Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH Cheese and crackers, I TOTALLY forgot that started today. Thanks for the reminder!

@Ralizah
Oh ya, go get your theme! I wasnt interested in playing Tetris before, but as fun as Tetris 99 is (even against CPU) and as awesome as the FE theme is, especially with the killer music, I foresee many hours of jamming to some Fire Emblem Tetris in the days to come.

Fire Emblem themed Tetris. Every fan needs this in their library.

Tetris 99 was cool in the beginning but nowadays I just play enough to unlock themes as the grind gets dull after awhile.

Currently waiting for a Mario theme for Tetris 99! I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet, considering he's Nintendo's mascot. :/

I greatly regret not getting the GameBoy and Splatoon themes now. I wasn’t even aware they existed until now. I wish I could go back and partake to get those themes because now I’ll probably never get them, as I doubt Nintendo will ever sell them on the eShop or offer as free DLC, or even re-run the event.

Boo.

That’s ok, I have my Fire Emblem, which is the best one I could have hoped for.

@JaxonH Maybe they’ll let us use Platinum points to get the themes in a few years 😂

Honestly, the themes are the reason I still like it. It goes along with the whole “choose how you play” thing for Switch. And yes, the FE then is awesome! I’ve got 41 points after three rounds, but I think I’ll do the rest tomorrow on the tv with my 8bitdo. Those joycon buttons are painful after a bit.

@HobbitGamer
Oh ya? I played with the pro controller. I suppose the quick sliding movement of your thumb doesn’t glide across buttons as easily.

@JaxonH I actually just finished it up after just pausing my movie, going to dock, and grabbing my pro 😁

I played with a D-Pad shell over my D-buttons. I think, one time, I pressed near the center and accidentally dropped a piece where I didn't want to, but, otherwise, the D-Pad shell that came with my Skull and Co. grip continues to work brilliantly. It's actually better than the Collective Minds skin in the sense that it also works the Joycon when it's being slid into the joycon grip, so it's a great docked option as well.

Anyway, I nabbed the theme an hour and a half ago, or so. It's brilliant. I'm going to make sure I have a full set of all these Tetris 99 themes.

Was this posted already? Spyro is looking pretty darn clean on the Switch... at least in docked mode. This bodes well for undocked performance, though, if it holds up through the three games?

@Ralizah this looks very good

@Ralizah

I posted in the Spyro thread, although it's not clear which the official Spyro thread is. Maybe a moderator could fix that?

Same. That would also be far easier for them to do, because all they need is to be rendered at a higher resolution and the original games still look great.
I just hope we get one or the other.

Galaxy is in my opinion the worst 3d Mario game (stil good though)
Didnt like the mechanics level design and the general idea

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07P9W5HJV/ref=ox_sc_saved_i...

1TB micro SD Sandisk extreme 100quid off (it's now £350) in the UK. Lowest price I've seen it, admittedly I've only looked on Amazon though.

1-2 month wait though, on delivery. Ouch

Still way too pricey for me. I think at £150 I'd consider getting one. That may take a while to get that low sadly.

@Dezzy Well, in the case of Sunshine, they'd also need to change how the FLUDD controls due to the Switch's lack of analogue triggers.

Who the hell would pay more for the SD card than the console?

I got the 256GB card that NLife pointed out a few months back for £25. Bargain! That's as much as I'll ever need.

Yeah I forgot about that. Probably easy to find an alternative though. The modded Wii U version of Gamecube version figured out an alternative that worked fine on the WiiU gamepad.

I never owned Mario Sunshine on my gamecube. Never got to play it either. Same with metroid prime, pikmin, Mario strikers, fire emblem and lots of others. I didn't even buy Luigi's mansion at launch, but have played that on 3DS now. I had enough cash for one game along with the console and chose rouge squadron (which was brilliant fun) I still remember being blown away in the video game store playing the demo for it.

Anyways... Mario Sunshine always looked fun to me. I know it's a bit devicive though. It's one thing to look at 20 mins of footage and another to play the whole game.

I'd rather mario odyssey 2 came out than a remake of Sunshine tbh...

@Tsurii Absolutely! I really appreciate the subtle precision on stuff like that. I'd rather be able to press a trigger with a particular pressure than have to align my character up so they are in the correct place. It makes spraying water more...fluid. (sorry). It's fine not to use the triggers like that, but omitting it would really lose the sense of 'mastering' the controls for me.

@Tsurii

It's not really that hard to redo the FLUDD controls. RB for light spray, RT for hard spray [or the other way around, and yes, I realise I'm using Xbox labelling]. That still leaves two other shoulder buttons free, which I'm pretty sure Sunshine never used anyway.