Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Yes it should still be playable. Nintendo themselves commented on this too...

After you upgrade, the original Nintendo Switch game can still be played on Nintendo Switch, though the features and content of the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition can only be played on Nintendo Switch 2.

The save data should transfer over, I've done it with NSO's save data cloud actually. I did play Tetris Effect Connected on Switch 2, brought over the virtual game card to my Switch OLED and downloaded the newer save data, and I was able to continue from where I left off.

@Pastellioli Thanks! I've been having fun with it for sure. Mario Kart World is the only Switch 2 game I have at the moment, but it's definitely been keeping me busy.

I have an idea, maybe lightly draw the background first, that might help. Yeah definitely, once you're comfortable with how you draw, it would be a good time to practice making backgrounds.

Yeah... I wanted to like painting more, but the more I did it, the more it just wasn't for me. Specifically oil painting, it feels more involved than drawing to me, and it gets messy often, too. Walnut oil, which was what I used, gets sticky as well. Ouch, that's a shame about your brushes. Oh gotcha, so they can be used in a similar way... I do still want to give actual watercolor a shot, hopefully I'll enjoy doing it more because I love how it can look.

Nice, that's cool. I've not played too much rhythm games aside from Rhythm Heaven and Dance Dance Revolution (which I only played years ago). I'm generally not a fan of fighting games, those can get really hard quickly for me. Shooters like Splatoon, Doom, and Halo, right? I do like Splatoon, and I sometimes play the other two when I'm in the mood for them. I enjoy space shooters as well, and I have a couple of them on my Switch.

On PlayStation, I shouldn't say I "lost respect for Sony," just lost interest after they changed how they make games. Just a poor choice of words on my end. I loved the PS2 back when it was around. The PS3 was all right, I do have one actually, I just liked its predecessor a lot more. Didn't get a PS4 or a PS5. The only triple-A games I really like come from Nintendo themselves. I do like stuff like indie games as well, I loved stuff like Cuphead and Celeste. Yeah definitely... this is one reason why I like Nintendo Life's community, many people here are nice and chill, and I can like whichever games/movies/music without being ridiculed for it, lol.

Yeah, it is great that many of the Switch 1's games can be played on the Switch 2, with improvements in some cases. I've also been playing New Horizons on the Switch 2, and the load times are quite a bit better. I wanna play Link's Awakening as well, it's been a while since I last finished it back in 2019. Though the frame rate drops, noticeable as they were, didn't affect my enjoyment back then.

I think I would have too, I was in my single digits when the N64 was around. Especially around that time frame you mentioned, I was into my N64 back in 1998-99. Yeah, back when Conker's Bad Fur Day was out, I've had my focus on the Game Boy Advance and GameCube. My brother and I would live with my dad back in that time too, I was without my N64. I did have my Game Boy Color if I recall correctly, and we did have the NES as well, but that's about it until I got the GBA.

That'd be cool, once you get it, we could race each other sometime. Ah gotcha... I did hear really good things about Bananza. I was gonna see a Good Vibes Gaming review of that game, but it looks like there would be some late-game stuff, so I stopped right there. What are your thoughts on Splatoon Raiders? That's another game I want to check out, especially since I do like Splatoon's story modes and DLC.

@Jhena Link me to the thread if you do? (Or Ganon me. Idc.)
Also, still gotta finish my remaining runs of Trials of Mana before Visions. I do have the game though!

@Mana_Knight
Collection of Mana is a collection worth owning. Thanks to it, I was finally able to play and finish Mystic Quest and Trials of Mana. And you can not own too many Secet of Mana copies.

@Mariotag
Of course, I will @ you in the thread with a link to the songs, if I can find it. I will start the search today. What does "Ganon me" mean? And are you speaking about the original Trials of Mana or the remake? I think I had three or four playthroughs in the remake. It was a lot of fun and I got the platinum trophy.

@Jhena Which one is Mystic Quest?

Ganon me is just a LoZ joke. If there is Link, then there is Ganon(dorf). Other related jests I have would include "Calamity Fanon".

And the OG Trials of Mana. I only finished one playthrough so far.

@Mariotag
Mystic Quest or Seiken Densetsu or Final Fantasy Adventure is the game, which started the series. It is the GameBoy game.

Hehe nice, and what does "Calamity Fanon" mean?

I tried to play the original Trials with the "Secret of Mana team". I was just barely able to beat it.

@Jhena Confusingly, there is also FINAL FANTASY MYSTIC QUEST aka MYSTIC QUEST LEGEND/MYSTIC QUEST on the SNES, which is not the same game at all! Far closer to an actual Final Fantasy. @mariotag

I love it. Many people call it a baby's first RPG, which it is a way, but I have a fondness for it. They don't need to all be overly complex and time consuming.

