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I play every Pokémon game with a monotype team (Legends Arceus was Flying, and great!). So I'll both wait to find out what secondary typings the starters will have (hopefully they won't all stayed single-typed like in Galar), and what the rest of the Pokedex looks like before I make a final decision. That being said, I'm extremely smitten with Fuecoco!

Given the number of times I've gotten hit because I rolled too soon or not far enough and was madly trying to roll again, I'm not surprised it's slower.

The news I'm waiting on is more details about the starters, which I've been assuming will get Hisuian forms.

A ton of Toaplan games, a bunch of 8ing games, a couple from Psikyo, and Raiden? I am 100% sold, I will preorder this right away.

Interesting. I'm gonna play this, as I have all recent Pokémon games, with a monotype team. I'd been planning on Ground, but the presence of an easily obtainable Jirachi could push me towards a Steel team.

I usually prefer Water starters, but I always prefer starters that have two types, which leaves Rowlett as the only option here.

@anzzjam I've really enjoyed them. They make battles much more challenging sometimes, it makes team planning a nice puzzle to solve, and in some ways, I actually find it more immersive--it feels more like being a real trainer or gym leader. Practically everyone else in the Pokeworld is playing Monotype.

I started doing them in Sun, with Water Monotype, which is probably one of the easiest monotypes, Ghost for UltraMoon, Fighting for White 2 (still need to finish both of those), and Ice for Shield.

The Wild Area made a HUGE difference in Shield, with some simple weather manipulation I was able to have a full party of Ice Pokémon shortly after getting to the Wild Area. A few of 'em were duds like Delibird I dropped when I got better options later, but a lot of my core team got caught early on. It's super rare that Ice is even a viable monotype, let alone that you can a full team early in the game.

Planning, like I do for all of the last few Pokémon game, to do a monotype run. I'd been planning on doing Ground with Turtwig, although Steel with Piplup was another run I was considering. Curious to see what all Pokémon are down there (and which are version exclusive) so I can decide soon.

YES! I hope this is the first of many Toaplan releases, they're my all-time favorite shmup company. I'd love to get Fire Shark and Truxton or even my favorite shmup of all time, Batsugun.

I picked up a copy of this--it shipped super fast, and the book looks incredible. Even if I don't agree with some of the write-ups.

I remember a similar line of argument when Octopath Traveler came out. Truly bizarre to me that folks think 2D games shouldn't be full cost.

I'd definitely buy Fantasian if it came to Switch or anything else.

I've only ever caught one shiny, a Zubat in HeartGold who ended being a pretty decent HM mule.

I was introduced to the series with the Game Boy Color ports, and III is where I came to completely fall in love with the series. I think VIII and XI are my favorites. I still need to finish V, VI, and IX of the mainline titles.

@YANDMAN Disagree. I own it for the Saturn, and it's not an all-star shmup, but it's one of my favorite of the Saturn's mid-tier shmups.

GUARDIAN FORCE!! Holy hell, this is incredible.

I'm pretty tapped out on new games, and have a massive backlog to work through, but both Ryza games are right at the top of my list.

Some good MegaTen representation, but I'm disappointed that you didn't include Devil Survivor Overclocked, which is fantastic.

I'm maxed out on games at the moment, but this is definitely one I'll come back to at a later date.

Very glad to see that 6 Golden Coins made the top five. It's such a phenomenal game. I'm a bit biased, as it was my first Mario game (and my second GB game, after Donkey Kong 94), but it's absolutely fantastic and deserves to be rubbing shoulders with the likes of 3 and World like it is here.

I will buy this if only to hopefully encourage more Cave ports!

I'm really curious to see if other characters are available, even if just outside story mode. I like the idea of a leaner cast for a Warriors game, and the original HW certainly had an absurdly huge cast. But it also had a ton of great characters to play as (Twili Midna, Linkle, Yuuga, to name just a few of my favs), and I'd love to see at least some of them return for whatever this game's equivalent to Adventure Mode might be.

I was certainly meh on the first few announcements. Maybe someday I'll play Cadence of Hyrule, but I'm terrible at rhythm games, so who knows. And I'm definitely never playing that shooter or the WWE game.

My number one want was news on SMTV, and we got that. I wish we'd gotten more, some actual gameplay footage, but it's good to have a date now and to see more. And I'm thrilled about Nocturne, even if I wish it were coming out sooner.

I also wish we would've had Sakuna and Ryza 2 in the Direct, that might have made this seem a bit more substantive.

I recognize for non-Atlus fans, this was obviously low-impact announcements. A lot of this is just from lack of Directs. If these sort of short mini Directs were more common, there not being earth-shattering news in them would go over better.

