can't actively play a bunch of new releases across both systems. I just don't have the time.

@Ralizah I've a feeling that a year from now we'll still be wondering where Pikmin 4 is. It'll eventually become one of life's great mysteries.

With you on needing the breathing space! My goal is to get through my PS4 backlog before the launch of the PS5, which will be hard enough with Persona 5R and Final Fantasy 7 coming. I'll still be playing last year's Switch games in 2020, let alone this year's.

@Ralizah Ive downloaded the SNES collection just to play LttP at some point!