Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

check out the first Nintendo Direct of 2023

https://www.youtube.com/live/yMdUSVSEp7U?feature=share

Well, this kills the "2023 will be switches dry last year" theory. But sadly i won't be able to play all that this year has to offer lol ;-; (damn school and university entry exams)

Whew... gotta redo my whole annual budget....again.

Thoughts:

• Metroid Freaking Prime!!!! Available NOOOOOW!!! Eh hem. Metroid Prime is now available.
• Level 5 is back, baby!!!! New Fantasy Life! New IP! Professor Layton! It is SO on!
• GB and GBA! FINALLY! No Metroid or Fire Emblem GBA out the gate, but I did see they're in the coming soon list. Eventually we'll have both GBA Metroids and localized Fire Emblem games. THAT'S. WHAT'S. UP.
• Pikmin 4 is looking DELISH!!!
• Advance Wars is finally coming- 2 more months!
• Baten Kaitos 1 and 2 remaster is real, and on the way!
• Zelda is $70, but is eligible for the vouchers making it only $50. They're ballsy, I'll give em that. I see Pikmin 4 is still normal price, and Kirby, and Advance Wars, and Metroid Prime is $39.99, so they're only pulling this for the one game they know they can get away with it. I'll admit, even without the voucher I'd have still paid it, but if they wanna test where that line in the sand is, they're gonna find out real quick there's only a small handful of games I'd do that for.

So the 1st party lineup for 2023 so far is:

• January - Fire Emblem Engage
• February - Metroid Prime Remastered, Kirby Return to Dream Land Deluxe
• March - Bayonetta Origins
• April - Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp
• May - TotK
• July - Pikmin 4
• Summer - Baten Kaitos 1+2 HD Remaster

With a load of DLC and 3rd party games in between. Given June is missing, I'd guess Pokemon Presents has a June game.

The biggest surprise was not one, not two, but three new games from Level-5.

Talk about Nintendo throwing that company a life preserver.

Fantasy Life: The Girl Who Steals Time is now my hypest release of 2023.

Metroid Prime has dual analog with gyro and 5.1 surround sound!!!

I enjoyed that a lot, Finally got GBA, Metroid prime on the switch? Among many other,I give that a nice 8/10! And still much more to come.

What a direct @nintendolife @nintendo advance wars, NSO gameboy gameboy colour gameboy advavance . Metroid prime remaster, pikmin 4. Tales of symphoina remaster. Megaman battle network legacy collection. Was a really good direct 👍👍👍👍👍

A solid C direct for me.

Main points:

• Gameboy and Gameboy Advance on NSO was the highlight for me. I've been longing to revisit these so excited to pick them up soon.
• Good to see the level of Level 5 presence. Their new RPG looks intriguing, and I'm happy to see Fantasy Life back (although I doubt I'll ever have the time for that one).
• Tears of the Kingdom...was underwhelming? I don't doubt that the game will be good, but Nintendo have yet to do anything to wow me with this one.
• Am I the only one who doesn't see the point of the Splatoon 3 wave 1 DLC? Am I missing something?
• Metroid Prime 1 only was a bit disappointing, but the lower price point and shadow drop suggests to me that they plan to remaster all 3. What we have looks decent so I'll probably pick it up sometime.

Overall not bad, but nothing jumping the queue on my backlog either (other than a few quick GB/GBA games).

Level-5 Redemption Arc seems to be in full effect. Inject it into my veins. The Professor Layton games and the original Fantasy Life were favorites of mine.

After playing Metroid Prime Remastered for the last 15 min, I can say the gyro is... eh.

They give 4 control schemes: classic like GC, Pointer like Wii, Dual Analog, and Hybrid which is like GC but with motion.

I wanted Dual analog with gyro. No idea why they didn't provide that as an option.

Having said that. After playing for a bit, gyro isn't really needed because of the lock on system, so I actually prefer Dual analog to the hybrid system. It works perfectly fine. Ya, I'd prefer also having gyro with it but, it's fine. You only need to aim in the general vicinity for lock on to detect, so the precision gyro offers doesn't really benefit the game much. If it did, I'd stick with the hybrid control scheme (which some may like, if they prefer the GC control scheme). The gyro is well done, I just think the 2nd analog adds way more than gyro does. At least for these games that have lock on. For games requiring precision aiming, definitely not the case.

It's really good though. The HD rumble, the surround sound, the nice, crisp visuals in wide-screen... muah!!!

