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The rail connection for the joy-cons on my OLED drove me insane (constantly disconnecting the left one during play - maddening) and so was forced to use third party handheld solutions (Nitro Deck etc), but gone are those issues with a year of Switch 2. Also, Pro Controller for TV mode is the most comfortable gaming I’ve ever had.

@NerdyPaul PES was always better for gameplay than FIFA!

Oh, this sounds perfect for me. A new Pro Evo with focus on single player content is exactly what I want - and £15.99 plus 60 fps to boot! Not played PES since 7, I am so in.

@Nalverus I played the whole game in gryo too, but only in docked mode. In handheld for some reason you could only aim up or down, not left or right using motion controls. @Res462 Very, very good point! I simply could not play RE9 in handheld mode because of this, but was able to play fine in both modes in Pragmata, and it is very strange that no review mentioned this.

I saw this pop up on the eshop a couple of hours ago and looked for a Switch 2 review, perfect timing, glad it reviewed as good as it looks.

@Oyaji_Music Thanks for that considered response, and I do broadly agree with you about game-key cards. Like I said, it was my first time buying one, and I won’t be making a habit of it. In answer to your question about how it was downloaded, I didn’t have to open the eshop at all, I just pressed the + button on the software on the home menu and downloaded it straight away from there. However, you’re right, it required a full 13.1 gb download so there was no data included on that card itself.

@Oyaji_Music It’s funny you should say that, because I recently bought my first game-key card game, largely for two reasons: I bought Pragmata, as it was actually cheaper than the eshop (£39.99 for the “empty box” as opposed to £49.99 for the digital download), and after I finished the game I then traded said “empty box” in for £33, which meant playing through the whole of Pragmata this way effectively only cost me £7 rather than the £50 it would have to download it. I realise this would not be acceptable for a lot of people (collectors, those who want to own the game permanently on their Switch 2 etc), but it definitely worked for me in this instance. So game-key cards do have some uses and are certainly not an “empty box” like those codes.

I finished the main story just yesterday (and yes, I did 🥲), about to finish the postgame content imminently and I have loved every second. What a satisfying blend of shooter/puzzle combat, a compelling upgrade system for gear/stats, and a beautiful little story to boot. Wonder - full, wonderful game.

I have been caught off guard by how much I am enjoying this game. I realised today that I have not even closed the game on my Switch 2 since starting it over a week ago, which is extremely rare for me to not even dip into another game as a palette cleanse. This and Requiem this year have been my most played and enjoyed games…. Capcom are really spoiling us.

@JohnnyMind @datamonkey I am 100% with you there, the Pro Controller 2 is the most comfortable I’ve ever used too. As a few other people have said in the comments, it’s not just how good it feels to hold, but those smooth as heck sticks and larger, satisfying face buttons are far superior to using the joy-cons. Johnny, I tagged you in because I have noticed that you have intimated that you are going to go for the Pro Controller quite a few times. I am surprised you still haven’t! Go for it, honestly you will not regret it.

@Satans_Therapist Yes, the motion controls in Pragmata and Deadzone are fantastic, and I would have expected similar in this game. (I haven’t played Splatoon since 1 so didn’t realise they disabled use of the right stick - I use both to fine tune too so that would put me right off getting back into that franchise)

Pragmata deserves it so much, I am absolutely loving it on Switch 2. A new IP too, great to see.

After deciding to download this to give it a go, I went to jump in today to see how it plays… only to have to go through the rigmarole of signing up to something called battle.net. Sigh, I’d forgotten how live service games are annoying this way, still decided to soldier on, finished all the sign up process… only to be told that the process on said battle.net had been “cancelled” and I had to start all over again. Nope, too much messing around, deleted the game and went back to playing a proper game without any of that signing up nonsense just to get started. Oh well.

@FancyJehuty @Smithicus You both make excellent points regarding multiverse shenanigans! That is the main reason I had to stop watching the MCU, it became obsessed with it, and it often means nothing that ever happens to any character matters when there are ‘infinite universes’ containing infinite versions of the same characters etc. They just pluck a character who they had previously killed off from a different universe and start again. The whole different dimension/many worlds theory stuff that seems to have gotten so prevalent is just boring, groan-inducing trough by now to me.

