Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

That Jirachi is hilarious. Like you said, you get it if you have save data from SwSh AND you also get a MEW if you LGPE data, it's ludicrous that they give you one instantly with no drawback whatsoever. I called my Jirachi Faraday, I love him, I boxed him immediately because I absolutely did not want the gross advantage he would supply. Still happy I finally got a mythical that had eluded me for as long as it has though.

Yeah, Zubat (and subsequently it's entire line) are great in Gen 4: early/easy to get, great defensive typing to make up for their lacking defenses, great physical/support movepool to take full advantage of THAT SPEEEEEEED and subjectively one of the coolest designs out of any Gen 1/2 Pokes (we don't talk about Golbat). If you've never used one before, I would highly recommend it: it beats Gardenia and Maylene HANDILY, is good against Saturn and Candice's aces, beats two E4 members in Aaron and Bertha and can be pretty good against Cynthia's Roserade and Garchomp. Zubat is pretty annoying to get working immediately though. In the words of chuggaaconroy, 'it's USELESS..... until it gets Wing Attack'.

Honestly though, now that you're in Eterna, go get the Underground Kit and go looking throughout Hideaways. You'll never know what kinds of beasts you'll find in there (I found a level 26 Lickitung that had both Thrash and Own Tempo. I put him on my team the second everyone else caught up to him and he didn't leave my team the moment he joined, I love my Lickilicky).

Now that we've gotten/getting Kart (Racing), Tennis, Golf, & Strikers (Soccer), do you think Switch has any more Mario sports titles left in it, and if so what?

• A Sluggers (Baseball) revival
• A Sports Mix style collection
• Something else

So on the Backlog article for Earthbound, I somewhat jokingly put down Murder By Numbers as a game I'd like to see them tackle next. I remember hearing that it was Ace Attorney crossed with Picross which is extremely up my alley so I thought 'eh, why not, it might actually push me to get the darned thing'.

I was thinking about it a lot later in the day so, out of sheer curiousity, I decided to check it's eShop page and I was stunned. The trailer looked fantastic, the style is off the charts, it's only 1.1GB so it's grand space-wise, it's only €12.50 here in Ireland AND, the thing that tipped me over the edge: the composer, Masakazu Sugimori, is also the composer for the ORIGINAL ACE ATTORNEY.

Needless to say when I empty out my current backlog, it's a high priority to go and yoink for myself.

May's game for NSO icons is MK8 Deluxe.

@JaxonH I dunno... the Pokemon games in particular look much improved with antialiasing IMO, due to the incredibly simple textures and lighting. The jaggies stand out like a sore thumb in SwSh in particular.

@link3710
It's been so long since I've played Switch on a TV without mClassic and high Sharpening, I can't really remember what games used to look like. But when I undock some games, I immediately notice a lot more jaggies that weren't sticking out as bad on the TV.

@Grumblevolcano
Ugh. Not that I don't like MarioKart, but come on. We've had Mario Odyssey, Kirby, Animal Crossing and Splatoon 2... now Mario Kart. I'm ready for something a little less safe. Splatoon icons were amazing, don't get me wrong- I'm using one of them now. But where's the Triangle Strategy? Let us get something that's not super mainstream. Next we'll probably get Mario Strikers, as if we didn't already have enough Mario.

As long as they give us Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak icons, Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes icons or Xenoblade 3 icons, I'll be happy. I know we'll get Splatoon 3 and Pokémon Scarlet/Violet for sure.

@JaxonH Slot 1 so far has only been 2017 games, slot 2 is always Animal Crossing and slot 3 appears to be new games. So I'd guess Switch Sports will replace Kirby on Friday and then BotW replaces MK8 Deluxe in June.

@Grumblevolcano
What could they possibly do for Switch Sports? It's all based around custom avatars. Even if each sport got an icon like a bowling pin, a shuttlecock, a tennis ball, a soccer ball, a volleyball and a sword, that's still only 6 icons.

Honestly I'm happy that the Mario Kart icons came out. I've always loved Mario Kart anyway and I've been in a MK8D mood lately, especially with some of the DLC courses that are out now.

Right? I was so confused when he gave it me! But I was like... well okay then, I won't say no. Looks like Jirachi and Zubat are on my team for the long haul, haha.

Also cool, I didn't know I had access to the Underground yet, I'll have to go exploring. Weirdly despite being to a few towns now, I don't feel like I have seen a massive variety of Pokemon yet, so I am hoping the Underground addresses that.

Square Enix has sold off all their western studios to Embracer Group for $300 million

Oh, wow, @IceClimbers ... Hadn't heard of Embracer Group before but a quick look finds I've heard of some of their studios, so we'll see how that goes

Oh my word, I just got to the area that lets you keep a Pokemon out of their ball and having Prinplup Naruto run behind me everywhere makes me wonder how anyone could have disliked this game.

@Pizzamorg Trust me, it gets even better at Empoleon.

There are some, erm, casualties from the system though unfortunately. Most notably:

@Fizza
Is that Rayquaza on Pokemon BDSP?

Haha, oh no! I still kinda love it though.

@Fizza Murder by Numbers regularly gets a 50% discount too on the eShop - last time was in March - so well worth keeping an eye out for that if you are planning on getting it at some point anyway

@dmcc0 As in down to something like €6-7? I'll be waiting on it anyway since I'm in the middle of The Great Ace Attorney and soon to be Earthbound so I'll be definitely be keeping an eye on it for whenever it does get discounted. Kind of surprised it's not part of the EU Spring Sale though, I feel like that would've been better than the umpteenth time we've had MK8D on discount.

@Fizza Yup, been €6.24 every few months for the last year - last one was probably the Easter sale or something and the next likely to be around June if it's following the same pattern as last year:

https://www.dekudeals.com/items/murder-by-numbers

@Fizza I recall doing this with my Torterra in Brilliant Diamond. Not the best move considering how slow of a Pokemon it is. Just keeps returning to it's Poke Ball every few seconds and then back out.