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Kind of tempting, but I already have wireless headphones I can use with my Switch, and I don’t ever use voice chat, so it would be a bit of a waste of money for me.

@Tirza Huh? I don’t even go to ResetEra...

@the_beaver Oh man, I forgot about Ys VIII! That game definitely deserves to be on this list. And why aren’t there more Falcom games on Switch?

@Torakaka Don’t forget to put Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood in there!

Don’t understand the complaints about Simon’s Quest. I played through that whole game last night, and it’s GREAT, as long as you play it with a guide. Now I know that is a pretty big caveat, but this review makes it sound as if Simon’s Quest is a big ol’ heaping dumpster fire, and it’s not. It’s actually a really fun game stuffed full of extremely obtuse puzzles.

I’m kinda surprised YIIK is on this list, considering how many things I’ve heard about people hating that game. I guess somebody at Nintendo Life likes it, which, good for them.

I’m also surprised Final Fantasy IX is the only FF on this list. IX is great, but I’d argue that it’s the weakest of the four FF games on the Switch. I’m playing through XII for the first time, and oh my goodness, that game is every bit as good as people have been telling me for the past 13 years. I’m very surprised it’s not on this list.

@GrailUK I totally agree with you. And to add to what you said, the reviewer said that there’s nothing special about the Switch version compared the PS4 or Steam version, but I’d argue that’s not true. The Switch version is the only one of those three that can be played on a handheld, which is worth a premium to me.

Granted, I don’t have a stake in this fight, because I have no interest in this game, but it reminds me of the fussing over the price of Resident Evil 4, which is a game I very much want. And I don’t care that RE4 is $30 on the Switch, because it’s worth $30 to me to get a handheld version of that game.

I’m surprised the article doesn’t mention Octopath Traveler. I love that game, but the icon design is horrifically bland.

@Baart You joke, but it wouldn’t shock me. How many talented developers have been suckered by the siren call of EA’s deep pockets and false promises?

Seems like a stretch to think he’s working at Retro just because it’s based in the same city, but I wouldn’t hate that.

I remember playing this in the arcade as a kid and being baffled that it was so different from the NES version.

I haven’t played any of these games yet, because I’ve been too busy playing old Final Fantasy games on my Switch.

@evilnatt Are...are you Doug TenNapel?

@TheRobot Yikes.

@617Sqn Oh geez. I hadn’t heard about that incident. What a jackass.

Release a new Skies of Arcadia game you cowards! That’s an existing IP!

Why?

Also, isn’t Doug TenNapel an ass? I vaguely remember hearing things about him being a jerk.

I’m not feeling this one, for some reason. Honestly, I don’t love Image & Form’s games as much as most people seem to, so I think I’ll pass on this for now. Definitely gonna get to it at some point, but I don’t need to buy it the moment it comes out.

Wow I have all of these games except for Crash Bandicoot. Maybe time to pick that one up?

Lots of Final Fantasy VII for me, with breaks here and there for Yoshi’s Crafted World.

@Bunkerneath Aside from these two bugs, I actually think this version is better than the PS1. The graphics are better, and it just feels smoother than the original as well. I wouldn’t let these bugs put you off from buying this version.

@SmaggTheSmug Oh yeah, I don’t blame you. I heard that game was an absolute dumpster fire.

Oh Square Enix. Always half-assing their ports. Well, we keep buying them, so why wouldn’t they?

@jobvd Yeah, I was one of those fanboys! I swore I would never play Final Fantasy again! That lasted...until the game came out.

Oh, I did not need a reminder. I’ve had this game sitting on my Switch for almost a month! 15-year-old is FREAKING OUT right about now.

@Susurrus Even if you really did want to play StarTropics on a plane and got stuck on this part, surely you have other games to play, right?

@Susurrus lol. I want to meet the person whose plan to kill time on a 12 hour flight is to play STARTROPICS of all games. You’re just pulling straw men out of your butt. Besides, anybody who’d play StarTropics without a guide is crazy anyway.

