Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

Mario came earlier. I'm actually quite excited to give Sunshine another shot. Baffled that they didn't up the framerate for Mario 64 and Sunshine or 64's resolution to full HD. I'll use the Joycons for Galaxy so I can use the pointer and shake for the spin jump.

I find the Pro controller alright to use as it's quite comfortable, so mostly my preference for TV play. Still dislike the imprecision of the d-pad and lack of proper shoulder triggers.

I am picking my copy up - I am probably in the minority in that I bought it to play Sunshine on the go (it was the first 3d Mario I played and therefore my favourite).

I prefer the Pro Controller and use that the most. I play docked a lot.

@nessisonett the cube controller works ok for 64 at least, if you can remap the buttons that is, haven't tried sunshine. What adapter do you have?

If it's a g bros over the official, maybe there's an unimportant button you can lose in Zelda and remap L to it in the system settings

As a Sunshine veteran. I do NOT like the new controls. They remapped dive to Y, B is a second jump button (why?). The camera mode used to be on Y, but is now on right stick press. And there is no option to revert the game back to inverted camera. I find it to be pretty much unplayable this way. It's 2020, and Nintendo still hasn't figured out basic game options.

Amazon says my copy is out for delivery, so I should get it today!

@Octane That’s some horrible controls, the original button mappings were perfect. Could they not even have included different presets?

@ralphdibny I have the official, it came with the Smash bundle. The Pro controller does feel really good though in my hands, I just don’t quite have the same muscle memory yet that I have with the Cube controller.

@nessisonett That would make too much sense I guess.

That’s my copy of Mario just arrived lmao ok Amazon!

@Octane Really confused as to why they didn't just do ZL + Y for the Dive like it is in Odyssey

The GameCube controller only had one Z trigger so that would've been a good use for the extra one on the Switch controllers

@TheFrenchiestFry ZL + Y? I can't remember that one. Wasn't jump on the A button?

@Octane Well when you jump you can press ZL and Y to do the dive manuever but ZL by itself ground pounds

It's how I dived anyway

I played the opening couple of levels from all 3 games just to get a feel for changes and the like. They look OK, some decent improvements to texture resolutions and especially sprites in SM64 but I do think they could have pushed it. Super Mario Galaxy in particular looks quite muted when the colours are begging to be bumped up. Hopefully a future Switch would implement HDR as Sunshine and Galaxy would benefit greatly. Sunshine’s controls will take a while to get used to, especially the non-inverted controls as I found myself moving FLUDD the old way a lot. I’m not sure I like the ZL/L controls either but it was the only way around analogue triggers, although they could have given us official Gamecube Controller support like Smash did. Honestly my main takeaway was just how stiff Galaxy feels in comparison to the other two. It’s a great game, don’t get me wrong, I just think the movement feels stiff using the same controller as the two other games. I’m impressed by the gyro controls but the old problem remains of having to reset the pointer every 5 minutes. So it’s a solid collection of great games with some little issues that somewhat mar the experience.

@nessisonett nice, yeah the pro controller is comfortable! I always use it for TV play unless it's something like odyssey which is better with the joy cons. I know (from memory) galaxy controls really smoothly so I wonder if the stiffness comes from playing the other two games first where Mario was slippery as hell!

Oh yeah I read that article on NL about them changing the price, kind of sucks that they are not honouring their pre order price guarantee

@Anti-Matter Responding to you here on the topic of gay marriage options in Fire Emblem games.

Don't get too excited. In Fates, you were stuck with a crazy goth chick as the lesbian option and an even crazier dude who gets off on hurting people if you went for the gay male option. Three Houses has a lot of great lesbian options, but unless you fancy Linhardt (not my preference), you have to shell out for the DLC to get a decent gay male option in that game (and even then, he's less handsome and more pretty, which might not be to your liking).

Baby steps, I guess. One day I'll get my choice of gay Fire Emblem husbands to court. Until then, I generally choose to play as a female protagonist.

@Ralizah You forgot the amazing old men you can romance in Three Houses. IIRC there was an Alois and Gilbert S support for guys. I mean, 50 year old dudes definitely try it on a lot but it’s still a bit of a stereotype. Nintendo traditionally haven’t gone there so I’m holding out hope for Rune Factory 5.

@ralphdibny I remember Galaxy also feeling great with the Nunchuck but I dunno, the movement feels a little odd in this rerelease. I think it might be the fact the stick isn’t locked into 8 positions?

@nessisonett lmao I didn't forget the daddy options. Those aren't really romances, though; they're more pledges of loyalty, than anything. Until the DLC, Linhardt was the only proper relationship you could forge as gay Byleth in the game.

They're improving on this front, at least. Fates was borderline offensive in terms of the options you were presented with. But even that still saw some anger directed at Nintendo.

@Ralizah Fates was bad enough with the strange faux-incest sorta deal. It’s was like they were competing with Trails for the ‘I can’t believe it’s not incest’ crown 😂

@nessisonett It's worse in Fates, but more offensive in Trails. Falcom should have known better, whereas Fates was just an otaku-pandering dumpster fire all around, so it bothered me less. It's like, "OF COURSE you can marry your little-sister-but-actually-she's-not-your-real-little-sister."

What really got me in Trails was how people were surprised Estelle wasn't already making moves on her adoptive brother.

I'd even prefer a real incest storyline, treated with some dignity, to this creepy fetish fuel.

@Ralizah Yep, I pretty much agree completely with that about Trails in the Sky, there are also flashback scenes to when they were kids in the second game which is... questionable at best. Speaking of Trails, I really have no clue why Sky aren’t on Switch, all 3 are on Steam in English now after all.

Got SM3DAS in today and played a bit of SM64. Got 7 Stars so far (5 in Bob-Omb Battlefield, 1 in Whomp's Fortress, and 1 in the Secret Slide). There's definitely something here, but my goodness it's slippery (to the point I'm dreading Cool, Cool, Mountain, lol). I'm going to try to see it through to the end though, simply because I was never able to as a kid.

Also, I thought there was supposed to be a secret level you could access if you looked at the ceiling while standing on the sun on the floor, or am I missing something?