Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

Axiom Verge
Bloodstained Ritual of the Night
Blossom Tales
Trine series

...if you haven't played on other systems

Astral Chain. Not sure if it's a Switch exclusive, but it was one of the best games I played last year.

The switch's Dragon Quest 11 port is very good if you havent played that

I pretty much hate all JRPG weeb shit. So, I think I fucked up. lol

I'm finding that I'm using my Switch to play a bunch of the $15 indie games that I would end up buying and never playing on Steam. And replaying SNES games is pretty sweet as well.

Buying a switch at $150 with a bunch of shit is an amazing deal. Flip it on ebay now if you don't want to play the games while new stock is still getting bought up by ebayers.

(is this a v1 switch? If so you might be able to hack it?)

TheBeagle said:

I'm finding that I'm using my Switch to play a bunch of the $15 indie games that I would end up buying and never playing on Steam. And replaying SNES games is pretty sweet as well.

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have they put up ActRaiser yet?

Couple weeks ago I put up my non improved battery life Switch on Craigslist for $350 and it sold within 20 minutes. You got a hell of a deal and can easily flip that.

ver_21 said:

have they put up ActRaiser yet?

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Just looked in the eshop, nothing came up for that name.

3 years late to the party but I finally sat down and played it to the end. Hated the first half dozen hours, loved the rest, lukewarm about the way it ends. Probably spent 50ish hours playing it since last week without looking up anything. Fuck finding the rest of the shrines and seeds.

I think that caps off all the nintendo exclusives. Bring on the new paper mario and other shit.

Chimney said:

3 years late to the party but I finally sat down and played it to the end. Hated the first half dozen hours, loved the rest, lukewarm about the way it ends. Probably spent 50ish hours playing it since last week without looking up anything. Fuck finding the rest of the shrines and seeds.

I think that caps off all the nintendo exclusives. Bring on the new paper mario and other shit.

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I'm trying to play it right now, and goddamn the weapon system early is so shitty. How could anyone design t hat..

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I'm trying to play it right now, and goddamn the weapon system early is so shitty. How could anyone design t hat..

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That part of it never really gets better =/

It's just very frustrating. That's my only problem with the game, but it's so bad?

If you can ignore your ocd it really isn’t. You get weapons faster than they break.

That said, I still really don’t like the weapon system because it completely ignores the traditional zelda gearing system of getting upgrades through dungeons for your weapon/shield/armor and occasional tool. Botw was a fantastic game, but I still hope the next one is nothing like it.

yeah i was really late to the BOTW party too and finished it around Dec/Jan, I really enjoyed the game but yeah just using weapons until they break and not getting attached to anything is pretty important. You can get the Master Sword pretty early if you really want, it never breaks but it runs out of "energy" and becomes useless for like 10 minutes if you do that so its not that great.

If you have amiibos (I wrote my own NFC215 cards) you can basically summon an infinite list of gear every day too, I always had my bags full of weapons, armor, and shields. I really enjoyed traveling the world and exploring and combat and just "Skyriming" the game, I hated the quests and shrines. I'd just focus on getting the 4 mega-beasts and boss done. If you get really good with the combat you really don't need to worry too much, I think just about everything can be done without getting hit.

still have to play Super Mario Odyssey, Smash (is there a SP mode?), Mario Rabbids, and Bayonetta 1 & 2.

The whole first part is like playing a survival game that eventually turns into a good RPG.

Which would be fine except durability becomes such a non issue pretty early on that it makes you wonder why it was introduced the way it is if it stops being meaningful at all as it is such a huge turn off at the beginning. Think I was around 80 seeds so I did not have a deeply expanded inventory across the board and it did not matter.

The other issue I had was the obnoxious amount of rupees you need to just buy the various armor sets, unlock all the fairies and I did all the upgrades on the house. I think I cooked like 40k worth of meals to sell to vendor throughout my playtime which was just plain tedium. I'm sure there are probably some money exploits, but as I didn't do any spoilers I found that to be the best way as I didn't want to vendor much else in case it was needed.

Before I had even completed my first divine beast I had found a hinox that dropped royal weapons and just in general noticed hinox dropped weapons in abundance so for the rest of the game I had no weapon issues. Just made sure to stamp my map of any lucrative areas (weapons/durian etc) and farmed every blood moon. By the end I had stam bars maxed and I think I had 8 more shrines to turn in for more hearts, but forgot and didn't feel like coming back out of the castle since I wasn't going out to find anything else and food took care of the missing ones. Pretty sure I ended up with all purchasable/findable armors that weren't tied to dlc/amiibos. I probably spent 90% of my playtime wearing the shiekah armor for the night run speed bonus, ease of gathering and easy stealth kills but ended up upgrading the ancient set to max since it was the least obnoxious material wise though I probably got lucky finding a couple of shooting stars early on since I constantly set the game to nighttime and thought it was supposed to be the end game armor for ganon.

The exploration overall was great. I almost always felt rewarded in some form just by exploring and the physics in game genuinely made me laugh at times due to unexpected interactions.

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spronk you really didn't like the shrines? I thought some of the puzzles were neat at the very least and showcased what you could do in game pretty well. The quests were very hit or miss. Go do this simple task and get rewarded with an armor set piece or go do this non simple task and here's a banana. Made it very hard to gauge early on whether to do shit when doing risk vs reward. Combat was super easy overall. I think the only time I got straight up raped was the first lynel encounter plucking lightning arrows from above that just do not miss until I just got into melee and dumpstered him.

I loved Odyssey. Rabbids became super repetitive and a slog to get through about midway for me. Smash does have a single player mode that is pretty fleshed out tbh. I did Bayonetta on Wii U and surprisingly enjoyed them.

yeah i think there are a few posts about it on here somewhere but you just need to order NFC 215 tags, they are like $20 for 20 on amazon/ebay/etc, they are one time write only (cant rewrite) but all info can be found here r/Amiibomb

I bought these on amazon Amazon product ASIN B071ZZTT6T and put them in poker chip cases (you can buy those too) and just hand wrote stuff but you can buy mini card versions, ones you can laser print on, and all kinds of crazy stuff. People have made REALLY professional looking fake amiibos

you need an android phone with NFC, install the TagMo app (dont need root or anything) and then you can download any amiibo data file from The Vault and write them to an amiibo card. I made a few for my wife for animal crossing but apparently they are pretty useless in that game.

it was great for BOTW though, i wrote cards for the amiibos that gave out various armor sets, if you login once a day and scan em you'll collect all the armor within a week or two