There’s a Metroid Dread demo out. If you haven’t played this incredible game, there’s no excuse now.
Also… I LOVE DONKEY KONG COUNTRY: TROPICAL FREEZE. Oh my gosh do I love it! Gameplay perfection! Music is incredible! Level design is immaculate! Enemy designs charming as they come… this game. This freaking game.
A salute to the greatest 2D platformer of all time
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@IceClimbers
When you set up the system it’ll ask if you already have a Nintendo account. If so, it’ll ask if you still want to use the old system. If so, it won’t transfer your save data.
What I would do is set it up and sign in with existing account, say you still want to use other system, then redownload your purchased games from the eShop, and use cloud saves to get your save data across without losing it on the other system. In settings > data management you will see a cloud save option if you want to just go down the list and download everything rapid fire. Or, you can do it from each downloaded game’s icon with the + button > save data cloud > download save data as you download them.
For any games that don’t qualify for cloud saves, use a manual save transfer (+ menu on game’s icon > manage software > transfer your save data. Exceptions to that are Animal Crossing (use save transfer tool) and Trials Rising, which doesn’t use cloud saves and can’t be transferred (only possible in a full profile transfer, but that game is so insanely fun I just replayed it every time I got a new system, 3 times in total, and will do it again on the OLED).
Then you’ll have to decide which Switch is your primary system. By default your other one will be your primary, which means your new one will need to connect to the Internet anytime you launch a game to make sure you’re not playing the same game on your primary system. If you’re going to leave the other system docked it might be better to make that your secondary system since it will always have access to the Internet.
To switch primary systems, you can deactivate your old Switch as being “primary” from the eShop account settings page. Select “deactivate this console as your primary system”. You’ll probably have to enter your password. After you do this, the next system that launches the eShop becomes the primary system. So just launch eShop on the OLED and that’s it, you’re golden.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
I gotta say that when I opened up my OLED the improvement in build quality over the v1 Switch was immediately noticeable. Maybe it's just because it's brand new but it feels a lot sturdier.
Oh, and upon booting it up? The vibrancy of the screen and the enhanced audio were clear. Loving the OLED already!
It really is a night and day difference, even more so than I was expecting as someone who owns an OLED TV.
Not only that, but my screen protector from iVoler or whoever they are, is crystal clear. Like, CRYSTAL clear. The amFilm glass I had on my LCD was not crystal clear. Comparing them I noticed it had tiny micro sparkles of color due to the adhesive or something. But it made the image look worse because it was adding artifacts I could see. When I look at the OLED screen it’s absolutely flawless.
Playing DKC Tropical Freeze looking at the dioramas on a black background… 🧑🍳💋
Even my brother when he got his, he texted me after getting home with it and was like, “zero regrets”. And he’s a stingy dude if I’ve ever seen one lol. He doesn’t buy things lightly. Guy owns his own house but for years has refused to upgrade from the v1 Switch, and despite being a massive PC gamer who got me into PC gaming he’s too cheap to buy a new GPU and still rocks a 1080 😁 So hearing him say he was 100% satisfied was like ok. This thing must have really impressed him.
Speakers are more clear with better stereo separation, can’t tell if they’re louder but, they sound good.
Kickstand, despite being the cheapest improvement, has a massive impact on the end user experience. It makes me want to play tabletop mode at every possible opportunity. The OLED screen itself makes me want to permanently play it in hand held and I pretty much do at this point. I mean, the OLED tv is nice too, and maybe it’s just because I’m still in the honeymoon phase, but there’s something about playing it in hand held with that larger screen with perfect blacks that just feels incredibly good. Even more so when using quality wired headphones.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@JaxonH Just booted up Metroid Dread on the OLED and WOW. It absolutely pops on the OLED screen!
Looking forward to seeing some of the other games on the OLED, starting with Mario Kart!!
I'm not gonna re-download my entire Switch library on the OLED right now however. It would take forever on my slower internet and I don't have a big enough SD card for it. So just the games that I really want to see on the OLED screen (Cruis'n Blast, Ori, etc) I'm thinking. Or at least for the time being.
