Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Look at the facelift Fatal Frame 4 is getting on Switch! This seems like a really extensive remaster.

interestingly enough, the necklace in the thumbnail of that video seems to have lost its physics in the remaster

@Ralizah
It looks just as good as Fatal Frame 5. That's awesome.

And Mario Rabbids is lookin hot, too

@Eel It still moves around in the footage, but the physics were definitely changed. It looks a little different as well, like the weight and materials were altered.

What gets me is how different the color scheme of the game is. Much more stylized in the remaster.

@JaxonH Heavily prefer other trailers that lean more on actual gameplay footage, but yeah, it's looking good. The AAA Mario RPG people have been wanting for a long time.

This year is reminding me why I love this period, late in a console's life, when developers have learned how to fully optimize their games to get the most out of the hardware. Sparks of Hope looks so good that people thought it was running on more powerful hardware. NieR Automata was thought an impossible port until now. Same with No Man's Sky. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is such a gigantic step up technically over MS' previous games, and mostly without noticeable reduction to image quality when undocked. MHR: Sunbreak could be mistaken for an Xbox One/PS4 game. And so on.

The Switch reminds me of the GBA, who knew it could run The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Driver 3.

I still haven't played the first Mario + Rabbids, so I won't be there on day one for the sequel.

This will be one of those games I'll be waiting for a deep discount on at retail.

Matter of fact there are several tactical rpgs I own that I haven't gotten around to yet.

@Ralizah it’s definitely a lot less brown.

Looking at it in motion, I get the feeling they maybe reused long hair physics for the necklace in the original, and then decided to tone it down in the remaster.

@Magician
If it’s anything like the first game, sparks of hope should be on sale 75% of the time.

@Choops I like potao bread, fried potatoes, also we had the potato famine in ireland, did you know sir Walter Raleigh intoduced the potatoes from South America 100s of years ago.

@NeonPizza I always adored 2 growing up, I don't really get the hate. Like, the only argument I see against it not being the best 2D Mario is it's relatively short length.

World > NSMBU, because you don’t hear the annoying “Bah’ song.

@Eagly
Well, to be fair every platformer is inferior to DKC Returns and Tropical Freeze.

Those two are the undisputed GOATs.

Am I the only one who like the NSMB games more than games like world? Specifically Mario bros Wii, but ds and 2 are great. The only one I don’t really like is Mario bros u.

@Eagly
I mean, I don't think there's any shame in not measuring up to DKC games. They're flawless.

@blindsquarel
I liked the DS one a fair bit. The 3DS one is the worst, but it was still fun. NSMBU though is far and away my favorite. Art style never bothered me (it could be more flavorful but eh, it looks clean) and, as long as you're not playing all of them back to back to back to back, the similarities aren't a downside either. I look at NSMBU as the only one that really matters. The other 3 may as well not exist as far as I'm concerned. Cause the additional enjoyment you get playing multiple games of the 4 drastically decreases.

@blindsquarel I mean, I'll give the series that both Wii and U are among the most fun I've had with couch co-op.

DS was a fun proof of concept, but definitely has some issues.
Wii is... not as good alone, it feels like it was primarily developed with co-op in mind.
2 is... not quite up to snuff, and having been released against the excellent U did it no favors. I'd say it's probably technically better than DS, but I have more nostalgia for DS.
U is the best in the series, balancing level design much better for both single and multiplayer. U with multiplayer I'd rank above World / 3 (and 2 even)... but the single player experience falls short of any of those titles.

@Eagly
they all feel the same you play one you’ve played them all

That's very true.

But it's precisely for that reason I don't play them all. I just play one. The good one. The best one. Treat it as if the other 3 don't exist, and suddenly that criticism falls by the wayside.

Ah! Can't wait til next Thursday for sparks of hope!

@JaxonH
Yeah you can’t play them back to back. I think the reason I love the series so much is nostalgia. Mario bros Wii was my childhood.

Y'know, I'm still fascinated by how much NSMBU's port sold compared to Mario Maker 2.

Like one of them is just two NSMB games on Wii U, the other is literally unlimited Mario. Just on a basic level, you'd think the latter would've done better or at least not notably worse. Unless the definitive structure of a 2D Mario game is what you play it for, I don't know why you'd choose the former. I have to believe that most people think its just a game about creating levels and don't actually know about all the levels to find online.

@kkslider5552000
Nothing beats the carefully designed levels of NSMBU, not to mention the NSLU expansion. Mario Maker is fun, but the pre-made levels and created levels just aren't as good, imo. It's appeal is in creation and enjoying wild and wacky levels. Which isn't everyone's thing.