Made my first post-school purchase earlier today, picking up both Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and a PDP Rock Candy Wired Switch Controller alongside it (complete with matching Mario theming XD).
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Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance. However, even though I picked it up on PlayStation a couple of hours ago, I’m thinking of buying Beyond Good and Evil for the Switch.
waiting on Trails of Daybreak sucks I missed the Limited Edition... again.... =( BUT I did recently get Assassin's Creed Rebel Collection never gabe Blackflag the love it deserves
Hogwarts Legacy - boy is this certainly a subscriber to the "modern game design" school with the minimap full of icons, fast traveling, action combat system, crafting, long cinematic dialogues, etc.
But I'm having a lot of fun with it, actually. I haven't played one of these big-budget action/adventure games in a long time, so it's refreshing in a way, but I think I'm just gonna stick to the main quests and put maybe 20-30 hours into it. I can't no-life these massive games anymore like I could 10 years ago.
I'm also pleasantly surprised that most of the game is indeed on the cartridge. There's a lot of urban legend going around that it's another "blank cartridge" game, and even the box itself scared me by saying something like 20-30 gigs of space needed. But in reality, the download is only 8 gigs on my Switch, and people are saying it's just for whatever language packs you decide to use. I just selected English.
@rallydefault I've read a lot of reviews about this game on the Switch, and it's not great (which I'm sure you know). Given that the Switch is the only system I can play it on - how has your experience been? I'm considering waiting on the Switch 2 and hope an upgraded version is available for it...but I've also seen the price drop a few times.
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Ok, so straight-up honesty: The graphics are muddy. They had to tone things down, big time, to get it to run on the Switch. Textures stay fuzzy until you're really close, stuff can pop in from time to time (not as much as I expected, actually). It's kind of like putting the graphics on a late Xbox360/early Xbox One graphics filter.
Loading times are not terrible, though - I thought I read somewhere about loading screens that took close to a minute, but I've been fast traveling all over the place, and I don't think I've encountered a load time like that. Maybe like 20ish seconds is the norm, would be my guess. There are some spots where loading, even if it's short, is annoying - Hogsmeade, for instance, you have to load before you go into any shop. I think I've read that the other versions don't need to do that. So, it's little load hops like that that can potentially add up to frustrate you.
If you can get past those two things about the performance, it's really the same game as you get on the other consoles. The framerate (which I'm sure is 30fps) is pretty consistent, panning the camera feels smooth, combat feels smooth. I'm fine with it, but I'm not very picky.
I think for most people, if you own another current console, can find it for the same price and don't need the portability, it would be kind of weird to buy it for the Switch.
@rallydefault I appreciate the detail!! I'm very interested in the game, think I will hold off for the next console and/or get it if it goes on a deep discount. Glad to hear that the content is on par with other versions. Like you, I'm not picky - seems like a safe enough pick up for me.
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