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Grabbed it, enjoyed the demo

@Ensemen No. However, this won’t be a concern for a few years at least. NSO is here to stay.

@FX102A @Drac_Mazoku it has a demo already out on the eShop, you can just try it and see for yourself

You know you’re old when you can spot a Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts reference in the pirate ship shot ahah -_-

So what’s still missing now, multiplayer and?
Are Alien settlements there now or still MIA for example

WEBBED looks INCREDIBLE!!

And how they’ve managed to render such scary kind of spider CUTE with those animations… dang there’s a lot of talent sat display in that trailer. Gonna buy it for sure, thanks to @danmonse for the mention!

I get why there’s no Pitfall or H.E.R.O. or Jungle King (much prefer it to Pirate Pete and its awful music) but I didn’t know they didn’t have rights to Atari Games so no Paperboy (nor did I know its righrs were of Midway apparantely) as well as no KLAX, no Marble Madness, etc.

30 versions of Asteroids and Breakout… I’m one that would always go for the arcade (or “best”) version of any game (when the home version is a simple downport), so I don’t see the appeal of playing an arcade game on 2600, but nostalgia hits everybody differently I guess so I get it

Is there cross-save compatibility between Xbox and NSW?

French is great. Spanish Bowser is awesome but Toad is terrible as is Mario.
German’s cool.

Italian’s is awful. As expected.

How the mighty have fallen, what was once the best voice acting “school” in the world is now in shambles (well, it’s been going downhill since all the great voice actors of the ‘70s/80s are now dead or retired). Still not as bad as Spanish dubs but still awful.

Full patch content:

New bonus campaigns with achievements:
QUERY – [ INPUT ]
COMMAND – [ EXIST ]
ICARUS
CHURCH
SOULS
Quality of life
General performance and level load time improvements
Native gyro support
Rumble support for gamepads
Increased impact cannon punch radius
Added gamma adjustment slider
Added NPC voice volume slider
Added setting to disable gamepad
Improved pick up weapon logic on gamepad
OC cannon now kills shield NPCs on shield hit
Buffed weapon pickups in Conscience campaign level
New HUD option to center hud elements
Achievement for Chalet campaign
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug with uploading props
Fix workshop button showing on victory screen when no valid workshop link
Reduced aim acceleration radius for joypads
Tweaked deadzone logic for joypads
Improved various particle FX performance
Added more FX to simple fx mode
Relit firefight levels in simple lighting mode
Improved performance of large moving props with no need for collision
Removed crouch binding option
Fix sound volume in museum
Reduced turret firing volume
Hid shuffle music button in campaign until I can think of a fix for music resetting

btw GYRO SUPPORT has been patched in!

Anyone know if loading times have improved too?

Does the NSW version support local wifi (1 player per Switch console)? If it does they should make the game free on November 30th onwards.

I wish Digital Foundry or some other reliable tech outlet would review the game’s performance on Switch because impressions still don’t paint an exact picture and I know firsthand how unreliable the internet is concerning anything that’s more in-depth than “graphics suxx/great and runs good/bad” which can mean everything and nothing.

I’d rather play this on Switch (portable mode only) than tied to the TV on my Series S, but not if it’s super blurred out and especially not if framerate is disappointing (I can do with some hiccups here and there, not with inconsistent framerate in the 20s).

Looks great! Hopefully there’s a demo coming to check on bullet/gameplay readability in portable mode (I’m sure it’s fine on a large tv)

Is the Drum controller still the same as the “old” one? Wasted money on that piece of garbage, so many missed notes I hate it

@sixrings NSW is probably my fav console in 40 years gaming but let’s not kid ourselves. The opposite is also true, more power allows more creativity, however, that’s not the issue. Many current and (let alone upcoming) INDIE games struggles to have decent performance (framerate, which DOES impact gameplay) right now, let alone in 2 years. 5 years? That is just a bad joke.

