@ScalenePowers Curse of the sea rats is really fun.
But keep in mind it's kinda janky at least on switch. I'm playing it coop with a friend and getting close to the end. After a while my friends character keeps missing most of his attacks and we had to restart the game to fix it.
It happened again after a while but at least restarting helps
After 4 or 5 tries since it came out in 2019 i finally caved in and installed the easy mod for Sekiro. I like the game but i'm not a good enough ninja to play it normally. Git gud? I tried
Went shopping last weekend and saw a game named The Knight Witch. Said on the back it's a mix of a Shoot em up and metroidvania.
Been playing it this week and am getting close to the end. Really fun game! So rare these days to find a game in store i've never heard about and buying based on "seems kinda cool"
Love metroidvanias but it's so refreshing finding those with more unique movement systems. Dandara is another great one in that regard
Finishing up SuperEpic now-ish. (Hopefully) finishing Mr Gimmick later with a friend. That 3rd stage nearly broke us last night but somehow managed to beat it
I'm still searching for a pc game i played in the late 90's. Sort of like Commander Keen and Duke Nukem 1 & 2 but with a more late 90's graphic-style. Pretty sure it was on a demo-disc which I'm hoping to find in my parents attic one faithful day
While playing Breath of the wild and blaster master zero 1 in 2017 i decided. "I'm gonna play Mr. Shifty after i'm finished with these two"
And finally after 4 playthroughs of botw, 1 of totk and beating the entire blaster master zero trilogy it's finally time for some shifty.
It's pretty cool
Been playing this a lot today. It's a really fun version of a great game. It needs some more polish though. The sword and some items don't work exactly like they're supposed too. Slightly too slow. Audio disappeared couple if times. Softlocked a couple of times but restarting the game solved it for me. Thankfully it does have an auto-save feature
Just got to the seventh dungeon. It feels so cool to be able to see the world be alive all at once instead of just one screen
The Poison river in Mario Sunshine. Slowly jumping from boat to boat with a fruitcraving, water-allergic Yoshi then collecting red coins while surfing on a fragile leaf over instant-death poison water is a tad annoying (scream into pillow)
Obviously the blue coins also suck but that could be fixed by adding a coin-counter per level or something.
Beat both Shantae 1 and 2 this week. Now my Shantae backlog is clear until Advance 1.5.
Started Shenmue 3 last night. Didn't really mean to go alphabetically from shantae to shenmue but looking forward to some wooden shenmue voice-acting while exploring the chinese countryside
Switch version of Duke nukem 3D co-op with a buddy. And this time i'll remember not to looking stuff up if we're stuck since the game disconnects you and everyone in the lobby if you're idle for 20 seconds....
I'll also finish Mario RPG. Usually play these remakes with all the new features but after changing between original and the new soundtrack frequently the new one just sounds boring and flat to me.
Picked up Baldo again since the final update released. Finished main campaign earlier this year but started the first of three expansion campaigns. I like the game but can't recommend it, at least the switch version. Runs poorly and still crashed on me once with the latest patch.
Love the world design but the game needs a remake sometime in the future
Played through both Minit and Minit Fun Racer last couple of days. Very simple and very fun games.
Progressing bit by bit in Sea of Stars. Not even halfway through yet. I like the game but expected the game to hook me in more than it has by this point.
@SwagaliciousJohnson go for it! Control is great, also as a metroidvania. If nintendo ever makes a third person metroid they should take inspiration from control
Been a while since i did a link to the past/super metroid randomizer. Played a lot of Tunic lately so it's nice to see they added the tunic fox as a sprite in zelda. Also two links on top lf each other instead of samus is just great
Probably beating Shadow Gambit this weekend. Great game, a shame the studio is closing but at least they revived the stealth-strategy genre with shadow tactics, desperados 3 and shadow gambit.
Hopefully someone else picks up the torch
Other than that maybe continue Tunic with a friend that had never played it before. I'm just amazed by how great that game still is on my third playthrough
Right now i'm at the final boss in Oceanhorn 2 on xbox. While i absolutely love tears of the kingdom, it's really nice to play a decent length classic 3D zeldaish game. It's a little jank but it's charming
9. Amazing, just completed the main game. Only thing i wish for is real co-op. I would be Oatchi all day, every day. And i need a DLC campaIgn with Oatchi + Poochy from the Yoshi-games
Except for pikmin i've been playing "Wanted:Dead". It's sooo dumb and i love it. Deadly premonition levels of dumb Dumb, dumb, dumb. It will probably be in my top 5 this year
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 2nd)
@ScalenePowers
Curse of the sea rats is really fun.
But keep in mind it's kinda janky at least on switch. I'm playing it coop with a friend and getting close to the end. After a while my friends character keeps missing most of his attacks and we had to restart the game to fix it.
It happened again after a while but at least restarting helps
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 2nd)
Completed Cavern of Dreams last night. Lovely game!
Suddenly realized i completely missed out the release of Frogsong so will be playing that as well as Dodgeball academia
Re: Poll: What Switch Online Rare Game Are You Playing This Weekend?