@Mana_Knight
It was a wild time for game titles. I also enjoyed Mystic Quest. A solid GameBoy rpg.

I found my copy of SONIC MANIA for Switch. I thought it had fallen down the floorboards, but the cart had fallen into a vase. Lost that about a year ago.😁

@Mana_Knight
Yikes!
Lost the cartridge for 1 year.
But granted you found your game.

@Anti-Matter Haha. Yep! Better found than lost. Assumed it was a goner.

@Hapless Your copy I presume, not one that just had an unknown origin? One is a win and the other is a big win and a mystery 😄.

Ok, I'm a little upset about how Pokemon are doing spin-offs with the new Pokemon Friends. I thought that with the new Mouse Mode, we could have a new Pokemon Ranger? The Mouse Mode would a be great addition to subtitutute for the loss of DS Stylus circle movement. Overall, I would think this would be much better than getting other spin-offs.

@Mana_Knight, congratulations on finding your game! I would be pretty distressed if one of mine went missing. As a matter of fact, for several years, mine and my family's games were all in the same cabinet under the TV until last month, when I brought mine up to my bedroom to keep them safe. Now all of my family members have to ask me before they use any of my physical games. Though it's not like they use them often anyway, it's mostly just my younger brother who plays a few of them every once in a while 🤣. I did this to make my physical Switch games last longer, especially after I've decided to start getting physical games again after only getting digital for almost two years.

@Mana_Knight That's awesome, I'm glad you found it! I would have been upset if I lost a Switch cartridge... those things are small. Similarly, a while back, I almost dropped one of my Switch carts on the floor, but it didn't since I saved it.

@MarioVillager92 Thank you and good catch! I love that they are tiny for storage purposes, but that is the downside of them. Can be lost or easily hoovered up!

Okay.
I have purchased the DLC of The Sims 4 PS4: Cottage Living, Home Decorator and Tiny Living + Bowling Alley.
My first impression with Cottage Living World , Henford was not really impressed with the country village looking as I'm not a fan of clashed color combination of country style house & furnitures. So, the things I did after I take a look the house design is demolize all those houses because it looked terrible for me.
I will rebuild the new country style house with my choice but I need to combine the venue idea with other expansion pack like Business and Hobbies as I can turn the lot into business community + For Rent I can turn into apartment & shop community.
Home Decorator didn't do much for me for the home decorator career as I prefer build very nice looking house from beginning rather than makeover the terrible looking house into gorgeous looking house via home decorator career. But the Home Decorator furnitures looked nice.
Tiny Living have new venue type, called Tiny Residential which have three different option to choose: 100 tiles, 64 tiles and 32 tiles. Micro house with 32 tiles maximum rule looked ridiculous as my smallest size house possible was from 6 x 6 tiles which have 36 tiles. I don't really need that Tiny house residential option as I can decide how small my house design is and I can combined with For Rent to make Community houses with different buildings in one big lot area.
I haven't try for Bowling Alley as I still have to think the good looking Bowling Alley venue that can be combined with Business & Hobbies.

@Mana_Knight No problem and thanks! My games can't get away that easily, lol. I have a tendency to put back my games in their cases when I'm done with them.

@ParrakerriRush Didn't see you asking but Sonic Adventure 2 is my favorite Sonic game, I love the fast levels with a focus on A-ranking, the darker story where Sonic gets captured by the ***** US military (that will never happen in Mario lmao), and the music of course. E: Sonic x Shadows Gens is also really really good actually, probably my favorite Sonic game since SA2. Original Gens was pretty good but I had the PS3 version which was borked.

@Fiergala Yeah, I love Sonic games. SA2 is a great choice, I like SA2, even though I haven't beat it yet! Sonic Heroes is my favourite. Even though I am born way after the GameCube Era, I love the team mechanic and I would to see it get a remake. Sonic music is always spot on and really good, which I found was really good in Generations and Mania.

@ParrakerriRush I found Sonic Heroes kinda mid when I played back in the day and preferred older 2D Sonic to it on the Sonic Mega Collection. Guess I was a little edgelord but I actually liked Shadow the Hedgehog a lot, it's really not bad outside of a few levels like The Doom which are legit terrible lol and has an awesome soundtrack even outside the 2000s butt rock (...which I enjoy...). What other E10+ platformer lets you literally blow Air Force One out of the sky. And some people complain about it for some reason but even at the time I really liked the branching paths system. They say it's tedious to unlock the true ending but I literally did it as a child without even knowing it existed so no idea what they're on about.
E: Also he straight up murders Eggman in some non-canon endings, like gunshot and fade to black, in retrospect that's both insane and hilarious