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This is the one I’ve been hoping would get a release on Switch systems. After Vesperia, it’s probably the Tales games I’ve enjoyed the most.

Despite my reservations I went ahead and bought it on the Switch over the PS5 since I wanted this one as an always handheld option. I’m not noticing any significant performance issues on either the Switch 1 or 2 in handheld and the 30fps looks fine and smooth to my eyes. So I’m happy.

Weirdly, the Shinobi demo run nice on my 1 but the resolution is actually noticeably bad on my 2. Hopefully that gets sorted before release because that one great from the demo too.

I am almost ashamed of myself over how excited I am to download this

Nice. This one did actually mildly bug me playing on my OLED when it first came out.

It’s not the 30fps that makes me leery here, it’s the “it will average…” part. I don’t consider myself super picky most of the times between 30 and 60. But when it’s not a stable frame rate that can kill enjoyment real quick. Especially with games like this.

:/

*edit*The Game Kitchen did good with the Blasphemous series and updated it frequently, so hopefully this isn’t a big deal.

I’m susceptible to this with some games. A lot of the older FPS games would become unplayable after awhile. The only time I’ve had it happen in DK is the couple of times I’ve been stuck underground and the camera can’t get a bead on my player position and I sort of have to spin and twist the camera view to adjust it. It passed quick enough, but it did happen a few times playing dig around aimlessly.

I’m so happy more people are going to get a chance to check out Chibi Robo. It was the first game I thought of when I saw GameCube announced, and I honestly didn’t fully expect to see it.

Just such a pure little fun game.

I haven’t noticed any motion blur on anything, and ghosting and blur drove me nuts on systems I’ve had in the past (PSP 1000), but as far as contrast between the OLED and the S2, outside of Cult of the Lamb (which does pop more on the OLED) I haven’t noticed a huge difference. They are both significant upgrades next to the launch Switch and Lite.

As far as that video, do they have blue effects turned on. I don’t have a copy of Cyberpunk, but Witcher 3 has that same effect and yes, turning on a motion blur will cause blur on both screens.

*edit to add; I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a screen lottery situation going on. I’d just be surprised I wasn’t the loser in one for once.

The thing with this entry, just like it was on the PSP, is it gets going at such a nice pace and has such a fun straight forward pace I’m so much more likely to go back and replay it over and over when I am looking for low barrier to entry game to run through. It’s what makes the game the one I play over and over in the series even though there are a number of Ys games I’m very fond of. Day one purchase for me.

I’d give it a solid 8 out of 10 a few hours in. It might drop to a 7 if it gets as repetive as people are saying (and I don’t disbelieve them). It delivers about what I want and expect, which is a pretty easy game with a little charm to take a break from other games. I only play on handheld so I didn’t notice performance issues so far.

Super Star Saga and Bowser’s Inside Story are the only two that really hit the essential must play 9 or 10.

This, Oden Shpehre, and Parodius are the last of the PSP games I really really adore that haven’t made it to Switch yet.exited to hear this.

My answer really depends on how reliable they are and if I can expect the new ones to work in five, ten, fifteen years. If that’s the trade off, ok. Fair enough. If it’s not, meh.

Canceled my physical preorder, maybe after a few updates and a serious price drop I’ll grab the digital.

It’s a head scratcher no matter what console you favor. Sackboy over Kratos and Master Chief? I’ve never even played through a Halo campaign but that’s laughable. No Mega Man. No Samus. Did they just poll a Uwe Boll Reddit?

I picked up their cart on Evercade pretty late because at a glance it seemed skimpy with the amount of games compared to other carts. But man, it’s one of my favorite carts. The games have a level of polish and tightness of control that are outstanding. Love Morphcat. Love them.

Then my priority for purchase isn’t a Switch 2, it’s legacy parts and back up units for my existing systems and games along with storage and a PC to backup the huge library of games I’ve amassed digitally.

Pretty cool news. I was a big fan of the first one. One of the small handful of Metroidvanias on the Switch I played through multiple times even with a backlog of games. The combat was just different enough and smooth enough to make it a pretty fun one to revisit.

For me, the ones that really sealed it (along with the Persona games) were Tactics Ogre and ZHP making it over to the Switch. SotN and Rondo would be nice though.

*edit: and Parodius portable would be over the top

This game is such a little gem. Good to see it keep getting little reasons to get anyone on the fence to try it.

I played it through emulation quite a few times blindly not knowing anything about it the first fire up. It’s so immediately apparent it was put out from people involved in Strider in the best possible way. I’ve always thought Strider has such a unique feel in the movement and weight of the character and this one felt like the logical progression.

Pretty awesome news. Hope it gets a psychical run.

I ended up pulling the trigger when I read they were a lot more playable in handheld mode, because honestly that’s the only way I planned to play them. I put in maybe six or seven hours since launch on Vice City and San Andreas. Still encountered some fairly funny bugs. Only one or two that needed a restart (one stuck in a tree, the other a visual bug that was so distracting I had to) but more than playable. Disappointing. But playable.

Just to see it, I downloaded Vice City on my main switch docked to the TV, and OH MAN, it’s jarring how much worse it is. And I was fully braced for it and expecting a performance drop.

Like I said, I never planned on playing it that way, and I’m getting my milage out of handheld. But they deserve the review bombing in this case.

Trying to capture that Space Jam market still angry about the bunny getting nerfed?