Started playing Blast Corps last year. Really fun but got stuck at a few levels. Need to get back to that one
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 24th)
Two very different games.
Dragon Quest Monsters: Dark Prince and Signalis.
A couple hours into Signalis and it's great!
Beat Bomb Rush Cyberfunk earlier in the week which was awesome! Never played Jet Set Radio before but they're added to the list now
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 17th)
After 4 or 5 tries since it came out in 2019 i finally caved in and installed the easy mod for Sekiro.
I like the game but i'm not a good enough ninja to play it normally.
Git gud? I tried
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 10th)
Went shopping last weekend and saw a game named The Knight Witch. Said on the back it's a mix of a Shoot em up and metroidvania.
Been playing it this week and am getting close to the end.
Really fun game! So rare these days to find a game in store i've never heard about and buying based on "seems kinda cool"
Love metroidvanias but it's so refreshing finding those with more unique movement systems.
Dandara is another great one in that regard
Re: Talking Point: As A Nintendo Fan, Do You Really Need To Play The Virtual Boy?
Tried it once in a superpotato in Tokyo, got a tiny urge to vomit and then stopped
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 3rd)
Double-shifts at work this weekend but i'll be sneaking in some Eastward Octopia in my breaks
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 27th)
Currently at the end of the rhytm game Vectronom. Great game and soundtrack but definitively breaks my brain.
When you first realize where to go in the more difficult stages it's almost easier to do it just listening to the rhytm
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 20th)
Been playing a lot of Crystal Project this week, but really got into Prince of Persia yesterday
Re: Poll: How Often Do You Trade-In Your Switch Games?
I only keep games i like, have beaten or intend to beat. If i don't enjoy it after a couple tries i sell it
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 13th)
Finishing up SuperEpic now-ish.
(Hopefully) finishing Mr Gimmick later with a friend. That 3rd stage nearly broke us last night but somehow managed to beat it
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 6th)
@TheImperfectInsider
Too much gluten
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 6th)
Finishing Born of Bread after work today.
I'm enjoying it but i feel like it needed another month or two to remove a few bugs.
Nothing game breaking but a bit annoying with rooms not rendering and dialogues needing 20 seconds to load
The random hats falling down in battles can stay
Re: Memory Pak: Making Contact With The "Ungoogleable" Game I Couldn't Quite Remember
I'm still searching for a pc game i played in the late 90's.
Sort of like Commander Keen and Duke Nukem 1 & 2 but with a more late 90's graphic-style. Pretty sure it was on a demo-disc which I'm hoping to find in my parents attic one faithful day
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
@Qwiff
Absolutely love Teardown, but you're correct about the beginning.
It gets much better once you get more gear to experiment with
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Catching monkeys in Ape Escape 3.
Loved the first two games and am looking forward to getting the Mesal Gear Solid mini-game.
"Monkeys!?" *calls codec frequency 140.85
Re: Video: Felix Shares His Top Five Switch Games Of 2023
1. Tears of the Kingdom
2. Pikmin 4
3. Super Mario Wonder
4. Octopath Traveler 2
5. A Highland Song
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (Christmas 2023 Edition)
While playing Breath of the wild and blaster master zero 1 in 2017 i decided. "I'm gonna play Mr. Shifty after i'm finished with these two"
And finally after 4 playthroughs of botw, 1 of totk and beating the entire blaster master zero trilogy it's finally time for some shifty.
It's pretty cool
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 16th)
A mix of Orbital Bullet, Shenmue 3 and Ocarina of Time 3DS.
Never played the 3DS remakes before but wanna give them a shot.
Orbital Bullet is great btw
Re: PC Port Of Zelda: Link's Awakening Offers HD Visuals And 120fps Scrolling
Been playing this a lot today. It's a really fun version of a great game. It needs some more polish though. The sword and some items don't work exactly like they're supposed too. Slightly too slow. Audio disappeared couple if times. Softlocked a couple of times but restarting the game solved it for me. Thankfully it does have an auto-save feature
Just got to the seventh dungeon. It feels so cool to be able to see the world be alive all at once instead of just one screen
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 9th)
Born of Bread and Shenmue 3 mainly. Not that far into BoB yet but loving the vibe.
Might start a replay of Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade. Been about 8 or 9 years since last time
Re: Talking Point: What Are The Worst Parts Of Your Favourite Games?
The Poison river in Mario Sunshine.
Slowly jumping from boat to boat with a fruitcraving, water-allergic Yoshi then collecting red coins while surfing on a fragile leaf over instant-death poison water is a tad annoying (scream into pillow)
Obviously the blue coins also suck but that could be fixed by adding a coin-counter per level or something.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 2nd)
Beat both Shantae 1 and 2 this week. Now my Shantae backlog is clear until Advance 1.5.
Started Shenmue 3 last night. Didn't really mean to go alphabetically from shantae to shenmue but looking forward to some wooden shenmue voice-acting while exploring the chinese countryside
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 25th)
Saving cats in Nuclear Blaze 🤟
Beat "The Punchuin" last night. Loved it.
