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I have a couple hundred hours logged in on PS5 and I never once felt like I needed a mouse. 🤷‍♂️ It's a terrific game.

Looks like a day one buy to me, just like the first two.

They misspelled November on the last screen.

OT is a brilliant franchise that should be a much bigger hit than it has been. This is a day one buy for me.

Loved the first one, absolutely hate that the sequel is a roguelike.

An absolutely brilliant game.

One of the best games on this console, anyone who likes RPGs should take a crack at it. The sequel as well.

Fantastic game, should've gotten even more attention than it did.

Thanks for writing this, definitely in my top-3 this year. Just a brilliant series.

TOTK, Octopath Traveler 2 and Sea of Stars were my top picks for the Switch. Great selection of games this year.

I'm here still wondering why in the hell Wind Waker was never released on the Switch.

Love Zelda but not feeling great about the names attached to this one or that it'll be live-action. Dreading what the casting will look like.

For the love of god, please don't be another generic farming sim.

Been waiting for this one for years and... kind of bummed it's not the full 2DHD style.

Blood Meridian, like most of Cormac's works, is art. I also got on a major western kick after finishing RDR2, my favorite game ever (even got a full sleeve tattoo of one of the side missions!), and a couple other good nonfiction books are "Dreams of El Dorado" and "Blood and Thunder" if you're into the history of western expansion.

I think I'd rather just be poor.

I've been looking forward to this one for a while.

@Aeula Same for me, I can't remember the last big name game that disappointed me as much as this one. What a forgettable experience.

Is there a cutesy farm sim generator out there that churns these things out or something? Fair play to those who enjoy them but it feels like the Switch is flooded with these games.

@antisumo TOTK is arguably on track to be the biggest, or most memorable, Switch game ever with one of its two biggest characters. This is another generic farming sim that looks like dozens of other ones that came before it. Naturally the former will get far more attention.

It's a day that ends in y, therefore we get an announcement that a new cozy farming sim for the Switch is on the way.

I think it was IGN who claimed that TOTK makes BOTW look like a first draft and that's about the highest praise I can think of and the best way I can describe this game. It's just incredible.

Speedruns are harmless and I'm sure these speedrunners will have a slower side save as well, bit I genuinely do not understand the point of it and especially with a game such as this where one of the core draws of it is the slow pace at which you can play in order to soak everything in. It's so weird to me.

@Magician You can drop the arguably. It simply is.

It's a day that ends in y, therefore we get another cutesy farming sim.

This and Octopath Traveler 2 might just be the two most beautiful games on the Switch for me.

@beegubol We've seen like, 15 minutes total and a good 80 percent of those have been on new abilities which look fresh, exciting and full of possibilty. If you're deeply disappointed that this looks like nothing more than a DLC because you've seen a sliver of the world and think these new abilities are nothing significant, then I don't know what to say.

This is a wild amount of complaining given that all we've been given is ten or so minutes of new features highlights. There could be an entire trove of new things to discover that we have no clue about yet the prevalent argument seems to be that is just more of BOTW.

Really not a fan of brutal roguelikes but something about this game's style is super appealing to me.

Just an endless supply of samey farm sim games on the Switch.

Shout-out to Pathway, a neat little game that should get more love than it never really did.

Deeply tired of, and uninterested in, roguelikes at this point but this looks spectacular.

Yeah this game is incredible. Best looking one I've played on the Switch.

I'm sorry, but nothing about this looks even remotely close to Stardew Valley's quality to me. Just another generic farming sim.

Osvald and loving it so far.

First one is my favorite Switch game, had zero doubts this would be a home run as well. Can't wait!

Loved everything about the original, it's probably my favorite Switch game. Even if this is more of the same, count me in.

Strong Sunless Sea vibes with this one. Definitely looks worth checking out.

More of the same so that we can get more of the endless complaining we've gotten about BOTW.

I've had this on my radar for a while, every second of this looks perfect.

The last Switch game that had me as excited as Octopath 2 was the first Octopath. Can't wait.

Looks like they put as much effort into these as they did the story, characterization, and dialogue. Pass.

@Pizzamorg It's not just mad, it's pejoratively generalizing about those people and then having the guts to claim the moral high ground by blocking them even when you receive calm and rational constructive feedback about why that group rated this game a 6 or whatever. I didn't know this game was so off-limits to criticism.

@fromjtov I'm about 10-11 hours in? Something like that and yep, I'll finish it for sure.

@Ryu_Niiyama Fair enough, though I still have no idea how a score of 6/10 makes someone a drama queen. That's not hyperbole whatsoever.

@Ryu_Niiyama That's just trolling, not being a drama queen. But given the many concerns reasonable people on here have pointed out, it's not like a 5-6 is all that dramatic. Technically this game is fine, good even!, but it's far from perfect.

@Ryu_Niiyama Why are we being drama queens if our bar is higher than technically sound? Of course it'll be technically sound given the pedigree of the people making and the game not being all that resource intensive, doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to everything else that makes up the game, right?

I've griped about it in other threads but honestly, probably a 6/10 so far. Battles are okay, a bit on the easier side, but I've found the writing to be horrific, relationships between the characters to be surface-level, the Somnium a mostly empty dud and the story to be forgettable. It still has the Fire Emblem sheen and that's nice, and it's far from an outright bad game, but I feel that it's a massive step down from 3H and that's not even necessarily related to the relationship sim side of things that some disliked. I'm pretty let down with this one.

Happy for the people who made it but the more I play the more I am of the opinion that this really is a pretty average game. The writing is terrible, world is either empty or padded with menial activity and battles are fine but I wouldn't exactly say industry-leading in their quality. It's not a bad game but I was expecting more after 3H.

@AtlanteanMan Padding is exactly the right word. I absolutely loved Three Houses and I want to love this too but I'm some eight hours in and it's just okay so far. Battles are a breeze and nothing to write home about while the characters and dialogue are, frankly, terrible. I'm aware of what type of game this is and for what crowd but everything outside the battles seems shallow and often cringe-worthy. I hope it gets better but right now it's kind of a letdown.