@Ralizah I do feel like Mario Party Superstars is definitely more simple than Super Mario Party. For example, you don't have to think about choosing between different dice. Moreover, the mini-games have very simple controls. Some only use the control stick to move around, some use the A and B buttons as well, then there are others where you just choose options with the control stick or simply mash the same button for a certain amount of time. On top of this, before you start a mini-game, you'll be able to practice it in real-time (without any loading screens) and learn how to play it before readying up. On the other hand, I've played SMP with friends who were annoyed by some of the mini-games that use motion controls as they just couldn't understand how to properly play the mini-games. So yeah, I definitely think Superstars is the way to go for a more simple experience.
I started a new island in New Horizons in time for the update. Found a gold nugget on Day 2 so that should give me a good head start on paying off the first loan!
@nessisonett Yeah, I'm gonna be restarting my island on a Switch Lite so I can engage with the year and a half of updates I missed out on by not playing.
It'll be nice having everything available now. Was never a huge fan of this title's live service game approach.
@LtSarge Thanks, that definitely seals my decision.
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So I just finished going through all five boards in Mario Party Superstars and I just have to say that some of them are just not fun at all to navigate. Yoshi's Tropical Island is nice, Space Land and Horror Land are my favourite ones, but Peach's Birthday Cake and Woody Woods are not that great at all. The problem with the Peach board is that it's too linear. It takes a long time to get to the star (which never moves btw) and after you pass it, you'll encounter a Goomba who will take 10 coins away from you and either lets you take a shortcut to the star or go the long way around to the star. The shortcut sounds good, but you will have to go past Bowser when you take this path and this means giving up 20 coins every time. So basically, when you reach the star again through the shortcut, you will have 30 coins less and most of the time you won't be able to afford the star. But if you take the long way around, it's going to take forever to get back to the star. Both options are just not fun at all.
When it comes to Woody Woods, there will be signs that change the direction you can go every turn. This means that if a star happens to land at a place where there are multiple signs on the way, you have to be extremely lucky that the signs change directions right as you need them to. On top of this, you will also have to roll a certain number to land between the signs so that you don't take the wrong path. In theory, this could turn out to be very annoying as players will keep circling around and not be able to take the right path because it changes all the time. It's not a fun mechanic at all.
I really hope that Nintendo adds more boards as DLC because these two are just not good at all.
I just finished metroid dread, wow the last couple of bosses there are really tricky. They really test your pattern recognition in the last couple of hours in that game. To finish it, you really have to understand what's going on. Have to say it's my first metroid game and only my second metroidvania (the other being hollow knight, which I really dig) and man, I enjoyed it so much. The checkpointing felt pretty generous and because you never lost currency/progress, I felt much more inclined to try again. The only thing I would say is that some of the EMMI sections should be this tense game of cat and mouse but often it was quicker just to breakneck through those sections. Great game though my adrenaline is still pumping like 2 hours later!
I also just say I checked out animal crossing 2.0 and have planted my first gyroid. I will be dropping the cash on the expansion. My daughter and I love that game, we have over 100 hrs just messing around.
@R1spam Dread really is brilliant isn’t it? The checkpointing was generous but actually just respected your time a lot more than forcing you to find specific save points. Hopefully they integrate that into Prime 4!
Glad to hear you guys both enjoyed Dread... I found it a real breath of fresh air, and a pleasant change from games that demand 50-70hrs for a normal playthrough.
I know some of the boss difficulty spikes have been somewhat contentious, but I personally enjoyed that - especially from a Nintendo game!
I liked that it was short as well, with my playthrough on normal taking about 10-11 hrs ish...
On a side note - I started BOTW a few days ago, somewhat late to the party here! I have decided to have it as my side/travel game whilst I'm working. So it will be an accompaniment to whatever I'm doing on PS. Assuming as Switch owners/players you guys have both done BOTW? What are/were your thoughts?
