Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Seems this info for Fire Emblem Three Houses is legit.

Notably,

• Students lose their school uniforms and look more unique on promotion
• There is a 5 year timeskip
• Pretty much everyone’s look changes after the timeskip
• The Houses will get much more antognistic towards each other in other paths
• The academy remains important throughout the game buts becomes less relevant later on
• "Part 1" has ~12 chapters, no word on how many parts. "Part 1 has a heavy focus on the academy, for example, while Part 2 does not."
• There are four paths that don't converge. The fourth path is not a "happily ever after" path, and Edelgard gets two of those paths. One of them is a "neutral" path.
• "Let's just say the story and character development are much, much better than Fateswakening. Major Jugdral + Tellius vibes with a little modern flair. Edelgard reminds me so much of Micaiah, but much more... ruthless."
• "The school setting was just a facade for a much darker storyline. And there will be more than three countries involved..."
• "From what I know (very little) of the story so far, I'd give it a 9. By comparison Genealogy is a 10 and Fates is a 2."

Also, per a USGamer article, the weapon triangle is gone, in favor of a more in depth combat arts system. And regarding progression of chapters, they had this to say:

On Sundays, the character player—a newly appointed professor at the Officer's Academy—can take a free action. Sometimes this means exploring the academy grounds, talking to students and raising motivation, completing the aforementioned quests. The school grounds contain a lot of side activities, from the Amiibo gazebo (yes, it is called that) to cats and dogs (I asked, and in the current build, you cannot pet them). Or you could hold an additional lecture, or rest to raise the motivation of your army. There are also battles, which can either be simple fights for treasure and experience, to lead-ins that set up the big battle at the end of every chapter and month. If you're indecisive, that's okay, as the game will notify you when a prologue battle is available and global player percentages will tell you what others have done in your shoes.

Given what Nintendo had to show at E3, I think I get their decision not to show off new hardware at this event, if they have anything coming down the pipeline.

Their big games for the year are Animal Crossing, Pokemon, and Luigi's Mansion. Those are not games that will impress people to buy a Switch Pro. We can all hope for an ambitious Pokemon, but it ain't happening anytime soon. And no matter how ambitious Animal Crossing or Luigi's Mansion go, they are never going to be technically demanding games.

Furthermore, Nintendo would not want to reveal a Switch Mini at E3 without simultaneously showing a Pro. It would be poor PR with the audience Nintendo has gotten really good at knowing over the past few years.

If I were Nintendo, I would wait to show a Switch Pro until I can show more of BOTW2 and maybe the next Xenoblade, because those have been more demanding on the system.

@iKhan
"If I were Nintendo, I would wait to show a Switch Pro until I can show more of BOTW2 and maybe the next Xenoblade, because those have been more demanding on the system."

Not everyone waiting for demanding games.
I think Animal Crossing New Horizons, Luigi Mansion 3, Pokemon Sword / Shield are already demanding enough despite still in Cartoonish looking.
AAA 3rd party games with OMG HD Ultra Realistic 4K 120fps graphics and intense violences are NOT even an example of demanding games.That was NOT a definition of demanding games. Not everyone want games like that.

@ReaderRagfish
Demanding games for me is the games that looks interesting with my definitions : Cute, Lesser violences, Cartoonish / Kiddie looking, Colorful places, Simple, Unique, Unusual, Safe for kids, Have great BGM, Girlie, Chibi Six pack, Cartoonish Boxing, Can edit something with heart desire, Not really a famous brand.

The games i'm looking for mostly hidden gem games that usually not so famous, but i'm okay with that since i don't need to follow mainstream games (FIFA, shooter games, gritty action games, criminal games, etc) that i will never like at all. Those kind of games like that are completely NOT my definition of demanding games.

I would better play some Girlie games for 3 - 7 years old girls like Cooking Mama, Imagine series, Style Savvy, Disney Magical World 2, etc with No Violences at all rather than any gritty violence games with OMG Ultra HD Realistic graphic in 2160p 8k 120fps.

Phil Spencer has confirmed that, yes, Phantasy Star Online 2 will be released on Switch in the west.
https://jackofallcontrollers.com/2019/06/13/phil-spencer-conf...

