Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@Kidfried
I impressed more from Nintendo Direct yesterday than PlayStation Direct.
I didn't watch PlayStation Direct as I knew it will only focus on rated 18+ games and I was right because after several hours later, PushSquare highlighted what games announced and I only read the name of the games without even looking the pictures and I found nothing interesting. Their titles tell what kind of games are they and their age rating.

@R1spam I pulled the plug on the Switch Online a while back now! F-Zero 99 does look fun but I’d be more into it if you could buy it for pennies.

@Kidfried hope you enjoy your trip!! I don't think they have announced when it leaves the service and think this one will have a strong online player base for a while. @nessisonett I get it, its a rip. I have a sickness though in that every now and then, I like a game of mario aces online!! 🙈 I genuinely think that mario aces let me get my head around street fighter 6 as your managing a couple of meters and managing when you use those meters for specials/blocks. It's my guilty pleasure, shame online is like a ghost town!! I also like a bash at punch out every now and then.

@R1spam I managed to tear through Aces’ story mode during that trial they did and enjoyed it a lot. Perhaps not a patch on the Cube or GBA titles but it’s the closest they’ve gotten.

I’ve been playing more TOTK this week. What an amazing game it is - so much fun stuff to do even after the credits rolled.

I know it is not looking likely there will be DLC, and that’s fair enough to be honest - the game is stacked. However the lack of master/hard mode (however you want to spell it) is a bit strange. Does anyone reckon that might show up?

@kyleforrester87 It will be saved for the Switch U version if anything I reckon.

Rather excited to give Kirby and the Amazing Mirror a go next week with friends. I tried the game a bit on the 3DS through the Ambassador program but it did not grab me. Playing it with others might entice me more.

It also got me thinking what other older Nintendo games can be brought back with online multiplayer like this one. I think a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures would be really cool. I didn't like Triforce Heroes on the 3DS and the Four Swords game on GBA wasn't that fleshed out. But I've heard good things about Four Swords Adventures. As long as Nintendo integrates a checkpoint system in case of communication errors and disconnections, I think it would be a rather compelling multiplayer experience.

Just beat Ganondorf & cleared TotK!

I wasn't even sure at first if I was even going to buy it as these big open world games are usually at least a couple months long commitments for me so are a bit daunting to start (and I wasn't sure how well I'd get along with the whole building aspect of it), but I'm glad I dived into it.

Obviously not as much of a shakeup as BotW was, but I do think the core quest lines were probably a bit stronger overall (more traditional dungeons with more memorable bosses, easier to find memories, etc.).

@Bentleyma Any game with stationary assets will eventually have image retention. It'll be part of your screen, not the games themselves.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a ton of fun.

It's not on the level of something like DKC: Tropical Freeze or Rayman Legends, but it has reminded me how much I've missed having a semi-regular influx of new 2D Mario platformers.

I love how the game sort of de-centers Mario now. I'm playing through with Princess Peach, and even the in-game narration refers to "Peach's party" throughout.

Grabbed it with a voucher. Other one is probably going to Princess Peach: Showtime! next year.

@HallowMoonshadow Me too. A new and extremely well-received 2D Mario isn't exactly a common event. Although I suppose, just given the nature of the game, there's not a lot that needs to be said about it.

RE: Zelda - It's the nature of the beast with highly iterative sequels. Same reason GoW Ragnarok talk was far more muted compared to the 2018 game.

BotW rewrote large portions of the book when it came to open world game design. TotK is BotW, but even bigger and with some really innovative building mechanics layered on.

The Princess Peach game could be a really cool puzzle-platformer, or it could be a shallow stab at Nintendo's sizeable female demographic. I choose to remain hopeful. If nothing else, it's not wildly sexist in concept like Super Princess Peach was.

My girl needs representation.

@HallowMoonshadow The Wonder Flowers add some creative, transformative gimmick or setpiece to each and every level. It's pretty cool. The complete opposite of the NSMB games where you always knew what to expect from each game.

It's selling well, but I guess there's not a lot of hype in Playstation Land.

It's worse than you think. You had to carefully trigger Princess Peach's extreme mood swings to solve environmental puzzles, since they have abilities or elemental properties attached to them. So, like, if you need to fill a hole, you trigger her to become sad, and she cries so profusely the tears fill it up. If you need to burn something, you trigger her to become mad, and she snarls and stomps around as flames jet out of her body.

It's particularly amusing when you need to swap between the various moods in short succession lol.

It's... creative, but also deeply sexist imo. I've never been comfortable with it. The girl deserves better. I'm hoping Showtime gives her that moment she deserves.

tbf between her portrayal in the Mario movie and the fact that Mario Wonder doesn't feature her getting kidnapped and treats her like the protagonist if you play as her, it's already been a pretty good year for non-stereotyped portrayals of the character.

And yes! Get Gnosia! I'm so glad it's getting ported elsewhere. Such a unique experience.

Yeah, Wonder has been pretty great so far.

It's definitely the weirdest a 2D Mario platformer has been since the Land games (in fact, I'd love for them to use it as a base to make a Land 2 remake), the various "Wonder" effects keep you on your toes, and the non-linear elements are a nice touch (I'm currently in the desert world which makes great use of the idea, with lots of levels that are hidden at first glance). I was also surprised to see that World 3 lacked a castle or airship level as it's climax, so it's definitely defying expectations in many ways.

@HallowMoonshadow The badges you unlock in-game are heavily reminiscent of the tonics in Impossible Lair as well. And yeah, the style definitely cribbed a bit from Rayman Legends.

Yeah, so, the elephant transformation had a unique mechanic where you can hold water in your trunk and splash objects in your environment with it. Elephants are also heavier and able to more easily push blocks.

Still, the game does very little with it. It's one of the complaints I noted in the (probably needlessly critical) review I just posted.

The movie trailers sell Peach as a typical Hollywood tough girl, which rubbed me the wrong way, but she's actually not that bad in the movie. She's just not helpless.

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/doug-bowser-slowly-walk...

@Bentleyma yeah, you can't go wrong with either Forgotten Land or Wonder (probably the best amongst the Kirby & Mario platforming games you don't have, though I'd put Return to Dreamland Deluxe & 3D World + Bowser's Fury on the list for future purchasing decisions).

Otherwise the other Xenoblade games are good shouts (but sounds like you may be RPGed out after 3 & Mario RPG), as would Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Metroid Dread, Luigi's Mansion 3, Astral Chain, Daemon X Machina, & SMTV (though I'm not sure if the last two would be voucher eligible).

Of course there's BotW/TotK as well, but those are high profile enough that I figure there's probably a reason you don't already have (or haven't mentioned) them.

@Bentleyma Have you taken a look at the Fire Emblem games on the system?

I'd recommend BotW, but as @RR529 said, if you don't already own it, I'm guessing you're not excited for it.

I'll second and third Metroid Dread and Tropical Freeze. Two of the best side-scrolling games on the system.

Kirby is pretty solid as well, so you won't go wrong opting for that.

@Bentleyma lol Reminds me of Giant Land from SMB3.

@AgentCooper Might not help in the short term, but there are regular decent sales on eshop credit. Like, $5 off for a $50 card.

I've also had a good experience with raise.com on this front. I'd check them out.

Copying Nintendo? Absolutely.

Am I excited? 100%

So glad they put the internal improvements toward the battery life.