@Strumpan There’s a pretty big leap from, “Google the answer to this puzzle that you literally can’t solve in this version of the game” to “Google the answer to every puzzle in the game”.

@Bunkerneath Welp, in this case you can’t. Oh well.

It’s 2019. Just Google the answer. I don’t get what the problem is here.

Hey, nice. If this a Google streaming service turns out to be any good, I could use my pro controller with my Chromebook. Sounds good to me.

@Crono1973 I have no idea, but taking dozens of people off of a project doesn’t sound like a good sign to me.

I have no desire to pass judgment on whatever Google’s doing until I actually know what it is, but I do have some thoughts. I haven’t followed tech very closely for awhile, but Google doesn’t have a great track record of staying committed to hardware. Remember when they bought Motorola? Heck, just the other day I read an article about how Google reassigned dozens of hardware engineers who had been working on their tablet and laptop teams. I wouldn’t be surprised if, whatever Google announces, people have largely forgotten about it a year after it comes out.

I refuse to get excited about this until it is officially announced for Switch.

I don’t think it would flop like the PSP Go, since the market is in a very different place than it was 10 years ago, but I think physical game sales make up a higher proportion of Nintendo’s sales than they do Microsoft’s or Sony’s. If that’s true, it would be foolish of them to drop physical media, even if it was only partially. I’d be fine with it personally, as I buy all my Switch games from the eShop and have no physical Switch games, but I think I’m very much in the minority.

I loved the first game back in the day, but I can’t imagine it’s aged well. I might buy it anyway though. Maybe it’s aged great!

@Krambo42 Yeah I wouldn’t necessarily recommend Iconoclasts, it just surprised me to hear someone say they loved Owlboy but don’t want to play Iconoclasts. I played Iconoclasts first, and as I was playing through Owlboy, I kept thinking, “Man, this really reminds me of Iconoclasts.” I did like Owlboy better, though.

@Krambo42 Huh. I found Owlboy and Iconoclasts to be very similar, in that, they both have beautiful, retro-inspired graphics, they both have really good stories, and they both are not really that fun to play.

@brunojenso Well, it’s a side-scrolling, 2D exploration game with a large interlocking map and some backtracking and you unlock new areas by acquiring new abilities, so call that what you will. I mean, there’s a lot of overlap between a “Zelda style” game and a “Metroid style” game, but Owlboy felt more Metroid style to me.

I would add Owlboy to this list. Not the most fun to play, but it’s absolutely beautiful, with a story that made me tear up a couple of times.

The Switch was the first console I ever preordered and got on launch day. I wasn’t sure at first how badly I wanted one, but my wife had a hunch and convinced me to preorder it, and boy was she right! In the past two years I sold my Xbox 360 and my Xbox One, and I play games almost exclusively on my Switch now. (I occasionally fire up older Nintendo consoles.) The Switch might be my favorite console of all time. Bring on the next two years!

Welp... I was thinking about getting all three, but at those prices, I’m just gonna get 4. I played the other two on Gamecube and didn’t particularly like them. I was thinking about giving them another shot, but not at 30 bucks a piece.

@mikegamer Oh yeah, those are stupidly overpriced. And who cares if you have Nintendo branding on your SD card? You can’t see it when it’s in the console anyway.

Man, this is a good day for release date announcements, huh? I’ll be picking up 4 for sure, but probably not the other two. We’ll see.

@Ralizah That’s not a horrible idea. 😉

Final Fantasy VII is available for preorder on the eShop now as well.

@Ralizah They’re talking about digital preorders. Those just went live today.

That’s too expensive, but I suspect prices will drop quickly. I could see myself buying one of these in a couple of years.

@mcdreamer I need to go back to Xenoblade X again some day. I got almost to the end a couple years ago, then Skyrim came out on the Switch, and then Xenoblade 2 a few weeks after that, and I just never went back. I keep hoping it gets announced for the Switch, but at this point I need to just go back and try it again.

@blockfight I don’t even really like Tetris, and I keep playing it. I got to 9th place once, but that was total luck. I also finished 97th once, so my experience has really run the gamut.