Nintendo Highlights Four Brand New Games "Coming Soon" To Switch

Only game that matters to me is XCX

Please, oh please don't let Konami somehow mess up Suikoden I&II.

Only one really on my radar is Xenoblade but I don't plan to get it at launch. Maybe'll go for Suikoden on the cheap at some point down the line.

I hesitate between "Dolores Los Angeles" and "Blennorrhagia chronicles".

Not gonna lie, I completely forgot they revived Carmen Sandiego. Though I guess now she's...good? Instead of being a dashing "Almost got 'er!" villain?.... _{Right in the childhood....}

My Suikoden order is set to arrive the 10th. I'm pretty excited to play both again.

Kinda interested in that detective game, will have to see how it reviews. Might get Xeno X as well but we shall see.

I'm getting the Suikoden 1+2 remake, and also the Lunar 1+2 remake.

So much retro RPG goodness ... and I still haven't yet played the Grandia 1+2 remake I bought a while ago, nor any the FF Pixel Remasters. And I still have Octopath II to play!

How did so many JRPGs come out! I only just finished Fantasian Neo Dimension (and I loved it), and there's already so much more to play around the corner.

Last year I played the original versions of Suikoden 1 and 2 (and 3 and 4 and Tactics), so there's no need for me to play the remaster so soon, but I still want to buy it. I have a family member who is interested in Suikoden, so I at least want to have it to show it off.

...that reminds me, though, I still need to play Suikoden 5 and Suikdoen Tierkreis. Around the time I finished Suikoden Tactics last year, both Zelda Echoes of Wisdom and UFO 50 released close to each other, so I put off starting Suikoden 5 until I had a less busy gaming schedule.

But things don't always go back on track so readily. Currently I'm playing Romancing SaGa 2 Revenge of the Seven, so Suikoden 5 will have to wait even more I guess..

Hm.. It would be nice of Konami if, after Suikoden 1 and 2, they re-released 3, 4, Tactics, and 5 next, wouldn't it? And Tierkreis. And maybe that Japan-only PSP game if we're lucky?

I think Suikoden 4 and Tactics should be bundled together just like 1 and 2 are here. But... tbh I don't think it has much likelihood of happening, because they're not the most popular games around.
Suikoden 4's encounter rate is ridiculous, and the main quest is really short, and the ship is annoying to control, and the game is too easy in general. It's not the most amazing RPG around to be fair, but regardless, fans of Suikoden 1&2 who want to play the whole saga should be given that option, I say.

Only game that matters on the list is XCX DE.

Oh, Carmen San Diego.
I will get the PS5 version after I found the pre-order from play-asia.

@Tyranexx
Fun thing, I used San Diego name from Carmen San Diego for my villain in my storytelling last year. (Wolfgang the Police Wolf)
He was Felix San Diego, a criminal tuxedo cat + spy who specialize in stealing the museum stuffs and sold them to black market.
Got the inspiration from Carmen San Diego thievery skills.

Unless Ms. Sandiego is committing a skell heist in Mira, she's going to stay missing for a while

...why is Gameloft getting center stage push? (Will never NOT be weird seeing The Show mixed in with all this)

I have Suikoden preordered. This will be the first new game I've purchased in a long time

@Solomon_Rambling

Yeah, I suppose on average, I can get through one large RPG in a month. Though it does depend on the game of course.

I do like to play smaller games in between though. As sort of palette-cleansers. Believe it or not, I can feel fatigued from playing nothing but RPGs too.

In between finishing Fantasian and starting Romancing SaGa 2 Revenge of the Seven, I played every Donkey Kong Country game for example. ...and I also played Glover on N64. literally because the eShop listing for the Switch port of Glover reminded me that I never played the N64 cart I already have. So I just... went ahead and played it lol.

Before Fantasian, my previous big RPG was actually Fire Emblem 1 NES. I played it courtesy of that limited edition version that Nintendo made available for like four months a long time ago. And I was extremely surprised at just how playable it was - I was expecting a painful old game, but it was actually really fun.

