Nintendo Switch Thread

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Trials of Mana is a great game.

Nintendo Switch in my mind is the best console since the PS2. People who talk about it not having any games is odd to me because I have over 100 games bought for it and there’s a lot of good games I haven’t bought yet because I know I’ll never get around to them.

[bork]

Trials of Mana is a great game.

Nintendo Switch in my mind is the best console since the PS2. People who talk about it not having any games is odd to me because I have over 100 games bought for it and there’s a lot of good games I haven’t bought yet because I know I’ll never get around to them.

Agreed- I have more games for the Switch than I have ever owned for any other platform.  Way too many, lol.

But I can also understand their points- a lot of the games the system has are multiplatform releases or ports from the last gen.  If you don't care about being able to play the games on the go, I can see getting most games on another console instead or using something like Gamepass.

[demi]

I disagree personally, but I can understand how Switch would make people cum if that's the only platform they used

[team filler]

switch makes me cum and I never use it 

[demi]

That's because you're more of a degenerate than your average Switch owner

[Tasty]

switch makes me cum and I always use it

[bork]

The Megadimension Neptunia VII port came out today.  The game has been criticized for having some awful framerate issues- don't know if this was addressed with a patch for the Japanese version, but this review points out that it has some graphics-related settings you can turn off that make it play pretty smoothly for the most part.  Other reviews seem to have missed this.

[bluemax]

Panzer Paladin, from the devs behind Mercenary Kings and Flinthook, is out today (also on PC):

They really like that Shovel Knight aesthetic.

Looks fun though.

Is calling a game that sticks to a more accurate color palette "using a Shovel Knight aesthetic" a thing now?

They really like that Shovel Knight aesthetic.

Looks fun though.

It plays nothing like Shovel Knight and the music is really, really good- not entirely "8-bit" and pretty catchy.  The game is kind of like a Mega Man-style action/platformer, but you use melee attacks for everything and have a shield to block projectiles.  The weapons you pick up have different attributes/range and also each have different effects when you destroy them, I.E. health regen, defense up, etc.  You can also sell weapons back to a shop and use them to upgrade your armor.  You can exit the armor at any time and as the pilot, you have a Castlevania-like whip.  She's much weaker and has way less energy, but can get into certain spaces that the armor can't and there's some sections where you use the whip to swing across chasms.  I'm pretty impressed with the game.  Keep getting my ass kicked by the bosses, but I don't mind since it just meant selling weapons back for health increases, lol.

Makes me think every so very slightly of Blaster Master.

[bork]

Being able to get out of your armor is kind of Blaster Master-esque, yeah.

[demi]

MOON comes out next month

[Tasty]

Not the Nintendo DS sci-fi/horror FPS by Renegade Kid?

[demi]

No this is the good Moon

[HardcoreRetro]

The use of Clair de Lune as the trailer music was cute. Game looks right up my alley.

[Nintex]

Nintendo: "You can only use toads"
Intelligent Systems

https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1289224051529904129


You: Wow The Last of Us 2 looks pretty realistic

Inteliigent Systems: All Origami is photo realistic

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1289306669273366529

[bork]

The Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee has rated the original No More Heroes for Switch.

https://twitter.com/Nintendeal/status/1290143203794903041

[Nintex]

There's a rumor that NMH3 has been pushed to 2021 and this will fill up the gap in the mean time.

[bork]

https://twitter.com/NinEverything/status/1290346806463741952

[Nintex]

So after Alpha Dream now Skip (Developer behind Chibi Robo) is allegedly dead.

I wonder if Camelot can hold out in these conditions, doesn't look like Nintendo is willing to throw a bone to their '2nd party' studios so to speak.

[Great Rumbler]

So after Alpha Dream now Skip (Developer behind Chibi Robo) is allegedly dead.