@OnlyManWhoCan Yes to those first two points you made! Great example of Metroid Dread illustrating what could make it great. I just take issue with the final point: please no multiplayer. And that’s just personal preference. As a solo gamer these days I unfortunately have to tap out of most multiplayer games/co-op.

For the life of me, I never understood the whole “This is an Xbox” campaign one iota. Even for someone who has no experience/nous with marketing etc, it made absolutely no sense and was actively encouraging people NOT to buy any Xbox hardware. The lack of exclusives on top of this is baffling, and although I’d love to see as many games as possible on Switch 2, Xbox should absolutely shift back towards exclusive games being only available on their console, for their own sake.

@TheWokesterGamer That’s exactly what I wanted to hear, thank you 🙏

@Solid_Python Ok, great, I am intrigued so I will download and check it out. Thank you.

How welcoming is this game for newcomers? I’ve never played Overwatch before and wondered if anyone who has experience could tell me if it is difficult to get into….?

Great to see a 9, I’ve been hyped for this ever since playing the excellent demo. No mouse controls is never a con for me personally, as I play with the wonderful Pro Controller 2 when in TV mode. As long as gyro is included I’m golden.

Rather than just reading comments about people complaining about GKCs, I want to know if this game is actually going to release on Switch 2. I hope so, it looks like tons of fun

I adored this game, but after completing virtually everything already and sinking countless hours in, I can’t see myself going back unless the new content is substantial.

@MyUsernameWasTaken That is absolutely fair enough, and I honestly meant zero offence: I fully appreciate different opinions, especially when they are quite eloquently put.

@MyUsernameWasTaken Whoa, for a first comment, that is quite the cynical take. I don’t want to say Buzzkill, so I’ll just say… welcome.

@Teksette glad someone else was curious about Deadzone. Oh, and thanks again for the recommendation on Minishoot - I ended up fully completing it, even all the post-credits stuff, very enjoyable little game.

Voted for Minishoot’, but honestly can’t believe this site hasn’t reviewed (or barely mentioned) Deadzone: Rogue!!! It’s a great roguelike FPS for Switch 2, and it certainly warrants more attention than it’s been getting on here.

I was very interested in Content Warning until you said “Co-op”. That instantly kills my interest in any game whatsoever, unfortunately.

@squiddu-real that is a very good point… I wish I had been able to use it by now, but I still have no (Switch 2) friends 🥲

Never known them to make a pro - style controller before, would definitely be interested if it weren’t for the fact that I just LOVE the official Pro Controller 2. However, very much looking forward to their Nitro Deck 2 for handheld play. My old Switch Oled never left the first Nitro Deck…

@AJWolfTill Does 7 stay this intense all the way through? I consider myself a horror book/movie/game aficionado, but 7 is another level of tense/nerve-shredding so far… 😱

I played the original RE 1, 2 and 3 back in the late 90s with a childhood friend, great times. I then played RE 4 Wii Edition about 10 years later, and had a hiatus from the series until Requiem (5 and 6 didn’t seem like proper Resi games to me, and by the time 7 and Village released I was a Nintendo-only gamer). Requiem was so good it made me fall back in love with the series! I personally think you can start with Requiem if you really don’t mind missing out on some of the wider understanding of the virus and just want to play a great game.

Got the Generations pack, and I have started 7 since finishing Requiem…. But it’s quite a shock going into 7 now. It is soooo tense, claustrophobic and really quite scary because of the heavy leaning towards pure survival horror.

I’m in the 85% responding who hasn’t used it, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the feature itself. I mostly play single player games, and secondly not a single one of my friends or family in real life have a Switch 2 yet, so I just have no way of using the feature. Although I technically have quite a few ‘friends’ on my friends list, Nintendo spent 8 years with the original Switch forbidding us to have any kind of contact with people on our friends list, let alone chatting, so it’s kind of ingrained in a lot of Nintendo gamers to never use such a feature, in my view.

Just noticed another cool feature of this update - it breaks down your Data Management in system settings, and colour coded now too! Software data, save data, capture data and ‘other’ are now different colours!!!

I loved this game so much, very well deserved. Hopefully the mini game is mercenaries, then (in the voice of The Girl as she grabs you through the elevator) “Let’s plaaaaay!”