It just seems so huge, and I've sunk so many hours just enjoying cruising around... left the great plateau and scooping up the DLC items before getting back to the main path
@CJD87 botw is something special, enjoy! It was my first zelda game so I had no expectations of what a zelda game should be. Everywhere you look there is something to do, anything that looks visually interesting probably will be interesting if you investigate. The physics system is so we'll done. I really enjoyed the shrines, the divine beasts and when you maybe pull at a thread and you find something unexpected. It's not without its flaws though, I didn't mind too much but some folks hate weapon degradation! Let me know what you think after your first divine beast. @nessisonett it is bloody brilliant, between that and hades the last two switch games I've played have been absolute bangers. I normally flog my games to buy other ones but I could see me holding on to both.
@nessisonett I can see how BOTW would elicit those feelings, and can appreciate it is certainly not for everyone... I'm not normally a fan of 'open world' genre, but it has been a pleasant reprieve for me having just bounced off completing Returnal.
The change of pace is fairly jarring though, having just exited a world where one single misfire or poor reflex can lead to imminent death.... to now immersing myself in a land where I spent 45 minutes last night trying to catch a decent horse ha! Enjoying it so far those, and will likely begin to like it more when I've cleaned up the DLC items and embark on the MQ properly.
@R1spam Played Hades a few months ago also, just awesome. What a time-sink, I must have 60-70hrs ploughed in and still do a few runs a week. Went into it with low expectations, assuming it was a hipster-bandwagon indie game... how wrong was I!
@CJD87 I think BotW is one of the best games Nintendo has ever made. When it comes to open world games, you typically just have it as an excuse to interconnect points of interests, like traveling from one town to another. There's usually nothing interesting going on in between these points of interest. BotW on the other hand breaks this trend and wants you to explore every part of its open world for secrets and things to interact with. The fact that the focal point of the game is not to get from point A to point B but instead to explore everything is what makes it such a refreshing experience.
@Kidfried Ocarina of Time is probably still the best game I’ve ever played. I love Zelda, especially the 3D ones but I just can’t really sink that much time into BOTW without getting bored.
Interesting how both SMT V and Tales of Arise seem to have stabilized at 87 on Metacritic.
This is going to be the longest week of my life.
@nessisonett OoT is way too dungeon-focused for me. Most of my favorite Zelda games are the ones that de-emphasize dungeons and big story set-pieces in favor of a more interesting overworld. Probably why BotW and Majora's Mask are, far and away, my favorite games in that series.
@PSVR_lover My Switch Lite feels more like a Vita to me. The larger model feels more like a tablet with controller attachments (which is... exactly what it is, actually, lol).
So a really funny thing happened today while I was playing Mario Party Superstars with a couple of friends. During the last couple of turns, one of my friends got disconnected but then the game continued and she said that she was back in again. I thought it was a bit weird because it said that she got disconnected, but I didn't think more of it. Then at the end of the game, she told us that she had already viewed the award ceremony, which we thought was weird because we had just started watching it. So it turned out that she thought she was playing with us this entire time but instead, she was in a completely separate game from us, but we were all still playing like nothing had happened. She even got different mini-games than us but didn't think it was anything weird. To me that was genuinely the funniest thing I've experienced in a Mario Party game because it was such a mindf**k to us. It was like she had gone to a different dimension running parallel with ours and we just didn't know, lol. Kinda of a weird thing, but now we know at least that when one person disconnects that we have to basically wait for the game to autosave, then everyone has to quit and I have to create a new room where we can resume from our previous save file.
I'm just here to spout off about how Breath of the Wild is one of the most overrated games of all time and totally got a free ride from games media™ because nintendo.
@johncalmc You mean the Nintendo whose games mostly land in the 80s range on Metacritic and rarely ever put up so-called "Game of the Year" candidates?
I feel like you could easily adopt that logic with most of Sony's wildly successful first-party games like The Last of Us and God of War as well. Moreso, actually, because there seems to be preferentialism for their style of gamemaking among many outlets.
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