Switch 2: “How it pains me to do this.” Switch 1: “Wait… I still function!” Switch 2: “Wanna bet!?” Switch 1: “NINTENDO…!!” Switch 2: “Now that the Switch 1 has, how shall we say, departed, I nominate myself as the new fan favorite!”
@Michael0916 you can play Nintendo Switch Online games online with your Nintendo Switch.
You can’t play the GameCube games online.
And personally, I only ever have two consoles in active use; currently PlayStation 5 and Switch, soon to be Switch 2. While I do still enjoy playing retro games, I prefer to play retro games on my latest consoles. I could play Wind Waker HD in a few minutes on Wii U, but I just don’t care to play Wii U anymore. I will be playing it on Switch 2 next weekend instead.
@cvrator no, A and B were only used for the character creator then everyone were referred to as men, women, boys and girls during the actual game. Game Journalists apparently don’t care to play games beyond the first few minutes
Plus the interview isn’t non-existant, it was just taken down. A lot of places covered the interview and would still show what was said.
@cvrator it was a jangling the keys moment just to please the games journalists in DQIII. The developers said they didn’t really care to do so, but only did to cash in on an American trend and gain popularity points. Then that interview got taken down. The rest of the game reverted back to regular masculine / feminine identities and pronouns.
Just completed this one. It was okay for a short story but I felt it was a little too expensive for what it is, however I did appreciate everything being fully voiced.
The trial and error really killed the momentum of the first game for me.
It’s not really trial and error. The clues are there if you look for them and work out how they relate to each other. The hints do help if you don’t want to dedicate much time and exploration thinking about things.
This too is a short game. I enjoyed it but I felt like it was a little too expensive for what it is, however I did appreciate the game being fully voiced. I think this series would have been better if it had been a compilation of three or four different cases than being sold separately.
@Rooty I played the first stage of Gradius yesterday and quite enjoyed it. And Star Stacker is a good game to me that I enjoy playing. I’ve not played Sword of Hope 1 yet but I enjoyed playing the second game on 3DS years ago
@ohhaime CEX shows the UK release Stranded Kids as £65 unboxed and £85 unboxed. I’d rather play it on NSO. It’s not worth paying £65 for imo, but it is worth adding to NSO.
@GameOtaku ” Why pay $50 every year when you can buy a game or games you like once and just play indefinitely?!”
$50 a year is cheap compared to the amount you would spend every year to buy the games you want. Theres over three hundred games now, which you can play for only $50 a year. How is that not a bargain? And you get to play the games you are unfamiliar with and wouldn’t want to spend money on without risk of wasting money.
@Mana_Knight I’m really not a fan of Iggy’s Wreckin’ Balls. Never played it before it came to NSO so I don’t have any nostalgia towards it but I found it rough to play.
No, it’s not “a bit much” at all. $50 a year to play hundreds of retro games is an amazing awesome deal. Especially now that they are adding GameCube games too. And who doesn’t have internet at home now? Nobody. The weekly check-in is literally a non-issue.
I could turn my Wii U on right now and start playing Wind Waker in two minutes if I wanted to. I will be playing Wind Waker on NSO but if I did want to play it again seriously, I’ll play it on Wii U.
I passed on the two games until a few months ago when I saw them on sale as a bundle on the eShop and decided to buy them. I wasn’t familiar and I don’t have much faith in new modern RPG series. I started with the second game and chose Throné. I didn’t understand the battle system at first so I didn’t play past the first save point initially and stopped playing. Some weeks later, last week, I started playing again got the hang of it and quite enjoyed it.
The stories of those characters I’ve played so far are actually good. My favourite is Osvald’s. I appreciate the important scenes being fully voiced, and the writing and voice acting is quite decent. I caught on quickly and accepted the game is eight different and separate stories taking place on the same world. Every character has their opportunity to be the focus character with every other party character being relegated to being support in battles during the story. That’s fine. It’s different but not bad. Given the structure of the story, I wouldn’t want every character to join in on other characters storylines. The graphics look great, perhaps too good - the first game now looks terrible to me in comparison, having only played the Scholar’s first chapter of the first game.
