Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

That Neva game is giving me some serious Princess Mononoke vibes.

Count me in.

Bowser's Fury I wouldn't exclude because it could have easily been a game by itself. I'm still kinda surprised it wasn't.

Also when we're talking about the Wii U and 3DS era Mario games sure, we had more. But 3D World was the biggest of those titles for 3D. And that game, as much as I loved it, isn't really a "mainline 3D Mario game". I feel like that line goes 64, Sunshine, Galaxy 1&2, Odyssey.... the Wii U was skipped....

Seems like it's not long now until we find out if there'll be a Direct this summer. The way Nintendo's approached the Booster Course Pass so far (at any point in time, at least 1 track at that point is exclusive to the pass) strongly suggests that wave 5 will be announced before June 8th.

Examples of the exclusivity are:

• DS Shroom Ridge (announced for the pass on February 9th 2022, announced for Tour on February 17th 2023)
• Yoshi's Island (announced for the pass on February 8th 2023, announced for Tour on March 30th 2023)
• GCN Waluigi Stadium (announced for the pass on March 2nd 2023)

The Mii outfit tease at the end of the video for the tour being announced in 2 weeks and teased the day before suggests there's going to be a Waluigi Mii outfit which would mean GCN Waluigi Stadium is coming in that tour (Nintendo pairs Mii outfits with tracks based on the original character where possible and GCN Waluigi Stadium is the only Waluigi track not yet in Tour). That track is the last track of the Booster Course Pass which is currently exclusive to the pass.

If Nintendo decides to reveal wave 5 on its own, we can pretty much safely assume there's no Direct this summer.

@Magician It'll never stop amusing me how the 'malice' tentacles that ruin Link's arm in TotK are literally just those hatred tentacles from Princess Mononoke that infect Ashitaka's right arm. Even the look of the cursed arms is similar in the immediate aftermath.

Of course, games borrowing from Ghibli is nothing new. It's almost impossible to picture what a lot of early 3D JRPGs would have looked like in a world where Castle in the Sky wasn't a thing.

I've got a rather big problem here. My Switch is increasingly sounding more like it's dying (the loud unhealthy fan sounds are getting louder and more frequent) so I really doubt it'll last the gap before Nintendo releases a more powerful console (shortest possible gap would probably be 16 months given Nintendo's comments at the shareholders meeting). Hence I need a new Switch and so my question is what's the best screen protectors if I went for the OLED? Obviously if I just went for the Switch v2 I can just rebuy the screen protectors I got in 2017 but the OLED of course has a different size screen.

I've been messing around trying to connect a capture card to my monitor and have my Switch on another monitor.

My capture card is a AVerMedia GC31 1 (the ones the box look weirdly placed, it might be an 11 idk) Live Gamer Mini

Any help would be fantastic, I'm not great at tech lol.

@Grumblevolcano Just get the amFilm screen protector for the OLED model. Same brand as the screen protector for my original model and have never had an issue with it.

@Grumblevolcano
1) I don't think Nintendo's comments at the shareholder meeting are any indication of anything. That said, 16 months nonetheless seems like a reasonable worst case scenario. I expect it to be in precisely 10 months.

2) Despite amFilm being the bees knees for the OG switch I found the OLED version to be complete trash. Stuck hairs and imperfections on glass, edge is foggy rather than nice and clear... I tried 2 separate packs of them and gave up, used a different brand. Maybe they're better now, but not when I tried back in late 2021. iVoler includes 4 of them with an alignment frame, for like $11.

https://www.amazon.com/Tempered-Protector-Designed-Alignment-...

After giving up and restarting shin megami tensei V two times, the game still haven't clicked to me, even tought this time it's going smoother than the other two.
Im doing something wrong or the game basically requires you to play all side content and fight all demons on your way before you can beat a boss?

@kaisu
I think it just requires leveling up the right demons with various effects to exploit weaknesses. It's a hard game, but not that hard. I couldn't beat the first hour of SMTIV, yet I got pretty far in SMTV, 30 or 40 hours as I recall (just got sidetracked with other games).

@kaisu SMT V doesn't require the completion of any side content, as far as I'm aware.

Struggling with the Hydra or something? If you've played Persona, you should know the importance of attacking with an element the enemy is weak to. If possible, try not to bring along demons that are weak to its elemental attack. Try to null damage when it's winding up its super move.

And, being SMT, status conditions and debuffs actually matter. My young nephew got through that fight by putting it to sleep lol.

@Ralizah nope, i struggled with it on my first attempt on finishing the game (probably because it was just after beating P5R and i was used to it's gameplay), but it was pretty easy this time.
But basically every other boss i encounter is way above my level. So i just started doing every possible side content to try reaching their level.
Even though it's working it seems it isn't the "right way" to beat it
Edit: probably I'm underusing some mechanics, the other two times i tried to beat i was forgetting some aspect of gameplay. The first one i was ignoring elemental weakness, the second i ignored defense, and until now i was ignoring essence fusion (it helped with the boss i was stuck on when i wrote the first post).

@JaxonH coincidentally im in the 30-40 hrs range now.
Most of my issues may be from the fact i never played smt before, and the closest experience to it was persona 5R.
But after starting to fuse essences it got pretty easy.

I recommend people read this. Nintendo isn't perfect, even on a big win like TotK they have downsides.

edit You need to click the post for the whole thing, not the read more button.

@kaisu Level normally doesn't matter too much in SMT, but SMT V imposes a more severe penalty to damage scaling if you're under-leveled. It's my biggest issue with this entry, since I don't find anything particularly compelling about level grinding, and older games allowed you to tackle tough bosses effectively with smart team builds when under-leveled.

They made the buff/debuffs work more like Persona as well, which was also a bummer.

I like SMT V a lot, but the combat is a straight downgrade from the almost perfect system in SMT IV: Apocalypse.

Spoilers/ Guardians are indeed in Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

@Owl1
No idea if Nintendo does free repairs, but it is really cheap to buy and replace the stick yourself. This doesn’t excuse Nintendo, but it is an easy way to solve the issue.

@blindsquarel plus the fact you can now buy hall effect sticks with tools for a decent price now too...

My repair was free-ish from what I remember.

@Owl1
Probably have to pay for shipping, but that is all.

@blindsquarel I think that's all I paid.