Picked up Shield as it didn’t look like it was going on sale using one of my NSO Vouchers. I had played this before on my Sister’s Switch but I think over the years I had just really remembered the worst version of this game.
While the pop in is some of the worst I have ever seen, the wild areas have some of the worst performance the Switch has ever provided for a first party title and some of the animations are insultingly lazy (especially when you compare it to say SMT games or Stories 2), all of this doesn’t hurt the overall experience perhaps as much as I had built it up in my mind.
Like while no one should forgive the pop in or wild area performance, I think just focusing on that and not talking about how nice a lot of the game looks otherwise, docked or handheld, is sorta doing a disservice to a lot of really great art design.
And while it is a shame that the Pokemon don’t properly connect and there are no balls to the wall craziness like in the above listed games, I had kinda remembered every move to be just Pokemon jumping up and down on the spot but that isn’t really true or fair. There is plenty of animation for the Pokemon and the attacks, just not perhaps enough when you consider this was sold as a full price, modern, console game on a system with similar games with way better animations.
Plus, while I am trying not to do this again so I will keep it brief, whereas games like SMT are all about friction, there is something to be said for how easy Shield is. There are almost no barriers to anything, it is just about the joy of being in that world and catching cute and cool looking monsters and while that may get tedious over time, the utter casualness of Shield just makes it such a pleasant time.
We’ve got updates for GTA Trilogy, Disco Elysium, Hot Wheels, Neo The World Ends With You, Metroid Dread and Rocket League from the last month. Because I just downloaded these games when I got the OLED, and they were up to date then.
Just an FYI.
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
Picked up Shield as it didn’t look like it was going on sale using one of my NSO Vouchers. I had played this before on my Sister’s Switch but I think over the years I had just really remembered the worst version of this game.
While the pop in is some of the worst I have ever seen, the wild areas have some of the worst performance the Switch has ever provided for a first party title and some of the animations are insultingly lazy (especially when you compare it to say SMT games or Stories 2), all of this doesn’t hurt the overall experience perhaps as much as I had built it up in my mind.
Like while no one should forgive the pop in or wild area performance, I think just focusing on that and not talking about how nice a lot of the game looks otherwise, docked or handheld, is sorta doing a disservice to a lot of really great art design.
And while it is a shame that the Pokemon don’t properly connect and there are no balls to the wall craziness like in the above listed games, I had kinda remembered every move to be just Pokemon jumping up and down on the spot but that isn’t really true or fair. There is plenty of animation for the Pokemon and the attacks, just not perhaps enough when you consider this was sold as a full price, modern, console game on a system with similar games with way better animations.
Plus, while I am trying not to do this again so I will keep it brief, whereas games like SMT are all about friction, there is something to be said for how easy Shield is. There are almost no barriers to anything, it is just about the joy of being in that world and catching cute and cool looking monsters and while that may get tedious over time, the utter casualness of Shield just makes it such a pleasant time.
I agree that anything but the wild area (of the base game at least) is quite pretty, my main gripe is how tons of it isn't explorable. We see cool buildings, gorgeous towers and the like, yet when we enter it's a single room or in some cases we can't even enter at all. The routes of SWSH are some of my favourite of any Pokémon game, but they're also very short. The result is that Galar, to me, doesn't feel alive and connected, but more a collection of halfbaked ideas. And that's the thing about Pokémon, at its core it provides a singularly charming experience: the wonder of exploration with adorable or cool creatures, a sense of wonder that connects you to your inner child, but the later games have all been about new gimmicks, introducing mechanics and forgetting about them the next generation, and simply not having the same care for the things that defined the series in the first place.
@JaxonH Deku Deals does have the option of filtering between physical/digital/platform etc. I've got all my Xbox wish list set to digital only as I've got a Series S.
Just click the (edit details) button (under the little bell icon that shows something's on your wishlist) to set preferences for each one.
I think there's also a setting for the account default, so you don't have to change them all individually - the default seems to be set to both digital & physical initially.
Picked up Shield as it didn’t look like it was going on sale using one of my NSO Vouchers. I had played this before on my Sister’s Switch but I think over the years I had just really remembered the worst version of this game.
While the pop in is some of the worst I have ever seen, the wild areas have some of the worst performance the Switch has ever provided for a first party title and some of the animations are insultingly lazy (especially when you compare it to say SMT games or Stories 2), all of this doesn’t hurt the overall experience perhaps as much as I had built it up in my mind.
Like while no one should forgive the pop in or wild area performance, I think just focusing on that and not talking about how nice a lot of the game looks otherwise, docked or handheld, is sorta doing a disservice to a lot of really great art design.
And while it is a shame that the Pokemon don’t properly connect and there are no balls to the wall craziness like in the above listed games, I had kinda remembered every move to be just Pokemon jumping up and down on the spot but that isn’t really true or fair. There is plenty of animation for the Pokemon and the attacks, just not perhaps enough when you consider this was sold as a full price, modern, console game on a system with similar games with way better animations.
