Mario 64 is absolutely awful. I don't know whether it is the Switch controls, or the emulation, but something is off. Playing it on the N64 feels a lot better, and I wasn't having as much trouble on my N64 last year.
For some reason Mario 64 is the only Mario game I have played (excluding the gameboy games). In the DS version I even got all the stars. I would like to play it again but tbh I have no interest in the other games in the collection. I guess they will sell them seperately at some point.
@Kidfried From those I played Golf Story and Phoenix Wright. I may be biased but I love Phoenix Wright. It is similar to Danganranpa, I think you will like it. It has the whole first three games, it is hours of content.
I am not a big fun of Golf Story. The ... story is hilarious in a bad way and I am not a fan of the gameplay either.
@Kidfried Even though the other versions of DQXI S aren't out yet, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the Switch version is still easily the best way to play that game, especially since the upcoming versions are all based on it and will probably look marginally worse given that they'll be permanently blown up on a big screen TV/monitor while the Switch has the benefit of hiding its graphical inconsistencies (albeit minor) on the handheld's smaller screen
It's also an excellent ode to old school JRPGs with enough modernizations in the right place, and the extra content in this particular version like the orchestral music, the 2D mode, the fully voiced story cutscenes and the extra sidequests focusing on each individual party member are well worth the price of admission and definitely justified waiting on this version for me.
@Kidfried The Phoenix Wright trilogy is well worth playing. It has a good story, lots of twists and turns, and the main characters all have plenty of depth and are likeable.
I'm not too familiar with the other series you've listed, so can't really say if they're worth playing.
So, you should probably get Dragon Quest. I know you're knee-deep in Danganronpa right now, and while I LOVE the Ace Attorney games (seriously, they're indispensable), they're also a LOT of reading. Dragon Quest XI S is the best version of that game, and, even not looking as good as the PS4/PC release, it still looks pretty nice on a TV. More importantly, it has a higher battle speed setting, music that doesn't make my ears bleed, a gorgeous 2D mode, improvements to the forging system, and the game, in general, is just a super charming throwback to an older era of JRPG game design.
I’d put my vote for Dragon Quest XI S despite not getting round to finishing it yet. I love Ace Attorney but like @Ralizah said, it’s a ton of reading and you’d probably burn out after Danganronpa. From what I’ve played of Dragon Quest XI, it’s a proper good old fashioned JRPG that’ll last you for quite a while.
@Kidfried Shantae is a great series. I just wouldn't recommend the games over Dragon Quest XI S.
The first three Shantae games are a loosely connected trilogy, so the best way to play the series is in order. If you're only willing to play one, though, then play Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, which is one of the best games in the series. It's not really story-heavy, so you can still pretty much play them in any order and enjoy them well enough.
My favorite game in the series is the original GBC Shantae, but it's old, hard, and lacking in the QoL improvements found in later titles.
Whatever you end up doing, I'd recommend NOT starting with Shantae: Half-Genie Hero. It's utterly different than other games in the series, and I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone. Certainly not new fans.
As to DQXI S's battle speed: yeah, it makes a big difference. You'll need to switch over to the classic camera mode, though. The game, by default, allows you to run around in real time around the enemies, but it doesn't actually impact anything, so it just pads out the battles. Battles on the highest battle speed in classic mode are lightning fast.
@belmont If you're only going to play it on the TV, then there's literally no reason not to get it on PS4/Xbox. With that said, I really like being able to play it away from the TV, so I'll be sticking with my Switch version.
@Octane Sorry. I'm talking about the port of S coming to PS4/Xbox. It has all the improvements of the Switch version (sans the portability), and will likely run at a higher resolution on the TV.
@Octane@nessisonett Yep. It's literally just the Switch version of the game, including the visual downgrades that accompanied porting that game to a system with a fraction of the PS4's power. I guess it was easier to just port this version of the game than to integrate all of the S improvements into the PS4/PC version, which is running on a different build of Unreal Engine 4, as I understand it.
Who knows if it would even be legally possible for them to update the original release with all of the S improvements, like the use of symphonic tracks over synthesized ones.
At the end of the day, people cried about Switch having a better version of the game, so... here it is. Now everyone gets to play the definitive version.
The really cool thing is that this version is coming to GamePass on Xbox One/S/X soon. Has a DQ game even released on an Xbox console before?
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