Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Anyone know if those new Gamecube controllers will be USB or Gamecube plugs?

Seeing Sonic race in a car is kind of odd to me. Isn't Sonic's whole gimmick that he can run really fast? Oh well, guess I'm overthinking it.

@gcunit It'll very likely be USB. PowerA would gain nothing by making Switch controllers that require a rare Wii U accessory.

@Nintendoforlife Oh man, hopefully it's better than All-Stars Racing Transformed. No weird airplane segments or random characters like Wreck-It Ralph. Just Sonic characters, arcadey battle races, and fun track designs.

I feel getting rid of non-Sonic SEGA characters is a step in the wrong direction. SEGA has so many fantastic IPs and most of the ones that aren't Sonic related get treated like how Nintendo treats the F-Zero franchise.

@Spoony_Tech
Well depend on the game.
I have interest with certain 3rd party games.
Only the games that captured my interest from first impression.

I have no doubt Team Sonic Racing will be quality,Sumo Digital make great racing games. Eurogamer have been speaking highly of it too. My main concern about it is will the Switch version run at 30fps while the other versions run at 60fps as it clearly is in the above footage. Racing Transformed ran at 30fps and after playing MK8 it was very noticeable and off putting.

@DarthNocturnal I mean, by that logic, Zangief and Bowser also wouldn't be out of place in the game. A random Pixar character showing up in my Sonic racing game was weird.

Why would I want to fly a plane in a game where I'm supposed to be tearing around levels in a car?

It was a decent game let down by some bizarre design choices.

I thought the plane sections were really good ,especially the Afterburner themed stage. The boat sections were equally good. It's the closest we've ever got to a new Diddy Kong Racing. It's what really set it apart from MK so it's disappointing they've returned to just cars. Hopefully Starfox Grand Prix is real and gives us some racing in the sky/space.

The boats could sometimes have some weird physics that I didn't like, but otherwise I thought it was an extremely well-made game. It's certainly fairly different from Mario Kart in that it's more skill-based with items being low-impact, but honestly I find Mario Kart with friends more fun due to the random nature of the usual items.

With randoms, Transformed was better, but they both fill different niches in terms of racing. For me though, racing is racing and Mario Kart is all I need now.

@DarthNocturnal Woops, you're right. It's a proper Disney film. I have a hard time differentiating the two now that both have gone fully CG with their animated films.

I didn't say the "deal" was random. I don't care about the deal. He has no prior connection to Sega's properties. He sticks out like a sore thumb in this game.

https://nintendoeverything.com/over-50-of-bloodstained-curse-...

The full sales breakdown by platform is as follows:

Switch – 56%
Steam – 19%
PlayStation 4 – 17%
3DS – 4%
PlayStation Vita – 4%

Through all platforms, it has gone through 100k downloads total. Glad to see that this game has such massive selling on Switch though! Hopefully this means even more indies

So, Konami is rising from hell to spew out two games.

https://gonintendo.com/stories/310556-konami-listed-as-bringi...

Honestly, I'd like a collection of Metal Gear or Castlevania. Their new games aren't gonna be good at all, I feel.

@darkfenrir That's good. I have my problems with Curse of the Moon compared to Classicvania, mainly in the difficulty department being very low, but it's still a very good game and a much better love-letter to an old franchise than Blaster Master Zero, which had the same problem except much, much worse by being laughably easy. (Destroyer Mode is just not-fun hard though)

@EvilLucario Ahhh, I see. I was tempted to try it out, but the coloring scheme is a little too old for me. So I think I'm waiting for the main game.

@darkfenrir Take what I said about difficulty with a slight grain of salt, considering there have been other people on this site saying it has been hard. I've been playing Classicvania for years so I know the ins and outs of all of these games, so it might not be fair on that front. But making the game the hardest for myself by ignoring powerups and etc still doesn't really come close to Castlevania 1 imo. Maybe on par with Rondo of Blood though.

I'm very much looking forward to Ritual of the Night, though. I need a proper Metroidvania, down to the same backdashing and combat style of the GBA/DS games. Hollow Knight is fantastic, but it doesn't have quite the same combat as Ritual of the Night/Metroidvania which I really want so badly.

@EvilLucario Ah gotcha. Well I personally hope it'll be on the easier side of things (I suck at the too hard games haha...)

Hopefully Ritual of the Night will reach your hopes though! After seeing the disaster that is Mighty No 9, a lot of people end up with very bleak view of Kickstarter (even though there's also other games that are awesome). But Bloodstained is very major one in the KS world, so I'm hoping this game can clean up some.

I'd love a Silent Hill collection(at least 2&3), but yeah Metal Gear and Castlevania seem like safe bets. With Bloodstained being a high profile indie and with the release of the Netflix series, a new Castlevania is likely.

@darkfenrir There's a Casual mode that gives infinite lives and no knockback that you might be aware of from Ninja Gaiden or Classicvania, so don't worry too much about the normal mode in that case. No shame in choosing that mode, the game is perfectly fine and fun in that mode regardless.

And yeah, I really, really want Ritual of the Night to be great. Hopefully it's not as boring as Harmony of Dissonance, but man I have been waiting for a "true" Metroidvania for years, since Order of Ecclesia on the DS (which is my favorite Castlevania game, ever). As long as it's as good as Aria/Dawn of Sorrow, I'm happy.

@EvilLucario Ahhh, gotcha. I probably will do the normal way first, and see if that's too hard before jumping into that then

As long as there's nothing being locked off by doing lower difficulty, I'm fine with it. (Sometimes it's so annoying to see "you can't see more of the story by doing lower difficulty" it's like... why even let us pick difficulty then).

@darkfenrir I don't think the game does that, it's not like Castlevania: Bloodlines in that regard which really punishes you for choosing easier difficulties. But I don't think the normal route is too bad, it's like a much more robust version of Castlevania III's partner system with everyone being extremely powerful.

You can swap difficulties at any time as well, so that's always a plus.