@wollywoo I don’t think of the storylines as being disjointed nor how they are structured as being a flaw. You choose a character whose story you want to follow then continue that character’s story or choose a different character’s story. I don’t call that being disjointed or flawed. I appreciate that each character’s storylines are clearly shown on the map and are optional so you’re not stumbling into being forced to play through a story you don’t want to play through yet. And my favourite music in the game is the boss theme.
I don’t know why developers would make copycat games that would be difficult for players to find on the eShop among all the rest of similarly titled games. I had nothing against there being a [shop] simulator until there were twenty or however many similarly titled games on the eshop
@ElkinFencer10 “The "Nintendo Seal of Quality" was always a bit of a joke”
The Seal of Quality only applies to the physical construction of the cartridge the games were on and has always had no relevance towards the content of the game on the cartridge.
@Papasears1982 The graphics look rough to me on my TV. I can’t find a filter that I like. MvC2 looks terrible even with the update patch. The game does look better in handheld mode though so I think they prioritised undocked over docked. I should download it on PS5. I think it would look better and cleaner. No I’m not expecting super clean high resolution graphics, just something that resembles how it actually looked in the arcade and not a bad port.
@Member_the_game the classic games are an incentive for NSO subscribers to stay subscribed. They wouldn’t be much of an exclusive bonus if they were also sold separately without having to subscribe.
Plus it works out cheaper to subscribe to NSO than to buy the games separately. Retro games released on Switch are incredibly overpriced. Felix the Cat is one NES game and one GB game for $25.
I wonder how many players wanting to buy retro games on NSO individually would still want to do so when faced with $15 SNES games.
@Kwyjibo_Kitsune “ 2) Drip feeding the games out at a glacial pace; going with weird leftfield choices and ignoring the titles we're all crying out for”
1. It costs money to get the games rated so they aren’t going to spend a lot of money in a short period of time to get several games rated at once
2. They want to save some big name titles for later on
3. Not every publisher is willing to support the service
I think we get some obscure games over big name games simply because some publishers are more protective of their big name games. We still don’t have Sonic the Hedgehog 1 for example and only Sonic 2 as a obligatory support.
Fall damage prevents or discourages shortcuts. Sure some games allow it, but some other games want you to find another way down. Or is perhaps a reward to unlock later in the game by falling from a high place and surviving with your increased health.
I hope Nintendo goes back to accurate time played they did with previous consoles, and with NSO games on Switch. I like to keep track of how long I’ve played games and “you have played for about one hour” type statements don’t help me at all. Worse, when sorting by time played, some games are placed as having much less time played than you actually have; perhaps if you have a lot of games, it can’t keep memory of them all.
@Clyde_Radcliffe I'd much rather pay less than £3 a month to get access to the whole library than the prices they charged on Virtual Console for this amount of games. I don't care if I don't own them forever, I don't intend to play most of these games for the rest of my life.”
I agree. And shopto.net sells the expansion pass for about £26, about £10 less than Nintendo does, which is where I buy my pass from.
I want to be able to attach two Switch 2 game screens so that you can use it in a DS formation. And you would also be able to have one game screen docked and the second can be used in the same way as a Wii U Game Pad.
Only one screen would be supplied and there would be games that only use one screen, but to get the most out of the console, you would have to buy two.
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Re: 007 First Light Official Game Reveal, Launching On Switch 2 In 2026
@Maxz James Bond is a code name given to several different agents. They aren’t all the same single guy.
Re: 007 First Light Official Game Reveal, Launching On Switch 2 In 2026
Should have done James Bond Junior.
Re: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Footage Shows 60fps Gameplay For Switch 2
@Joshinator are you playing on Switch 2? If not then sit down and shut your fingers up.
Re: Video: Do You Even Need A Pro Controller For The Switch 2?
I have an 8BitDo SN controller. I hope it is compatible with Switch 2.
Re: Video: Street Fighter 6 Showcases Four New Character Outfits
@rvcolem1 if you buy the base game then want the dlc characters, it will be much more expensive than just buying the bundle
Re: Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Footage Shows 60fps Gameplay For Switch 2
@AllBLK People complained and wanted it fixed, well now it’s fixed.