I wonder if Camelot can hold out in these conditions, doesn't look like Nintendo is willing to throw a bone to their '2nd party' studios so to speak.

rip n-space

[bork]

So after Alpha Dream now Skip (Developer behind Chibi Robo) is allegedly dead.

I wonder if Camelot can hold out in these conditions, doesn't look like Nintendo is willing to throw a bone to their '2nd party' studios so to speak.

I get what you're saying, but Alpha Dream made games for other publishers too.   The last title they worked on was Mario & Sonic 2020 for Sega.

What has Skip even made for recent platforms?  Not seeing anything they've done besides two Chibi Robo games for 3DS.

[TakingBackSunday]

the game people wanted the least to come to switch is coming to switch at the end of october

pikmin 3

why couldn't it have been mario 3d world

or the mario collection

or wind waker hd

or TP HD

ugh

[bork]

Pikmin 3 Deluxe's new content:

Whether you’ve played Pikmin 3 on Wii U or it’s your first venture on planet “PNF-404,” Pikmin 3 Deluxe comes packed with exciting new modes and features:

Two-Player Co-Op – Journey through the main story in two player co-op* on the same console!

New Adventures – Go it alone or team up with a friend to take on brand new prologue and epilogue stories starring Pikmin and Pikmin 2 heroes Olimar and Louie!

Quality of Life Improvements – Expand your exploration with an enhanced lock-on targeting system, enemy balancing changes, multiple difficulty modes, optional hints and more.

Piklopedia – Unlock profile entries for each character and find out their unique perspectives on each creature you discover.

[Nintex]

So Nintendo's holiday line-up is finally getting into view.

July - Paper Mario
August - Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition LEGO Super Mario
September - DOOM Eternal(?)
October - Pikmin 3 Deluxe
November - Bakugan


They should release a set of GameCube purple Joy Cons to commemorate this drought 

[Pissy F Benny]

[Trent Dole]

So Nintendo's just taking the pandemic off basically, huh.

[paprikastaude]

I got Pikmin 3 for free on WiiU and that was about the price it is worth even seven years ago. Pikmin 2 felt like the concept fully realized, but 3 they scaled back to the techdemo-level of the first game. It wasn't justified either, as the graphics were middling, excluding some non-interactive background elements. I thought the game would start to get going when I got the final Pikmin type after three or four hours of fetching bridge pieces and doing tutorials, but then it was over an hour later

In other words, great flagship game to ship fullpriced this holiday

[Nintex]

Could've been worse, could've been a port of NES Remix.

Also, the insiders are saying a Nintendo Direct is on the way for sure between August 11 and August 22 but plans can change so don't complain if it doesn't happen 

I love that Nintendo announced something on the only day those YouTubers and insiders didn't have in their predictions. 

[Joe Molotov]

Bought Carrion for $30 from LRG and got an eShop code emailed to me. That's how all these games (especially the indie ones) should do it. If I have to wait four months for my physical copy, at least send me a code so I can already have it played and beat before I get my copy that I will leave sealed.

https://limitedrungames.com/collections/neo-frontpage/products/carrion-switch-exclusive-variant

[demi]

Nintendo SHOULD port NES Remix, it rules

[BIONIC]

Pikmin 3 was pretty fun.

Controls will be butchered on the Switch though.

Gamepad as map, and using wiimote and nunchuck for aim and control was just lovely 

[Bebpo]

I thought the best control scheme was wiimote+nunchuck which is essentially a normal gamepad control scheme? Unless it used the wiimote aiming? I don't remember.

[BIONIC]

It did use wiimote+ aiming.

[Bebpo]

Ah, ok it's been a while.

1&2 played fine on GC controller though, so it should be fine.

[HardcoreRetro]

In portable mode you can probably just use the touchscreen.