One of my all-time favorite games, an absolute classic. Cannot wait to download this for my Switch.

One of my all-time favorite games!

That pun was 100% intended.

Toaplan's my favorite shmup company ever, so I'm incredibly excited to get all these ports.

One of my favorite GameCube games, I love Mr. Driller and I'm excited to play through Drill Land again.

Dang it, the article title made me hope this would an Elevator Action-like game.

God I would love Elevator Action Returns for the Switch.

I'm a big fan of monotype, and one really cool thing about SwSh is that the Wild Area makes assembling full teams early on much easier, and it makes several types much more viable for monotype runs than they've ever been before.

I played Shield with an Ice Monotype team, which would be unthinkable in almost any other generation, but I was able, as soon as I got to the Wild Area (and as soon as I figured out how to manipulate the weather) to catch 6 ice types (or ice-types to be): Shellder, Swinub, Shover, a female Snorunt, Delibird, and Vanillite. Those last two didn't make the final team (I used the evolutions of the first four plus Weavile, Mr. Rime, Frosmoth, and Arctozolt--never traded over a Darumaka from Sword or found a Lapras). I doubt there will ever be a Pokémon game where I can as effectively make an Ice team.

Never played a DMC--should I start with the first one and work up to 3? Would this be a good place to jump in?

I'm in the middle of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth for now, but I'll be back to FE once I'm done.

I have the original Steins;Gate for Vita, still need to play it, will wait on any more of those till I've crossed that off the backlog.

However I'm definitely considering AI. I asked for it for Christmas but didn't get it, and I love the Zero Escape games.

Still only have the grey ones that came with my Switch (I would've gotten the red-and-blue, but I could only find grey in stock when I bought my console). But I'm seriously considering getting the Animal Crossing joycon, those colors are gorgeous.

@Smashfan502 Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Most played game, favorite game on the Switch. Favorite game of the decade.

I just finished up my Verdant Wind run last night, after putting 3H aside for a few months. I started my fourth run, which I intend to be Crimson Flower on Maddening--assuming this content is available on all routes (and is not a separate route unto itself, which I assume it isn't, as they describe it as a Side Story), I'll hold off on my new playthrough till this has come out. Plus by then we'll have the leaked new classes that these characters represent.

I own Drill Land, it's probably the Japanese GC game I've played the most. I would love to have any Mr. Driller for the Switch!

It's so strange to me, because it really does not look that much like BotW. Go check out the gameplay in the original story about the weirdo breaking his PS4--there's clearly some BotW influence here, but the gameplay looks much more focused on magical combos.

It's my all time favorite game, I would be beside myself if a sequel got announced. But I would also be beside myself for a straight port.

I got the Wii U version for Christmas last year, and I absolutely adored it. It's definitely a weird result as far as what you'd expect from a Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem crossover, but it really works. Ignore the censorship trolls, and I hope people give this game the shot it deserves. It's one of my favorite JRPGs.

Any idea what Archer Densetsu is? I Googled it, and the only results seem to be various sites reposting this poll result.

I just purchased practically every Atlus game on the 3DS during that sale a couple weeks ago, otherwise I'd probably jump at a couple of these.

@NImH It's vertically scrolling but designed for a horizontally-oriented monitor (like Giga Wing or Mars Matrix), so tate isn't necessary.

I've got the first two Cold Steel games for my Vita, obviously I'll need to work on finishing those, but it's exciting this game is coming.

Surprised there's no mention of Barry here. I assume he'll also be in the Sessions-only category of "new" characters.

It's one of my favorite Wii U games, and I can't wait to replay it. Already used my last voucher to buy it.

Now this is the hard one. I am a water-starter player through and through, it is virtually always my favorite of the starters. I went with Piplup because of my love of Gen 4, and they're an adorable penguin, but it honestly could've gone any way here.

@jump This is absolutely the Persona I'm looking for!

Genealogy of Holy War would make sense, given it was inspiration for Three Houses. It'd also be cool to see Binding Blade get remade and finally properly translated. Maybe do either (or both!) and combine them with Thracia 776 and Blazing Blade.

I love Obsidian, and I'm really looking forward to playing The Outer Worlds when it comes to Switch, but I would've been shocked if it came out in 2019. There's no way they wouldn't've released a date by now if it was coming out in the next two months.

Better for it to come out later anyway. I'm still finishing up Dragon Quest XI, I have like one and a half more playthroughs of Fire Emblem: Three Houses to get through, and a new Pokemon game out in like three weeks, and Tokyo Mirage Sessions in January. I won't have time for The Outer Worlds till like March anyway (and that still seems like an optimistic estimate of when it'll be out).

Do a spin-off with this, I'd be interested to see how this would play.