So the game is currently 0,95€. Even if I'm not convinced yet, this is the price of a croissant in my favourite bar, I think I can give it a shot withount regrets, can't I?
I liked Journey enough, but these games can only entertain me so far. I may have it on my PS4 via Plus, anyway I don't invest 20€ for 3 hours of this kind.
@Kalmaro yep. It took me around 20 hours to get 100% completion. I died a lot but it's not particularly difficult. The game is great in every aspect, I'd say it's without faults. Great controls, great OST, a good story with a lot of humor (It doesn't take itself too seriously), a lot of boss fights, great level design and difficulty curve, you need to master every ability to reach the end. Great, lovely game
Good, I've just beaten it with all the shards. Not sure if I would invest more in this, it took me 18 hours already. Anyway, this game is a blast, it delivers great enjoyment until the very end.
I actually like the eShop as it is, they improved it quite a bit over time.
You can click on the publisher to show all the games they have published, you have the game of the day and a lot of visibility to other games from the previous month in the Discover section, you have a list of all the games on offer and if you enter any game page you can see clearly how much time the discount will last.
Every day I turn on the Switch I always go first to take a look at the eShop
With Switch 2, or whatever it will be named, they'll say they learned from mistakes. Same old story. Well, at least they have room for improvement, they can't get worse than this, can they?
@SwitchVogel I'm sure it plays great as it is, and keep your recommendation in mind. But I don't think it'd be nitpick to inform people about performance, maybe not the most important feature in a game like this but something quite remarkable for this game which run at a stellar 1080p@60FPS on the Xbox 360
This is what the developer had to say: " There have also been some discussions about the framerate on the Switch. While we spent months trying to claw back the milliseconds to make it work, ultimately the original game assumed sequential execution in all of its gameflow, and we realized there was no chance we could reach 60FPS without rewriting the entire game engine.
In the latest patch we have fixed the issue where the framerate would sometimes flip from locked and unlocked during docking and undocking. Because we were not able to achieve a full 60FPS, the game is locked to 30FPS for a better user experience rather than flipping between 60FPS and 30FPS."
Which, again, tells me this was due to the developers overlooking the Switch version. But it still is 20€...
It's true I like the Switch a lot and want to play everything on it because of its versatility, I've got this game for years on Steam and could play it on my pretty good PC, but I know I won't just as all the other games I'd rather play on Switch. Still it baffles me that they couldn't optimise this game on Switch, at least to reach its 360 performances
@Blizzia Barely? I experienced slowdown every time I came across one of those bat-like enemies. But like I said, these issues didn't detract me from enjoying the game. Same with Enter the Gungeon, you see it running at 60 fps on PC and it almost looks like another game...
@twztid13 I'm not a "60 fps or nothing" guy, I enjoyed Dead Cells and, most of all, Enter the Gungeon. Both games are far from perfect performance wise, DC has frequent slowdown and bad stuttering (when you are like teleported out of nowhere) and EtG suffers, too. It didn't stop me to invest a serious amount of time (100+ hours...) Fact is, this game run better when it released 6 years ago and it bothers me, I won't buy it full price. It seems a case of lazy optimization, so my wallet is being lazy in response
@SwitchVogel I'm not overreacting nor I'm particularly sensitive to frame rate. I just think this port could have benefit from a little more work. It's 20€, not on the cheaper side... Normally I like your reviews and like the games you use to like. You didn't think it was important to talk about frame rate? I totally respect your decision. I don't want to annoy people or look clever in any way, I just legitimately asked
I read the Switch version has performance issues, like the frame rate locked at 30 fps in handheld mode and quite not solid 60 fps if docked.
Considering this is a 2012 game I find it disappointing. Did you played it portable? @SwitchVogel
I just want to remind this game has a LOT of Nintendo related Easter eggs, every Nintendo fan should play it for this very reason. Lovely. In fact this amazed me when this game was a Vita exclusive.