Plus, while I am trying not to do this again so I will keep it brief, whereas games like SMT are all about friction, there is something to be said for how easy Shield is. There are almost no barriers to anything, it is just about the joy of being in that world and catching cute and cool looking monsters and while that may get tedious over time, the utter casualness of Shield just makes it such a pleasant time.
I agree that anything but the wild area (of the base game at least) is quite pretty, my main gripe is how tons of it isn't explorable. We see cool buildings, gorgeous towers and the like, yet when we enter it's a single room or in some cases we can't even enter at all. The routes of SWSH are some of my favourite of any Pokémon game, but they're also very short. The result is that Galar, to me, doesn't feel alive and connected, but more a collection of halfbaked ideas. And that's the thing about Pokémon, at its core it provides a singularly charming experience: the wonder of exploration with adorable or cool creatures, a sense of wonder that connects you to your inner child, but the later games have all been about new gimmicks, introducing mechanics and forgetting about them the next generation, and simply not having the same care for the things that defined the series in the first place.
Yeah it was super jarring when I first started playing and realised I have no control over the camera outside of the wild areas! Not used to a modern game where you are basically funnelled across screens in a set path. But I guess that is sort of the strength and weakness of S/S. They are still basically the same as the handheld games really, with a more modern lick of paint over the top. Mechanically underneath a lot hasn’t really changed. And I can see what that is a problem and I don’t disagree, but at the same time there is almost a charming nostalgia to playing S/S even though I have only ever played it on another Switch because after probably close to a decade away from playing my own Pokemon adventure, I come back to a game and find not a lot has changed. It is like coming home. For fans who play day in and day out, each new iteration of the franchise, I can see why they will be fatigued but I just don’t have that fatigue going in. And like I say, I am not saying the fatigue isn’t valid, just non applicable to me.
@dmcc0
Huh. Guess you can change it individually through the List feature. Thanks!
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
Death’s Door is out. Surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention it.
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
Would be awesome if there was a website like Deku Deals but for game updates. http://www.benoitren.be/switch-gamepatches.html was a great place to start, but it hasn't been updated for months now. Sometimes it's really hard to find changelogs or to find out if there has been an update in the last months for game xy or not. Sadly the Switch won't update all of my installed games either, just the last played ones.
Another issue is the little popup on the Switch screen telling me that a game has just updated. Sometimes I'm in the middle of an intense moment and I can't see what has been updated, so I can't find out which game was recently updated. Would also be a cool feature for the Switch to see the recently updated games (ideally including the changelog).
Nintendo announced the new Mario Golf update is the final free update, emphasizing "free" so it may be that there's DLC in the future. Between this and Mario Party, it does seem like we may be finding out soon whether @skywake's theory about the NSO expansion pack's primary purpose being for paid DLC rather than N64/Genesis is correct.
So, Animal Crossing update went out, Mario Golf update and Death's Door released, and KOTOR is getting the giant text box patched in January.
Awesome.
What's not awesome is hearing Neo TWEWY was a flop.
They didn't really push the game, little to no marketing, no special edition, nothing. Still, the game is good and reviewed well.
It clearly did best on Switch, so at least SE can't use it as a mark against the system to not bring other games (which, had it been exclusive, that would have been the likely outcome, as there would be no other worse selling version for context).
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
NEO TWEWY's retail performance seemed pretty consistently bad, and you rarely saw anyone talking about it, so it flopping doesn't surprise me one bit. Sad for the fandom, though: apparently there aren't a lot of them, or they didn't turn out for this release.
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 I'm not sure about the Switch version selling best, Square Enix has discontinued Switch physical copies but continue to release PS4 physical copies. Similar thing happened for KH Melody of Memory.
@Grumblevolcano
It absolutely smoked the PS4 version in every rankings chart, even now on Amazon the Switch version at $48 is 200 rankings above the PS4 version at $30. Prices only get lowered as an attempt to increase quality demanded. When one version sells at a lower price than another, its a pretty clear indicator demand is less for that version and thus a lower price is needed to boost sales.
So ya. I'm pretty sure. It's possible digital makes up for some of that, but nowadays the digital market share on Switch is so high I don't think it's nearly as much of a split like it used to be in the Wii U era.
Just like they announced all those SaGa releases on Switch smoked every other platform. Said Steam was most surprising but still fell short of Switch.
Pretty much everything sells most on Switch nowadays barring properties with heavy ties to other platforms (such as Persona 5 Strikers), or games released after other versions.
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 I am about 20ish hours into Shield now and honestly enjoying it a lot. Got through the first gym leader by the skin of my teeth, had a bunch of type advantages for the next two so get through them fairly easily but then the Ghost leader wiped the floor with me, so I spent around 5 hours today in the wild area catching Pokemon, levelling up and trying to build a team to take him down.
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