Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

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.

@NEStalgia
Oh dude, you need to watch the Treehouse footage. The military academy is just one tiny little feature of the game, and takes a backseat in the second half. But its amazing regardless. Love the military academy. Provides a perfect plot device for the story that unfolds, and a perfect way to socialize and customize the party, with choices being shown as a percentage of what other players chose.

It looks like it has Persona 5 syndrome and is going to end in GotY quality.

Watch the treehouse footage.

Based on everything I've seen and heard about it, Fire Emblem has moved from "good game that I'm excited to play" to "almost undoubtedly my GOTY." Especially now that Animal Crossing has been delayed.

So I guess 2D Zelda's future depends on Link's Awakening sales then.

100% grabbing Astral Chain and DQ from there. Some other titles I'm uncertain, as well as some I'll just pick up on PC because cheaper. (Thank you regional pricing, unless SE decide to be an a** again)

I'd never heard of that Dark Crystal series but I'm sold on the game already.... I hardly dared hope the Witcher 3 Switch rumours were true, so getting that Was delighted FFVIII Remaster, Spyro & Ni No Kuni were announced Was already getting DQXI, FE 3H & Oninaki, while I ordered Mana Collection physical & got Last Remnant Remastered, too

@Grumblevolcano No way. ALBW (The last original 2D Zelda) sold over 2 million units, there's no way they'll abandon them based on a remake's sales. Not that it won't sell well but... Considering the price to create one compared to the potential gains, the 2D Zeldas are still way too viable to be judged on just one release.

Zelda 2D will live on. Link's Awakening is gonna sell no matter what. All things Zelda are hot now, and it's cool that a whole new audience may experience Awakening for the first time ever. Some of my fondest memories were with that game on the GameBoy. I was like 6 years old when the game first came out, and if game cartridges could wear out, that one would have lol

Cadence of Hyrule is sooooo awesome. I played it yesterday just for a bit and seriously couldn't even get through the Kakariko tomb. Was getting mildly frustrated. But it's like an old-school game. It doesn't hand-hold you very much. You just have to keep dying and realizing how important certain things are. Yea, the rhythm aspect is one thing, but the subtle animations of the enemies, the patterns, the use of your shield/protect, and once you start picking up the bow, ice rod, etc. You really start to feel not only more experienced and therefore capable, but you have more weaponry to start getting creative with your approaches.

2D Zelda costs little to make and gives them more major franchise games to sell, more often. I can't see them abandoning it.

@JaxonH I watched the Day 1 footage so far, but hopefully there's Day 2 footage I haven't got to yet that covers more. The 1st day didn't leave the academy except for one map. I still don't like the academy section so much. It feels Valkyria 2 to me, which I also wasn't fond of. I think of it is "Potter Emblem." Not that I think it's a bad game...I'm just not digging the academy aspect so far. Digital buy for me either way though I think. (Bye bye pretty box )