10 yrs. For 10 years I've waited to have Portal/Portal 2 and Metroid Prime with adequate control schemes on handheld. And now, I have them tribrid handheld.

What a day, what a day, what a day!!!

@JaxonH Metroid Prime has a pretty good control scheme on GC. It was never designed to play like an FPS, after all.

Gyro will be needed for Metroid Prime 3, though.

Purple and white pikmin return in Pikmin 4! With ice pikmin closely resembling rock pikmin.

@Ralizah
It does. I just like dual analog better, probably because that's what I'm accustomed to.

To me, dual analog feels better in Prime than GC controls with gyro. But that's just me.

They do include a mode that controls exactly like the Wii. But I don't like turning the camera with the gyro. It does feel better with a two handed controller than one handed though. More stability, and doesn't need as much movement of the wrist.

By the way, I can see them getting lost in the midst of all these other announcements, but the Etrian Odyssey games are INCREDIBLE dungeon-crawlers. Legitimately the best Wizardry-style DRPGs ever made. And it looks like we didn't even lose the map functionality for the Switch ports, which is awesome.

@JaxonH Metroid Prime remaster look too good to be a simply remaster? does the game run on UE4? who developed the Metroid Prime 1 remaster? it cant be Retro Studios, they are busy working on Metroid Prime 4, does the game still run at 60fps like the original?

@Giancarlothomaz
It's Retro as far as I know.

And it looks like a quality remaster. About what you'd expect, really. It looks good- clearly not a full remake, but not an HD port either.

That was a... phenomenal Direct. The best one I have ever seen. I lost my mind about 4 times throughout the whole thing.

Pikmin 4 looks awesome

Freaking GHOST TRICK is coming back out of nowhere

THE SPLATOON 1 CALLBACK DLC

GB GBA games

METROID PRIME REMAAAASTERED WHAT

Oh my goodness I am losing my mind right now

Pikmin 4 isn't getting the attention it deserves.

Pikmin is seriously fun. The upper echelon of Nintendo's finest. When you hear Nintendo, you probably think, "Zelda, Mario, Metroid, Xenoblade, Fire Emblem, etc" but what you should be thinking is, "Pikmin"

It's just as good as any of Nintendo's A-tier properties. For real. I remember before I knew what Pikmin was, I saw an AR card I got with my 3DS that had Pikmin on it. And I immediately thought it was just some super casual cutesy game made for the masses.

No.

Pikmin is core gaming. CORE. GAMING.

It defines its own genre. It requires thinking (just like Zelda and Mario do with their brilliant puzzles), it requires strategy, it requires reflexes, it requires due diligence and planning, and most of all, it requires gamers looking for a fun time.

If you're not looking to have fun, stay away from Pikmin at all costs.

Stop the press!

My brother just texted me. I'll paste his text here:

When you select control in game you can go to camera to select gyro with twin sticks.

Must confirm... must confirm NOW

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Ahhh. Haaaa! I cant... you don't..

YEEEEEEESSSSS!!!

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So let me get this straight.

I have Metroid Dread and now, Metroid Prime Remastered with proper dual analog gyro aiming on a tribrid handheld OLED.

I have Portal 1/2 with proper dual analog gyro aiming on a tribrid handheld OLED.

I have Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate and now, Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak with proper gyro aiming on a tribrid handheld OLED, and title update 4 just released with Velkhana and Risen Valstrax.

I have Fire Emblem Three Houses and now, a brand new Fire Emblem game with Fire Emblem Engage, also with gyro aiming (I never would have thought gyro and grid based strategy would go together in the same sentence but here we are- wyvern riding mini game is a thing).

I have Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal on a tribrid handheld OLED.

I have Nier Automata, Astral Chain, Wonderful 101, Bayonetta, Bayonetta 2 and Bayonetta 3 on a tribrid handheld OLED.

I have Zelda Breath of the Wild and soon Zelda Tears of the Kingdom with gyro aiming on a tribrid handheld OLED.

I have Pikmin 3 and soon Pikmin 4 with gyro aiming on a tribrid handheld OLED.

I have Xenoblade Chronicles, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on a tribrid handheld OLED.

I have Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori Will of the Wisps on a tribrid handheld OLED.

Any more of my favorite franchises that are missing here? Probably just F-Zero. Throw in F-Zero GX Remastered in the fall (NOT with gyro aiming, thank you, game is hard enough as is 😀) and I dare say this is not only the ultimate gaming system but the ultimate gaming library. Eh, even without F-Zero it's already achieved that status in my book.