Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Giancarlothomaz
Notice how the Switch and the next system are in a big encompassing circle? It's to promote confidence in this sort of thing. (So I'm inclined to expect bc and will be disappointed in the unlikely event it doesn't.)

Seems they're restocking Bayonetta 1 physical later this year.

Wow. Bayonetta 3 starts off giving very strong impressions!

Game looks insanely good on Switch OLED. Absolutely gorgeous. And the quality all around is top notch. Don't sleep on this game!

This be absolute horse ****.

Restock once more...? Rather implies the restock will be pitifully small and the exact same situation as XC3 extras is going to happen again. SMH FFS FML.

Just finished Triangle Strategy's "golden route."

What an experience this game has been! After two playthroughs and 82 hours, I think I'm ready to hang this up.

I might go back to this at some point in order to grind materials to finish customizing my characters and see the two endings I missed (I kept my save right before the final story branch), but I feel pretty satisfied with my time with the game overall.

At this point, I'm ready to call it: this is the best tactical RPG I've ever played. Even better than my favorite Fire Emblems. Aside from a few niggles, it's a masterful exercise in expert game design.

BTW, this is one of those games where you get a different title screen after completing the best ending. It's gnarly.

@Ralizah
Switch is the ultimate system for strategy games.

Eventually we'll have this spread:

• Triangle Strategy
• Fire Emblem Three Houses (5 routes total with DLC expansion)
• Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes (much more of a strategy game than I expected)
• Fire Emblem Engage
• Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle
• Mario Rabbids Sparks of Hope
• Valkyria Chronicles
• Valkyria Chronicles 4
• Civilization VI
• XCOM 2
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV
• South Park Fractured But Whole
• 13 Sentinels
• Tactics Ogre Reborn
• Brigandine
• Metal Slug Tactics
• Marvel Midnight Suns
• Advance Wars 1+2 Re-boot Camp
• Pikmin 3 Deluxe
• Pikmin 4
• Into the Breach
• Wargroove
• Steamworld Heist
• Banner Saga Trilogy
• Disgaea 1
• Disgaea 4
• Disgaea 5
• Disgaea 6
• Disgaea 7
• R-Type Tactics
• Langrisser 1&2
• Front Mission Remake
• Front Mission 2 Remake
• Front Mission 3 Remake
• Final Fantasy Tactics (if Nvidia leak is to be believed, and it absolutely should)

@JaxonH

Bayonetta 3's use of color made me think it'd be a SWOLED looker. It might just be me, but I feel like I've noticed a number of exclusive games that use color in such a way as to maximize the potential of the screen. I swear to god, half of XC3 is vivid purples and reds on black backgrounds!

BTW, I'm increasingly becoming open to getting B3. Probably not right away, but I watched snippets of a full playthrough earlier, and it looks WAY better than Bayonetta 2. Catchy music, the monsters transformations/summons look fun, the cutscenes look noticeably higher quality... seems like Platinum did a good job with this game.

On the subject of strategy/tactical RPGs...

My favorite release in 2018 was Valkyria Chronicles 4.
In 2019, it was Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
And while I still slightly favor XC3 this year, Triangle Strategy is a close second.

I think I might have found a new favorite genre!

I've had Valkyria Chronicles 4 for ages. I should probably play it when I'm done with sparks of hope.

@NintendoByNature Yes, you should. It's so much fun.

Still sore the DLC never went on sale, though.

@JaxonH
You forgot to mention Transformers Battlegrounds. 😛
That's a tactic game also.

I played this game on PS4 version instead.

@JaxonH BTW, just remembered that S-E is remaking the first three Front Mission games for Switch. You'll want to add those to your list as well.

Front Mission 3, in particular, is a fantastic game.

@JaxonH Don't forget Langrisser I & II.

@Ralizah
It's a notable cut above Bayonetta 2 in pretty much every regard, and that was already a high bar.

@Ralizah @gcunit
Added.

The fact there's so many it's hard to keep track speaks volumes.

I'm tempted to get Bayonetta 3 solely based on my enjoyment of the first two. I know next to nothing about this one.

Annoyingly, when searching it on youtube, the first result is a video of the final boss x_x

@JaxonH I don't think you should take FF Tactics for granted. Sure the Nvidia list has been extremely accurate but that doesn't discount the possibility of Playstation console exclusivity.

@Grumblevolcano Sony doesn't count care about ancient PS1 games. And, anyway, Square-Enix seems to know by now that these smaller releases perform best on Switch.

PS exclusivity seems profoundly unlikely.

Hell, FM3 was a PS1 exclusive that was never ported elsewhere, and that game's remake has only been announced for Switch so far.

Fully expecting Sony to leap on the next mainline DQ game, though. Especially since S-E has signaled it'll be darker and edgier to appeal to Westerners.

To be fair these slides were used in relation to the NNID. Which was then pretty much entirely thrown out with the introduction of the Nintendo Account. So yeah, I'll remain pessimistic

edit: also people are caught up on the BC part of what I'm saying. That's only part of it. My bigger concern is whether or not purchases from this "generation" will carry to the next "generation" platform. Which, outside of the Wii -> Wii U VC upgrade program to a degree, is something Nintendo hasn't actually done yet

@Ralizah I think it'll depend in what form it's brought over. There have been plenty of ports/remasters of PS1 games that have gone straight multiplatform however Castlevania Requiem stayed PS exclusive because of the way it uses the PSP Dracula X Chronicles.

@skywake Well you feel how you must, but “maintaining consumer trust across generations” sounds like we will take our games with us to me. Surely their 20 year partnership with NVida has this in the roadmap! Also, blimey, we are about 7 years into that! More depending on when it actually began! Didn't they patent expansion slots in the carts fairly recently too,. Not sure what that was for.