In-between Fire Emblem 1 and Fantasian, I randomly played Rygar The Legendary Adventure on PlayStation 2 as my palette-cleanser game. I also played Pocky & Rocky Reshrined and a few other miscellaneous smaller games.

Last year, in between playing Suikoden III and Suikoden IV, I played Ghost Trick Phantom Detective for DS, Patrick's Parabox on Switch, and Poinie's Poin for PlayStation 2. And some other miscellaneous smaller games that aren't coming to mind right now. It wasn't straight from 3 to 4, I had some non-RPG downtime.

It's not non-stop RPGs for me, but since they do take the longest, they feel like big milestones that tend to define my memory of the month I play them in.

The smaller games I play don't have much rhyme or reason to them. I just pick something that's been in my collection unplayed for far too long and give it a go.

Well, it’s sort of 4 new games. Remaster is doing some heavy lifting.

Makes me wonder if the timing on XCX has been calculated as a last grippy touch point for a player on Switch 1 to cover the gap to Switch 2. Just very interesting to hold onto a port of a giant game like this to the very end right before the successor's Direct.

@EarthboundBenjy We have both similar tastes in genre and in process there! I do very similar, with lengthy RPGs for the most part, but with the smaller pallet cleanser games either during or in-between.

In the last few months, have gone from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, to Dragon Quest XI, to Secret of Mana, to Persona 5 Royal. And in that same period have played shorter experiences including Celeste, Gris, Far: Lone Sails.

Glad to hear that Fantasian: Neo Dimension was great! Just picked that up as well recently, though might be a while before getting to it. Up next will be Xenoblade 3, Octopath Traveller 2, then one of Xenoblade X, Atelier Ryza or Fire Emblem 3 Houses.

In terms of this article, Xenoblade Chronicles X in on pre-order! Probably the only one I'll pick up of the four

Well, theres the Nintendo Direct mini!!

Atelier Yumia and XCX

“ Nintendo Highlights Four Brand New Games "Coming Soon" To Switch“

Two of those four brand new games literally have definitive and remaster IN THEIR TITLES.

We live in the stupidest timeline. 😩

Aw heck didn’t realize release dates were so soon. Yep gotta finish my taxes.

f.... the 20th cant get here faster

@Tyranexx Its not that different from the OG show. Carmen often teamed up with the good guys against actual threats as that went on. Only difference is it's from her perspective.

@Erigen I can't wait to play this one, so excited!

Suikoden and Xenoblade will be mine at some point, but not for now...
I just started Future Redeemed last week, so I'll be busy for a while with Xenoblade.

By the way, where is Atelier Yumia? I'm surprised not to see it here.

@rjejr I was thinking the same thing. Part of me thought the Xenoblade thumbnail was just a red herring to get people to click on the article, but nope, apparently its a brand new game 😄 I never got round to playing more than a few hours of the original release on my Wii U, so I'm going to try not to double dip, got what feels like a million games to play in my backlog

Well there are two potentially great remasters there. Wouldn't say brand new, lol.

Really looking forward to those two!

@Solomon_Rambling At least for me, the key to consistently playing RPG's is taking breaks. After finishing a long game like that, I spend at least a couple weeks playing a game from a different genre or playing no games at all. Gotta rest up the brain between long adventures

Not all these "brand new games" are new though.

Xenoblade X being the only highlight really says a lot

Xenoblade is where it's at for me. Hopefully the pre-order with bonus goodies will be available again, now that I have some cash. Sometimes payday is just a tad too late :'

Xenoblade Chronicles X is the one I am looking forward to (already got it preordered at Best Buy), but I might just check out that Carmen Sandiego game if the reviews are decent. I've played Carmen Sandiego games before, but never one where you play as the titular character herself, so it might be an interesting experience.

I'll be picking up Suikoden and Xenoblade. I still feel like we need a Switch 1 focused Nintendo Direct. I know Switch 2 is all the rage at the moment but it feels like Nintendo have forgotten about Switch 1. I hope I'm wrong and we get a Direct for whatever they have got planned for Switch 1 this year.

