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LtSarge

@Herculean I wholeheartedly agree. At first when I watched the trailer, I thought this was such a stupid idea as they should just put their soundtrack on Spotify like everyone else. But then it said that the music app is included with Switch Online and that's when they sold me.

I'm using it now and it's so awesome to finally be able to listen to Nintendo music on the phone. Coincidentally, I've recently started listening to gaming music on Spotify on my phone while I'm out and about. I was just thinking how I would've liked to listen to Nintendo music as well and now I can. It's so cool, not to mention it makes having a subscription to Switch Online more worth it now. Good job Nintendo!

LtSarge

Herculean

I'm replaying Ocarina of Time again. Will I make it to the end? I'm not so sure. Listening to its soundtrack on Nintendo Music, made me realize I haven't revisited that game in a long time. It's good, it's a good game. I don't want to say it, but I'm gonna: I think the game is a bit underrated these days.

The game's pacing is excellent, its story has some great ideas (especially at the time) and the combat remains fun. Talking about the combat, it's not just fun. There's something almost unbelievable about how well that combat was crafted, how Zelda-y it feels, but how at the same time it was Nintendo's first shot at a 3d action adventure game. Blows my mind to this day. 🌞

Herculean

RR529

I know this probably isn't the best place for this, but I've been having a ton of fun with the Pokemon TCG mobile app, and I don't typically play F2P mobile gacha games.

I've only been playing it for a few days and haven't spent any money, but it seems a lot more generous at giving you rarer/better draws than the other gacha games I've tried in the past. I already have 30 different Holographic cards, including the featured pulls of each banner (EX variants of Charizard, Pikachu, & Mewtwo).

As for actual Switch talk, I completed Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom last weekend. I thought Nintendo was having a pretty meh year so far (as a newcomer to it, I was even a bit disappointed by TTYD), but Zelda really turned things around and was a real delight.

Currently Playing:
Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)

nessisonett

Went back to Trails of Cold Steel 4 on the Switch. Frame drops ABOUND but it’s the Switch after all. Just thought it started off alright after the genuinely good Cold Steel 3 but then after Act 1 the lesbian rape jokes were back and now there’s a f*cking catgirl.

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Plumbing’s just Lego innit. Water Lego.

Trans rights are human rights.

PeaceSalad

@Herculean Ocarina of Time was the first time I had to stay up all night for a game. I would place blu tak over the power light on the N64 and the ready with the contrast control so my parents wouldn’t see if they popped in. Absolutely incredible game and you are quite right, possibly underrated in modern times.

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mookysam

@Herculean @Bob_Salat Ocarina is timeless (pardon the pun, I couldn't think of a better word). The simple, yet elegant design is on point. It's amazingly constructed for a game of the era, which I think is helped by how free from fluff and jank it is.

@nessisonett Is that drunk-Phil era? He's not wearing his beanie. Pretty shocking how the Trails series became infested with that crap (although Xenoblade 2 was pretty bad). Incest aside, the Sky games were generally free of it, weren't they? I didn't like the harem in the first Cold Steel.

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nessisonett

@mookysam The Sky games are more sort of classic anime in the art style and the lack of harem. There were occasional slips, Schera is well-written but still reduced to her body too often and the writers still have that weird rapey lesbian stereotype in there, but they’re far less dodgy than Cold Steel. I know that they move with the times and the 2010s were rife with fanservice becoming glossier and more mainstream but Cold Steel often feels like they were written by 12 year olds. It’s a shame, there’s great games underneath it.

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Trans rights are human rights.

Ralizah

From the outside looking in, the Cold Steel games just look like 00's-era ecchi rubbish from the character designs alone.

Maybe Ys gets weird at some point, but I - III and VIII sure don't, aside from, like, one scene at a hot spring.

Currently Playing: Fields of Mistria (PC); Cookie Clicker (PC); Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC); Overboard! (PC)

Ugh. Men.

PSN: Ralizah

Pizzamorg

Picked up Xenoblade 3 in the sale. Sorta don't know how I feel about it, played like three hours. Story and world right now feels extremely bland JRPG fluff, but its opening out so I'll give it more time. As a game, it seems to have learnt from the first Xenoblade because I'm not even at a point where I can manually switch characters yet, which has made the introduction to combat feel like way less of a clustereff as I remember the OG being. Maybe it is me who has changed though and I'll go back and like that game. Or maybe as 3 introduces more mechanics, which opens the door for more messiness, maybe I will like the combat less here.

Life to the living, death to the dead.

Enriesto

@Pizzamorg give it time. While I do think 3 is the weakest of the bunch, it’s still a strong title in the series. The side quests and characters you encounter feel more meaningful and are rewarding in their completion, you’ll probably enjoy that aspect of the game. Story of course hits in a few ways, despite what I thought was one littered with poorly done cinematic intervals, but the writing and character bonds deepening are thoughtful and touching. I do think it’s an overrated game (sorry, I’m probably not doing a good job hyping, just being honest), but it delivers on a couple fronts with exceptional prowess. The music speaks for itself as you play I imagine keep going, you might be pleasantly surprised after more progress, there’s a lot to enjoy yet.

Enriesto

Ralizah

Aside from a slow-ish start, Xenoblade 3 is the best JRPG I've ever played, and it's not even close. Super excited to see what Monolith does in the future, as the evolution in quality from XC1 to XC3 is honestly insane.

Currently Playing: Fields of Mistria (PC); Cookie Clicker (PC); Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC); Overboard! (PC)

Ugh. Men.

