Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin Update "Coming Soon" To Switch, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

If only I could find a physical copy that wasn’t massively over-priced

They need to fix the font. Its shadow typed and my old ass can read it. Unplayable for me right now. 🍆

@popey1980

Just buy it digitally then, the worth of a game is in how it plays not whether it is in physical or digital format.

@TheFullAndy I like to lend my games out when I’m down with them to be honest, unless they’re super cheap on the eShop (also, great profile picture, my favourite show of the last decade outside of the Mandalorian!)

@TheFullAndy

I disagree. A game can be delisted and not be made available as has commonly been discussed and this alone influences my desire for physical copies.

That said, physical games are not perfect because the full game is not always on the cartridge and requires an additional download or patches end up taking a lot of space anyway, like Splatoon 2 now being 5GB of memory in my system.

In spite of all this, the physical medium is my preference most of the time.

@popey1980

Cheers, truly a great show and the suburbs episode is probably my favourite!

Regarding the physical game, that is fair enough but I think at the end of the day the most important thing is actually playing the game.

You could buy digital now, experience it and decide later if it is worth buying physically later. Also from what I understand there is an option to share games digitally with friends as well.

@Severian

Physical games also often, sorry not often but always, go out of print so you could end up paying hundreds to get a physical copy of a game whereas you can buy a game digitally and be able to redownload for many years after.

End of the day for me I buy games to play them and I would rather be thankful I experienced playing a game digitally at the time of recent release than have to hunt down a physical copy that is in demand with hiked prices.

But to each their own.

still waiting for a sale...

@TheFullAndy

Until recently, Scott Pilgrim was the default example of a digital game being something you couldn’t keep forever or download again.

Now that honor goes to PT (Silent Hills).

@Severian

I know the pain of losing PT, but I still got to experience it at the time and have no regrets (just a lot of screams).

The fact this game comes with a manual makes getting a physical copy worth it 👍

Sakuna:
Would like to try this game out in a demo

On physical versus digital:
The recent delistings of WiiU games have me worried about the availability of my Switch games say ten years from now. I only have Zelda, Starlink, Paper Mario, Batman and Ring Fit on physical while 100+ digital games, and Zelda doesn't work at times after kid spilled something on it. So...

• Physical copies need to be swapped & can break but otherwise are "forever"
• Digital copies can be delisted but can't break and don't require swapping game cards (a biggie for me)

My preferred option would be physical games that can be fully installed on the device. That way I could have my backup and also never need to bring it out of its case thus removing the "incident" potential and ruining the physical copy somehow. And I'd get the main benefit for me of tons of games with no need to bring games with me/swap them in the docked unit. This can't be done on unmodded Switch however as far as I know...

So as it stands, I can't decide if I should buy physical or digital going forward. I still tend to go digital due to the convenience...

Lol folks have maxed out the year timer?! That’s amazing. I’m scared I have to watch the temp more but I load up on good fertilizer so that helps. Still can’t bear to beat this game. Don’t want the ride to end.

@Severian You can keep all digital games forever, including Scott Pilgrim and PT. Just don't delete them. It's like not throwing away a book when you're done. If you don't, you can read it forever. If you do, you can't. In this way there's literally no difference between digital and physical media. In most ways there's no difference.

@TheFullAndy “Flowers for Charlie” is my favourite episode, where he takes the pills and thinks he gets smarter 😂

@JimmySpades "Just don't delete them" doesn't work when I have limited hard drive space and was relying on the cloud to maintain them.

It could be argued that physical games can be stolen, true, but I prefer that agency over my own games rather than having to rely on essentially being "licensed" a game before it disappears.

And if your system is stolen or you're locked out of an account (which has happened), the physical games can still be played in a new system even if the saves are gone.

But this isn't a thread about digital versus physical, and those who belong to the digital tribe, good for all of you. I'm part of the physical tribe because I grew up on it and will choose physical whenever possible, unless there is a significant discount, THEN it makes sense for me to pay $2 for a game that is $30 digitally.

@popey1980

"I've grown quite weary!"

I am only in my third year or so of rice farming. I did watch some documentaries on rice farming, to help me understand the process better. I was joyfully amazed to see the same process with technical improvements, as in Sakuna you are not using any machines! So I'm still enjoying the unique rice farm sim / action platforming combination, great to see that this can continue for many in-game years to come

@TheFullAndy 👏🏻😂 “is he doing an accent?”