Topic: Your Latest Switch Purchase

Just picked up Saga of the Moon Priestess, a top-down zelda-like and Amber City, a super pretty puzzle game. Both are on sale for a few bucks.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
The best 2D Metroidvania I've ever played. It even tops Metroid Dread and the Ori games. Just beat it. It's PHENOMENAL. If you own a Switch, and aren't playing this game, what are you even doing...

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Yet another killer AA release on Switch. Beat first case. It's as good as every other entry.

Hitman Blood Money: Reprisal
Originally released on the 6th gen systems as well as an Xbox 360 release, this is often regarded as the best Hitman in the series, and regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time. I beat the first mission, and it's a ton of fun. They gyro aiming makes the game actually playable by today's standards. Additions like the mini-map, highlighting interactive objects and of course, gyro aiming, makes this the best version of arguably the best game in the series.

Highly recommended.

Order yonks ago (mid 2022), but it finally arrived after the first two shipments got lost in the mail (and LRG were kind enough to include the Limited Edition of Bill and Ted this time around)...

• Bill and Ted's Excellent Retro Collection
• A Boy and His Blob

Bloodstained: rituals of the night. It's muddy as hell but fun, and a great game to play in short bursts.

Final Fantasy VI Remastered

I must have absolutely spanked my previous record for games bought in a month. January 2024 has to be the new PB, by some margin. Mostly thanks to thegamecollection.net's 5 x reward points deal that's been running all month. Here are the games bought from them alone this month:

Blacksad
Nexmon + Nexomon Extinction
Harvestella
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Norn9: Var Commons
Amnesia: Memories
Amnesia: Later X Crowd
WarioWare: Move It!
SIFU
Samba De Amigo - Party Central
Astronite
Moonscars
Everybody 1-2 Switch
Arcade Spirits
Very Very Valet
Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles
Red Dead Redemption
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
Mario vs. Donkey Kong

Gulp

Then elsewhere during January I've also bought:

Witch On The Holy Night
Little Busters
Tomoyo After: It's A Wonderful Life
Piofiore: Fated Memories
Collar X Malice
Life Is Strange: True Colors
Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3
Disney Illusion Island
Jack Jeanne
Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town

Have I overdone it? FML I need this generation to end...

@gcunit

The Switch port of Sifu is rough, but the game is amazing. The Switch port of Blacksad is....terribad. The rest of that purchase list is quite nice though. Very Very Valet and Witch on the Holy Night are the highest of highs in their respective genres. And DBZ Kakarot is probably the worst of the bunch, imo.

Xenoverse 2 at 20 frames per second was a better DBZ experience.

@Magician I tried Blacksad as soon as it arrived. "There is an update available". Ignored that - give it to me raw and natural, the way its mother made it. Only played for a couple of minutes and sure, some graphical jerkiness was immediately obvious, but I'm gonna persevere and see how I find it. Jumped back to the Home screen... turns out it's a 9.8gb update. W. T. F? What the heck is missing from the cart that doesn't stop it being playable but is 9.8gb? Crazy.

Disney's Illusion Island. Thought it would be fun for the family to play through this one.

Picked up a physical copy of Neo: The World Ends with You, to add to the RPG collection. I hear this is a good one but didn’t perform very well in sales. Never played the DS title.

I am thinking about buying and downloading either Baten Kaitos HD Collection since its on sale or at least Final Fantasy IV Pixel sometime before the sale ends.

I still have Baten Kaitos 1 for my Gamecube though but the HD Collection does have the Origins prequel game

I completely fell off the wagon and snagged 3 games from my wishlist on the latest sale:

Final Fantasy VI (pixel remaster), Persona 4 golden and Venice 2089.

My latest purchase is the digital version of Animal Crossing because I got tired of constantly swapping the game card in and out. It's just one of those games we keep coming back to, but is not my main activity.

I have to wonder, for those of you making mega purchases: do you reach a point when you think "I think that's enough this gen"? I mean when you consider that it takes X hours to complete a game multiplied by the number of games you have, you probably get to a point mathematically when you know your backlog will take you beyond the Switch's end of life.

I love playing on my Switch, but seeing how long it's taking me to get through something like Hogwarts Legacy, I'm realizing that I may never be able to play all the games that interest me.

There are users out there with many more Switch games than me, but I readily admit having more than 'enough' Switch games. If you apply that simplistic reasoning. But for me it's not that simple.

It wasn't until the N3DS released that I ever bought a handheld. Born in the 80s, systems like the Game Boy and Game Gear never offered enough to convince me to get one. Always too many compromises needed compared to games I was used to playing on an Amiga.

Even before Switch was announced, as a Wii U and N3DS owner, finally enjoying the benefits of handheld/off-tv play, I was theorising and hoping Nintendo would release some kind of hybrid.

