Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Surprised no one mentioned the Star Bits in the night footage of Pikmin 4. How odd.

Also night gameplay.

@JaxonH I'm happy you put Disco Elysium on that list. Phenomenal game from beginning to end. Very hardcore.

Speaking about Fashion Dreamer for Switch, even from the trailer looked similar as Style Savvy, but from my experience with fashion games by other 3rd party developers on 3DS, their games have different purpose in modelling the clothes.
If I remembered correctly, Style Savvy Fashion Forward 3DS was focusing on being fashion boutique owner which you have to know fashion style to please your customers when they were looking for specific clothings.
For other fashion games on 3DS like Girl Fashion Shoot, the game was focusing on taking photoshoot with specific poses to sell the clothings or fashion image that will be evaluated to be leveled up. The game was not even about being fashion boutique owner.
The other fashion games on 3DS I have ever played was Imagine: Fashion Life by Ubisoft as publisher, the game have 3 different career paths as model, fashion designer and Mall owner. Being a model or fashion designer, you will do some mini games about fashion like making the clothes or posing with specific command buttons that will be evaluated to level up and getting better upgrades.
I knew nobody will talk about fashion games but me and probably the fans of girlie fashion games, somewhere on this website.

@Giancarlothomaz
The thing that's easily lost in translation with lists of games, is each and every game is dozens of hours of masterful gameplay experience. When perusing a list you tend to just swipe past like it's nothing. "Oh there's that game, there's another, swipe swipe swipe". But each and every game is deserving of spotlight.

Just Metroid Dread alone is a masterpiece everyone should play, and worthy of discussion. Metroid Prime Remastered alone is a masterpiece everyone should play, worthy of discussion. Same for Zelda, Fire Emblem, Pikmin, Xenoblade, etc etc.

Just seeing 100 games is one thing. But diving in to each one of them and experiencing what they have to offer on an individual basis... that's when you truly appreciate the gravity of the list.

@MsJubilee
I like experiencing games across various genres, and while Disco Elysium isn't typically my sort of game, it was so universally praised I felt I had to experience it. Like, cherry picking the best game or two from ever genre to have a basket of the finest cross-genre samples. Same with AI Somnium Files. I'm not big into VNs, but with the universal praise and added 3D character gameplay, it wasn't one to miss.

@JaxonH i whish i have eternal life and money, so i could play all the games i want, specially since i am a content creator

@neonpizza
I forgot about some of the games you listed. Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster, Metal Slug Tactics, Drainus, and I would add Batsugun.

I'm surprised you're a huge Pikmin fan. So am I. But it seems so few ppl are interested despite it being up there with Mario, Zelda and Metroid.

As for rumors, I haven't seen any legitimate leaks for a 2D Mario or StarFox. Just wishful thinking rumors. The DK game did have a few leaks though who knows whether it's 2D or 3D, or how far off its release is.

With all the hype and buzz around Metroid Prime Trilogy Remastered, GB/GBC and GBA games, Zelda, Advance Wars and Pikmin, Level 5 returning with a new Fantasy Life, DecaPolice and new Professor Layton, and even Hogwarts Legacy... there are some games that got sidelined I finally got around to investigating.

Octopath Traveler II is looking like a banger. Better than the first in numerous ways. The graphics look better, the voice acting is definitely improved (and even impressive), the music is on point and from what we've heard from the devs, the game will feature more character interactions. I also like the characters and settings more.

Another game I've done a complete 180 on is Bayonetta Origins. At first I didn't understand the hook, the appeal, but now after watching gameplay, hearing first impressions and reading descriptions, I get it. You control Cereza and Cheshire at the same time, each with a separate analog stick. It seems to be structured similar to an old school Zelda in a way, with light environmental puzzles and combat being the focus. I'm actually really excited for this game now, despite being rather uninterested when it was first revealed. I like the unique control scheme that calls back to Astral Chain. More games should experiment like this.

Also, that Harmony game is from Don'tNod, the developers of the Life Is Strange series. Everyone I've seen wrote that game off entirely, but now that I know the dev team behind it, I'm going to keep an eye on it.

This doesn't make any sense but it seems since I upgraded to a 1TB microSD card, the really loud fan problems stopped. Not complaining though, it means I can just be happy about the fantastic upcoming Switch lineup rather than also hoping they're going to announce a more powerful Switch very soon (OLED isn't worth upgrading to from the 2017 Switch).

@Grumblevolcano
I noticed recently my Switch Lite is having loud fan issues too,although it stops when I just turn the console off and on again.
Did you have problem for a long time before you changed your SD card?

