Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@Kidfried Ah, nice! I’ll be curious how you like the Playdate. That’s the one with the little crank on it, if I recall correctly. Portability seems to be one of its biggest draws, but also the innovative crank apparatus.

@Kidfried Playdate is the almost $200 1-bit handheld with no backlight and a crank, right?

Deeply interested in hearing your impressions on that, lol.

Decided to 100% complete Dread. Getting some of those items is brutal. I'm almost there, there's only like two or three left, so I'm not giving up now lol.

@Kidfried How much was the shipping? I was actually thinking of getting one as well.

Once they get GameBoy emulation on that thing, I'm all in. And since it's an open source device, it shouldn't take too long.

@Kidfried Woah — Fall 2022?! That is quite far away. I’m sure it being a smaller start-up company means they don’t have the chip buying power of Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc.

@Kidfried Not surprised. Steam Decks were delayed as well. Can't speak to the European angle, but as long as this chip shortage keeps up, it's going to suck trying to get new electronics in a reasonable time frame.

Well, hopefully nothing delays it further.

@Kidfried 270 USD or EUR? It's only €150, but if there's another 120 shipping on top of that. Either way, the shipping seems more expensive than it needs to be...

@Kidfried Bit of a hijack here but Dread really is that good. As somebody who has been rather vocal about how much I really don’t like the act of playing my Switch, I was engaged enough to binge it over a few days using the Pro Controller with a pair of headphones and the Switch perched on my knee. It streamlines the cumbersome elements of the older Metroids and is just great all round.

@Kidfried Argh.. I forgot they always leave out taxes. €200 is a little steep. I suppose you get a bunch of games with it, but I'd rather have it without the games then. Maybe it'll come down in price eventually.

And yeah, Dread is really good. I'm enjoying it a lot, one of the best Switch games. I don't play a lot of 2D Meteoidvanias, so I can't comment on that. I couldn't get into Hollow Knight, but I am enjoying Dread a lot, I guess that's saying something.

It's the perfect combination of classic Metroid, and a modern game. And it looks very good on the TV as well. Soundtrack and level design are great. Though it can be a bit linear at times.

So after recently updating Pokémon BD I’ve been having this insane yet somewhat helpful bug…

Just about to hit the E4 so I’ve been farming some mons.
1st up trying to get a lighball Pikachu. Never once did I get one (5%drop), but once I encountered a Modest Pikachu (not bad)- every other subsequent Pokémon for at least 15 catches also ended up being Modest.
Next up i actually tried to get a modest Rosalia with leafstorm in the grand underground, once I get one the next 10-15 Pokémon again ended up with a modest nature. It’s what I wanted, but even everything else ended up with that nature for a while.

I don’t know what’s causing it, but even restarting my switch doesn’t solve it.

That aside I’m 18 mons away from getting the nationaldex & I haven’t left the 8th gym yet. Got 3 legendary’s left for the dex, just I hope I don’t have to hunt something down in the end. I’m annoyed that some of my favourites are locked behind the nationaldex, but it is what is 🤷

Also I forgot Mindy gives you an everstone haunter 😡

@Fight_Teza_Fight Wow, what a weird bug. Hopefully the devs will fix it in due time.

You don't need to worry much about getting access to the National Dex since you'll have seen the majority of the Pokémon naturally. The only ones I had to put an effort into getting were Riolu (you get the egg from Riley on Iron Island), Mesprit, Uxie, Azelf and Dialga (i.e. the other version's legendary, which you can add to the Pokédex by talking with the elder in Celestic Town after finishing the game I think).

I did also find it annoying that you couldn't get most Pokémon that have Sinnoh evolutions naturally. Although you can find some of them in the Grand Underground. I managed to find my Magby and Snorunt there, whereof the latter I used in my team since I wanted a Froslass.

Yeah, kinda got bummed out when Haunter didn't evolve lol.

@LtSarge Magby is definitely one of them. I’ve got Elekid.
I don’t know what’s causing it, but it’s certainly not normal!

There’s a bunch of Mindy memes that I wish I could post, but…😬.
Funnily enough Medicham is in my main party.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Does the Pokemon in the front of your party have Synchronize and a Modest nature?

@Haruki_NLI I do actually! Since when was this a thing?!
I’ve been using Mew, but I swear the effect carries over when I swap out, but still have it in my party.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Since...Gen 4? 3? Lots of abilities have out of battle effects

Intimidate lowers your encounter rate.
Magnet Pull attracts Steel types.
Static attracts Electric types.
Synchronise almost always mirrors your nature.
Compound Eyes increases the chance of wild Pokemon having held items.

And many more.

@LtSarge nice to know little hidden game mechanics that have been in the series for over a decade can be considered bugs now 🤣

@Haruki_NLI Well the more you know! I knew about magnet pull, but that’s about it. Thanks for clarifying- thought my game was busted!

@Haruki_NLI Haha, well to be fair I didn't know about this either! It does make more sense that they're hidden mechanics.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Im surprised you were in a situation to find that out accidentally, and notice it. Now that's rare.

@Haruki_NLI Tbf I only noticed cause I was trying to get some decent IVs, so I was checking each time in the box afterwards. Probably never would have figured out otherwise.

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I was planning to only play my switch docked, but recently I’ve playing it handheld.
With COVID cases going up again I’ve been working from home exclusively. We still have multiple meetings a day- which can drag, but enjoy just pulling out the switch & play 😄.

So I’m looking for a new game soon…
it’s between The Ori Collection, Xenoblade definitive edition & SMTV -which is the better handheld game?

@Fight_Teza_Fight While I haven't played SMTV yet, I would personally recommend Xenoblade since it's such a refreshing JRPG and perfect for handheld play. I remember spending 40 hours on the game on my 3DS and having an absolute blast with it.