PSN: Ralizah

Pizzamorg

I'm like six hours in now. The opening has been excruciatingly slow and hand holdy, but it is probably a necessarily evil as its throwing so much at you, that if you had more time to embed certain things the tutorial would be longer than most games.

I now have a full party (I think?) and yeah, combat has descended into a complete mess like I remember from previous games. There are like 40 rings and 80 lines, everyone is running in circles dropping abilities every two seconds and I'm not sure how any person is meant to manage this tactically. Like it feels like there should be the option to pause the combat or something and queue orders, but you can't, you can now switch characters mid combat which I don't believe was possible before, but its just a frantic mess as you desperately try and cycle from one person to another and micromanage everything.

It feels so bad, I can't imagine this is the intended way to play. But if that isn't the function of why the character swapping exists. I can't really work out what the other reason would be. As far as I can tell you can't stop the AI from using abilities, so even if you set up some insane six person combo that required every Art to be used in a perfect sequence, the AI is going to mess that up.

Combat has so far been at its best for me when I've basically just ignored like 90 percent of it and defaulting to whoever is easiest to control. If we get outnumbered generally we get absolutely melted, so I guess that hints to the AI doing a poor job, but I dunno what the answer is. Maybe I should be picking one of the healing units and just controlling them specifically and babysitting my team.

Life to the living, death to the dead.

Ralizah

@Pizzamorg I imagine the handholdy tutorials were a reaction to almost universal player confusion regarding Xenoblade 2's combat, which isn't nearly well-explained enough in game for how complex and layered it gets. This game has elaborate tutorials AND a section to go back and check them out again, as I recall, so it's on players if they don't get it.

Most battles in XC3 don't require much micro-management. Especially on Normal difficulty, which is pretty easy throughout. Hard is rougher to manage, but even then, chain attacking is still broken (although 6 hours is probably too early to have gotten to that yet). The AI is generally pretty good about following up your attacks if you inflict Break on an enemy.

Be sure to focus your party's attacks on individual enemies, try to make sure you balance of healing/defensive/attacking units is on point, and that you're canceling attacks consistently.

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Currently Playing: Fields of Mistria (PC); Cookie Clicker (PC); Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC); Overboard! (PC)

Ugh. Men.

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Bentleyma

Ordered myself a Switch OLED + Super Mario Bros. Wonder bundle. I did own a Lite, but sold it a while ago. It's currently at Argos waiting for me to pick it up and I'm on the fence wether I'm going to get it or cancel. I can't decide! There are several games I want to play, but I'm wondering if it's just worth waiting for Nintendo's next console.

Bentleyma

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CJD87

@Bentleyma I'd say go for it. Although the Switch 2(?) will be 'formally announced' this fiscal year, so by close-Q1/25, there is no guarantee as to when it will hit the shelves.... for all we know, Nintendo may target a September-October release which is a year away.

Backwards compatibility has been confirmed, so all your games and overall investment into the ecosystem (physical and/or digital) will still stand upon the successor release.

CJD87

Bentleyma

@CJD87 Yeah, I'm going to pick it up in a bit. I own several digital games already and I really like the look of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Plus I've seen that there's a sale on the Nintendo eShop with a lot of Nintendo games for £33.

Bentleyma

PSN: Bentleyma-

Pizzamorg

10 hours into Xenoblade 3. The introduction of new classes, the fusion skills and forms and the chain attacks definitely do bring the combat all together into a much more enjoyable overall package than I found the previous game I played to be. I don't really remember anything quite like this in the OG Xenoblade game I played on Switch, maybe I just bounced off too quickly.

Still quite annoyed by the constant walk three steps, enter into a half hour long cutscene and then a menu tutorial with eight pages to flick through and 16 hard locked steps. To get control back again for all of 4 seconds before they do it all over again. But I assume I have to be towards the end of this now, surely?

Life to the living, death to the dead.

CJD87

@Bentleyma Yeh those Nintendo 1st Party games are unrivalled in some respects.

Mario Wonder is pretty great, but don't sleep on Mario Odyssey either! (The 3D Mario that launched with Switch, currently -33%)

Also the 2 open-world Zeldas, Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom - these are wonderful.

Metroid Dread is also a firm favorite of mine, a brilliant 2D return-to-form for the franchise. Quite hard at times, but if you enjoy metroidvanias then this is a must play.

But yes definitely embed yourself in the Nintendo eco-system now. I have both OLED Switch and LCD Steamdeck.... both amazing devices, but I slightly prefer the switch (even though Deck performance is far superior!)

If the Switch2 can incorporate some elements from steamdeck, it will be amazing (increased power, ability to customise UI, remap of controls per/ game profile, toggles/sliders for FPS and other functions etc)

CJD87

Bentleyma

I'm happy with my purchase.

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I had to get a controller because the Joy-Cons in the grip just don't feel right to me. The wireless controller I bought is only £19.99 at Argos if anyone is looking for a cheap one.

@CJD87 I already have a few digital games from back when I owned a Lite. Super Mario Odyssey was one of the first games I bought and one of the only Switch games I finished, along with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Luigi's Mansion 3.

I'll get to Metroid Dread at some point, but I have Metroid Prime Remastered to play first.

As for The Legend of Zelda series, I have Links Awakening. I'd like to try and finish that before I move onto another game in the series.

The other games I own are Super Mario RPG, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Pikmin 4, so I'm all set for games for a while. Although Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Astral Chain are both on sale at the moment, so I have a feeling I might end up grabbing those.

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