[demi]

Grandia goes up for pre-order tomorrow on LRG

https://limitedrungames.com/products/switch-limited-run-80-grandia-hd-remaster

[demi]

I copped these point and click adventure games for less than five bucks

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/secret-files-tunguska-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/secret-files-2-puritas-cordis-switch/

[tiesto]

Grandia goes up for pre-order tomorrow on LRG

https://limitedrungames.com/products/switch-limited-run-80-grandia-hd-remaster

Preordered mine... surprised they weren't doing a special edition for this.

[bork]

Grandia goes up for pre-order tomorrow on LRG

https://limitedrungames.com/products/switch-limited-run-80-grandia-hd-remaster

Preordered mine... surprised they weren't doing a special edition for this.

Got mine in too- although nobody needs to rush since it's an open pre-order for a month.  I thought maybe this wasn't a part of LRG's official line, but it's numbered, so it is kind of odd that they didn't do a CE like they tend to for most of their other releases.

[Svejk]

Grandia goes up for pre-order tomorrow on LRG

https://limitedrungames.com/products/switch-limited-run-80-grandia-hd-remaster

Preordered mine... surprised they weren't doing a special edition for this.

Got mine in too- although nobody needs to rush since it's an open pre-order for a month.  I thought maybe this wasn't a part of LRG's official line, but it's numbered, so it is kind of odd that they didn't do a CE like they tend to for most of their other releases.

Your avatar.. Is Cammy supposed to be letting one loose on REEEEE?

[bork]

Grandia goes up for pre-order tomorrow on LRG

https://limitedrungames.com/products/switch-limited-run-80-grandia-hd-remaster

Preordered mine... surprised they weren't doing a special edition for this.

Got mine in too- although nobody needs to rush since it's an open pre-order for a month.  I thought maybe this wasn't a part of LRG's official line, but it's numbered, so it is kind of odd that they didn't do a CE like they tend to for most of their other releases.

Your avatar.. Is Cammy supposed to be letting one loose on REEEEE?

Era has been going REEEEEEEEE on Cammy's design the last day or two- a poll that ended up being in favor of NOT changing up her design was removed.    

[bork]

https://twitter.com/TomioKanazawa/status/1291977405104439296

The framerate is supposed to be better now, but still really low.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Sooooooooo.....is there nothing for Q4 nintendo?

[Nintex]

Sooooooooo.....is there nothing for Q4 nintendo?

In no particular order they seem to be working on

Confirmed:
Breath of the Wild 2
Metroid Prime 4
Pikmin 3: Deluxe
Detective Pikachu
Pokemon Snap
Bayonetta 3

Heavily rumored:
Mario Remasters
Mario 3D World Deluxe
Mario Sports
Zelda game (possibly a remake or remaster)
Fire Emblem (2nd 3DS remake they were working on after Echoes)
Unknown Monolith Software game
Splatoon 3
Kirby

Rumored:
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Metroid
Donkey Kong spin-off

And then there's the opportunity to asset flip Mario Kart Tour into Mario Kart 9.

Considering BOTW was a launch game, I believe BOTW2 will be the next big release, either this fall or May 2021 or so... or the project has been completely reworked but if that's the case Nintendo would've announced it.
I'm definitely expecting the 3D Mario remasters to be out this holiday too if they exist. Metroid Prime 4 is the big wildcard for me. It could be pretty far along or it could be in development hell all over again.

Considering they want to be sure they can ship what they announce they probably won't confirm their full line-up until September and they could even announce the fall line-up piece by piece on Twitter over the next 2 months.
I wouldn't start to worry about Nintendo's fall line-up being sparse until late September. Nintendo always has their summer holiday leave in August. During the last month a number of studios including HAL Laboraties and IntSys moved to a new building too.
Also look out for September 13th as that is the date of the 35th anniversary of Super Mario.

Nvidia is working on DLSS 2.0 implementation for consoles, so expect news on a Switch Pro or Switch+ within the next 12 months or so as that will open the door to plenty of 3rd party games that could render at 540p and be AI upscaled to 1080p or render at 720p and be AI upscaled to better than native 4k.

[bork]

He's asking what they have for Q4 of this year, lol.

Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Pokemon Snap, and Bravely Default II are the current 'big' Nintendo-published games set to release by the end of the year, IIRC.  Nintendo's site currently lists Snap as TBD though.

[paprikastaude]

Sooooooooo.....is there nothing for Q4 nintendo?

That's right.

https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1291425537462865922

 

[Pissy F Benny]

My sources say that Nintendo are aiming to ball out and drop both breath of the wild 2 and Metroid 4 this Christmas

[bork]

There's still enough time for them to announce something else for release at the end of the year.  If not, that's OK too- this system has plenty of third-party support, so it never feels like there's a software drought.  Something that hasn't happened in a long time with a Nintendo console.

My sources say that Nintendo are aiming to ball out and drop both breath of the wild 2 and Metroid 4 this Christmas

 

[Positive Touch]

exactly; i don't know why people are freaking out about this so much. their regular titles will continue to do big numbers like they always do, and there are a million other games available that people will be snatching up. no one is running out of stuff to play on the system unless you're like a fucking games journalist who HAS to play everything.

[Nintex]

He's asking what they have for Q4 of this year, lol.

Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Pokemon Snap, and Bravely Default II are the current 'big' Nintendo-published games set to release by the end of the year, IIRC.  Nintendo's site currently lists Snap as TBD though.

I think Zelda is their big holiday game along with the Super Mario Anniversary Collection. Unless due to the circumstances regarding COVID-19 they can't release two of their main franchises this year.
That means they will probably focus on getting Mario out the door for all the tie in marketing they have going on with other brands and products.

Metroid Prime 4 is a complete mystery it could be nearly finished or it could still be in early stages.
We don't know if rebooting its development meant: "We're taking the story, assets and art and other pre-production and built it again" or "We're starting again from scratch including pre-production".
We also don't know if the team was already assembled when they started or if those vacancies that took 2 to 3 years to fill in at Retro Studios were for their next projects or this game.

Announcing stuff late just seems to be a thing now. We still have no price for PS5, Xbox Series X or even a screenshot of Call of Duty 2020.

[team filler]

 

[bork]

Announcing stuff late just seems to be a thing now. We still have no price for PS5, Xbox Series X or even a screenshot of Call of Duty 2020.

We will with the latter tomorrow:

https://www.gamesradar.com/call-of-duty-2020-black-ops-cold-war-news-crates/

https://twitter.com/charlieINTEL/status/1291452365707587585

[Cerveza mas fina]

Lmao if you think zelda is coming this year 

[Joe Molotov]

Lmao if you think zelda is coming this year 

What if they open the Activision COD crate, and it's actually just a retail copy of BOTW 2 w/ a MP campaign developed by Treyarch?

[bork]

Lmao if you think zelda is coming this year 

What if they open the Activision COD crate, and it's actually just a retail copy of BOTW 2 w/ a MP campaign developed by Treyarch?

 

[Tuckers Law]

Lmao if you think zelda is coming this year 

What if they open the Activision COD crate, and it's actually just a retail copy of BOTW 2 w/ a MP campaign developed by Treyarch?

I’d be down for another Triforce Heroes.   

[remy]

the game people wanted the least to come to switch is coming to switch at the end of october

pikmin 3

why couldn't it have been mario 3d world

or the mario collection

or wind waker hd

or TP HD

ugh

legit on 3d world. brilliant couch co op game

[bork]

https://twitter.com/horiusainc/status/1292966753539174400

[Bebpo]

Is Origami King actually good? I thought people said it was bad at launch but I saw Edge gave it an 8/10 and now people are saying it's a great underlooked game.

[HardcoreRetro]

Gameplay still is not what most people would've wanted, but the writing is getting on par with the old ones again.

[TakingBackSunday]

I actually really like it after getting over the initial hesitation with the battle system.  Sure, no EXP, but the coins you collect act as a catch all for currency, special move points, and equipment upgrades.