Aside from some slightly cringe cutscenes (the overall naivety of the characters is too Shonen at times for my liking), it's probably the best rpg experience I've had in the past decade. I'll be slightly triggered if XC3 isn't in the discussions for GotYs in December.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,555 games (as of March 31st, 2026)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
Bored. So...what's everyone's top three games they're looking forward to this Fall? Made In Abyss, Bayonetta 3, and No Man's Sky would probably be mine, even though there are several more I intend on buying.
Made In Abyss; although I've never read the manga or watched the anime, it's highly regarded as one of the best in the eyes of anime critics. Bayonetta 3; I loved the first two games, so I expect the same of the third. No Man's Sky; purely a gamble-purchase by me. It is one of the best space-themed games in recent memory, but the Switch port could be hot garbage.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,555 games (as of March 31st, 2026)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
Splatoon 3 and maybe nothing else, because I don't have time for new games with all the other stuff I have.
Though I have feeling I'll get around to Bayonetta 3 and No Man's Sky at some point. I'm assuming I'll have the same issues with Bayonetta as I did before, but the gameplay is too top tier to ignore (and Platinum is a safe bet when they're allowed to do their own thing). Also I won't have to play two games back to back this time which probably helps. And No Man's Sky I wanted since the first trailer, and it eventually became the game I wanted it to be so if it actually runs well enough on Switch, that's incredibly exciting.
@Magician
I didn't even know Made in Abyss was made into a game, but it's hardly surprising, since if an IP gets popular enough, a movie/game would follow.
I've actually seen the anime, but I don't think that's gonna translate well into a game. It's not that it wouldn't work as a game - it most certainly can, being a dark dungeon RPG like Diablo meets Undertale - but the whole appeal of the story was its shock value of being this cutesy anime but with a hidden dark twist. In my experience, games adapted from anime usually don't put too much effort into offering the same kind of powerful emotions we felt watching said anime, merely cashing in on the name of the anime (that's why games adapted from movies often sucked back then, though that has improved a bit in recent years). Usually, they would just throw in some cutscenes to replicate those powerful moments, and sometimes they would even replace the emotional music with a generic one.
I guess people who didn't watch the anime could enjoy it as a straight dark RPG, but as someone who understands what the anime represents, what it tried to do with its story, I don't have much faith in it. I might have a different reaction if you told me it's a visual novel (and not a hybrid one like Digimon Survive because that had problems, having its VN elements affected by the tedious and generic gameplay). I'm just trying to wrap my head around how they could show that shocking twist to the players in an innovative way that could only be done in a video game RPG. The helplessness and despair of the Made in Abyss characters, that's something that can be translated into gameplay (like making the players as emotionally drained and exhausted as them), but most game companies that adapt anime/movies don't bother.
Their adaptation of Re:ZERO received very positive reviews, I guess, but I never saw that anime or played the game, so I can't comment on it much. But considering that anime is an isekai, I would imagine that the game didn't do much to innovate the concept of isekai and merely did a straight adaptation of the anime, but with a new story (I heard it has a new story different from the anime, which the Made in Abyss game doesn't seem to be the case).
The only Switch game I'm looking forward to is Chaos;Head: Noah Double Pack, which I've already pre-ordered the moment news came out that the pre-order was available on Amazon. God, FINALLY, Chaos;Head is finally properly localized! If you've been part of the visual novel community for a while, you'd know how big of a deal this is, considering how terrible the first Chaos;Head translation was even though it's part of a massively popular company/universe that's connected to Steins;Gate, one of the most popular anime of all time even among non-anime fans. It's as if they've finally released the first Fate/Stay Night visual novel only decades after releasing Fate/Zero (which does have its own visual novel by the way, but I think it's only in Japanese). The only thing I'm worried about is the censoring, because I have a very strong feeling they're gonna censor a lot of graphic scenes on the Switch port, which makes me kinda regret that I impulse-bought that double pack instead of waiting for the PC version (which will undoubtedly have an uncensored patch, something I can't say for the Switch port).
@Magician Currently Bayonetta 3, Nier Automata and Persona 5 Royal with The DioField Chronicle being a close 4th. Bayonetta 3 and Nier Automata seems like more fantastic PlatinumGames games and I liked TMS#FE and many compared that to Persona so I'm excited to check out my 1st Persona game. As for DioField, I'll be checking out the demo after I finish XC3 but from trailers it looks interesting.
