Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Grumblevolcano
We'll see, but I suspect New Pokémon Snap is going to be alot more popular than Mystery Dungeon, which was a rough GBA era remaster in a niche genre. New Pokémon Snap looks gorgeous, modern, and it's a series people have been demanding for quite some time.

Either way, it's a big enough game.

@TheFrenchiestFry
BTW, did you watch the bonus content video? It's so good. As someone who owned a $2000 Yamaha recorder back in the late 90's recording music, it was interesting watching the sound booth session. Such a great add on for fans. Art book and soundtrack alone, but the video really adds some heft to it.

@JaxonH I am aware that the bonus video is the theme song making of for You Are Stronger with Lyn and I'll probably get around to watching it soon but I'm so sucked into this game right now I'm not really thinking of anything else lol

I've peered into the art book and these illustrations were really nice. Apparently Koei Tecmo themselves were the ones responsible for designing the new characters introduced in Strikers like Zenkichi, Sophia and the Jail Monarchs with supervision from P-Studio, and if that's the case they literally look like characters the core Persona team would've conceptualized themselves. They really did their homework for this one

@TheFrenchiestFry

P4D was the first persona game I owned and played but I had watched 1/2 a P4G lets play before hand so knew the characters a bit.

could a update to celebrate the 1 one year of Animal Crossing New Horizons could happen?

What’s up with this never ending obsession with anniversaries all of a sudden.

@JaxonH I know it's crazy now! Splatoon might have a big one this year too.

@JaxonH yep I'm only 90 minutes in my I'm amazed how...un-Warriors this game feels. It really does seem to be an RPG that happens to have Warriors combat.

Very excited to see where this goes. Unfortunately it just makes me want P5 on the Switch all that much more.

All these glowing Strikers reactions lol. Goddamit, this HAD to be the game I insisted on a physical copy of.

I think I'm going to skip Bravely 2 for the time being. Between my backlog, Persona 5 Strikers, and Monster Hunter Rise, I'm pretty much booked for months as is.

Ok. Project Triangle Strategy. My guys. This game. This freaking game lol...

Oh my gosh this game. This is it. This is the one. This is the strategy RPG I have been waiting for and dare I say it... I think I may like it just as much as Fire Emblem.

And let me just expound on that statement by saying, Fire Emblem is one of my favorite franchises of all time. It really is. And this game... this freaking game.

I haven’t felt like this since I first played Fire Emblem Awakening demo on 3DS. That was when I had my epiphany about turn based games. It was like my eyes had suddenly become opened and I could see. I had never felt that way in a video game before. Strategic chess like combat with a serious story that involves characters dying. I never knew a video game could do something like that.

I have continued to love Fire Emblem, but I’d be lying if I said any of them I’ve played since Awakening have allowed me to fully re-live that initial experience. This game though... I’m reliving it. Oh man am I reliving it.

I came into this game with all kinds of presuppositions about how it should play, and at first I had my notepad out and I was saying oh, they should let you do this like FE, they should let you do that like FE. but the more I play, the more I realize it doesn’t need to be like FE in every single respect. I like that you don’t toggle enemy movements, I like the elevation and direction factor into damage, I like the critical hits are based on squeezing an enemy from both sides. I like it all. Is it different? It is. But it is equally good, and it has shown me that Fire Emblem is not the only way to do things.

That said, this game reminds me an awful lot of Fire Emblem Awakening. Not in the minutia of mechanical similarities but in tone, style and visual appearance. The sprites probably add to that.

What I also like is the incredibly strong focus on story, good narrative and dialog, voice acting, and the triangle strategy of Utility, Morality and Liberty. This game has some serious questions and choices for you to make. They might not seem that major at the time but I can see how they shape who you are as a character in the game has already made it clear that who joins you in battle will depend on your character. That’s amazing.

Also a small thing, but I really like how you can press X on a Sprite when they are talking in dialogue and it will pop up a nice artistic drawing of them that has their name and title, so that you can remember who’s who with all the characters in the game. There’s a lot of them and it’s easy to lose track of exactly who the person is this speaking and where they are from and what their title is. I played through a second time and realized the gravity of the initial assassination because the first time I played I didn’t realize it was Roland’s brother, and I didn’t realize it was his sister that screamed out in horror.

If you haven’t played this demo, I don’t know what I can say to convince you to, but I will at least stress that I think this might be the best strategy game I’ve played since Awakening, and I think it has the potential to be the best full stop. Even if it’s not, it’s certainly among the best. Assuming the rest of the game lives up to what I’ve played in the demo. But I’m confident it will. They’ve really struck gold with this game.

@timleon
I want P4 or P5 on Switch, but honestly, it sates my thirst for it because it’s so similar. I legit feel like I’m playing Persona on Switch. A fresh take on it, at that.

check out how a Legend of Zelda game could conclude the Hero of Time story.

Never really cared for Zelda continuity or timelines.

I just look at each game as their own unique perspective of the Link character.

@JaxonH because 2021 severals Nintendo franchises big and small celebrate it anniversaries and we want Nintendo to do something to regonize it(Legend of Zelda 35th anniversary, Pokémon 25th anniversary, Metroid 35th anniversary, Donkey Kong 40th anniversary, Animal Crossing 20th anniversary and Kid Icarus 30th anniversary, i hope and expect at least some of this franchises Nintendo regonize it anniversaries, not just Zelda e Pokémon).

@Giancarlothomaz
I suppose.

I just think anniversaries are silly, as they have so many franchises, and if you count every 5 year anniversary as something special it just ends up being anniversary overload.

Not that I'm unhappy with the end result. The Mario Collection and 3D World were masterpiece additions, and if "anniversary" means getting Zelda Skyward Sword, Windwaker and Twilight Princess, I'm all for it.

I'm just tired of all the anniversary talk. We heard it all last hear for Mario, now we're hearing it all over again for Zelda.

I'm just being a sourpuss. Don't mind me.

@HC88

(Waves) Hello!

@JaxonH

Yeah agreed. I’m loving the shift in Nintendo’s attitude to third parties. Bodes well for the next few years. But I also agree that what will be will be. We finally became a two-Switch household yesterday with the addition of a Lite. If a more powerful version was announced tomorrow If buy that too but if not I already have enough Switch games to last me a lifetime.

@JaxonH It was like this back in 2016 too... Don't worry, it'll pass soon enough when people realize we aren't getting some crazy Zelda anniversary stuff.

I am looking forward to whatever we get from Kirby though, I can't see HAL passing up Kirby's 30th late this year/early next.

@link3710
Lol ok I think I'm onto you now. You've been sarcastic this whole time.

Your Kirby comment gave you away. Well done, my friend.

@timleon I will admit it's kind of trippy seeing Nintendo button prompts styled after the P5 UI

I'm playing it on PC with the Switch Pro Controller and even then seeing A, B, X, Y, L, R & ZL/ZR instead of the PlayStation prompts feels like such a tease for the people who want P5 on Switch lmao

I'd probably double dip but only if it was Royal since it's THAT much better than vanilla P5.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/02/rumour_switch_pro_c...

@TheFrenchiestFry yeah, I'm playing on the Switch and funnily enough the most jarring thing to me is the left trigger for third eye. It just feels so different with the analogue trigger on the dualshock 4.