"Starting in 2022, Falcom will develop Switch titles internally, starting with the Switch version of The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails."
No offense to NIS, who did an AMAZING job getting this ball rolling, but games will probably run better if they're designed to run on the system to begin with by the original developers.
@IceClimbers 100% agree. It's by far my goty. However, I did play FE3H for the first time this year, and it gives dread a run for its money, but it didn't release in 2021 so...yea. dread should be played by all, such a fluid experience. Tight controls, fast gameplay, great bosses. Perfect game.
@NintendoByNature
Also agree. As the years pass we tend to forget how much we enjoyed a certain game. I recently revisited FETH and ya, it's fantastic.
@Ralizah
All that talk about, "we can't develop for 2 platforms" which we knew was bogus because they developed for Vita and PS4 simultaneously. Turns out, when you actually want to do it, suddenly you're able to manage the resources to make it work.
I agree though. The Vita versions of Trails were excellent. Solid optimization. Cold Steel 3 was a bit rough on Switch without AA, but Cold Steel 4 was much better. I think a different studio handled it and it shows.
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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 Considering Falcom's Sony loyalism, I'm guessing revenue for these Switch ports must be greater than anticipated if they're moving development of the ports in-house. Who knew that releasing JRPGs on the hottest device for Japanese games in the industry would be a good move?
I'm curious to see if Sega will re-evaluate the possibility of putting Yakuza games on Switch now that Toshihiro Nagoshi is out of the picture.
Would also love to see Vanillaware return to Nintendo.
Currently Playing: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (NS2); Corpse Factory (PC)
@Ralizah
Ya. There's so much Sony loyalism which has resulted in games not coming to Switch. Some of it I blame the devs for letting politics get in the way of good business. But on the other hand, Nintendo shares blame too. They went 20 years without providing a viable, profitable and healthy platform for 3rd parties, who had nowhere else to turn for Japanese games. 20 years of only releasing on PS- in that time, kids in diapers have now graduated college and gotten married. Of course loyalties are going to develop in a monopolistic environment like that for such a long time span.
So I get the first 5 years of Switch being a bit spotty. But the time has come to adopt the new philosophy and embrace the current reality, and the current reality is, Switch is the best selling console we've seen in many years, and the first one that may actually have a shot at cracking the PS2. You can't ignore that forever.
Switch should have Falcom games developed in house. Switch should have its own exclusive Tales game built ground up. Vanillaware should have dumped their entire catalog on the system by now. Where have they been? Why isn't Yokai Watch 4 localized? And where are all the 3DS developers that were dropping fire year in year out, with games such as Stella Glow, Radiant Historia, Etrian Odyssey, etc. All these games should have remasters or sequels on Switch by now. Why isn't Persona 4 Golden on Switch yet? (And a slight tangent but, I'm quite sure they're going to put SMTV on Steam, but they can't do the same for Persona 5? It makes no sense). And for goodness sakes, where is GTAV?
At least we see the tides turning. Finally. Falcom is, at long last, developing Trails for Switch internally (and just a few years ago, we weren't even sure Switch would get Trails, so we're making progress). GTA is now represented on Switch, which opens the door for GTAV. We are seeing some positive indicators. With Switch clearly in it for the long haul, it's time for these companies to get over themselves and their Nintendo-skeptic prejudices and go all in. Enough toe dipping. It's time for a swan dive.
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
will something that is out for preload today and that I already placed a preorder for be automaticly downloaded once that preload goes live or do I have to manually go to the store page for it to catch that info?
When I did it for SMT V, I had to go in and manually do it.
Also disregard my other post people, I have figured out how to enable the Japanese voices.
@thiz
Sometimes it's automatic, other times it's not.
Not really sure why it doesn't trigger sometimes, yet other times it does. I have multiple Switches, and I've even seen 2 of them auto download it, yet the other doesn't, or one of them auto downloads and the other two don't.
I do know it has to be in sleep mode with internet connected and the setting activated that allows internet during sleep mode.
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 SMT V isn't going to Steam any time this gen. Almost guaranteed. If Atlus meant this to be a multi-platform release, they'd have announced it as one.
I woke up early to play my preload (early as in 3AM). I'm not a morning person at all, but it's worth it. Game is awesome. And absolutely brutal so far on hard mode.
@Ralizah
I would have loved to get up at 5am and grabbed some coffee and started playing, but I only have 3 vacation days left and that's for the week between Christmas and New Years.
You jumped straight into HARD difficulty? That's savage.
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
Yeah, hard mode is... wow. 😂 I'm going to be seeing that "game over" screen a lot. A Mermaid mini-boss just flattened me, which gives me a good excuse to switch over to my Lite (because the game is definitely very subnative in handheld mode).
I needed this, though, after being able to sleepwalk through most of Persona 5 Royal on the highest difficulty setting.
Currently Playing: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (NS2); Corpse Factory (PC)
Cause of the old school TV I found, there isn’t much in it visually between docked and handheld for SMT V for me, but it just feels a lot choppier docked to me than in handheld. There is still some weird slowdown in handheld, but it feels worse/more frequent docked to me. But we all have different sensitivities to these things, so other mileage may vary. I never used to think I was some FPS slave and wouldn’t necessarily still identify as one, but I definitely feel like I am more aware of when a game is stable and it isn’t than I used to be.
@Ralizah oh man i can relate to P5R. Love that game but between the constant dialogue and relative ease of combat it was a chore on repeat play throughs. On more than one occasion I'd be skipping dialogue only to be shocked that after several minutes everyone was still talking.
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Persona is has such bloated dialog it'll drive you crazy if you're not into it, or aren't prepared mentally. Persona 4 Dancing, despite being the only game I ever bothered getting a Platinum on, is excruciating with babbling dialog, for like an hour straight before you ever even get to gameplay!
It has the option to ultra-FF through dialog text and it still took me like 20+ minutes to get to the first dancing segment. They just go on and on and on and on and on
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@Losermagnet I... look, I like the characters and dialogue in Persona games. I really do. It's a lot of fun to watch them interact. But it's PAINFUL to sit through on repeat playthroughs. They need a robust fast-forwarding feature like a lot of VNs have where you can quickly skip through the talking if you just want to do something other than sit around and listen to anime people blather on for hours at a time.
SMT V is how you do it. A little bit of scene-setting at the start. Introduce the characters. Then, BOOM, you're dumped in hell. You get a few short playable tutorials once you get there, and there you're set off the leash. I love that the game is almost as eager to skip past the talking and tutorializing as the player is.
Currently Playing: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (NS2); Corpse Factory (PC)
@Ralizah agreed. It's all good fun the first time, but after that it's just time consuming. It's designed in a way that every character gets a chance to say something even if what they're saying is reduntant.
I like how 999 does it, where it'll stop if there's a line of new dialogue. Not that that applies to Persona, where all the dialogue is the same (i think?) but at least you won't miss anything new by skipping. Edit - come to think of it, why aren't the Zero Escape games on the Switch!?!
Text scrolling is actually a pet peeve of mine. My only real complaint about The Great Ace Attorney is that even on the fastest setting it scrolled too slowly.
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