Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@Haruki_NLI If pre-orders sell out, that's a pretty good sign there's more demand than supply.

@Arugula So you’re that one person responsible for the toys-to-life craze 😂

@Arugula It really was a strange craze. Seemed to come and go so quickly too.

@Kidfried Yep it's a shady practice and am amazed people defend it. Talk about blind loyalty.

Dragon Quest III with HD-2D art looks amazing. Really excited to play this.

@Ralizah Same, it looks fantastic. Really hope they push the boundaries with XII since they’re giving us this classic entry. I like XI but certain aspects do feel a bit antiquated. Even just having character movement actually mean something would be a great step.

@Ralizah That looks absolutely incredible! Hopefully the full game will use orchestral music too. It's an extremely attractive way of presenting 2D games, so I would love it if Square-Enix would remake Final Fantasy VI win a similar style!

@nessisonett Personally, I hope they don't change to a completely real-time action system. Although I the like turn-based battles, it would be interesting to see how they could be made a little more dynamic. One feature I'd really like to see return is the tension charger from VIII and IX.

@mookysam I don't think they'd release an HD-2D game without an orchestral score, frankly. It's an integral part of the aesthetic.

But yeah, it's an amazing way to do modern pixel art. I'd love to see remakes of older FF games in this style.

So we have this AND Triangle Strategy, which looks like HD-2D FF Tactics, probably coming in the next year. Pretty cool.

Ordered a physical copy of Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World, which should arrive by Wednesday.

Should give me time to finish up Famicom Detective Club: the Missing Heir over the weekend.

Oh boy, Overboard! is absolutely brilliant. Played about half an hour and it’s clearly another winner from Inkle. It’s not often you get that perfect blend of dark humour in a video game. And also not often you play as a semi-sociopath in a real-world setting.

Supposedly the Japanese website for Shin Megami Tensei V was accidentally updated with details about the game, including the release date, which is supposedly November 11th. It's getting a simultaneous worldwide release, so there shouldn't be any sort of delay.

Big if true!

I'm so damned excited for Nintendo's E3 Direct now.

My excitement for Nintendo's E3 just went from 50/50 to 99/1 just because of SMT V

I hope this is the game that significantly increases SMT's mainstream presence like what Persona 5 did for its series. It definitely helps that from the looks of it, SMT V is borrowing a lot of thematic elements from Nocturne

@TheFrenchiestFry I’m honestly worried about SMT V. Bravely Default 2 really should have been bigger than it was given the size of the Switch’s audience. Plus there’s 100% gonna be idiots buying it then complaining that Joker isn’t in it, putting further people off.

@nessisonett I think Bravely was highly disadvantaged because it came out in direct competition with much bigger Switch exclusives like Super Mario 3D World. SMT V at least has the advantage of having a full week to itself before Pokemon, and even then those two franchises target polar opposite audiences since more kids and tweens will probably be picking up Pokemon by comparison

SMT V also has the advantage of accumulating an audience of people ahead of time considering the Nocturne remaster came out in advance, and especially given it was also on PS4 and PC alongside Switch, it also probably captured the intrigue of a good chunk of the Persona crowd due to the series relation with MegaTen and the similar usage of demons

Just finished up Asha in Monster World. It's cute, though nothing particularly noteworthy.

I really hope SMT has Mario skins, otherwise I'm not buying.

It's not a big deal or anything, but apparently they did find some content that was cut from the western versions of the Famicom Detective Club remakes (specifically in the Girl Who Stands Behind).

Not a huge loss, just some jokes revolving using the "examine" function multiple times on certain female characters, one of which seems in particularly bad taste, which you'll know when you see it (some dialogue toned down or removed, and one optional scene removed).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=loRea3Rt0u0

@RR529 Interesting. Probably best not to mention it on NLife though, a certain subsection would have a field day.

@Kidfried I legitimately worry about people who immediately examined the dead woman’s bust. And then cared enough to find ‘censorship’ in the response.

@nessisonett, @Kidfried, yeah, definitely not a big deal. The only really unfortunate thing about it is the fact that the Japanese release is technically a different version is probably why it lacks an English language option and thus the Japan only physical release isn't import friendly.

EDIT: I also wouldn't read too much into the whole "censored" bit. The channel covers lots of localization changes between regions (even changes made to games in Japan) & they don't seem to take a too sensationalized stance on things (can't speak to the comment section, which I haven't read).

Much like DYKG it's more a channel I visit for interesting trivia tidbits.