Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Looks like the NSO Expansion Pack dripfeed is even more of a dripfeed than with NES or SNES for base NSO.

Paper Mario is coming to NSO Expansion Pack on December 10th.

@JaxonH Nice. I'm using those exact pieces of art for my current desktop/laptop wallpapers.

@Grumblevolcano well at least it’s a good one!

I mean, Paper Mario is the easiest excuse to waste 20 hours, which would make it more time spent than nearly anyone gets from your average NSO update.

Tbh, I thought they were gonna wait until next year for any new game.

Nice, might make this the Paper Mario game I play next year.

I deeply enjoyed TTYD and TOK, but really didn't care for SS or SPM. We'll see where this one lands.

@Ralizah I haven't played TTYD, Super, or color splash, but the original is up there with TOK. I quite liked sticker star but not as much as the original.

@Ralizah TTYD took everything about this game and improved on it. Though it’s not like it needed many improvements, it’s still great game with good characters and a fun story.

Meanwhile, i saw Paper Mario TTYD was available on my local Online Shop and it tagged with insane price (3,500,000 IDR) 😭

@Pizzamorg
If you can catch Legendaries easily, it will defeat the purpose of being Legendary Pokemon.
Being a Legendary Pokemon = very hard to catch Pokemon, they are the Boss. Only Master Ball can catch them by 100% chance.

@Pizzamorg 30+ ultra balls isn't that unusual for legendaries.

Just to check - are you making use of status ailments to raise for catch rate (and help prevent it from wiping out your team)?

Also I recommend timer balls after the first 20 turns or so.

Just after I posted that, I caught it. Swapped in my Boltund who carried me through early game and used paralysis to seal the victory, still required 20+ ultra balls. No other Leggo has given me so much trouble.

@Pizzamorg Your really loving the game aren't you? what do you score it as? (If your talking about Sword and shield of course) I score it a good 9/10, as I poured in a lot of hours, and never got the DLC.

Yeah Shield is now my number one most played Switch game, overtaking Monster Hunter Rise. I’d probably score the core game an 8 out of 10, the first DLC a 6 out of 10 and the third DLC so far is probably a 7 out of 10, I’d probably rank it higher, but this chase around for the Leggo birds is a real PITA, leaving me sour.

@Pizzamorg Screw the catch rates LMAO, Absol is not even a legendary and he's hell!

So I now have the three legendary birds, I thought the puzzle to solve the king/horse legendary was mostly intuitive so I cleared that first and then finally it is the four temples, which are completely unintuitive so I’m just going to use a guide.

I know this is kinda “he said the thing” thing, but man… I am not enjoying Crown Tundra.

I know online people talk about Crown Tundra being the Pokemon game they always wanted etc and I know people seem to love the stuff I am about to be critical of in all sorts of different games, but this stuff just isn’t fun to me. It spoils my experience, not enhances it.

When I game, I want to make constant progression, make every session feel like a meaningful achievement. This can’t be done when I am aimlessly chasing birds around the world or trying to solve obtuse puzzles to get through doors.

People always pretend these are great mechanics when any game does these, but can’t you see the cheap pacing mechanisms these things are? They are just filler. They don’t enhance your experience in any way. If they just gave you the locations of the birds and told you to go there to face them, how is that worse than just aimlessly running around the map?

And I know there’ll be the “actushuallllly” replies, yes they say “go to the Wild Area” or whatever, but then you just run around that one location until the bird spawns, then have to chase the bird around and it’s just crap. I am sorry, you aren’t going to convince me this is fun.

The best part about this was when I realised it was on rails, so once you see the path once, you don’t need to engage with this anymore you just stand where you know it will go by eventually and eventually you’ll end up battling it. Beating the game at it’s own game.

The only one that makes this a little harder is Articuno which doesn’t spawn consistently or reliably and is it’s own mini puzzle, so be ready to save scum the crap out of this or be ready to get frustrated as hell. For some reason though Arti captured after like two or three ultra balls, whereas I probably used about a 1000 on Moltres before that captured (after I saved scummed over and over again trying to capture it).

For the first time in the couple of weeks of playing Shield, I feel like I have had a wasted session. I did maybe an hours worth of meaningful progress and the game stretched it into a dozen hour slog, with naff filler content.

@Ralizah @NintendoByNature @Eel
I played all the Paper Mario games except for Color Splash, only because I didn't like Sticker Star. The original game still holds up really well - I'd say I like it almost as much as TTYD.

...knowing the Pokemon community, I have a hard time believing people are saying this about anything related to SwSh.

The Pokemon game they've always wanted is a BotW-tier AAA game that they'll never get.

@MarioLover92 @Eel @NintendoByNature I'm expecting to like it, but the footage I've seen seems much less... creative than other games in the series. So also keeping my expectations in check.

@Ralizah well it is the start of the series, when the Paper aspect was just the presentation and not a gameplay feature. So it treats its own world a bit more “seriously”, as opposed being constantly self aware like future games in the series.

But it has the benefit of being a pre “No OCs, use Toad”-era game. So there’s that.

Since it is all about Paper mario right now in this thread, did anyone play Bugfables and would say that it plays like a Paper mario? I have seen a review about it, comparing the two

@Solaine My understanding is that Bug Fables' gameplay and tone are heavily reminiscent of early Paper Mario.