Re: Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Footage Shows 60fps Gameplay For Switch 2
Now can players stop complaining?
Re: Feature: Farewell, Nintendo Switch - It's Finally Time To Bid Our Old Friend 'Adieu'
Switch 2: “How it pains me to do this.”
Switch 1: “Wait… I still function!”
Switch 2: “Wanna bet!?”
Switch 1: “NINTENDO…!!”
Switch 2: “Now that the Switch 1 has, how shall we say, departed, I nominate myself as the new fan favorite!”
Re: Gallery: Here's Another Look At GameCube Games On Switch 2
@Michael0916 you can play Nintendo Switch Online games online with your Nintendo Switch.
You can’t play the GameCube games online.
And personally, I only ever have two consoles in active use; currently PlayStation 5 and Switch, soon to be Switch 2. While I do still enjoy playing retro games, I prefer to play retro games on my latest consoles. I could play Wind Waker HD in a few minutes on Wii U, but I just don’t care to play Wii U anymore. I will be playing it on Switch 2 next weekend instead.
Re: Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects (May 2025)
I like Duck Detective but it doesn’t take long to complete.
Re: Gallery: Here's Another Look At GameCube Games On Switch 2
I hope it doesn’t take a year for the rest of the games announced to come to the service.
Re: Poll: With One Week To Go, What Are Your Switch 2 Launch-Day Plans?
Going to work, coming home to download Elena for SF6 on PS5.
Amazon will deliver my Switch 2 on Saturday 7th.
Re: Round Up: The Previews For Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake Are In
@cvrator no, A and B were only used for the character creator then everyone were referred to as men, women, boys and girls during the actual game. Game Journalists apparently don’t care to play games beyond the first few minutes
Plus the interview isn’t non-existant, it was just taken down. A lot of places covered the interview and would still show what was said.
Re: Round Up: The Previews For Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake Are In
@cvrator it was a jangling the keys moment just to please the games journalists in DQIII. The developers said they didn’t really care to do so, but only did to cash in on an American trend and gain popularity points. Then that interview got taken down. The rest of the game reverted back to regular masculine / feminine identities and pronouns.
Re: Mini Review: Duck Detective: The Ghost Of Glamping (Switch) - A Quacking Little Mystery
Just completed this one. It was okay for a short story but I felt it was a little too expensive for what it is, however I did appreciate everything being fully voiced.
The trial and error really killed the momentum of the first game for me.
It’s not really trial and error. The clues are there if you look for them and work out how they relate to each other. The hints do help if you don’t want to dedicate much time and exploration thinking about things.
Re: Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
This too is a short game. I enjoyed it but I felt like it was a little too expensive for what it is, however I did appreciate the game being fully voiced. I think this series would have been better if it had been a compilation of three or four different cases than being sold separately.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Library With Four More Titles
@Rooty I played the first stage of Gradius yesterday and quite enjoyed it. And Star Stacker is a good game to me that I enjoy playing. I’ve not played Sword of Hope 1 yet but I enjoyed playing the second game on 3DS years ago
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Library With Four More Titles
@KingMike Yes, and their Real Ghostbusters game was a Garfield game in Europe and a Mickey Mouse game in Japan. Same game with different characters.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Library With Four More Titles
@ohhaime CEX shows the UK release Stranded Kids as £65 unboxed and £85 unboxed. I’d rather play it on NSO. It’s not worth paying £65 for imo, but it is worth adding to NSO.
Re: Random: Some Switch Fans Are Convinced Mario Paint Is Returning
I’d also like Mario & Wario.
Re: Nintendo Files New Trademark For A DS Cult Classic
I’d like to see a remake on Switch 2. I like the 2D art, characters and story but the 3D graphics and gameplay is so rough to go back to now.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's N64 Library With Another Game
@GameOtaku ” Why pay $50 every year when you can buy a game or games you like once and just play indefinitely?!”
$50 a year is cheap compared to the amount you would spend every year to buy the games you want. Theres over three hundred games now, which you can play for only $50 a year. How is that not a bargain? And you get to play the games you are unfamiliar with and wouldn’t want to spend money on without risk of wasting money.
