Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Ryu_Niiyama
You already made that clear the first time. I believed you! 😁

I wasn’t arguing, just telling you what I remember and why I referenced that game, so that you can see I’m not just imagining things.

what Nintendo could be planing for the anniversary of it franchises in 2021?

Damn it, I'm actually enjoying the Bravely Default II demo this go around. Still don't like the hazy look of the region or the changes to the battle system, but they did a good job of fixing the map encounter system and making the demo more representative of what the full experience will play like. I'm close to being sold on this game, which is troublesome, because now I'll need to choose between this and Persona 5 Strikers.

@Ralizah
Makes me happy hearing you’re enjoying BD2. I knew the first demo had issues, but I felt like I was the only one who actually liked it. Then again, I think I was judging it in good faith that they’d have a good story and characters and balanced difficulty playing from the beginning (things which are never guaranteed). It’s good to see it actually turn out well in the end.

There’s only 1 solution. Have like $300 ready to go for February/March. New game every week in February, then a 1 month period to finish them up before Monster Hunter. It’ll feel like Christmas!

But if you have to choose, I imagine Persona 5 Strikers needs the support right away more than Bravely Default 2. Unless you think you’ll enjoy BD2 way more, of course.

Nintendo sofrer another confidencial information that leaked, now regarding Switch.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-has-reporte...

Trials Rising is on sale for $5.99 on the eShop, with the Gold Edition for just $8.99

That’s absolutely unbelievable for one of the best games of the generation and easily the best in the Trials series.

Anyone who doesn’t have this game yet... I highly, HIGHLY recommend it for this price. I recommend it at the full $40 price. I’ve gotten 100 hours from this game and loved it so much I bought it on Steam too. It’s fantastic. Feels like a Nintendo game with its precision gameplay mechanics and instant retry (no loading screens on crashes) with checkpoints every other obstacle.

@JaxonH I might have snagged both if one of them released in January, but I can't really justify buying both at launch when MH Rise will be sapping up my time a month after they release. This is going to be one of those years where I move from new release to new release, more than likely. Let's hope it's not like 2019 where a bunch of the best games all dropped in September.

I actually am more excited for P5S. By quite a bit: I've been playing P5R with my nephew, and I'd forgotten how excellent this game was compared to other Persona titles (the combat is still too easy, even on the highest difficulty, but whatever; not every game needs to kick my teeth in, and I'll likely have plenty of that when SMT V/Nocturne HD release later in the year). I'm excited to return to that universe.

Speaking of Trials and precision controls, how problematic are the lack of analog triggers?

@Ralizah
Speaking of Trials and precision controls, how problematic are the lack of analog triggers?

Surprisingly, they’re not. The right analog is used for full analog control of throttle and... would you believe it- it works flawlessly! Let me put it this way- I was able to beat every Extreme track in the game... on the Switch. Even Inferno V, the dreaded final Extreme Inferno track of every Trials game. There are people who can’t even do that with analog triggers lol, yet I was able to do it with the analog stick.

The honest truth is, and if you really think about it this will make sense, the analog stick works just as well as an analog trigger. As long as you have a range of motion which translates to a linear scale to throttle... that’s all you need. Analog stick, admittedly, isn’t quite as precise as say, an Xbox One shoulder trigger, but it’s close. The fact I beat Inferno V is proof enough of that.

A lot of people think oh, no analog triggers, I’ll just full throttle with ZR... no!!! Don’t do that! You NEED the analog throttle for this game. Thankfully the devs figured out a way to incorporate it, and I’ve actually found it to be more comfy over long binge sessions than the analog trigger. Ironic, I know.

I just wanted to say Merry Christmas everyone. What a year huh? Thank you for being such an awesome community. Hope you have a good one

@JaxonH Ugh, I need to play more Trials. It's so much fun, even though I'm absolutely terrible at the game. It kind of feels like a precision-puzzle game more than a racing one if that makes sense. Thanks again for recommending it.

@GrailUK Merry Christmas to you too! Always fun around here.

@link3710
Building an army of loyal Trials fans, one convert at a time 😂

The Easy and Medium tracks are like racing through fun, lighthearted courses with ramps and loops and gimmicks, but once you make it to Hard/Extreme the game transforms into a hyper skill-based technical challenge where you need to have mastered rear wheel bounce, bunny hop, endo, endo into a bunny hop, etc. in order to clear the obstacle course. Then there’s Ninja, which even I haven’t unlocked (it’s intentionally blocked off for most users, you have to gold medal all extreme courses, which... for me it’s just a challenge to BEAT the extreme courses before timing out, much less do a sub 5 minute run).

It’s crazy addictive. Still amazes me a game that only uses 2 analog sticks (left to lean and right to throttle) can have so much gameplay variety and skills to master.

Anybody else get their year in review from Nintendo yet? Apparently I increased my overall playtime by 300 hours to reach 844. I’m sorta surprised at my most played games though. (Animal Crossing, Pokemon and story of seasons)

Since stats are getting posted I’ll post mine.

183 games played this year.
Most active day was Nov 8th.
Played 6 games with super Mario in them. (Wonder how that was tallied)

@Ryu_Niiyama It's a shame that only NA accounts can access that. I'd be interested to know how many thousands of hours I've put into my Switch this year.

Yea that was so cool. Xc:de, botw, ac, ff7 and ff9 were my most played. I was up this year in hours from last year. And my Most played day of the year was when I grabbed ac.

@Ryu_Niiyama
Yup. Though you outplayed me this year. I only hit 557 hrs for 2020. Said I hit 813 in 2019, so that’s a pretty big drop. But, 2019 was a banger year versus 2020 so, there’s that.

June and July were by far my top 2 months, for both this year and last year.

• 557 hrs played (813 hrs in 2019)
• 135 games played (133 in 2019)
• 14,321 gold coins earned.
• Top games were Xenoblade, Fire Emblem, Wonderful 101, Paper Mario and Trails of Cold Steel 3.
• 2019 was Fire Emblem, Trials Rising, Witcher 3, Final Fantasy X/X-2 and Final Fantasy XII.

Nintendo celebrate new year with the stats of the 2020 games you played on Switch.

@Giancarlothomaz
Clearly you didn’t read the previous 4 posts.

We’re already having a conversation about it.

318 hours/23 games

1. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
2. Bug Fables: The Everlasting Spring
3. DOOM
4. Celeste
5. Xenoblade Chronicles 2

this list makes more sense when you realize i only got to the end of chapter 3 of xenoblade and got distracted by other things

it also makes more sense to me when i remember i started celeste in 2019 (otherwise it would easily be 3rd, maybe even 2nd)

Asked in the smash thread but didn't get a reply. Hoping someone can help me. Ordered barrett as a mii costume but can't seem to locate him anywhere. How do you actually get to use him? I've never ordered a mii costume.

@JaxonH haha time flies when you are having fun I guess! I’m sure you will beat everyone next year since monster hunter is on the way.