@Axelay71 I love vertical shmups played in proper TATE on flip grip (and also on my dedicated TATE-screen cabinet) but for this game the game field is full screen 4:3 and was developed with such screen estate in mind, so it wouldn’t make sense in TATE. It’d be a completely different game.

@RandomNerds @Axelay71 It’s a standard ST-V (Titan) board 320x240p resolution on 4:3 aspect ratio, so it was never in TATE-friendly format.

Honestly, I can’t even think of any other TATE a:r ST-V game besides Shienryu.

@WiltonRoots Actually 3:2 would be a 1.5:1 ar.
It’s 4:3, or 1.33:1 aspect ratio

@Ralizah Imo SE didn’t want a GP version on day 1 jeopardize the sales of the other versions and why make it themselves when they can get it on GP a year later with a nice check and Microsoft paying for porting duties, while Microsoft obviously didn’t care enough to pay a bigger check bring it to GP on Day 1. Also obviously, SE didn’t think it’d be profitable enough to develop OP2 as a retail/digital Xbox title. Will see, it’s all speculation, but I don’t see this game staying Xbox-elusive forever.

Really hope it has (optional) Touch screen support so you can use a combination of both touch and classic controls at the same time if you’d like.

When playing portable, I find that’s what works best in most cases for this kind of games.

@ThePizzaCheese sure he was lol

It’s currently 50%off (EU+ eShops) so I’ve finally grabbed it, but I should’ve informed myself better because I hate that the game doesn’t support TATE screen-rotation for the Arcade+ (Saturn’s mode is lacking compared to Arcade+), such a bummer.

@ThePizzaCheese he said the days, not something vague. He said they were thinking about delaying for the queen and sure enough that conversation was real and Nintendo UK is only having a VOD instead of streaming the Direct. Only trolls and people who don’t have any idea how insider info works can hate on Grubb like he’s a lucky guesser. I worked in the industry 20 years, things change at any given moment, just because a game he said might be in the direct isn’t shown doesn’t mean he’a lying or unreliable. Heck, Square Enix, Microsoft, Bungie, have pulled announcements and trailer at the last second at many past E3. Leaks should just be taken as “it might happen”, if you get angry at leakers who’ve been right many many times then simply don’t pay attention to them, it’s that easy. If you enjoy the discourse then by all means understand that things can change. If you can’t see the difference between someone like Grubb and the latest fake insider trying to ride someone else’s source or lying, it’s your fault.

@ThePizzaCheese it wasn’t obvious at all, go see the comments by the people here.

Where’s all the usual Grubb haters at now? Enjoy your crow plate

I had no idea so many people on this site didn’t know how to not read an article they don’t like or a video they don’t want to watch.

Happy to help! Follow these simple steps:
•Open NintendoLife
•Seek an article you don’t care for
•Now, do NOT click on it.

It seems difficult at first, but with a bit of practice you’ll be skipping on articles left and right in no time! 💪🏻

@bluemage1989 sounds like the usual nonsense comment from far right “both sides” internet haters when don’t even bother to read the fact. What sales? Game has been taken off EU eShops/PSN ar their request. Fake controversy… I see you sure know how to read into a situation, smh 🤦🏼‍♂️

@PessitheMystic the game’s quality or lack of isn’t the matter here.
@Bobb PQube’s other partners already did “rise up” with complaints

Lol yeah right for 2 years the devs didn’t want to get their game back because… reasons. A whole bowl of nothing from PQube’s statement, as expected. Did you pay them, where are the answers to the devs’ accusations? Reverted the rights long time ago they say, and yet the game was up as of last week on every platform with PQube as the publisher. Put up and shut up.

@iLikeUrAttitude Not much. Switch at full draw (most intensive games, docked for the Tegra at full clock) consumes LESS than a SeriesX on standby. It is truly a marvel what the custom clocked Tegra/Switch are able to pull graphically with such a negligible power draw/consumption, and most definitely a cutting-edge technical feature that sadly doesn’t get the praise it deserves.

