Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Therad Chill out, Team Plasma grunt.

Pokemon games, besides having better combat, music, and more iconic monster designs, are also primarily adventures. There's something about the idea of stepping out into the wilderness of the unknown in the prime of your life to find yourself that tickles something very ancient in human minds. There's a positively mythic element to the Pokemon journey.

I like both YW4 and Pokemon... both looks cool enough and once YW4 is localized I think I might be picking it up.

It looks good, and personally always though Level 5 do good stuff with their RPGs

Cant wait to play Yokai Watch 4 in 3 years when it gets localised.

@redd214 the steam banner is far better than that boxart . unless this one is an complete different game than the one on switch. (also very surprisingly positive reviews on steam too.) but im not much of a fan of horse sim games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/276340/My_Riding_Stables_L...

So, I've been playing Octopath Traveller throughout the day. I'll just transfer what I said in the Octopath forum:

Beat Primrose's chapter 1, then went and did Olberic's chapter 1 and recruited him. And I gotta say, I enjoyed his path just as much as Primrose's this time around. For some reason when I played his path in the first demo I thought it was good but not spectacular, but this time... I just really liked it. In fact I think it's right up there with Primrose. I love the story and characters in this game. So good.

I want to start getting hyped for Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, because it's just over a month away and it's one of my favorite series of all time but I can't seem to think about anything else other than Octopath and YS VIII right now. These two games are so incredible and to have them back to back, even games like Wolfenstein 2 and Captain Toad and Shining Resonance and Crash Trilogy and Mario Tennis Aces and the almighty Hollow Knight are having to take a back seat.

That speaks volumes to just how game-rich the Switch library is right now.

I've downloaded a free traditional Mahjong app to my tablet so I could get a feel for the game in case I wanted to download one of the offerings on Switch, and while it's taken a bit of getting used to, after some trial & error, and reading up on the game, I've started to come to grips with it. I've even won my last two matches in a row!

I have just noticed something interesting on the Switch device itself. There is some sort of a port or a sensor on the bottom center of the screen slightly to the left. Could this be the ambient light sensor? Once you see it, you'll know what I'm talking about.

@Azooooz According to official diagrams on the website that label each part yes it is

Quick question as can't find it elsewhere. Are there any titles that are physical exclusives to the US??

@bluemage1989 Most Capcom games.

Beat me to it XD

@bluemage1989 almost all games published by Nicalis.

Hand of Fate 2 is lookin hot. I remember when the game released on PS4 years ago but I just thought it was a table top dice game or card game or something, which I'm not necessarily against card games because Skyrim Legends looks amazing (think that's the name?). But nothing about it seemed interesting.

But now that I've watched some gameplay I see that you go into third person combat sequences like Dark Souls. And it looks really good.

Also, a nice, quick 5 minute review of Shining Resonance Refrain.

@JaxonH never heard of Hand of Fate until now but you know it does look good really good in fact. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

@bluemage1989
Hand of Fate is Angemons signature attack and it destroyed Devimon quite easily.

@GameOtaku Not sure if he was referring to Digimon...

On that note... hm, I really need to go rewatch Digimon Adventure 1 and 2 when I get the chance. I loved those back then.

Thought I'd refer people to this post from the Nintendo Switch Deals subreddit.

Long story short, it allows for some amazing discounts for released and preordered games. I just nabbed Octopath for under $27!

I've noticed that easy settings on Neo geo games doesn't help or the difficulty settings are wrong. Picked up Galaxy Fight over the weekend and put it to level 1 difficulty and I'm getting pummeled by the first opponent. The opposition should just stand there and take my punches and kicks and maybe on occasion block. Same with the version of alpha 3 on the anniversary collection I had bison to one point of health and I had less than a quarter and he blocked everything and threw me once beating me!

I don't believe that July 22nd Direct rumour at all, if I recall correctly Directs have only been on Sundays once (the Smash Direct before E3 2015).

@Ralizah yeah I pulled the trigger and got a third switch for under $150! May keep it, day sell out but was too good of a deal not to jump on!!