Nintendo Switch (Currently Plagued) - Here we shit post about the new Nintendo console, The Switch

[Tuxedo_Zemus]

Pretty good year for Nintendo, I'd say.

 

[Grin Machine]

Great year for fans of the portable grassy field simulator

 

[BananaSplit²]

Just played the demo of Another Code Recollection, really looking forward to the full game. The artstyle and graphics are very pretty.
The remake is actually handled by Arc System Works with the presence of Taisuke Kanasaki (the director of Another Code and Hotel Dusk), and running on the Unity engine. So while Cing is technically dead as a company, there is hope in seeing a remake of the same caliber for Hotel Dusk in the future.

Boat captain is voiced by Akio Otsuka (Solid Snake, Blackbeard in One Piece, Jeralt in 3H, Koichi Adachi in Yakuza, etc.) and Jessica Robbins by Akemi Okamura (Nami in One Piece).

I'll also be testing the Japanese Switch demo of Legend of Heroes Kuro no Kiseki during this weekend.

 

[Billy_Sama!]

Just played the demo of Another Code Recollection, really looking forward to the full game. The artstyle and graphics are very pretty.
The remake is actually handled by Arc System Works with the presence of Taisuke Kanasaki (the director of Another Code and Hotel Dusk), and running on the Unity engine. So while Cing is technically dead as a company, there is hope in seeing a remake of the same caliber for Hotel Dusk in the future.

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Boat captain is voiced by Akio Otsuka (Solid Snake, Blackbeard in One Piece, Jeralt in 3H, Koichi Adachi in Yakuza, etc.) and Jessica Robbins by Akemi Okamura (Nami in One Piece).

I'll also be testing the Japanese Switch demo of Legend of Heroes Kuro no Kiseki during this weekend.

The 2 hotel dusk games were enjoyable and hope an ending to the series can happen.

 

[whatever I feel like]

oh no no no no
https://youtube.com/watch?v=p-qYV9d9ALw

With your contributions the Nintendo Switch has now reached 8k (posts). Eat your heart out, Playstation.

 

[Two Dollars]

With your contributions the Nintendo Switch has now reached 8k (posts). Eat your heart out, Playstation.

Looks like it’s time for my biyearly “why is Currently Plagued in the title” post.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Looks like it’s time for my biyearly “why is Currently Plagued in the title” post.

To be fair, the system bricking on people day 1 was a bad omen, not to mention the online subscription shit was a turn off to a lot of people.

They just happened to save themselves with good games (outside of a few bad eggs of course)

 

[whatever I feel like]

Its funny, I reread the first twenty pages of this thread last night just to have a trip down vidya memory lane and 1) pretty much everyone hated the Switch on day 1 and thought it was gonna die a dog's death and 2) because it shared the same subject matter as the general Nintendo retardation thread it had huge periods of downtime (there were no posts in 2019, for example) and that twenty pages got me all the way from 2016 to 2020. The other 380 pages would have been all in the last three and a half years.

 

[Two Dollars]

Its funny, I reread the first twenty pages of this thread last night just to have a trip down vidya memory lane and 1) pretty much everyone hated the Switch on day 1 and thought it was gonna die a dog's death and 2) because it shared the same subject matter as the general Nintendo retardation thread it had huge periods of downtime (there were no posts in 2019, for example) and that twenty pages got me all the way from 2016 to 2020. The other 380 pages would have been all in the last three and a half years.

The early days of Switch hate were fucking autistic, with most people crying about pointless shit like muh cow milking minigame in 1-2 Switch, or Labo using cardboard (apparently paying $60 for a plastic cartridge is perfectly normal, but paying $60 for a plastic cartridge + some cardboard is insane). You could tell that shills were desperate for the Switch to fail.

 

[Betonhaus]

Its funny, I reread the first twenty pages of this thread last night just to have a trip down vidya memory lane and 1) pretty much everyone hated the Switch on day 1 and thought it was gonna die a dog's death and 2) because it shared the same subject matter as the general Nintendo retardation thread it had huge periods of downtime (there were no posts in 2019, for example) and that twenty pages got me all the way from 2016 to 2020. The other 380 pages would have been all in the last three and a half years.

I expect the people who hated it on day one didn't have the console yet. I remember before TOTK came out there were people absolutely committed to hating the game based on a few rumors, only to finally shut up when they pirated the game and were forced to concede it was pretty good. It was probably the same haters that want to hate for the sake of hating, and will claim to hate the Switch 2 before it even hits shelves and reviewers.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Just played the demo of Another Code Recollection, really looking forward to the full game. The artstyle and graphics are very pretty.
The remake is actually handled by Arc System Works with the presence of Taisuke Kanasaki (the director of Another Code and Hotel Dusk), and running on the Unity engine. So while Cing is technically dead as a company, there is hope in seeing a remake of the same caliber for Hotel Dusk in the future.

Even though I probably won't play it for a while that's why I'm getting it day 1, hoping it sells well enough to get the Hotel Dusk duology next.

The early days of Switch hate were fucking autistic, with most people crying about pointless shit like muh cow milking minigame in 1-2 Switch, or Labo using cardboard (apparently paying $60 for a plastic cartridge is perfectly normal, but paying $60 for a plastic cartridge + some cardboard is insane). You could tell that shills were desperate for the Switch to fail.

