Topic: The Switch Recommendations Thread

I’ve got a plane ride and a hospital waiting room in my near future and I need some recommendations for some indie eshop games! GO!

@Repoman Off the top of my head is Hollow Knight, Golf Story, West of Loathing and Celeste

@Repoman Steamworld Dig 2 and Golf Story are always good times.

If you love RPGs and/or action games, get Ys VIII: Lacrmosa of Dana. It's so much fun, combat is fun if clunky in some areas, and it's just a good game. Totally worth the $60.

So I am wanting to get one of the Mega Man collections, but I can't decide between the original legacy collection or the Mega Man X collection....both are good in their own way....any thoughts?

Flinthook or Hollow Knight. I know. Very different games. Never really played Metroidvania genre games before. Spelunky and BoIR. Are awesome though. Also. Flinthook is on sale right now for 10 bucks.

@scubydo I’d get the original. I’m also 30 so that appeals more to me for nastalgic purposes

Definitely seems like a really awesome game. Very excited

I'm sorry, I don't know if we can speak about accessories here, kinda new on this forum, but the new Anker Switch edition powerbank are gonna be released soon and I was a bit curious, owning myself a 26 800 PD from Anker and wondering what the difference with the original 20 000 PD as well.

The thing I dont understand if the way they promote it: on the official website, it's wirrten about the official 20100 PD that it will be able to give "2.5 Nintendo Switch charges"

It's not supposed to be at least 4 lives, considering the Switch battery is 4310mha??

I don't know which one of these games to get... I am going on vacation and want to play something while im there (on my switch ofc)
What do you guys think, Toad treasure tracker or Shovel knight?

Thank you

They are different games offering different things.If you're an old skool fan of NES era platformers then go for Shovel Knight if not then go for Captain Toad.

Which one has more content?

It depends on which version of Shovel Knight you get, the Treasure Trove edition basically has lots of DLC with more to still to come.

@timdb As @jump points out, Treasure Tracker and Shovel Knight are very, very different games. If you're just dipping in and out while on holiday, Treasure Tracker seems like it would be very easy-going and enjoyable. Shovel Knight, however, is arguably the better game and offers waaay more content. With Treasure Trove, you get three games off the bat, with a fourth due to arrive this year.

For me, the question is only whether you are the kind of player who can spend hours playing old-school 2D platformers. I loved both Shovel Knight and - especially - Plague of Shadows, but played them six months apart to avoid burning out on them - which also explains why I haven't yet started Spectre of Torment. They are great games, though, with hours upon hours of content, especially if you like achievement hunting.

I'm not sure if im the person to play an old-school 2D platformer, but i prefer Shovel Knight over Hollow Knight from what i've seen from the gameplay. I've played the demo for Toad Treasure Tracker but i wasn't really blown away or something, i thought it was ok. I just want to know what you guys prefered.

If you're not keen on 2d platformers and not impressed with the Captain Toad demo you could always get another game.

Crash bandicoot or Sonic Mania Plus? Any one played both, which is better👍

I just came by to randomly recommend Figment!
To me it seems unfortunately pretty overlooked at the moment.
It has very much the appeal of a graphic novel (especially those of Shaun Tan), but is filled with puzzles. In the beginning those might seem a bit barbones, but they get better, more creative and more challenging soon enough.
There are some fights involved aswell, which are more puzzle-like aswell.
The design is surreal and nice to look at.
What really stands out though is the music and sound-design that also earned some awards:
Things in the environment all have unique sounds representing them. If you get closer to those things (gears, trumpets, springs, etc.) their sounds turn louder and get integrated in the music.
Also the bosses chant while fighting, which I love.
And the game is fully voice-acted. Even every single inhabitant of every single house that you can knock at -and there are many.

Any multiplayer online recommendations? Recently got my switch and only really gotten into to Splatoon. Any other game with constant action like this?

@RockingTheSwitch Rocket League is pretty great, as is Mario Kart of course. I also really like Arms but it's a bit of an acquired taste so I recommend trying the demo first.