Yeah, maybe it'd deserve a 9/10 rather than a 8, but these are just numbers
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Re: Review: Membrane (Switch eShop)
So the game is currently 0,95€.
Even if I'm not convinced yet, this is the price of a croissant in my favourite bar, I think I can give it a shot withount regrets, can't I?
Re: Video: Gorgeous Platformer Gris Receives Launch Trailer Ahead Of Tomorrow's Switch Release
3 hours and, supposedly, no replay value. Hmmmm...
Re: Smash Bros. Ultimate Sold 1.2 Million Copies In Japan During Launch Week
@Likethepear
First of all, you must go to controller setting and quit the jump with left analogie stick up and leave it to X button.
Re: Reggie: Nintendo Would "Love" Red Dead Redemption 2 On Switch
Reggie, please
Re: Reminder: Katamari Damacy Reroll Is Out Now On Nintendo Switch
@ryancraddock I think it's 19,99€, not 29,99
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 8th)
Smash Bros. What else? Seriously
Re: Gallery: Developers Have Been Counting Down The Days To Smash Ultimate With Exclusive Artwork
Boy the excitement is real this time. Tomorrow I'll wait for Gamestop to open and do the "shut up and take my money" thing.
Well actually, I've paid the entire price already, but I'd do that otherwise
Re: Reminder: ARK: Survival Evolved Launches Today On Switch, Here's A Trailer To Celebrate
Waiting for your extremely bad review lol
Have you looked at some footage?
Re: Review: Harvest Life - An Unpolished Farm Sim That Lacks The Charm Of Its Influences
This was one for the Nindies Round Up. A "Thumbs down" one.
Re: Splatoon 2 Will Make Players Choose Between Family And Friends In Festive Worldwide Splatfest
Can we have the glitter forever, Nintendo?
Re: Review: Abzu - A Gorgeous And Thought-Provoking Journey That All Switch Owners Should Embark On
I liked Journey enough, but these games can only entertain me so far.
I may have it on my PS4 via Plus, anyway I don't invest 20€ for 3 hours of this kind.
How about the frame rate, @switchVogel?
Re: Mario Tennis Aces Version 2.1.0 Update Brings New Games And Tournament Changes This Week
I don't like the tournament now being a 3 round affair. But I understand it, if it was becoming difficult to find an opponent.
Good to see all game courts in tournaments, too.
Re: Random: Official Legend Of Zelda Art Shows Link In A Revealing New Light
I don't know what to say...
Re: The Messenger's New Game+ Update Is Now Live, Quality Of Life Improvements Also Added
@Kalmaro yep. It took me around 20 hours to get 100% completion. I died a lot but it's not particularly difficult. The game is great in every aspect, I'd say it's without faults. Great controls, great OST, a good story with a lot of humor (It doesn't take itself too seriously), a lot of boss fights, great level design and difficulty curve, you need to master every ability to reach the end. Great, lovely game
Re: The Messenger's New Game+ Update Is Now Live, Quality Of Life Improvements Also Added
This game is great, I can't recommend it enough
Re: Nindie Round Up: The Bug Butcher, Escape Doodland, RocketsRocketsRockets, Coffee Crisis And 911 Operator
Fair to me.
The lack of a Wondersong reviews hurts, though
Re: Nintendo Download: 15th November (Europe)
@Yamyum maybe it'll come later like Paladins?
Re: Nintendo Download: 15th November (Europe)
Full Metal Furies (from another week) and, OH YES, some Pinball FX3 tables!
Re: Reminder: Three New NES Games Have Launched On Switch Today, Plus Another Bonus SP Version
So boring, Nintendo
Re: Random: That New Smash Bros. Ultimate Trailer Seems To Sync Perfectly With Almost Every Song
ANY music works from NL lol
Alex I see what you did there
Re: Random: That New Smash Bros. Ultimate Trailer Seems To Sync Perfectly With Almost Every Song
They clearly did it on purpose! And it worked great
Re: The Messenger's Quality Of Life Update Will Be Ready "Sometime" This Month
Good, I've just beaten it with all the shards. Not sure if I would invest more in this, it took me 18 hours already.