Re: Every Nintendo Switch Online N64 Game Ranked
@father_noo people can rank N64 games they played on NSO even if they hadn’t played them originally
Re: Every Nintendo Switch Online N64 Game Ranked
@Mana_Knight I’m really not a fan of Iggy’s Wreckin’ Balls. Never played it before it came to NSO so I don’t have any nostalgia towards it but I found it rough to play.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's N64 Library With Another Game
No, it’s not “a bit much” at all. $50 a year to play hundreds of retro games is an amazing awesome deal. Especially now that they are adding GameCube games too. And who doesn’t have internet at home now? Nobody. The weekly check-in is literally a non-issue.
Re: Video: 10 GameCube Games We Want On Switch 2's Online Expansion Pack
There should be a separate Mature app for Gamecube games like with the N64.
Re: Video: 10 GameCube Games We Want On Switch 2's Online Expansion Pack
No Skies of Arcadia Legends?
Re: SNK Announces ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 5 And Vol. 6 For Switch
@Pigeon I’d recommend the SN 8BitDo controller. I have it and it’s great for fighting games. I can’t use the regular joycons for them either.
Re: Nintendo Shares More Footage Of Zelda: Wind Waker On Switch 2
I could turn my Wii U on right now and start playing Wind Waker in two minutes if I wanted to. I will be playing Wind Waker on NSO but if I did want to play it again seriously, I’ll play it on Wii U.
Re: The Hundred Line's Script Is Long Enough To Print 60 Paperback Novels
I wonder how many novels The Great Ace Attorney would fill. Now that game is many novels at least.
Re: Review: Octopath Traveler II - A Confident Follow-Up And One Of Switch's Finest RPGs
I passed on the two games until a few months ago when I saw them on sale as a bundle on the eShop and decided to buy them. I wasn’t familiar and I don’t have much faith in new modern RPG series. I started with the second game and chose Throné. I didn’t understand the battle system at first so I didn’t play past the first save point initially and stopped playing. Some weeks later, last week, I started playing again got the hang of it and quite enjoyed it.
The stories of those characters I’ve played so far are actually good. My favourite is Osvald’s. I appreciate the important scenes being fully voiced, and the writing and voice acting is quite decent. I caught on quickly and accepted the game is eight different and separate stories taking place on the same world. Every character has their opportunity to be the focus character with every other party character being relegated to being support in battles during the story. That’s fine. It’s different but not bad. Given the structure of the story, I wouldn’t want every character to join in on other characters storylines. The graphics look great, perhaps too good - the first game now looks terrible to me in comparison, having only played the Scholar’s first chapter of the first game.
@wollywoo I don’t think of the storylines as being disjointed nor how they are structured as being a flaw. You choose a character whose story you want to follow then continue that character’s story or choose a different character’s story. I don’t call that being disjointed or flawed. I appreciate that each character’s storylines are clearly shown on the map and are optional so you’re not stumbling into being forced to play through a story you don’t want to play through yet. And my favourite music in the game is the boss theme.
Re: Game Devs Weigh In On Switch 2, And A "Much Better" eShop Is A Must
I don’t know why developers would make copycat games that would be difficult for players to find on the eShop among all the rest of similarly titled games. I had nothing against there being a [shop] simulator until there were twenty or however many similarly titled games on the eshop
@ElkinFencer10 “The "Nintendo Seal of Quality" was always a bit of a joke”
The Seal of Quality only applies to the physical construction of the cartridge the games were on and has always had no relevance towards the content of the game on the cartridge.
Re: Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
@Papasears1982 The graphics look rough to me on my TV. I can’t find a filter that I like. MvC2 looks terrible even with the update patch. The game does look better in handheld mode though so I think they prioritised undocked over docked. I should download it on PS5. I think it would look better and cleaner. No I’m not expecting super clean high resolution graphics, just something that resembles how it actually looked in the arcade and not a bad port.
Re: Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
I felt like the original was too short so I’m glad it’s getting a new story.
