Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I found a new upcoming game that still not clear what is this game and no trailer at all so far.

It will be released on 13 October 2022 with this description:
My Fantastic Ranch has a unique design that is ideal for developing children's management skills in a fantasy world full of cute creatures.

@Dogorilla Well, I think the thing to keep in mind is that Mario & Luigi never broke into the mainstream. 2-3 million sales means that it was selling to most of the 'core' players, but not really reaching the masses.

Honestly, I'd assume Nintendo won't make another Mario RPG for the next 20+ years, before releasing one as a remaster then shelving the concept again. It's pretty clear the higher ups hate the idea of Mario as an RPG, so we'll never see a good one from them again either way.

@Grumblevolcano I have a feeling either Nintendo will get their hands on Ubisoft Milan, as all they've done now for near a decade of development time is make Mario + Rabbids, or the staff there will go to Nintendo.

At this point, with Rayman most likely being out for the count, all I care about is the Mario + Rabbids team. If Nintendo acquired them, Ubisoft could go to the dogs for all I care.

@Haruki_NLI I'm curious if that happens if Nintendo will acquire the Rayman / Rabbids IPs (I have no idea what the legal bs around separating them would be) as well. It's Nintendo, so I wouldn't be surprised if they just put them to work on in-house IPs instead.

@Haruki_NLI I honestly see them working on the next Assassin's Creed or Tom Clancy game instead. It feels like the trio of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy franchises are taking over everything else kind of like how Activision is just a CoD, WoW, Diablo and Overwatch studio nowadays.

@Grumblevolcano I will preorder the crossover today.

@Ralizah Immortals: Fenyx Rising was supposed to be pretty good. I would imagine they would do a sequel to that someday.

Whether they eventually get bought or not, I don't see them folding. Assassin's Creed is still pretty big, and Far Cry probably sells fine still. Hopefully Immortals gets to be a series too.

Say, has anyone tried The Diofield Chronicle demo yet?

I just fired it up on Switch and am duly impressed! The game is fun, and offers a blend of strategy very unique. The production values and graphics are also pretty impressive for Square Enix after years of lower budget pixel remasters. Like, it's no AAA game, but it's certainly a cut above the standard fare. With Diofield Chronicle, Harvestella and Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core: Reunion, it feels like Square Enix has adjusted to a paradigm shift in their approach to the Nintendo Switch. We're finally seeing games that look better, offer more, and take fuller advantage of the hardware.

It's a different type of game, and at first I wasn't sure if I liked it, hated it or felt indifferent. But after playing a bit more... yes. I absolutely like it. Calling Bahamut summons down like in Final Fantasy and nuking the entire AOE of enemies? More of that please!!!

@Ralizah
I highly recommend checking out Mario & Luigi Dream Team. That game is excellent, it really is. Probably my favorite of the series.

I've changed my mind on Kirby Dream Buffet.

This video sold me

It has offline CPU for solo play, and it actually looks really fun. Also perfect for passing a joycon in tabletop mode. Nintendo has done a horrible job selling this game. I'd made my mind up to skip it. If it wasn't for stumbling across this vid I never would have thought twice about it.

@DarthNocturnal
Plenty of ppl love Dream Team. The older GBA games were much less engaging. Movement didn't feel as good and battle wasn't nearly as interesting.

@JaxonH Not yet, saving the demo for after finishing XC3. Struggling to balance between main story and sidequests because XC1 and XC2 had major story events late in the game which blocked off side quests. So I'm early on in Chapter 6 but everyone's over level 70.

@DarthNocturnal Nah, I'd say there's some definite split on Dream Team. But I'd still say it's slow pace is better than Partner in Time's incredibly slow bros attacks, way too tanky bosses and enemies (in the NA version everyone's health got buffed), the holes that were mostly timesinks, and fighting as just the babys, as well as it's hyper linear setup.

I will say, I'd rank the games as (and I did replay them all except Paper Jam recently actually)
1. Bowser's Inside Story
2. Superstar Saga
3. Dream Team
4. Partners in Time
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5. Paper Jam

Cat Quest II, anyone ?

Who still play this game ?

@Anti-Matter my brother played that. From what I know it's pretty good. I was going to get that on sale but I forgot too

@JaxonH A few of us are in the diofield thread discussing it.

Accidentally found a spoiler for XC3 and now I am seriously less inclined to play. But at least my two favorite characters are doing well.

@Kermit1
I still working on my progress of Cat Quest II too.
So far I have reached level 35 or something,
Sometimes I dared myself to beat some higher level monsters (as long I can quickly dodge them) to get more EXP points.

I dont know what it is either, but I can't get into the M & L series myself. It's ok, but doesn't really feel engaging to me. At least not like the PM series which are all bangers to me...YES! I actually loved sticker star as well. I haven't played TTYD yet though. One day, I suppose.

@Ryu_Niiyama I hope you're not talking about my comment (I didn't see anything spoiler about the comment I made), assuming not where did you come across the spoiler? I've been avoiding the XC3 thread until I beat the game but if there's other threads I should avoid please tell me.

@Grumblevolcano Nah I was looking up something for XC2 on the wiki that I couldn’t remember and there is now overlap with 3 (and it wasn’t blocked out) but kinda in a way that made me roll my eye because it was an aspect of 2 that I hated. So having a general idea that it continues dropped 3 off my play soon list. So now I have to find something else for my trip since I am nearly done with live a live.

So stay off the wiki I suppose. The FE wiki is better about spoilers so I didn’t expect it.

I'm not sure how much I agree with most of those complaints about PiT but that is still the correct order for me anyway. I dare say its my favorite combat system out of the games, but as an adventure it feels like there's just nothing to it. Linear to a fault, babies, no real dialogue from the villains, its all just underwhelming in those specific ways to drag the game below the others.

Though Dream Team has legitimately one of the worst early parts of a Nintendo game ever. The horror stories of those tutorials were right, they're so bad.