Gaming Smack My Switch Up: The Nintendo Switch Discussion Thread (was: NX)

Even after all this time, III is the top seller? That's... incredibly impressive.

Episode 12 (sometimes 13) of the animated series.

(actually one the neater episodes, IMO)


EDIT- PSA: it wasn’t clear from the Direct but the Mature N64 thing is a separate app you need to download to get Perfect Dark and Turok.

 

July NES NSO Update!



COBRA Triangle (impressive spite work with the rotation- also a Rare-developed title), Donkey Kong Jr. Math (do I include this in the chain of DK/Mario games in how I arrange my NSO titles? hmm...), Golf (honestly surprised this wasn't on there already), Mach Rider (of "Smash Bros Brawl trophy" fame), SOLAR JETMAN (WHY IS THIS IN ALL CAPS?! Also, another Rare-developed title), The Mystery of Atlantis (a FC-only title previously), and Urban Champion (more fighting games need to use a "****! It's the cops! Be cool!" mechanic, honestly).

EDIT- Ah, now I remember- NES Golf was a hidden Easter egg in the Switch hardware unlocked via JoyCon gestures, until it was patched out, to honor Iwata.

Also pleasantly surprised we're getting so many Black Box titles added at once. Just missing 10-Yard Fight, Duck Hunt, Gumshoe, Hogan's Alley, Popeye, Slalom, Wild Gunman, and then the two ROB games, Gyromite & Stack-Up. And, if you count the Silver Box titles, also missing Rad Racer.

But even counting them, that means we have over 2/3rds of that sub-collection. And I assume Popeye might have licensing issues, while the ROB titles would not be playable without modification. The Zapper games can potentially work though (they did at least Duck Hunt for Wii U VC- not sure if you need a sensor bar or if there's a way around that- the JoyCons do have IR pointers after all). So that just leaves 6-7 titles that realistically can be included (8 if Popeye doesn't have licensing concerns that can't be overcome).

 

July GBA NSOX Update: Densetsu No Starfy 1-3 (The Legendary Starfy). First time outside of Japan, and apparently in untranslated form (the first game had a fan translation come out earlier this year).



Seems there were 5 games in the series, with 4 & 5 jumping to 3D on the DS and only the fifth game getting a release outside of Japan, back in 2009. Apparently held back over the years by Nintendo because they felt that the games had too many Japanese cultural references for an international audience.

Also, Nintendo is teasing some kind of horror game:

 

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team hit NSO+EP yesterday:



Going by the comments, this was apparently the final Pokemon game released for the GBA. I never played these, but the music in the trailer is fantastic. I'm going to have to track that soundtrack down.

 

Fun little throwback video from last month:

 

Incoming Indie Direct/Partner Showcase (the first time they've ever done a hybrid):



Expected to be about 40 min long. No Switch 2 info.

 

Kinda disappointing. Some neat indies here and there (I liked what Europa looked like, there was also Pizza Tower and a weird game from Anapurna called Purcula; as well as the next agme from the makers of Gris, and themed crossover cards for Balatro with stuff like Among Us, Vampire Survuvors, etc) ), a few good collections (Castlevania DS trilogy, Capcom/SNK, Tetris 40th anniversary [with a Maximus Cup later this year, and NES Tetris on NSO alongside it). Various anime-style RPGs and life simulators. Multiplats like Goat Simulator 3 and Civ 7. A Rune Factory spin-off. Biggest announcement is a port of Yakuza Kiwami.

 

Oh, they also had some Sea of Stars DLC that looks good. And a game called Star Overdrive that seems like an open world hoverboard combat/skate/surf game hybrid that actually looks pretty cool.



It's also worth observing that, with this singular hybrid Direct covering both the Indies and Partners, it clears the board for a potential (as is fairly traditional for almost every years since Directs began, and particularly during the Switch lifetime) Sept/1st-week-of-Oct mainline Direct...

I didn't mention Trails because it didn't really leave any impression on me in the Direct. And I've never heard of the series before. It was just an anime-style game with maybe Monster Hunter-like combat that literally showed only 8 seconds of footage before getting immediately overshadowed by an Ewok driving an AT-ST in Star Wars Hunters .

I've found that is always the best course of action.