I do enjoy reading controller reviews on this site… I was fully third party on Switch 1, so that’s what piqued my interest. But the official Pro Controller 2 is just simply the most comfortable, slickest-feeling controller I’ve ever held. It would take a monumental effort to turn my head at this point, and it ain’t gonna be no heart rate monitor 🤣.

@Teksette It’s all thanks to you my friend, that I am already playing minishoot prior to this review! Haven’t made a ton of progress so far, but I am loving what I’ve played. Especially the exploration and finding those dinky pale blue heart 🩵 pieces.

@Banjo- thanks, it wasn’t really a difficulty issue for me personally though. Like the reviewer said, the ghost appeared to be effectively a bullet-sponge, and the tediousness completely negated the tension of the atmosphere. If that’s the nature of this game then absolutely fair enough, but it’s not for me (and not because of any inherent ‘difficulty’).

I was enjoying the creepy atmosphere in the demo until that ghost fight at the end of Chapter One. “Tension quickly gives way to tedium” from this review summed up my thoughts exactly; that fight was just annoyingly tedious, and I decided to end the demo there and not to proceed with a purchase. I can’t cope with that level of sponginess in terms of taking 50 photos to kill a ghost. Been spoiled utterly in this genre by how masterful Requiem is, which may have coloured my view also…

Oh, heck yes! More of this game is a good thing, it’s so so good. And the bones of a mercenaries mode are already in place in the Leon sections if you think about it, with the whole getting points for every kill and spending them on weapons/upgrades etc.

I haven’t been this terrified and exhilarated by a game in a long time… yes it’s cheesy, yes the puzzles are not the most original, and yes it’s absolutely brilliant! Bizarrely one of the things I am most impressed by is the HD Rumble when playing with the Pro Controller 2… you feel everything that happens, in game and in every cutscene, even wading through knee-deep water feels great. More rumble like this in more games, please.

@TYRANACLES Downloading this evening, very much appreciate the reco!

@Teksette Wow, thank you for that wonderful and considered response! That sounds like my kind of game, and your enthusiasm shines through in that summary, so I am off the fence and going to download this evening. Hopefully it will be a nice pallet cleanser for the tense Requiem sessions. Thanks again.

Finally, finally got to the Leon section in Requiem that doesn’t just last 5 minutes (I hope, I think I know) and having a blast. What a great game this is. Considering getting Minishoot Adventures… was just hoping for a Switch-specific review (nudge, nudge, wink, wink NL…)

Wh-wh-wh-what a great performance as Grace. Those scared stutters really added to the intense, scary atmosphere for me. The Girl - what nightmare fuel 😱

Ok, I’ve said it before in previous comments on Requiem, but I feel it is really worth saying again, because even the comments on this thread seem to be confusing this: this game is not a 50/50 split between survival horror (Grace) and action horror (Leon). I have been playing this game for hours on end, and it is so far 90% Grace survival horror with 5 minutes interludes of Leon. Seriously, because of all these comments I kept expecting Leon sections: it is just not the case, in the opening 10 hours or so at least. Grace Care Centre (massive section akin to the Spencer mansion from the first game) then couple of minutes of Leon, then huge Grace section again (basement) then surely it must be Leon…. No, more survival horror with Grace in the courtyard! I don’t know what game people are playing to think this is a 50/50 split in gameplay… I’m loving every second though, don’t get me wrong, great game… but Leon’s involvement has been WAY exaggerated.

@Teksette Rotwood and Minishoot were the two other games that caught my attention too! Cool that you got Minishoot already, I almost did the same but I am heavily into RE Requiem at the minute and wanted to hear some impressions of how Minishoot plays first (it might be the perfect palette cleanser during the horror of RE). Be interested to hear your first impressions when you can.

@BBBBBBBBBBB Ah, ok. So I should expect more Leon after this long section (basement)…

Absolutely loving this game! I still maintain the Leon sections are extremely short compared to what we were led to believe (there is no chance this is 50/50 split between play styles/characters based on what I’ve played so far….)

@Erigen ‘The Girl’ would like a word…

Am I the only one who thought that roguelike FPS looks very interesting!? At only £15.99 I’m going to take a punt.