So when they did, with a game as momentous as Breath of the Wild as the launch game, for me it was like a realisation of a nearly-30 year dream to have a portable, handheld device that could play modern games on a TV as well. Switch was going to be something special for me.

Couple a dream device, with the reality of an increasingly digital-puchases-only gaming industry, and I came to the realisation that, as someone who started collecting games about 10 years before, I wanted to maximise my Switch experience, in a way I'd never done with any gaming platform before.

Whatever comes next, and whatever comes after that, there'll never be another 'generation' like the Switch generation for me. I've got multiple Switch devices and will likely get more. Switch is for life, not just a generation.

@cwong15 I can see where you're coming from. For me there's no real need to 100% every game I get, there's always a point where I'm satisfied with a game before I move on to another. Maybe in the future I can come back to them for unfinished business.

Granted in the particular case of the Switch, the longest game in my collection may be Starlink: Battle for Atlas, of which I've barely played like 2 hours. The rest are games I've been satisfied with just reaching the credits or smaller games such as Picross, Kirby's Dream Buffet, Q Remastered, Traffix. For Free-to-Play games, the only one that has my attention right now is Disney Speedstorm and it seems it will be like that for a while.

Then again, of the 31 physical Switch games in my collection, about one third are games I already own in other systems: New Super Mario Bros. U and New Super Luigi U, Mario Kart 8, Super Mario 3D World, LEGO City Undercover, Rayman Legends, Miitopia, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Metroid Prime Remastered, Pac-Man Vs. in NAMCO MUSEUM ARCADE PAC, the games in Sonic Origins Plus and the 3 games in Super Mario 3D All-Stars.

There's always space in my collection for games I might have missed when they originally came out, though. This is especially true for retro systems, of which I already include 3DS and Wii U as retro in the sense that they're more than 10 years old and games for those systems are practically unavailable in my area.

Just today I was on the eshop and purchased Ni No Kuni Wrath of the White Witch it was on sale for the Switch for $9.99.

I've thought about this a fair amount... I have hundreds of games on Switch. The majority of them cost $10 or less either on good sales or because they were cheap indies and some of those games are very short but a lot of them are not short. I could easily spend the next 10 years doing nothing but trying to 100% the games I currently own. I expect the vast majority of those games to still run on Switch 2 so hardware compatibility shouldn't be an issue.

However... clearly I am not going to do that and instead I am going to buy more games. 😅

I sort my games into 5 categories:

1. Games I beat 100% and am done with.

2. Games I beat but didn't 100% but I'm still done with them. I'm an adult and I can afford to try out new experiences rather than doing every tiny thing in one game.

3. Games I didn't beat but decided I didn't want to. Either I didn't like the game or I liked it for a while but decided I had seen enough and it would just be more of the same.

4a. Games I tell myself I'm still playing even though I'm not playing right now. Sometimes they are games I beat but didn't 100%, sometimes they are games I played for 2 hours and then drifted away from. Some of these I inevitably may not come back to but that's honestly ok.

4b. Games I am actively playing right now. Eventually they will be moved to 1,2,3, or 4a. This subcategory is smaller and fast changing.

5. Games I bought, usually on a good sale from my wishlist, but haven't actually started playing yet.

These 5 categories all have many games in them, with categories 1 and 5 being the smallest and 4 the largest. Which means I've only 100%-ed fewer than 20% of the games in my current Switch library. On the other hand, I have gotten some mileage and enjoyment out of over 80% of my library. My main goal is to not let my list of unplayed games get too large. As long as I end up playing everything to the amount I feel like at the time, I won't be dissatisfied even if I never end up officially beating half my games.

As a plus, if I'm ever tight on money or if there is a Nintendo generation I'm less into, I can happily play my unfinished Switch games.

Sonic Superstars as it was on sale at Best Buy. Sonic isn’t my cup of tea but I heard this one was good so I should enjoy a few levels.

Picked up Hacha Mecha Fighter from Arcade Archives and Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster since it seems to be the first time the pixel remasters have gone on sale. Starting with the first one as I've never actually played a FF game and seemed as good a place as any to start.

Not a new purchase per se, but my copy of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties: Definitive Edition arrived on Friday. Disappointed that the images were AI upscaled (though they actually looked pretty damn convincing for the most part), but the low resolution images from the original release are included as well. I'm disappointed that no footage from the production of the game was included, as there was apparently some video footage (with at least some stills from the game culled from the footage), as that really could have added a lot of value to the package. Also disappointing is that the audio wasn't improved in any way, and that they seemed to merely copy/paste the audio data from the original release. I'd be curious to know if the original audio elements had survived and whether they would have been of a higher quality than what was included in the original releases. Overall, a somewhat amusing historical curiosity, but nothing more, nothing less.

And the day before that, I bought Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures for my sister.