Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Been playing Aerial Knight's Never Yield. Love the jazz/hip-hop vibe of the game. But this game is a good example of how rough the Unity engine can be on Switch. Stutters during load screens, soft-crashes to the title screen, choppy cutscenes. It isn't unplayable, but boy is it sure janky.

@Magician hmm I haven’t had any of those issues but I last played before da update. Are you playing the current build?

@Ryu_Niiyama Yes. I recently acquired a physical copy that includes "da update".

Is there really any game on switch that compares to metroud dread or the metroid 4 game, that is not released yet. I looked at nearly every game on switch eshop and no game on it really compares to theses 2 ( or 1 game )games. Or, or, would anyone suggest a game as good as dread. A really really good game on switch.

@Ninfan
You try other genre games such as RPG, 3D platformer, Rhythm, Strategy, Life Simulation, etc.

@Ninfan That's a tall order.

This game is pretty good and it's on sale every other week, I've read the reviews and they're all pretty positive.

The best game of the same genre on Switch that isn't Metroid Dread, is Hollow Knight. But I wouldn't say it particularly compares to Metroid Dread because the whole vibe is different and Hollow Knight is not a shooter.

Axiom Verge is more like a Metroid game than Hollow Knight is, but I don't particularly rate it and certainly don't think it stands anywhere close to Metroid Dread.

Best alternative for now is getting Samus Returns on the 3/2DS.

I'd second Axiom Verge as a good metroid like game to play instead of dread, or after dread. Has the look and feel for sure. We'll, at least the first axiom verge.

@Ninfan
Mmm...

I'm gonna say Ori and the Blind Forest, and Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

I won't say they're as good as Metroid (nothing is imo) but they come closer than anything else. I didn't care much for Axiom Verge 1 or 2. Hollow Knight is also a strong recommendation, but I think the Ori games are better. Visuals top notch. Presentation top notch. Audio top notch. Soundtrack top notch. Precision gameplay top notch. It's just a stellar game, and for many years, the one game I felt was worth buying an Xbox to play.

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A pretty good character trailer for the Switch release of Nier Automata dropped.

@JaxonH
I suspect the maths curriculum here in Australia, at least when I did it, pushes you a bit harder in high school than the US does. At least for students who take those units

There were two sets of courses in the last couple of years when I finished HS. Calc, Trig, Descrete and Stats. I took the intro calc unit then the stats unit. The intro calc unit had infinite sum and limits, I would've been ~16 when I took it

Of course a lot of students drop Maths entirely in the last couple of years of High School. So there's that....

@Ninfan For a Metroid Prime-like experience I recommend Journey to the Savage Planet. And as others have said, the Ori games are probably the best metroidvania games not named Metroid.

@Magician I'm glad you mentioned Journey to the Savage Planet as I had a feeling it might be relevant here, but I haven't actually played it yet.

@skywake Probably depends where in the US too. I got into limits and infinite sums in second semester Junior year, so I was also 16 at the time. Curriculums are kind of a mess here thanks to each state's crazy standardized testing.

A new trailer for No Man's Sky Switch edition has been released:

@Grumblevolcano The hype for NMS on Switch is real. Other than Elite Dangerous, there isn't a better space game in the industry, imo.

No Man's Sky is THE gold standard for redemption stories. I bought the game after just one update and it is nigh-on unrecognisable after 18 more content updates. After around four or five there would have been a case for them stopping but it has been SIX YEARS since they released the game and every single update has been free. That's not something you'd get with a AAA studio let alone a 20-person indie studio.

Regarding that No Mans Sky trailer, that lush red grassy hill looks so cherry picked for the Switch, since the Switch doesn't have a large distance to render. I'd wait for game release & reviews before anyone gets excited.

@WoomyNNYes Oh no, my friend. I'm going YOLO for NMS on Switch.

@Magician I expect a performance report from you when you get it. (if an NL review doesn't beat you to it) You're welcome to a "told ya so, @WoomyNNYes!", when the time comes. 😁

That dive is amazing!🤣

I'm expecting pop-in and some dynamic resolution shifting, but so long as it on-the-whole has been ported well, as I suspect it will have been, I'll look forward to going exploring with it.