That said, I do get the feeling from the maintenance that Advance Wars may come along to steal 1st. September 9th (Splatoon 3) to October 20th (Sparks of Hope) is longer than the usual Fall Nintendo IP gap.
2017: September 22nd (Pokken DX) - October 20th (FE Warriors) - October 27th (Mario Odyssey)
2018: September 14th (Torna/Labo Vehicle Kit) - October 5th (Super Mario Party)
2019: September 20th (Link's Awakening) - October 18th (Ring Fit Adventure) - October 31st (Luigi's Mansion 3)
2020: September 13th (3D All Stars) - October 1st (SMB 35) - October 16th (MK Live Home Circuit)
2021: September 10th (WarioWare Get It Together) - October 8th (Metroid Dread) - October 29th (Mario Party Superstars)
Supposedly, Chaos Head Noah had problems with Steam, @Maxenmus .... While Switch games have been doing a lot better for the censorship stuff than previous Nintendo consoles
I'm sure they can find a way to release it on PC, though
@BruceCM
lol That's good to know. Thanks for the info.
I guess my worry surfaced because the censorship problem was one of the first concerns I read when I saw the news popping up on Reddit. Redditors were like, "Censorship might appear." lol I've already pre-ordered the game by that point, so buyer remorse almost sunk in when I read those concerns.
Good to know Switch games have been doing better in terms of that stuff though.
But wait, what kind of problems did you mean? I know Steam has all kinds of problems with visual novels from what I heard on the grapevine, not just Chaos;Head Noah. All kinds of censorship scandals and stuff, or just outright removing titles from Steam.
@Maxenmus A lot of VNs get unfairly targeted on Steam, while the million+ Hentai Puzzle type games go untouched, as well as some famously gruesome stuff like Kara no Shojo, which makes me think some low-level employee at Valve with some kind of pull is exercising their power on games they don't like.
I'm not too worried about Chaos;Head Noah on Switch, though. Nintendo just flat out doesn't seem to step to remove anything from their platform any more unless it'll get them in some sort of legal trouble, so the only real obstacle to an uncensored Switch release at that point would be the ESRB. But I feel like we would have heard something by now if there was going to any notable level of censorship in the localized release.
Pokemon Scarlet, Nier and Harvestella are honorable mentions. Also getting Splatoon 3 and Crisis Core, but those are Summer and Winter releases, respectfully.
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope
Splatoon 3
Chaos;Head Noah + Chaos;Child Double Pack
Otherwise, I can't think of much else I plan on grabbing this year. P5R and NieR would be on my list if I hadn't already played them extensively on PS4 (150 hours for P5R; 50ish hours for NieR).
I guess I'll probably get Pokemon, but it's hard to summon excitement for that when they already seem to be messing up stuff related to level scaling.
@JaxonH The tone of that comment tells me you must have gotten past the late Ch. 5/Early Ch. 6 story hump, yes?
Gosh, narrowing it down to just 3 feels impossible without leaving out something that deserves to make the list. I'd say...
3 Most Hyped Fall Games
Bayonetta 3
Persona 5 Royal
Nier Automata
Honorable Mentions
Splatoon 3
Mario Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Harvestella
Still Buying Though
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
Dragon Quest Treasures
Diofield Chronicle
No Man's Sky
Tactics Ogre Reborn
Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero
Which is still 12 games in 4 months, or an average of 3 games per month- a new game every week and a half. That's a lot.
And I'm also likely Buying SD Gundam, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Pac Man World Re-Pac, Sword Art Online (solely because my brother said he liked it, then again he's a fan of the anime so there's that) and ARK Survival Evolved (IF it's a good port, which is yet to be determined). So many games.
I'd heard ppl talking it up for some time now, and was anticipating getting through that chapter. I had my own ideas of what the twist would be, but I was way off. WAAAAY off. That was so unexpected, so completely and utterly unpredictable... I had to put the controller down and ponder on what had just transpired.
Best story of any video game I've ever played, bar none, and I say that with the utmost confidence. Nothing even comes close. All that realism story driven nonsense churned out by AAA studios has nothing on Xenoblade Chronicles 3. They can't touch it. And the way the game has made me care about these characters made it hit all the more hard.
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
Well, there hasn't been any official word on it from the devs, publishers or Steam, @Maxenmus .... But, as Ralizah says, they are rather inconsistent on their rules for some things & it's certainly possible that at least affects the game
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