I've already spent 5 hours on G&W Gallery 3 and Tetris, oops.

I was raised on Tetris DX so Tetris proper feels a bit clunky, but it also feels like the purest experience in a sense.

Just a friendly daily reminder we live in a universe where this exists on an OLED device which functions as a handheld, home console and portable console via kickstand with detachable controllers:

I remember back in 2017... "I wonder if we'll ever get a new Monster Hunter for Switch?". Many pages of discussion centered around that. I also remember all the "Does Pikmin 4 exist? Was Hey! Pikmin really Pikmin 4? Was it cancelled?". And I remember the "We want Metroid!" protests for many years, especially all throughout the Wii U generation.

I remember the long wait for a new Fire Emblem, and the even longer wait for a follow up. I remember the half decade long discussion about Persona on Switch. When "P5S" was discovered and speculated to mean "Persona 5 Switch", which many claimed wouldn't have the Royal content. Then when it turned out to be Strikers, all the haters mocked and laughed, stomped their foot down and proudly declared it would forever be exclusive to PlayStation. I remember, and Pepperidge Farm remembers.

I remember when Ori was announced for Switch- the best Xbox exclusive of the last decade, the one game I felt was worth buying an Xbox just to play. And I remember when the sequel released and ppl said it would never come to Switch because it's "new". And then it did, and it ran 60fps and everyone was blown away.

And how could I forget about these two? The games people said were "canceled" and "vaporware" time and time again:

We're there. We're living it. Into the dream realized and beyond.

@JaxonH We also live in a world where Switchs can sound like jet engines lol.

Based on the current Nintendo Direct, I have a new game to focus on every month until July.

February: Grim Guardians: Demon Purge (Tried the demo on Steam, and yeah, I'm 100% grabbing this at launch. It's a linear game, but the levels feature exploration and a limited amount of backtracking like Mega Man X. The gameplay and general tone of the game are heavily reminiscent of Castlevania overall, and includes a character swapping mechanic like Portrait of Ruin. Also looking forward to playing it in co-op as well. Definitely the oddest thing about it is that it's a spinoff of the Gal*Gun franchise, and the cast is almost exclusively composed of characters from Double Peace)

March: Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Not technically a new game, but it's a fully remastered version of an unlocalized Wii entry in one of my favorite horror franchises, so it might as well be. I'm dying to finally be able to play this)

April: Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp (While I've played both of the NDS entries, I've only ever played the first GBA game, and that was via Wii U VC; excited to play much more modern versions of the first two games on a portable system, and am hoping the map creation/online multiplayer elements will take off as well)

May: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (...C'mon, it's the sequel to one of the greatest games ever made)

June: Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (The next big game from the Danganronpa creator, and it's releasing exclusively on my favorite platform. Of course I'm gonna pick this up!)

July: Pikmin 4 ("It's been 3000 years…" ...well, actually, it's only technically been ten, but that's still about a third of my life that I've been waiting for a sequel to this charming series)

@Lady_Galadhiel September so around 5 months ago.

@Rambler No, original was 400GB Sandisk Extreme and new one is 1TB Sandisk Ultra. Extreme is the faster card but apparently Switch is a limiting factor such that Extreme and Ultra function the same.

It's really, really weird to think the gap between Pikmin 3 and 4 is as long as the gap between 2 and 3. I guess I'm getting old.

The wait probably hasn't felt as long (for me at least) since 2 -> 3 took two console generations, including the leap to HD, to come out.

I've got more than a new game to play every month. It's gonna get wild

January
Fire Emblem Engage
Persona 4 Golden
February
Metroid Prime Remastered
Octopath Traveler II
Kirby Return to Dreamland
Tales of Symphonia Remastered
Hogwarts Legacy [SteamDeck]
March
Bayonetta Origins
Trails To Azure
Fatal Frame IV
April
Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp
May
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
June
RainCode
July
Pikmin 4
Trails Into Reverie

There's other games I'm buying, such as Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Final Bar Line, Atelier Ryza 3, etc. But these are the ones that excite me most and which I'll at least try to make time for right away.

Man I should probably beat Trails from Zero before March

@moomin
Trails games are sooo good.

I just jumped right in with Cold Steel 3, read the story synopsis from the main menu, and loved it to death. Went back and played Cold Steel 1. Never finished either but am pretty far in both. Started Trails From Zero also but haven't had time to get back to it.

Either way I'm buying all the Trails games day one to support the series on Switch and ensure they keep coming. I know I'll play them all eventually anyways.