The first year was rough as hell, fanboys insisted it was great because they pretend Wii U didn't exist so they could inflate the importance of BotW, and try to convince you anybody gave a shit about ARMS.

Mario Odyssey carried the Switch's first year pretty hard.

 

[Epoch]

Mario Odyssey carried the Switch's first year pretty hard.

It came out at the end of October, until then there was just Breath of the Wild and then Splatoon 2, both of which were just on Wii U already, so the first year was really empty until the holiday season when Odyssey came out, then Xenoblade 2.

 

[Betonhaus]

It came out at the end of October, until then there was just Breath of the Wild and then Splatoon 2, both of which were just on Wii U already, so the first year was really empty until the holiday season when Odyssey came out, then Xenoblade 2.

most people didn't buy a wii u tho

 

[Two Dollars]

The first year was rough as hell, fanboys insisted it was great because they pretend Wii U didn't exist so they could inflate the importance of BotW, and try to convince you anybody gave a shit about ARMS.

>nobody except fanboys cared about the Wii U
>BotW is insignificant because it was also on the Wii U

Pick one and only one.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

It came out at the end of October, until then there was just Breath of the Wild and then Splatoon 2, both of which were just on Wii U already, so the first year was really empty until the holiday season when Odyssey came out, then Xenoblade 2.

Yeah, and I assume Xeno 2 requires you to play the first one, so there's a degree of barrier to entry presumably not present with the likes of Splatoon 2, meaning unless you were already into the series it was pretty much just Mario.

>nobody except fanboys cared about the Wii U
>BotW is insignificant because it was also on the Wii U

Pick one and only one.

When did I say that first one...?

 

[Epoch]

Yeah, and I assume Xeno 2 requires you to play the first one, so there's a degree of barrier to entry presumably not present with the likes of Splatoon 2, meaning unless you were already into the series it was pretty much just Mario.

It didn't, that's why the entire fanbase turned to shit when the weeb coomers took over, because people were hungry for an RPG on the Switch. Most of them only played Xenoblade 1 when the definitive edition came out. Always gatekeep your fandom.

 

[whatever I feel like]

>nobody except fanboys cared about the Wii U
>BotW is insignificant because it was also on the Wii U

Pick one and only one.

Throw in Mario Kart too, while your at it. It was an awesome year one by almost any metric. You have to go back to, like, the NES to find anything like it.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Been getting back to playing Fire Emblem 3 Houses and Witch on the Holy Night. Hopefully I get through the first route of 3 houses by the end of the year.

And on that, I think my Switch was my best electronic purchase this year. It actually has me playing vidya again, which I'm so happy about because for the longest time I just wasn't, life was busy and it felt like a slog to boot up my Xbox and sit for hours. Now I can sit at the TV or take it to my bedroom, couch, wherever really. It's not a powerhouse, but it doesn't need to be. It's just good clean fun.

 

[skykiii]

IGN reports high input lag, above what I'd tolerate in a 2D action game. I've read the same in other places. Haven't personally played it though.

https://www.ign.com/articles/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-tmnt-the-cowabunga-collection-review

Sorry I took like a million years to get back to you on this, but it happens I just played the Cowabunga Collection earlier today (I was suddenly hit with a desire to revisit TMNT stuff) and... on the Switch at least I didn't notice any input lag whatsoever. I press button, thing happens.

Turtles in Time Arcade Version controls kind of awkward, but I recall that being true when I played it on MAME as well--I always liked the SNES version more because you could adjust or turn off some of the more obnoxious aspects like back-attacking (where a turtle will sometimes prioritize attacking someone behind them rather than in front) or make it so dashing is activated by double-tapping.

The first arcade game, and all the console games, I had no issues with.... at least no issues that weren't present in the original games.

(Incidentally I am sad that I missed out on playing Radical Rescue as a child. TMNT as a metroidvania is one of those mad genius ideas that should get more respect, right up there with whoever decided Scooby Doo needed to have a point n' click adventure).

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EDIT

Lately when I play Switch, I've been getting back into Tetris 99, but also playing Mary Skelter (which I made a topic about) and Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana.

I love the Ys games though a part of me feels weird about the direction this entry takes the series. One of my friends describes it as feeling like Devil May Cry Lite. I can sorta see it.

The funny thing about those two games is they form a perfect counterbalance. In my other topic I complained that Mary Skelter poorly explains itself and thus comes off as more complicated than it really is. Ys I always loved because by comparison that series has a way of making you feel reassured, even when its introducing an element that could be complicated, it usually makes it clear how important its gonna be and how much you actually have to stress about it (which is usually, not much. Press button and bad thing die usually sums it up).

I also recently got a game called Asterix and Obelix Slap Them All. And damn I wish I wasn't the only North American who was into Asterix, because this game... slaps. Like oh my god I feel like I'm playing a fight scene from the cartoon. Only thing I haven't seen yet is the iconic slapping from Asterix and Cleopatra.

 

[Arcade Gannon]

Throw in Mario Kart too, while your at it.

Eighty-five dollars is a pretty steep price for some DLC courses. Over a hundred if you want to keep playing online for a year. And it's on a fragile piece of junk with stick drift and/or input lag, great for a racing game.