@Tyranexx well the ACME detective agency was full of kids so I always assumed she took it easy on the world. More of a “sexy phantom thief” than “mwahaha” villain. After kids stopped caring about learning she probably said “f it, might as well as get paid to help the idiots”. She spent more time making sure we knew geography than breaking into places. I miss edutainment shows from the 80’s and 90’s.

sure, they're all "brand new" xD

Man this new Carmen Sandiego game just confuses me...
I can handle that Carmen has switched sides or is pre heel turn but it just looks so different.

The footage is more interested in showing her grappling about then indicating what the actual puzzle solving gameplay is.
I'd have been well up for a modernised edutainment mystery game but I just can't tell what this game is trying to be.

I really want Carmen Sandiego, but I’m holding out for the Mister Rogers x Sesame Street beat em up so I can finally thrash Lady Elaine Fairchilde and Elmo. It’ll be a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

That Carmen Sandiego trailer did a great job of putting me right off the game. Look at the clip at 45 seconds, it shows Carmen at what I assume is the start of a scene. She slowly gets into a running animation, then stops after about two steps because she's hit the next cutscene trigger (presumably). I absolutely despise when games handover control and immediately take it away again - tells me (rightly or wrongly) that the devs don't understand what good gameplay is, especially if it's making it into the trailer.

I'll be getting the Suikoden release though. On the fence about Xenoblade Chronicles X cos I'm part way through a Wii U run, plus there's a host of other games dropping in the next few months, e.g. Atelier Yumia, Rune Factory, Lunar, Fantasy Life i.

wow!
the brand new-ness of these new games is blowing me away!

@Tyranexx Yeah I watched a few episodes, it was pretty bad.

Xenoblade X and Atelier Yumia are the only Switch games I'm interested in getting in March.

@Tyranexx it's a tad more complex than that.

They basically took her character backstory from the 90s cartoon show, flipped it on it's head and did a twist. In a good way.

@Erigen Just hope that both games will be on the cartridge, knowing Konami they love to cheap out on physical collection. Their Metal Gear Solid collection hardly had any games on the cartridge, not a single Metal Gear Solid games are on there except the ones that are not Meta Gear Solid.

@Anti-Matter every comment is "I will get the PS5 version". Anti-Nintendo

Only march release i care about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXkmsOrJkXM

@Anti-Matter I like that you adapted Carmen's concept elsewhere. Especially for a cat burglar. XD She is one of my favorite characters from childhood.

@link3710 Ah. There was a show that wasn't this reboot and the game show vibe they went through in the 90s? Most of my exposure to Carmen has been through the PC edutainment games. Where you were always trying to catch her and the other members of VILE.

@Ryu_Niiyama I did always see Carmen as more of a "badÁ$$ sexy phantom thief" instead of evil lol. One who can definitely outsmart ACME most of the time. So it seems odd to me that she'd actively work with them, though I can understand working with them in the face of a greater threat. I could see her taking pity on the kids, though possibly not ACME for staffing them for no pay (that we know of).

...I'm clearly thinking about this WAY too hard.

@FantasiaWHT From what I've found on the new show online, it started out well according to user feedback. But wrapped up hastily. I might have to give it a watch sometime.

@MegaVel91 I'll take your word for it. I was basing most of my impressions on the game trailer. As mentioned in another reply, most of my prior exposure was through the PC edutainment games. I recall seeing a game show with a couple animated sections in the 90s (I think), but that was pretty much it.

Lets be real all baseball games are trash and not even worth the news. Seriously 60 or 70 bucks for any baseball game. You play in the same field just decorated different. There is literally nothing special about sports games.

@DrJoson re XCX

Both my kids and I played XCX on Wii U, back when it was just a new game but not brand new.😂 I finished it and most of the side story, which didn’t really end. My wife is still mad about it after all these years. I think we’re going to watch 1 of my kids play it when they’re home from college this summer, they got soft locked about 3/4 of the way through. Maybe that will change after April 2 and the Switch 2 reveal if the brand brand new version looks better. 🤷🏻‍♂️