Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

In terms of dungeons, it's actually half linear.

Four dungeons can be played in whatever order you like, while the other four must be played in an specific order (since they require the item from the previous one).

Eh, I'd say you pretty much need to do Dungeon 1 first since the bow is kind of important throughout most of the game. Granted, you also have to buy an arrow to use with it, but ya only need to buy one arrow.

I rarely ever use the bow and arrow in Zelda 1.

I'm more of a "keep the boomerang on all the time" kinda person.

@subpopz And, yeah, I was waiting to order Megaman 11 on BB GCU because I was waiting for the online to see if beyond hope they actually did this. They did. Digital purchase for me (not for the 2 player sharing but to swap it easily between my own two systems. Platformers just work well like that. Same for the Capcom Beat'Em Up.

Which is a great weapon, but the bow can actually defeat most enemies while the boomerang only stuns most enemies. As I recall, you also need the bow for at least one boss, but I might not be remembering that right.

@Yosheel Dungeons yeah, but that's the "metroidvania" aspect showing. The overworld is open, dungeons present the illusion of openness while actually guiding you with items.

Visually the game is nasty. But gameplay holds up amazingly well. It's like FF15Pocket. It seems really awful when you play the combat in Pocket until you realize it's the exact same combat as Royal. Making it pretty hides how mindless it is

I don't find Zelda 1 to be particularly ugly. It looks like the early NES game it is.

Well by the time you're at the last boss you've obviously played through all the dungeons. So which order you beat them in is not exactly important by then.

Which ones do you consider 'traditional SMB'?

Probably the ones before the New series

So.

Accessing games now on any system, even at same time if using alternate account on primary or playing offline on primary.

Deactivating primary console via website once per year in case of emergency.

Cloud save backups for most games.

Nifty NES app.

I gotta say, I feel like we've seen some major steps forward in the last 24 hours. I still have my issues and all, but generally speaking I'm pleased with all this.

I like how you can move the games around on the NES app but you can't do that on the Switch's home menu

It’s great especially the family subscription. We need folders

@toiletduck I'd think "traditional" means SMB1, SMB3, SMBW. Yoshi's Island changed the formula radically and then they were on to 3D games and then "New" which is kind of more of an SMBW reboot than anything else.

@JaxonH Yeah, Switch kind of was showing lack of momentum for a while again, but they just kind of "rebooted" that launch momentum, ironically not due to features they sold you, but features they didn't even mention.

The remaining issues are paying to play online in general (the service really should and could be desirable without the online lockout) the whole "folder, eshop improvements, apps" etc QoL enhancements thing, and the glaring one for many, voice/messaging, phone app, being dodgy, along with Splatoon (seemingly only Splatoon, for now) not handling saves well. "Once per year" is kind of minimal, but it's better than 0, and not many people will lose access to primary more than once a year.

And personally I still want that SwitchXL with the 12" screen more than ever

@NEStalgia

12 inch screen

Good grief dude, you wanna be that guy in the photo lol???

So games struggling to hit 720p in portable mode will look even worse?

I've got good news for you: you can put the system in a dock and see your games on even bigger screens!

Eew, I was going to pre-order the NES controllers, but it doesn't accept pay-pal and requires the raw CC. I learned after the Sony hack not to dispense that outside a few very specific places. Might be skipping those.

@JaxonH LOL. And then everyone will complain their joycon rails are cracking when they hold it only using them

Never underestimate a nice thin portable display. Surface Pro converted me. Streamed XBox/PS4 games are so cool on it, other than the fact that it's, well, streamed, which sucks even on LAN. I'll settle for a 10", or even an 8". But I'll dream big. It worked for game sharing.

@NEStalgia With Switch online now being a paid service, we'll probably see it break down over the holidays just like what happened to PSN and XBL back in 2014/2015.

Quick question about the latest update:

If I have additional user profiles on my Switch that aren't linked to a Nintendo account, will they be left alone with the whole "no longer able to unlink accounts" change? Or should I delete such profiles before updating to avoid anything getting messed up with my main profile, which is linked to an account?

@dimelives AFAIK the whole difference is simply that you can't unlike a profile from the account. If you don't have it linked I'm not sure there's any change. The linked accounts are the only ones interacting with Online.

@NEStalgia Cheers for taking the time to explain that. Doesn't sound like I'll be making use of it then. I'm on the other side of the world to my nephew and I don't fancy letting him be the primary console holder while I'm restricted to playing on a secondary console and always requiring an Internet connection. Especially after all the money I've spent on it. Glad it's all worked out well for you though.