I HATE long load times. DOOM 2016 and Little Nightmares 1 were plagued by that, and before getting patched and much improved, I couldn’t enjoy them at all despite LOVING both games.

I remember having to lower DOOM’s difficulty just to avoid dying/load times.

Will be waiting for a patch for sure, and if it takes too long than also for a sale.

No gyro no sale. Also long loading times are enough to ruin a game for me. Hopefully a patch comes soon

@BlackMayge why would it be a con for you if it supported gyro? Or even a pro that it doesn’t include them? Gyro aim/controls is an option, never mandatory. Just don’t use it? Pretty sad way to think, imo.

Also, more options= accessibility you know, which I stan for even when it doesn’t directly affect me.

How’s the scoring system? Are there online leaderboards? Shmups/STGs/Run&Gun and basically anything arcadey is worthless to me without a decent scoring system and online highscoring.

@IronMan30 @-Juice- like clockwork, lmao

It made too much sense for a DD game to not exist… and now I want it!

@Browny dekudeals is your friend. You’ll never miss another sale, I couldn’t do without, that website has saved me hundreds if not thousands.
This game has been on sale on eShop plenty of times, for the same price it is rn on Steam, less than 7 bucks. Like I said, dekudeals!

@Royalblues One? There are a gazillion great ones on Switch:
Layer Section & Galactic Attack S-Tribute (it has a demo) R-Type Dimensions (iirc has a demo?) R-Type Final 2 (demo), Arcade Archives Gradius III, Arcade Archives Thunder Dragon 2, ACA Neo-Geo Aero Fighters 2 (not exactly spaceships tho, but souped up airplanes lol) Andro Dunos 2, Thunderforce IV, Thunderforce AC, Super Hydorah, Zero Gunner 2-, Arcade Archives Raiden… and many more.

@Alckemy it does have online.

@Tom-Massey this is an incredibly in-depth review. Fantastic work.

@thinkhector It’s great that is was a success! And I’m super happy that more cool games will be coming. That being said, it won’t come as new DLC for Stadium which is what I wanted but will be coming instead as a (yet another) separate collection, 2nd Stadium, and that was the whole reason of my post, that I don’t like collections.

@MindOfAJ no online play at all, only leaderboards. If you want to play online then the Fighting Collection has roll back netcode.

Heck yesh Last Duel, Black Tiger, Side Arms, Gun.smoke, Led Storm, The Speed Rumbler!

Tho my most wanted game, Mars Matrix, is still missing sigh @SaikazuSTG

Looks great, hopefully it performs well in portable mode while staying at 720p most of the time

@farrgazer awful lag on Xbox. No lag at all on NSW portable, while docked sometimes can have an hiccup with frameskipping on Pac-Man arrangement (same on PS). Actually, lag-wise this is a really great collection on Switch. Everything runs snappy as it should, including Pac-Man CE, Pac-Land and both Arrangement.

No TATE mode, awful implementation of online leaderboards, and the worst CRT “filter” I have ever seen. I don’t care about the overworld running at 20fps on Switch but the two issues I’ve mentioned (plus awful implementation of score uploading/online leaderboards) are a big bummer. Still it was cheap on the polish eShop and I love my pac-man, so I grabbed it.

No online leaderboards at all I guess for the arcade games?

50m? Try more than double that, lol.
. No worries tho it’s been 1 hour and still hasn’t been fixed and imo you should.

Is the port as bad as it was when it launched? Did they add analog throttle/break to the right stick?

I love the game, but the port’s quality was super disappointing. I played it briefly and man was I glad I didn’t put down the money to get it. I do have the Xbox and PC versions but I only really play portables so it was a huge bummer when AoR released in its state.

I wish you guys reviewed Wolfstride. Seems legit quirky and kinda cool!

Except the translation was busted, and the “major concern” part wasn’t there. Not on point NL, tsk tsk