Anyway, this game is a blast, it delivers great enjoyment until the very end.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 3rd)
The Messenger: just unlocked the map!
I want to give a go to Axiom Verge and Crawl too, just purchased both.
Not gonna fall in the Mario Tennis hellish loop again. Just no.
Re: Nintendo Download: 1st November (Europe)
@Eef @Wouwter Wandersong is not 7,99 but 17,99. 10% off, not 60%, which would have been weird for a game released in September, admittedly.
I'll get Crawl instead (50% off, 7,50€ until the end of the day)
Re: Nintendo Download: 1st November (Europe)
So sorry for Wandersong having to drop 60% off so soon, but now I'll get it no doubt. Today.
Runbow at 50% through January, but I don't like them splitting the content this way and will continue to pass
Re: Nintendo Confirms That There Are Now More Than 1,300 Games Available On Switch
@TheWorkingDead
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/switch/filtered?sort=desc
Re: Nintendo Confirms That There Are Now More Than 1,300 Games Available On Switch
I actually like the eShop as it is, they improved it quite a bit over time.
You can click on the publisher to show all the games they have published, you have the game of the day and a lot of visibility to other games from the previous month in the Discover section, you have a list of all the games on offer and if you enter any game page you can see clearly how much time the discount will last.
Every day I turn on the Switch I always go first to take a look at the eShop
Re: Nintendo Confirms That There Are Now More Than 1,300 Games Available On Switch
I have 10 retail games and more than 40 eShop games
Re: Review: Transistor - A Towering Achievement That Comes Highly Recommended On Switch
@SwitchVogel Boy, you just are illegal in generating hype...
Re: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct Announced For 1st November
A proper single player mode PLEASE. Not that I haven't pre-ordered this game ages ago, though.
Re: Nintendo Switch Hits 22.86 Million Worldwide Sales, Has Now Outsold The GameCube
I still don't quite get how they believe the Switch to sell 20 millions HW by march 31 2019, but hey, who am I?
It's another 15 millions in 6 months starting october. It's true that in the Holydays they sell everything like it was hot cakes, but still...
Re: Rumour: There Doesn't Appear To Be A Switch Physical Edition For World of Final Fantasy Maxima
Easily a case in which SE doesn't want to get a 16GB game card.
A shame, because there's no way I spent 40€ for a digital version
Re: Video: Check Out Paratroopa's Skills On Court In This New Mario Tennis Aces Clip
I've sunk 105 hours into it, mainly the online tournament.
But now I have decided to leave it a little, my mental health was in serious danger...
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 27th)
Just beaten Yoku's Island Express on the Switch. I'm trying to get 100%. Great game albeit a little short
Re: Explore The Quirky Hand-Drawn Worlds Of Hidden Folks On Nintendo Switch, Out Next Week
15€ is too much for this. It's around 7-8€ on Steam.
The game seems nice, my son is playing it on pc from the Monthly Bundle
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Has Stumbled With Switch Online, But It Can Learn From Its Mistakes
With Switch 2, or whatever it will be named, they'll say they learned from mistakes. Same old story. Well, at least they have room for improvement, they can't get worse than this, can they?
Re: Nintendo Download: 18th October (Europe)
Nothing for me this week...
Re: Review: Mark Of The Ninja: Remastered - A Stellar Stealth Hit That's Better Than Ever
@SwitchVogel I'm sure it plays great as it is, and keep your recommendation in mind.
But I don't think it'd be nitpick to inform people about performance, maybe not the most important feature in a game like this but something quite remarkable for this game which run at a stellar 1080p@60FPS on the Xbox 360
This is what the developer had to say: " There have also been some discussions about the framerate on the Switch. While we spent months trying to claw back the milliseconds to make it work, ultimately the original game assumed sequential execution in all of its gameflow, and we realized there was no chance we could reach 60FPS without rewriting the entire game engine.
