Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@JohnnyShoulder Nice, hope you like it. Tempted by Ori as well!

@KratosMD Hmm tough call and don't want to get it wrong for you. My favourite of the two was Sayonara Wild Hearts just because it does feel like a music video and I am not usually a pop fan but the music just worked well. That said, it is an 1-1.5 hours for a full playthrough though I have gone through it twice. I wouldn't call it a rythmn game as such because it doesn't punish you too much and the soundtrack doesn't go bad if you misstime something.

Gris is closer to something like Journey (such a cliche). There platforming and puzzling is very basic but not necessarily bad. As a game about depression, it is all in the presentation and emotion of it.

If you like emotional then I would go Gris, if you like fun and silly and playable I would go Sayonara!

Played the demo of Ori and the Blind Forest. It's very good and I immediately bought the full game when the demo was over. It has a Disney/Nintedo style and charm which I find quite endearing. Felt really weird playing a Microsoft game on a Nintendo console.

@JohnnyShoulder I don't really think of Ori and Cuphead as Microsoft games. Maybe because I still associate the company's output with Gears, Halo, and Forza. If anything, they ought to feel more at home on Nintendo hardware because of that charm that's missing from Microsoft's first-party catalog in general.

Honestly, it's far weirder to me that I can play the Crash Bandicoot trilogy on my Switch.

@JohnnyShoulder Well The Lion King and The Iron Giant did influence the developers when doing the story and character development so that's probably why it has that Disney vibe to it.

I am tempted to buy it again on Switch but I have other games I rather get and have already beat it on the Xbox One but it is such a great game.

Just finished up Luigi's Mansion 3. It's the first in the series I've played, and while I'm letting my thoughts on it digest, first impressions are that it was very good, but not quite up there with my favorite exclusives on the system.

@Ralizah It's wierd that the only MS games i was interested in are now on Switch. It gonna be strange playing Psychonauts 2 which is published by Xbox Game Studios next year lol.

@Tasuki It is such a beautifully animated game. And it's cute without being over saccharine, which can be fine balance to get right with me at times.

@KratosMD The new Animal Crossing game will likely be well received. Animal Crossing is a very laid-back and casual series, so more of the same with minor improvements would work well for the new game.

Animal Crossing and Pokemon are very different things, so I don't think we can really compare them for this. However, I bet there would be a lot of complaints if the new Animal Crossing game was missing half of the villagers from New Leaf.

Just by happenstance I played both a bit of Kirby: Star Allies & Kirby: Planet Robobot (on 3DS, naturally) this afternoon, and it really makes me want them to follow up Star Allies with a more ambitious game.

Despite both being 2.5D platformers, PR plays around with multiple layers a lot more (in fact, I don't think Star Allies does this at all), uses more dynamic camera angles (like how the new DKC games do), and the robobot is a really fun gimmick that's simply much more fun than the ally mechanic of the Switch game.

Not that I hated Star Allies by any means, but there's something wrong when the series' first mainline HD outing is a step back in nearly every way (outside of graphical fidelity, obviously, as SA is a suprisingly beautiful game in motion) compared to it's last gen swan song.

@RR529 Planet Robobot is awesome. Probably the best Kirby game ever made. It disappointed me to no end that they followed up such a cool, interesting Kirby adventure with the most generic Kirby game possible.

Oh, and while Star Allies is obviously far higher res than PR, I found the latter's gorgeous implementation of stereoscopic 3D made it the more visually stunning title for me. Also, the art design in PR is just miles ahead of SA.

@Ralizah, I don't think I used the 3D effect in PR (I think my slider broke by then), however I agree on the art direction. The mechanized theme that runs through the game brings a unique twist to the standard grass, desert worlds & the like, then you have the suburban & city worlds which are quite different than what you usually get in Nintendo platformers.

Seeing the disappointment online about this not being a general Direct is pretty funny. Makes sense, though. Nintendo's 2020 plans aren't fleshed out at all, and we JUST GOT new Pokemon games (massively controversial ones, at that).

I'll catch it if I'm online at the time, but I'm not expecting much. If I had to guess:

• Pokemon Home update
• Pokemon Masters news
• New Pokemon Sw/Sh event
• MAYBE a reveal for a Detective Pikachu sequel

@Ralizah Probably the remaining Gigantimax forms for SWSH. I don't expect DLC.

But yeah, this is kinda whatever. People are too excited for a Direct, so this will disappoint regardless.

I tried both the regular Switch and the Switch Lite at Target and they both felt cheap to me. They felt like they could break in my hands after a few weeks.

To anyone who's played it, do you have to do all the sidequests in XC2: Torna, or just most of them?

I know they're more important here than in the main game due to the community building function, but there's one I haven't been able to do. It wants you to pull off the Break, Topple, Launch, Smash cycle 3 different times, which isn't necessarily a problem in itself (I've managed to do so pretty regularly), but apparently it doesn't count for the quest unless the character you're controlling is the one that initiates the final step, and one of my party members is always quicker on the draw than I am, so it doesn't count.

If I don't absolutely have to do it, I figure I'll just move on & not worry about it.

On the plus side, now you can pay for two DLC packs as well as two copies of the game if you want to get all the Pokémon.

The expansion pass is great except locking 200+ pokemon behind a paywall is really shady in my opinion. This completely contradicts their claims about balance. I know people without the pass can technically get the pokemon via trading, but still it's not exactly great practice.

@RR529 You have to do most of the sidequests. The majority. There were definitely some left after obtaining the community level needed to beat the game, but I had so much fun with it that I wanted to do absolutely everything.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Eh. At least you can transfer the Pokemon in. And a $30 expansion pass beats a $60 "third version," imo.

I doubt I'll be going for it, though. I've just not been able to maintain interest in Pokemon lately.

Paying for Home is a bit frustrating, though. It should have been included with NSO.

EDIT: Just watched the Mystery Dungeon trailer. Have to disagree: the game is BEAUTIFUL. Not really a fan of that gameplay style, though.

Thanks! Yeah, I've done most of the sidequests available to me thus far, I just can't seem to nail this one because one of my party members always manages to initiate Smash before I can, so it doesn't count.

I probably shouldn't have too much trouble with the rest if they don't overly rely on performing more in depth combat mechanics in an exact way.