That game might have my favorite "beat the level jingle" ever
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 18th)
Switch version of Duke nukem 3D co-op with a buddy. And this time i'll remember not to looking stuff up if we're stuck since the game disconnects you and everyone in the lobby if you're idle for 20 seconds....
I'll also finish Mario RPG.
Usually play these remakes with all the new features but after changing between original and the new soundtrack frequently the new one just sounds boring and flat to me.
Re: Poll: What's The Best RPG Starring Mario?
Is it weird i liked the first Paper Mario a bit more then The Thousand Year Door? I even played ttyd first
Only mario & luigi i played was dream team bros, which i quit after being terrorised by tutorials
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 11th)
Just finished Alan Wake 2 yesterday and just....wow amazing. Remedy is a treasure.
Didn't know Quantum break was related to it so will be playing that this weekend as well as trying to beat the Skull Kid campaign of Cadence of Hyrule
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 4th)
Picked up Baldo again since the final update released. Finished main campaign earlier this year but started the first of three expansion campaigns.
I like the game but can't recommend it, at least the switch version. Runs poorly and still crashed on me once with the latest patch.
Love the world design but the game needs a remake sometime in the future
Re: Poll: What's Your Switch Controller Of Choice For Super Mario Bros. Wonder?
8bitdo pro 2 all the way. I need a good dpad for this game.
Such a shame that no one ever made a great joycon with dpad up top. I tried the one Hori made but the placement is important for me.
Hopefully nintendo improves the dpad on their next system
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 21st)
Got an infection in my ankle couple days ago. Swollen real bad. Perfect timing for Mario Wonder to come out 😅
Also will try to beat Demon Throttle. Got to the true final boss once but he just crushed me
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 14th)
Beat Resident Evil 1 remake last night. Now i just need to play Zero, code veronica and.....6 to complete my resident evil backlog
Think i'll play Haiku the robot as a cleanser before zero
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 7th)
Played through both Minit and Minit Fun Racer last couple of days. Very simple and very fun games.
Progressing bit by bit in Sea of Stars. Not even halfway through yet. I like the game but expected the game to hook me in more than it has by this point.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 30th)
Been replaying Control ahead of Alan Wake 2. Just got through the ashtray maze. Still soooo good
Re: Talking Point: What Is Your Video Game Palate Cleanser?
I usually go back to Super Nintendo. More precisely a sort of speedrun of Aladdin. I usually play through this a few times a year.
Maybe a randomizer-run of A link to the past and super metroid
I have a feeling Vampire Survivors will play this role as well in the future
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 23rd)
@HeftyLaces which is a first person game, not third person
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 23rd)
@SwagaliciousJohnson go for it! Control is great, also as a metroidvania.
If nintendo ever makes a third person metroid they should take inspiration from control
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 23rd)
Been a while since i did a link to the past/super metroid randomizer.
Played a lot of Tunic lately so it's nice to see they added the tunic fox as a sprite in zelda. Also two links on top lf each other instead of samus is just great
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 16th)
Wolfenstein 3D. Killed Hitler 15 minutes ago, more Nazi's to go in the prequel episodes
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 2nd)
Probably beating Shadow Gambit this weekend. Great game, a shame the studio is closing but at least they revived the stealth-strategy genre with shadow tactics, desperados 3 and shadow gambit.
Hopefully someone else picks up the torch
Other than that maybe continue Tunic with a friend that had never played it before. I'm just amazed by how great that game still is on my third playthrough
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 26th)
It's housemoving-day so no games.. at least until tonight after my body died from all the lifting.
Beat vampire survivors yesterday (might try to get all unlockables). Should probably start Blasphemous 1 now since 2 came out
Re: Metal Gear Solid 2 And 3 Will Have Lower Frame Rates On Switch, Konami Confirms
Guess i'll have to find my mini-usb cable to charge my dualshock 3's to play the ps3 hd collection then.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 19th)
I was supposed to start Shadow Gambit(commandos/desperados type game) on PC last night but you know.... Vampire Survivors
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 12th)
Currently playing Cathedral. 8bit-ish looking metroidvania with graphic and music very much inspired by shovel knight. Which is a good thing
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 5th)
Right now i'm at the final boss in Oceanhorn 2 on xbox.
While i absolutely love tears of the kingdom, it's really nice to play a decent length classic 3D zeldaish game.
It's a little jank but it's charming
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 29th)
Replaying Dragons Dogma. Forgot how fun it is throwing people off cliffs and climbing giants.
Looking forward to Dogma 2
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Pikmin 4?
9. Amazing, just completed the main game. Only thing i wish for is real co-op.
I would be Oatchi all day, every day.
And i need a DLC campaIgn with Oatchi + Poochy from the Yoshi-games
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 22nd)
Except for pikmin i've been playing "Wanted:Dead".
It's sooo dumb and i love it. Deadly premonition levels of dumb
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
It will probably be in my top 5 this year
Re: Mailbox: Nintendo Life Letters Page - Loose Carts, Old Fogeys, Other Ms
Just a reminder to people that hates the eshop. It's awful, use dekudeals.com instead
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 15th)
Transiruby. A fun retro-style metroidvania where you can turn in to a motorcycle