In the latest patch we have fixed the issue where the framerate would sometimes flip from locked and unlocked during docking and undocking. Because we were not able to achieve a full 60FPS, the game is locked to 30FPS for a better user experience rather than flipping between 60FPS and 30FPS."
Which, again, tells me this was due to the developers overlooking the Switch version. But it still is 20€...
It's true I like the Switch a lot and want to play everything on it because of its versatility, I've got this game for years on Steam and could play it on my pretty good PC, but I know I won't just as all the other games I'd rather play on Switch. Still it baffles me that they couldn't optimise this game on Switch, at least to reach its 360 performances
Re: Review: Mark Of The Ninja: Remastered - A Stellar Stealth Hit That's Better Than Ever
@Blizzia Barely? I experienced slowdown every time I came across one of those bat-like enemies. But like I said, these issues didn't detract me from enjoying the game. Same with Enter the Gungeon, you see it running at 60 fps on PC and it almost looks like another game...
Re: Review: Mark Of The Ninja: Remastered - A Stellar Stealth Hit That's Better Than Ever
@twztid13 I'm not a "60 fps or nothing" guy, I enjoyed Dead Cells and, most of all, Enter the Gungeon. Both games are far from perfect performance wise, DC has frequent slowdown and bad stuttering (when you are like teleported out of nowhere) and EtG suffers, too. It didn't stop me to invest a serious amount of time (100+ hours...)
Fact is, this game run better when it released 6 years ago and it bothers me, I won't buy it full price. It seems a case of lazy optimization, so my wallet is being lazy in response
Re: Review: Mark Of The Ninja: Remastered - A Stellar Stealth Hit That's Better Than Ever
@SwitchVogel I'm not overreacting nor I'm particularly sensitive to frame rate. I just think this port could have benefit from a little more work. It's 20€, not on the cheaper side...
Normally I like your reviews and like the games you use to like. You didn't think it was important to talk about frame rate? I totally respect your decision. I don't want to annoy people or look clever in any way, I just legitimately asked
Re: Review: Mark Of The Ninja: Remastered - A Stellar Stealth Hit That's Better Than Ever
@kobashi100 half the frame rate? I'll buy it half the price!
Re: Review: Mark Of The Ninja: Remastered - A Stellar Stealth Hit That's Better Than Ever
I read the Switch version has performance issues, like the frame rate locked at 30 fps in handheld mode and quite not solid 60 fps if docked.
Considering this is a 2012 game I find it disappointing. Did you played it portable? @SwitchVogel
Re: Nintendo Aiming To Resolve Mario Tennis Aces Co-Op Challenge Error By 16th October
Just can't put this game down. The online tournament is so engaging
Re: Starlink: Battle For Atlas Physical Release Will Require A 6GB Day One Update
They have no problem in cutting content and put it in 99,99€ bundles, but hey, 16GB carts are too expensive these days!
Re: Black Bird Brings 8-Bit Shoot 'Em Up Action To Switch, Wrapped Up Inside A Dark Fairytale
20€ seems expensive. One for the wish list
Re: Review: Chasm - A Procedurally-Generated Metroidvania That Pleases Rather Than Dazzles
@Donutman try Enter the Gungeon. For me, the best game (not just roguelike) on the Switch eShop
Re: Review: Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition - A 2D Wrestling Riot That Shines Again On Switch
I just want to remind this game has a LOT of Nintendo related Easter eggs, every Nintendo fan should play it for this very reason. Lovely.
In fact this amazed me when this game was a Vita exclusive.
Yeah, maybe it'd deserve a 9/10 rather than a 8, but these are just numbers
Re: Surprise! Both Guacamelee Games Headed To Switch, First Available Right Now
Yessssssssss
Re: Nintendo Download: 4th October (Europe)
An entire day waiting for the missing update only to say (and vote): "Nothing for me this week"
Not even the deals interest me. Well maybe it's time to play my currently owned games, isn't it?