Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

OH MY GOD! I am so buying that game!!

@subpopz Mine's an S5 as well!

If nothing else, at least I can updates and whatnot on vacation when I need to.

Huh, guess I'll pick that up later then. I already have VC4 preordered, so that discount will be sweet.

YEAHHHH!

I wasn't sure they'd localize Valkyria Chronicles 1, but they are! Heck. Frickin. Yes.

Had to test the waters first or something I dunno.

I'm pretty sure, just like how DQ11 went from "Nothing to say" to "Its going really well, more to say soon" almost immediately after Octopath sold well, other RPG makers are doing the same thing.

Switch will, if nothing else and all other support dries up, be a JRPG machine.

And there may be some miracle that leads to Final Fantasy on the thing, who knows.

Does anyone know if the Super Smash Bros Ultimate bundle will get released in the States?

@SuperLuigi111 I don't think so as there's another Limited Edition coming to America, which is different from the one in Europe.

I'd be pleased to see FF15 on Switch (assuming it's technically possible) as I was hard on it in its release but over time just casually playing from time to time I have to admit has grown on me. Story was pretty terrible sadly. Anything else mainline FF would be cool though or even something from the Crystal series.

I've been thinking, given the timing of the big eshop maintenance (September 10th 10am-8pm pacific time) surely there's got to be new info before Friday?

@DarthNocturnal
Switch didn't exist a decade ago. Everyone knows the game has an English translation, but that doesn't mean they were going to localize the Switch version. We've seen time and again Switch games with English translations not get localized, be it DQ Heroes 1/2, Nobanuga's Ambition and Nobanuga's Ambition Taishi, even MHXX almost didn't get localized.

And for a minute there, Atlus was talking about stepping up to localize Valkyria Chronicles 1 on Switch, which implied Sega had no plans or was as of yet undecided at that point and time. Maybe pre-order numbers changed their minds, or success of other games on the system. Who knows. But I'm glad it's coming, because it was honestly beginning to look like it wasn't going to happen.

@DarthNocturnal
Ya, the logic totally reasons they should do it, which is exactly why it's so frustrating seeing companies not doing it.

Its translated, and other versions have been localized, but that's still no guarantee a Switch game will be localized.

We're lucky we're getting this. The fact they didnt announce it right away was a dead giveaway they were hesitant. Idk what it is with these companies, but too many games with English translations and PS4 releases in the west are being ignored or just barely skating by at the last minute due to fan demand or whatever other saved by the bell factor comes into play

Niche Japanese games like Ys VIII, Octopath and Disgea 5 doing well in the West is a good sign for future localizations. After Octopath's success, I really hope SE localizes the Mana trilogy.

Really? What is it? Where can I find info?

@SuperLuigi111 https://smashbros.nintendo.com/buy/

Check it out. Smash themed Pro Controller and a steelbook case for the game.

More maintenance is inbound this week, including a 4 hour block for online multiplayer early tomorrow.

• Eshop and Wii Shop Channel - Today 5pm-7pm
• Online play - Today 10pm-Tomorrow 2am
• Online play - Tomorrow 5:50pm-7:30pm
• Online play - Wednesday 5:50pm-7:30pm

(times in pacific time, add 8 hours for UK time)

So I'm going through the Nightmare mode of Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon on veteran difficulty now. I love that the harder New Game+ mode is framed as a continuation of the first mode.

In general, I'm super-impressed with this game. Great level design. Great boss fights. Fair difficulty curve. Music is pretty decent. It feels like the game Castlevania III should have been all along.

@Ralizah Yeah Curse of the Moon is really good. Not the best Classicvania though, that still goes to Rondo of Blood and even Super Castlevania IV is better. A bit better than the original though, and on-par with III imo.

If anyone wants to try getting into old Castlevania games, Curse of the Moon on Easy Mode (which isn't THAT much easier, it just gets rid of knockback and has unlimited lives which don't mean much) is the best game to try first before playing the rest.

Agreed...I really want the European one. I hate region-specific exclusives like this.

@EvilLucario Rondo of Blood is easily my favorite game in the entire series. I've played it countless times on my Vita over the years. Especially Maria's campaign. While it's a bit on the easy side compared to Richter's campaign, I love the absurd contrast between her character and the rest of the game. And she's just more fun to play as thanks to the range of her main attack. The music is great. The bosses are a great challenge without being cheap or infuriating. Actually, that sentiment applies to the game as a whole: it's one of the fairest games in the entire series in terms of boss and level design.

Not as big of a fan of Dracula X Chronicles or the SNES port, but that's what comes from messing with perfection.

Super Castlevania IV? It's... OK. I thought the music was pretty boring. I feel like too much of the game is designed around manipulating Simon's weird, OP whip that makes sub-items irrelevant and Mode 7 antics. And the art-style often made it hard for me to distinguish foreground from background, leading to a lot of accidental deaths.

For some reason, I'm not a huge fan of most of the SNES games I've played. SMW is probably my least favorite 2D Mario. Contra III is inferior to Contra, Super C, and Contra 4, IMO. I like Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission more than Super Metroid.

One of the exceptions is Zelda: ALttP is my second favorite 2D game in the series.

If I had to rank the Classicvanias:

Rondo of Blood > Bloodstained: CotM > Castlevania: Bloodlines > Castlevania (would be higher up without the steep difficulty spike near the end) > Super Castlevania IV > Castlevania III (while it's objectively better than the original in certain ways, it's WAY too difficult for me to really enjoy playing) > GB Castlevania games (Second one is the best, but they're all "Diet Castlevania" at best)

I'm not generally a huge fan of the Metroidvanias, although I really, really liked Order of Ecclesia. I'd rank it as one of my top three 'Vanias overall.

@Ralizah Huh, strange. The SNES has so much of my favorite games. Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid (I played it AFTER Fusion and Zero Mission, and even despite the floaty controls and bad button layouts I still loved it more), Mario World (that and NSMBU are my favorite 2D Marios), EarthBound, etc. I don't think I've had much problems with Super Castlevania IV either. Yeah, the whip is ridiculous, but what you can pull off in that game feels really good still.

But funnily enough, I'm lukewarm to Zelda in general so I didn't enjoy Link to the Past all that much. Then again, I only really enjoyed three Zelda games (Zelda II, OoT, and BotW) so that isn't saying much. It's most likely just down to my personal taste. I guess I'm a weirdo too lol.

Order of Ecclesia is my favorite Castlevania game period, then it's a tie between Symphony of the Night or Rondo of Blood. I switch around games on my personal list extremely frequently depending on my mood, but those three games are my top 3 for Castlevania.

Otherwise I'd move Bloodlines behind IV but before III, the original, and Belmont's Revenge.

They're all games I'd really love replaying over and over though, so just because I put Belmont's Revenge at the end doesn't mean I hate it, I just don't replay it as much as the other Castlevanias.