Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I'm really getting into Crisis Core.

Found this video which is kind of a discussion of how good the game is, but from the perspective of the original that was stranded on PSP for so long, and then compared to the remakester.

It's a good watch.

@JaxonH I played through triangle strategy, and sparks of hope, so I'm surprised it didn't account for more now that I think about it. MHR is where all your action is coming from. With FE, metal slug tactics, and hopefully AW 1+2 next year, it'll be strategy goodness for sure.

135 hours in Monster Hunter Rise / Sunbreak
134 hours in Xenoblade Chronicles 3
95 hours in Triangle Strategy

RPGs and action games took up the majority of my play time, apparently.

Weirdly my genre of the year was Adventure, not action and adventure, just straight adventure? Do I even play adventure games? I wonder what they are counting as adventure games.

Apparently my most played games of the year are the NSO N64 app, Pokemon Legends Arceus and Switch Sports. Which makes sense. I honestly haven't played much Switch this year excluding Arceus at the start of the year, a fair bit of N64 games (Paper Mario!) and recently Bayonetta. Beat Sabre would be my most played game of the year, by a large margin

My most played game of the year is unsurprisingly MK8 Deluxe, my usage of that game massively increased since the Booster Course Pass was announced such that it overtook MK8 (Wii U) as my most played game on a Nintendo platform earlier this month.

Super Nintendo World opens at Universal Studios Hollywood on February 17th:

I'd imagine if new hardware is coming in May, it'll be announced before this and the Nintendo promotion is from all angles. General Direct with new hardware reveal, Theme Park opens, Mario Movie airs, TotK info blowout, etc.

I was keen to learn more about Mato Anomalies. A cyberpunk themed jrpg isn't something you see everyday. Unfortunately, after just a few minutes of watching gameplay footage...I lost all interest.

"If one strike is not enough, then I'll give you two."

Every time you take a hit from an enemy?

Ugh, that'll get real old...really fast.

Edit: Alright, the soundtrack is bringing my interest back a bit. Those low-fi jazzy tracks speak to me.

@JaxonH are you sure about that? Hogwarts Legacy seens to be a very hardware intensive game, i would be suprised if the Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy is a adapted port like Doom Eternal, this game seen more like cloud version to Switch.

@Giancarlothomaz
Yes, I'm sure.

Cloud versions are always announced as such to avoid any consumer disappointment or misleading info. Furthermore, there are physical versions for preorder.

So yes, 100% sure.

@JaxonH WOW it must be a really good port for Switch, another impossible port on the console?

Gimme that Sephiroth amiibo

Sephiroth and Kazuya amiibo are releasing on January 13th. Pyra and Mythra are later in 2023, perhaps to do with the XC3 story DLC.

So within a week, we get two new amiibo, Persona 3 and 4 and FE Engage, sweet.

They should have timed the Sephiroth amiibo to release with Crisis Core since he's in the game, and had a special amiibo unock from it. Major missed opportunity.

@Giancarlothomaz
We have no idea how good a port it will be. Could be horrible for all we know. We'll have to wait and see. It really depends on who's developing the port. If it's Virtuos expect the best it can be. If it's some other C-class porting studio, maybe not so much.

@JaxonH or they could hire Panic Button to work on the Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy, considering Harry Potter is a IP, Warner Bros think higly of them, they will problaby hire Panic Button or Virtuos to work on Switch version of the game.

Holy crap, not only are we getting Ys X (which I'm more confident about performance-wise, since it seems to have been developed in-house by Falcom), but they also re-developed The Oath in Felghana for Switch!

Falcom has been hesitant to support Nintendo for the longest time, but thanks to NISA's pushiness, they've totally bent the knee.

@SlashFuture I was wondering if we'd get something like this back in 2016 - when a "hybrid" device was rumoured but before the Switch itself was announced.

It would be a way to get direct ports of Wii U games that retain most of (if not all) the functionality, I guess. Same with DS games.

But thinking about it more, on the whole I think it would over-complicate the concept of the Switch. I think the idea of TV vs. undocked vs. handheld is quite intuitive... the extra layer of multiple screens might not be.

A few weeks later than usual but the massive Sparks of Hope sale happened in the end, 40% off in the holiday sales (physical version, the digital version is only 25% off).

At that point, people need to play it. Easy 9/10. One of the very best on switch for the year.