Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For December 2022 And January 2023

Man, what a great system for a person who’s rekindled his love for RPGs. I’m so backlogged with Persona 5 and Ni No Kuni in the queue, and I’ve been getting the itch to get back into Final Fantasy. Last one I played was FFIII on the SNES, so it’s been a minute.

Definitely keeping an eye out for DQ Treasures and Crisis Core reviews.

Just Fire Emblem Engage Divine Edition for me. Other than that theres not a single thing here for me.

Fire Emblem Engage will be my first game purchase of the new year.

I'm pretty I'll end up getting all three, but for now I'm going to focus in the games I have yet to play.

Nothing here for me.

And as much as I freaking loved Awakening and Fates, Fire Emblem Engage is doing absolutely NOTHING for me right now. I've found Three Houses to be overwhelmingly complicated, as the game is punctuated with far too much fluff in between battles. I can appreciate that it's a solid game with excellent production values, but I found it to be too much of a departure from its predecessors, and while I've poured some hours into it, I don't feel like I'm making any meaningful progress. I know people typically rave about it, and maybe I'll have a change of heart whenever I can be bothered to revisit it, but I miss the more straightforward gameplay of the 3DS games.

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike it, but it fails to really capture my attention with far too much going on at any given time. And to top it all off, the lost item clues are infuriatingly unhelpful, so much so that I just show all of the items to everybody I encounter and hope that they'll take it off my hands. Really, is there something I'm missing here and I'm utterly in the wrong and that the game is stinking perfect?

As for the other games, I've also ordered LRG's release of River City Girls 2 merely for consistency, even though the double pack above is CHEAPER than buying it individually from LRG AND there is the added benefit of having both games on a single cart (and the first game is likely to have all patches baked into the cart too). -.-"

100% Dragon Quest Treasures. And maybe River City Girls, Frogun, Joe & Mac and Fire Emblem Engage.

Pokemon Scarlet and Dragon Quest Treasures should make me happy for a while.

I hadn't noticed it initially, but I'll also grab Cuphead. But I have a suspicion that there will still be updates despite the years-long delay of the physical release, so... I think I'll wait until there's confirmation that there are no updates, otherwise, I'll wait for a sale.

The sad irony of there being any patches after the fact is that, despite the recency of the physical release, software updates are always downloaded in bulk (for lacking of a better way to describe it), no matter how negligible the difference is between what is on the cartridge and the latest version, so, even the smallest of updates going forward will incur a large download (unless the physical build is considered separate to the digital one, and they very rarely are).

@Sisilly_G you’re not wrong at all. I understand you. I feel the same way about fire emblem 3 houses but I don’t say anything because almost everyone around love it says it’s like the best one which I don’t believe at all. I love awakening. It’s my favorite fe or one of my top favorites. 3 houses got a little too much for me and I abandoned it for a while before coming back to it like a year later after it came out to finish it. Even then I only finished one route and the dlc story. I didn’t like the story much at all either. I like other fire emblem stories better. Everyone has an opinion. Lol. That being said I will likely get engage because it doesn’t look like 3 houses to me with the whole “you have to choose one school” and keep playing the game over and over for like 300 hours just to play all routes. That’s another big problem I had with 3 houses. 😂.

@Sisilly_G I feel like after Path Of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, Fire Emblem as a whole was just okay. Awakening showed up at a time when the 3DS library was struggling, and since it was pretty decent, lots of people got it. And then immediately there were the Fates games, Shadows of Valencia, and Three Houses. And this new one, just looks like more of the same. Three Houses is the only one of these I found somewhat compelling, the rest are all the same. The franchise is severely overrated.

@FishyS You have to really like the gameplay of SRPGs to like Fire Emblem in my opinion. The stories usually get super boring, and because the games are designed around permanent death, character interactions are mostly down to the main characters that are not allowed to die. If you love the gameplay, it's great, if you're hoping there might be other elements to keep you interested, there usually aren't.

A new console announcement has to be imminent. There’s literally nothing coming directly from Nintendo except BOTW 2. And with Scarlet and Violet, I suspect that really wasn’t meant for the Switch at all, but the new console wasn’t ready and Game Freak has to hit deadlines.