@ReaderRagfish
Ow...
I don't really care if the games pushing the hardware limits or not, as long they are impressed me from the first impression.
Even the games such as 1-2-Switch, Penguin Wars, Sumikko Gurashi, Go Vacation, Animal Crossing New Horizons, Mario / Luigi games , etc with less realistic are content enough for me.

@Anti-Matter So when talking about hardware revisions and “demanding”, it’s actually things that require the hardware to work harder. That’s what they meant.
They didn’t mean games they would like to see. 😁

A demanding game requires at least 50 Pikmin on screen, and a '4' in its title somewhere.

I'm totally bowled over with Cadance of Hyrule. This is a 9/10 if not 10/10 game for me. Looking forward to the Nintendo Life review. The music, the sprites, the item and enemy variety, the size of the world, the size of the game. Brilliant. Simply brilliant!

Cadence of Hyrule is excellent, but it’s brutal.

I need an easy mode. Can’t get past the ice dungeon in the middle of the lake. Even up to six hearts now and I just can’t get past it.

So much love has gone into Cadence of Hyrule. I went in expecting a slightly themed CotN...but it really feels like a Zelda game more than anything.

More of this please, Nintendo.

@Anti-Matter

Sure, but then there won't be much value in a Switch Pro for you. If Nintendo were to put out a Switch Pro, they would want a key selling point to be graphical capability improvement over the Switch.

@JaxonH That's terrifying if you of all people are struggling with it....

@JaxonH I'm thinking of switching my physical FE preorder to digital with the vouchers...seems like a game I'd tinker with from time to time but never plow through straight thorough (I'm not very good at FE in general ) I can't say I'm "really feeling it" though.....the school thing isn't clicking for me in an FE game. It feels like it has FFVIII syndrome. That can't end well.

@Anti-Matter "demanding" as ragfish is talking means pushing the computer hardware to it's calculation limits. That's pretty much the entire purpose of "OMG graphics" photo-realistic games. That's the real problem with the Western industry is it's more interested in tech demos of photo-simulation to show off what the hardware can do, partly because consumers buy into that when they don't understand the rest of games....people seem to like being briefly impressed by tech demos for $60). Either that or MH: World that seems to choke any hardware to its knees for no apparent reason.....

Are there any major first-party titles that are not eligible for the vouchers? I think I'll bite the bullet and get a pair if it's a certainty that they will work on Animal Crossing, because that is a game that is tailor-made for having digital and playing for years; but it's not on the list yet probably because it's still so far out.

Cadence of Hyrule looks like a big improvement on Necrodancer. I'd have downloaded it already if I didn't have issues with the primary game.

Mainly, I want to know that there's not story content locked behind some insane challenge like in Necrodancer.

@Xyphon22 Pretty much every other first-party published game they've announced is eligible. Even DQXI S.

@NEStalgia I got the hang of it after a couple of hours. There is an easy mode of sorts if your rhythm/timing is terrible. The game offered to switch me to it when I was messing up at the beginning. I refused of course, determined to get the hang of it. The game isn't TOO difficult for me now. Just the right level of difficulty I'd say. It's a LOT of fun. Very engaging

@NEStalgia Can't speak to this new game, but Necrodancer was a nightmare. It was so difficult that I couldn't even finish it.

There's literally a story character who dies if you miss just one beat!

@Ralizah If I had that kind of rhythm I'd be a professional musician....

@Tangerine I looks really fun....but it also looks like I have no chance of victory

@NEStalgia My issue with it is that, unlike a normal rhythm game, you're bouncing to a persistent beat as opposed to actually matching your movements with the music. As such, the "rhythm" element of it just feels like a gimmick designed to hide the fact that it's a pretty generic rougelike-esque indie dungeon crawler otherwise.

This game already seems like a massive improvement, though. You have NPCs and an actual world to explore, as opposed to dank, procedurally generated dungeons the whole way through. The pixel art is colorful and detailed, as opposed to the rather humdrum original. The music is recognizably Zelda-inspired. If the difficulty is more balanced, then it'll be almost night and day in terms of quality when compared to the original.