Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Noticed Ys IX is on sale for 50% off. I somewhat enjoyed VIII, but never finished it. I just kept getting pulled into different directions when I was doing a playthrough. Did it ever get patched? I read the reviews and saw there are quite a bit of performance issues. And I also noticed the DL size is only 3gb? That can't be right considering VIII was like 15gb or so.

Lol, never change!

@Mioaionios Don't worry I checked my pockets and I got none lol.

@NeonPizza Check out the Guns, Gore & Cannoli games. I'm yet to try them myself, but always had half an eye on them, they look fun.

Also check out Blazing Chrome.

Huntdown is a bit different, I'd say, but certainly worth also looking at if you're not familiar.

@JaxonH I don’t see Radirgy (radio allergy) up here and that’s a crime.

Edit: Strong list though but I will have to check my library and see what else is missing but you have the big cave shooters which I advocate first.

@NeonPizza Maybe check out Valfaris if you haven't already. I have it, but haven't tried it yet.

I'm also drawn to Mercenary Kings, despite the reviews of it being a bit slow and repetitive... it looks nice.

Contra 4 needs a Switch port. People complained about the difficulty (on easy mode, the game stops before the final stages and tells you to play on a harder difficulty to see the true ending, lmao), but it really was the gold standard for this particular genre. And the unlockables and challenge mode kept me playing for weeks.

@NeonPizza
I can't find G-Darius HD on the eShop.

It's included in the JP collection Revelation which I ordered physically, but it's not listed for either western release of the digital collection. Maybe I'm missing something.

Also, Idk what came over me. I just got an urge to play a schmup and Cotton Reboot was so good I beat the game and went on a rampage ordering shmups. Obviously I can't order every shmup on Switch (nor do I want to). Just... the best dozen or so.

Any worthy Hamster or Sega Ages shmups? I'm not as into the super old ones but if they're a stone cold classic I'm on it.

When's the direct

@Ninfan Next week if rumours are true. Tomorrow a Pokemon trailer is happening, so no direct this week.

@NintendoByNature
Unfortunately no. I just wrote off Ys IX. I'll stick with Ys VIII on Switch. I can tolerate less than perfect performance, but everyone has a line. And for me, Ys IX crossed that line. Drops were too severe and too frequent, to the point they genuinely frustrated me to where I quit playing.

But Falcom's other top series, Trails of Cold Steel, runs beautifully on Switch. And frankly I think they're better games than Ys, too (not to knock Ys- I love Lacrimosa of Dana, but Trails is fire).

@Ryu_Niiyama
I'll have to Google that one.

Ended up grabbing the Shmup Collection also, and Steredenn and Sky Force Anniverary and Sky Force Reloaded.

I think that should about cover it. Suddenly feel a reinvigorated interest in Sol Cresta. It's like the Wonderful 101 of shmups. Drawing formations slows time, and you have to react quickly and strategize using different formations for various enemies... soon as I realized that it hit me- I'm gonna love this game.

@JaxonH well that stinks. I like Ys VIII enough to take a flier on IX but whatevs. I got alot to play anyway.

Haven't played any of the Cold Steel games, but Ys is WAY better than Trails in the Sky, IMO. I'm really struggling to understand what people love about these games. Maybe later ones are better.

But yeah, even Ys VIII's performance was a little rough for my liking, so I'll be passing on Ys IX on Switch. The older games would run amazingly, but XSEED is squatting on the Western distribution rights for those, and doesn't appear interested in porting them to new consoles.

@JaxonH the Toaplan shooters are also good (same same same (which is shark in japanese) for instance is a goodie.) but personally I am a cave and treasure nut and then I work my way down. There was one where you are controlling two ships at one time but I can’t remember the name of it and have not tried it because it seemed like too much for my one eye to handle. I’ll look it up later.

A Scarlet and Violet Nintendo Switch OLED has been revealed:

check out the new trailer of Pokémon Scarlet e Violet.

As always, I want those joycons.

On the topic of joycons, I noticed last night during my xc3 game session, that my left JC is drifting again. This will be the 2nd time this exact one is drifting, and the 3rd time overall between (2) left JCs. 😑

@NintendoByNature Do you ever do anything with them? I had 3 joy-cons drifting recently across our 3 active Switch units in the house. Just gave each of them a squirt of electrical contact cleaner... immediately fine.

The Splatoon OLED benefits from the gradient colouring on the front of the joy-cons, but otherwise I find it a bit underwhelming. The graphics on the back of the tablet are just fairly abstract, and the yellow ink splat on the dock is just a bit underbaked for me, whereas the Pokémon OLED has character art on the rear of the tablet and on the dock, so is the overall winner for me.

Ultimately I'd like them both in the collection, but neither of them are omg-must-have. I'm planning to hold off and see what's going on with the BotW2 release.

And depending on other hardware movements, a Metroid edition Switch seems a realistic expectation some day.