I'm waiting for Fire Emblem Engage next month

@ItsOKToBeOK a new console announcement is highly unlikely because of growing inflation and chip shortages

Cuphead I guess. But I'm working my way through wreckfest and then the FF7 and 8 double pack. So that'll keep me busy till christmas

FEE for me, releasing it in December would have made more sense for Nintendo fans who aren't interested in Pokémon but never mind.

Super excited for Dragon Quest Treasures!

Fire Emblem and Dragon Quest treasures for me, same as most as well as a lot of indie offerings coming up.

Crysis 2 and 3 are ALREADY out; I have them.

@ArcticEcho

Counter-argument: Some of the Fire Emblem stories - Radiant duology, especially - are pretty great. Those games touched up on topics like racism, classism, phobias, political corruption, and all that stuff without sounding preachy.....

but yeah, lately the stories have seemed pretty phoned in. The gameplay and characters are what keep me coming back for the most part.

Yeah these will likely gonna be quiet months for me, nothing much for me since the new Fire Emblem game is looking increasingly like garbage every time I'm unfortunate enough to see it.

Waiting for February for Theatrhythm, that's the real stuff. Octopath 2 as well, I wouldn't say I loved the first game, but I'm up for a sequel even if it'll likely fall on many of the same pitfalls, just in the mood for something like that I guess.

Crisis Core and Fire Emblem for me. Persona 3&4 are also in January. Solid couple of months are usually aren't that busy.

I'm so tempted to get River City Girls 1 and 2, but I already have the digital version of the first game, and I'm sure 2 will go on sale a year down the road.

I have Elden Ring on PS5, and also Nier: Automata on Switch, so I'm busy with those....

my next new "big" game will be Fire Emblem: Engage.

@WaltherP99 These are standard retail releases outside of Limited Run Games which came out a year ago.

Witch on the Holy Night LE for me next month.

@JustMonika Sorry, I don't understand.

Are you saying these two Crysis games releases' are Special Editions?

I would consider buying Death's Door again (it's SO good), but the "Ultimate Edition" looks pretty underwhelming.

@Sisilly_G I finally come across a fellow 1 cartridge person!!!

I can't stand when they bake multiple games on to one cartridge, makes me feel like I'm missing cases on my shelf and artwork on the fronts.
(Same goes for those frickin download code in box titles, very irritating).

Don't even get me started on how much I miss instruction booklets and inserts.

While I was excited about the Cowabunga collection, I would have 100% paid for each individual game.in it's own case and cartridge.

Looking at The Cube, Death's Door, River City Girls, Frogun, New Joe & Mac, Adventure Academia, Witch on the Holy Night.

Lol, where will I find the time?

Here's hoping Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden are still coming out on January 19th. Those two are definitely great games as well.

@WaltherP99 They were being distributed only through Limited Run Games. The ones coming out are normal retail releases.

@JustMonika Sorry, I'm still confused.

The physical ones I have have no 'Limited Run' logos on them.

I did buy them from LR but the posts at the time said they're NOT part of the LR collection.

@WaltherP99 Limited Run was simply distributing it so you're right about that. But you could only buy it from them over the past year. Now since it'll have a wider retail release, it'll be easier to get. I got Crysis 2 and 3 from them last year as well.

@JustMonika Got it! 😅

@Sethdedun : Oh, no, that's not what I said at all.

I prefer having multiple games on a single cartridge. It's so much more convenient (no need to swap cartridges when jumping from one game to another) and they take up less physical space (and it all adds up). Some of my favourite physical releases have multiple games on a single cart, such as the Atelier trilogies, Hasbro Game Night, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, and the DOOM Classics Collection.

I understand your appreciation of having separate artwork for each game, but in a lot of these compilation releases, you often get to see some of the original artwork for the games anyway, particularly among the retro collections. At the end of the day, it's the cartridge and its contents that I am most interested in.

I bought the separate LRG releases of No More Heroes before I had known about the Asian retail release, which p'ed me off, as it would have been CHEAPER to buy that, plus there would have been the convenience of having both games on a single cart. And likewise with the River City Girls 1+2 release.

If anything, it really annoys me when LRG sells games in a series separately in order to bleed their customers dry when bundles on a single cartridge would make more sense.