Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

Who needs a Metroid Prime Trilogy Switch port if you have a Vita! Interestingly, the colours look better on the Vita screen than my laptop due to the OLED screen, they’re way more vibrant.

@Ralizah I'm honestly not sure how Spirit Tracks got through development with Nintendo thinking the microphone usage was actually a good idea. Was it perhaps a joke? A simple act of spite? Who can say for certain. One thing's for sure, I looked like an absolute wally playing it in front of people on Boxing Day one year, and kept running out of breath. Here's hoping the Wii U gamepad's microphone is more sensitive or it'll be rather uncomfortable to hold!

Nintendo's hardware innovations are often hit-and-miss: some are genuinely great, but the way games like Spirit Tracks felt they had to utilise features like the microphone often felt forced and unintuitive.I prefer their hardware when it's generally unfussy, although did like the touchscreen on the DS. Then on the 3DS when it was mostly used to keep the top screen uncluttered.

@Kidfried I played far too much Wii Music. It was terrible but I dunno, part of it was weirdly enjoyable.

@Kidfried Sometimes I just think Miyamoto is playing a joke on us all. I cannot fathom what the thought process behind Wii Music was. It's not so much that the game existed, more that it was treated as their big release that year. Maybe the executives lost a bet where they had to perform it at E3 that time? I dunno. There's also this weird thing where parts of Nintendo still view themselves as being a toy company, almost like they resist comparisons to other parts of the industry.

@Bentleyma Have you been getting the gold points from each physical game? They do expire eventually so I always make sure to get them as soon as I get my hands on the games.

It would be a good idea to browse the eShop and look for any digital titles that you also might be interested in getting and use your gold points when buying them.

@Kidfried I guess you've never heard of Tampon Run then.

@Kidfried Ah that's great man, I'm glad that you're enjoying it! I've only played it for a few hours but it's definitely up my alley as I'm a lover of both visual novels and Picross. It's a fairly lengthy game at around 15 hours I think, so hopefully the puzzles will get harder over time.

New Kirby looks fantastic (kinda has this mix of nature & tech that really worked for me in Planet Robobot, just now in 3D with HD visuals). Maybe there'll be some sort of connection or reference to Planet Robobot, even if it looks like the suit itself isn't in the game.

More gameplay footage for Pokémon Legends: Arceus came out today:

It still doesn't look like it will be any fun. The main thing I wanted to know is what you will be doing in the game in terms of missions. And as the video shows, the missions consist of discovering Pokémon, collecting items, battling Pokémon and catching Pokémon. As we've known for a while now, the goal of the game is to create the first ever Pokédex and that seems to be the primary thing you'll be working towards. There won't be any trainers to battle, no gym leaders to fight, no conventional story. You're basically just playing Fetch Quest: The Game.

Moreover, the game just looks like an expanded version of the DLCs for Pokémon Sword/Shield. And that's what's bugging me with the new Pokémon games: everything just feels like an experiment. Sword/Shield was an experiment for open areas, the DLCs made it completely open world and Legends is going to be an open world game (even though you only travel to certain open areas rather than explore a massive open world). But it still doesn't look like we're quite there in terms of what we want an open world Pokémon game to be and that's just annoying. It genuinely feels like Game Freak are just pumping out new games as quickly as possible instead of taking their time making one great game and using it as a base for future titles.

After being a member for about 10 years, for the first time someone on NL accused me of being an alt account of someone else, lol.

@RR529 Nice try RR528, you're not fooling us!

@RR529 At least you haven’t had somebody create an account on NLife that’s the exact same as your name minus a letter, and then go on to spout crap so bad that the account was shut down minutes later. I didn’t even get to see what they said using my name as I wasn’t tagged and it was removed so quickly! God that community is odd.

So am I buying Pokemon Arceus or what???

@kyleforrester87 It's probably a good game but I can just see them releasing another open world Pokémon game in a couple of years that will be so much better. Right now they're just experimenting with the open world formula.

@Iver @LtSarge I was super disappointed with Shield - not exactly a massive Pokemon fan but I loved Blue back in the day. I'm not too fussed about a better one coming out down the line (it's kinda expected tbh, right?) but I dunno.. looks like it'd be fun to play in bed.

Might trade in some stuff against a copy this weekend.

@kyleforrester87 FYI you can't vandalise other player's game worlds.

@kyleforrester87 Most of us were disappointed with SwSh, to put it lightly.

Legends: Arceus is looking like the first Pokemon game in a long time to break that tendency to disappoint fans, and the game design is very much a break from the rote game design the series has clung to religiously until now. I'm down.

@Octane oh shush that was hilarious.

@Ralizah I need to watch a few more videos but from what I have briefly read I want to give it a shot!

@Bentleyma yeah I saw. I’m really tempted. My only issue? Sword and Shield got equivalent praise…