Re: Delightfully Daft 'Duck Detective' Quacks Out A Spooky Sequel Next Month
Oh sweet spongy loaf, I think I’ll get this. I quite enjoyed the original but thought it was too short.
Re: Donkey Kong Bananza Might Be Teasing The Return Of An Old Friend
I think Stanley the Bugman from Arcade and NES Donkey Kong 3 (not SNES Country 3) should return as a protagonist.
Re: Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Now Boasts 300 Playable Titles
@Member_the_game the classic games are an incentive for NSO subscribers to stay subscribed. They wouldn’t be much of an exclusive bonus if they were also sold separately without having to subscribe.
Plus it works out cheaper to subscribe to NSO than to buy the games separately. Retro games released on Switch are incredibly overpriced. Felix the Cat is one NES game and one GB game for $25.
I wonder how many players wanting to buy retro games on NSO individually would still want to do so when faced with $15 SNES games.
Re: Random: It's Official, Nobody Likes Monty Mole
Nobody likes Monty Mole?
What about Monty On The Run?
Or Auf Wedersehen Monty?
Re: Feature: 27 GameCube Games We'd Love To See On Nintendo Switch 2 NSO
@Kwyjibo_Kitsune “ 2) Drip feeding the games out at a glacial pace; going with weird leftfield choices and ignoring the titles we're all crying out for”
1. It costs money to get the games rated so they aren’t going to spend a lot of money in a short period of time to get several games rated at once
2. They want to save some big name titles for later on
3. Not every publisher is willing to support the service
I think we get some obscure games over big name games simply because some publishers are more protective of their big name games. We still don’t have Sonic the Hedgehog 1 for example and only Sonic 2 as a obligatory support.
Re: Opinion: It's Time To Get Rid Of Fall Damage
Fall damage prevents or discourages shortcuts. Sure some games allow it, but some other games want you to find another way down. Or is perhaps a reward to unlock later in the game by falling from a high place and surviving with your increased health.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (19th April)
I played Vampire Survivors yesterday for several hours.
Re: Video: 20+ Things We Still Don't Know About Switch 2
I hope Nintendo goes back to accurate time played they did with previous consoles, and with NSO games on Switch. I like to keep track of how long I’ve played games and “you have played for about one hour” type statements don’t help me at all. Worse, when sorting by time played, some games are placed as having much less time played than you actually have; perhaps if you have a lot of games, it can’t keep memory of them all.
Re: Marvel vs. Capcom: Fighting Collection Scores A New Switch Update This Week
Good. I find MvC2 to look terrible on my tv on Switch.
Re: ICYMI: Street Fighter 6 Is Also Getting A 'Standard' Release On Switch 2
Already have on PS4, but willing to double dip on Switch 2. I’ll get the dlc characters bundle.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's NES Library With Another Classic Next Week
@Clyde_Radcliffe I'd much rather pay less than £3 a month to get access to the whole library than the prices they charged on Virtual Console for this amount of games. I don't care if I don't own them forever, I don't intend to play most of these games for the rest of my life.”
I agree. And shopto.net sells the expansion pass for about £26, about £10 less than Nintendo does, which is where I buy my pass from.
Re: Three Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Games Have Been Added To Switch Online's Expansion Pack
@DollyrotsFan1 and Game Gear games too.
Re: Feature: 9 Things Nintendo Could Add To Switch 2 So It's Not 'Just Another Switch'
I want to be able to attach two Switch 2 game screens so that you can use it in a DS formation. And you would also be able to have one game screen docked and the second can be used in the same way as a Wii U Game Pad.
Only one screen would be supplied and there would be games that only use one screen, but to get the most out of the console, you would have to buy two.
Re: Three Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Games Have Been Added To Switch Online's Expansion Pack
@Tempestryke you likely wouldn’t play it for longer than the rental period.
Why bother buying a cow when you only want one glass of milk?
Re: Three Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Games Have Been Added To Switch Online's Expansion Pack
@MeloMan I imagine it’s only because it’s Thanksgiving / Black Friday.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Library With Another Classic
@Zeebor15 ”Super Donkey Kong" as I call it to annoy Anglo centric Demeechs
I mean you could, but why would you want to?