Metroid Dread is the main priority however. Got some vacation time between now and November 4th so I actually have a bunch of free time to game for once!!
I am just about 10ish hours into SMT 3 now and I feel like I am liking this a little less, the more I play? I feel like my main problem is the game is just so ***** exhausting. Every location you visit is a puzzle to solve - sometimes intentionally, but sometimes just because the level design is ***** awful. I basically have to have a walkthrough open on my phone the entire time I am playing this game, just to know where to go. Especially as you aren't just organically progressing forwards all the time, you'll often be required to retread huge amounts of ground just to have a brief conversation and then retread that entire ground again to go to the next location. I'd have no reason to assume that is what the game wants me to do and since it gives no way of speeding up this process, so much game time is wasted just walking backwards and forwards between the same locations. There are fast travel points, but they'll usually be at the beginning of a maze of identical looking corridors you need to wade through. I want to have the joy of exploration, but the game gives the illusion of choice and actually gives you only one fixed path, with usually the most convoluted route to get there.
It is in my original post "There are fast travel points, but they'll usually be at the beginning of a maze of identical looking corridors you need to wade through."
@Pizzamorg The game almost always gives some indication of where you need to be. If not through didactic means (cutscenes, conversations with important secondary characters), then often through conversation with NPCs. Now, they won't say: "Go here, do this," but they will often mention someone strange who was seen in a a particular area, or mention a conflict brewing in this or that place, and so on. It's just a very old-school JRPG in that it doesn't hold your hand at all.
As to the dungeons... they're designed like labyrinthine puzzles, yeah, and just to warn you, they get a hundred times more oppressive as the game goes on. Particularly certain late-game dungeons and deeper Kalpas in the Labyrinth of Amala.
Anyway, where are you in the story? Have you been able to reach Ikebukuro yet?
@Pizzamorg The game almost always gives some indication of where you need to be. If not through didactic means (cutscenes, conversations with important secondary characters), then often through conversation with NPCs. Now, they won't say: "Go here, do this," but they will often mention someone strange who was seen in a a particular area, or mention a conflict brewing in this or that place, and so on. It's just a very old-school JRPG in that it doesn't hold your hand at all.
As to the dungeons... they're designed like labyrinthine puzzles, yeah, and just to warn you, they get a hundred times more oppressive as the game goes on. Particularly certain late-game dungeons and deeper Kalpas in the Labyrinth of Amala.
Anyway, where are you in the story? Have you been able to reach Ikebukuro yet?
I think it is more the issue that they'll be like "go to the corner shop" and you'll be like "okay", but the entrance is blocked off on the mini map, with no clear way to get there. You look at a guide and realise you have to visit a location you went to hours earlier, take a right turn where you would gone left, go up a few ladders, go through some doors, do some elevators and you'll come out of a side entrance that lets you get to the corner shop. I just don't know how I would have ever found that, without a guide.
The last thing I did in the game was liberate some kind of prison.
Welp... Sounds like Vicarious Visions is essentially dead now with the merger news. If they don't lose 50+% of their employees in the next two years I'll be shocked. At least they went out with a bang with Crash 4.
Too bad Spyro and Crash (and THPS) are gonna be dead again...
Glad to see Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris are coming to Switch. These are a natural choice for the system.
I still remember buying Temple of Osiris on PS4- I distinctly recall it because it was the first physical game I ever purchased where I opened the case to find a download code printed on a piece of paper. Of course, it was originally intended as a digital only release, but it still shocked me.
At least Square Enix is finally starting to bring some of their western games to Switch. Life Is Strange Remastered Collection and Life Is Strange True Colors, along with Tomb Raider Guardian of Light and Tomb Raider Temple of Osiris, is starting to show a change in trend. That's good to see.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
So, Mario Party Superstars officially has the highest review aggregate of any game in the series, actually tied with the very first game on N64. I don't really trust aggregates quantitatively, but qualitatively, this bodes well.
Sounds like this is the best Mario Party has been in decades.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
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The Lara Croft games are a spinoff of the main Tomb Raider series, and offer an isometric 3rd person view of exploring dungeons, kind of a mix between Legend of Zelda and Diablo.
They're actually really high quality.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
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