The Nintendo Switch

smash direct in 3 mins

Cool. Castlevania people! I hope this is not just a 20 minute direct on their design and abilities.

Jesus, like a million characters *and* 100 (+) stages?

Stage morph looks cool.

yeh it does! shame it's only between 2!

LOL, carrying around the switch just to listen to Nintendo game soundtracks.

aw i was hoping for knuckles as an echo fighter

lol at the majora's mask moon as an assist trophy

God I thought they crammed an impossible amount of stuff into the last game. That squad mode is gonna be super popular I think.

any rumours going round what that green bit was

hoping for 'settings'

Ppl suspect a “story” 1P mode like Brawl’s Subspace Emissary

103 stages my god. If the competitive people decide only four of them are legal again I’m going to pee on them.

every one has a battlefield mode at least!

the squad mode is something i thought would be great with such a big roster but didnt expect them to actually do

Sakurai wants everything in this game so he never has to make another one.

N64 Saffron City and Hyrule Castle 💜

are we at 70 fighters now? i'm guessing we'll end up with 72 for a nice tidy 12x6 select screen

I don’t think that quite enters into it, since you can smush echo fighters into their templates, and DLC seems inevitable, if only because Arms and XC2 characters may not have made it to the initial design doc. Everyone expects Shadow as a Sonic echo and there’s bound to be a couple more straight up newcomers to announce when they show off the Mystery Green Mode.

lets go for 80 then why not

Perfectly sane number of characters, who could complain.

is shadow the hedgehog actually more popular a secondary character than knuckles these days? i don't know my sonic lore

He’s extremely edgy. Also has identical abilities to Sonic, hence, echo character.

they also confirmed today that waluigi will serve as an echo to snake

they should add linkle as an echo of bayonetta

Yoooo

the squad thing and Battleground swapping and stuff like that, I really like the idea of those things, because there are so many Battlegrounds and so many characters it would take forever to play all of them.

Searching “Sakurai” on Twitter rn is pretty heartwarming

Also heartwarming apparently his w1fe has been the menu UI designer from the beginning?!

Minit comes out tomorrow on Switch. It's a great little game.

yeah planning to play that this weekend

iconoclasts is out now too, will get around to that at some point

Dragon Ball FighterZ beta/network test is available for download now and starts tomorrow I think. I’m gonna give it a shot! I will not do well.

okami HD out tomorrow too, I think. I'm moving house tho

okami's pretty far down my to-play list but it's on there, will get to it someday

nice interview with Sakurai in the Graun https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/aug/08/super-smash-bros-ultimate-masahiro-sakurai-35-years-gaming-history-nintendo

Details on the online service, kind of underwhelming for those of us who await the Return of the Virtual Console.

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/online-service/

I can’t stop daydreaming about Smash it’s distracting.

Dark Souls port rescheduled for 10/19

Forbes seemingly broke an embargo, confirming Diablo III for Switch which I think ppl already basically assumed was happening

there are few game series i 'get' less than diablo

I think it’s about the extremely mild friction of clicking on things until they explode.

yeah i assume its just the american version of dynasty warriors games, which i am generally lukewarm on

diablo's more about making numbers go up

strong first impressions from cosmic star heroine. the combat system uses a mechanic i like a lot from certain board games, where each character can only use each of their abilities once and then it goes on cooldown until they take a turn off to rest which refreshes everything. there's a nice risk/reward of wanting to be efficient and rest as few times as possible but also not wanting to get caught with no options on an important turn.

presentation wise it basically looks like a late 90s 2d jrpg like suikoden or whatever

bunch more indie games:

https://youtu.be/qNUSrhEEvL0

nothing super exciting but I've played most of these at pax or on pc in the past if anyone wants words

tombot finally gets his terraria, in "2019"

grandia 1&2 HD... pretty random but more old jrpgs i never played are always welcome

trying to decide what to play next... recommendations from the following: bayonetta 2, shovel knight, tropical freeze, owlboy?, mario rabbids?

i've only played tropical freeze of those but it rules if you like DKC games. very much in the spirit of the old ones in being super overproduced for a 2d platformer

have heard good things about mario&rabbids as a more deterministic and puzzley take on the xcom style of gameplay, not so good things about owlboy

i really liked the DKC game tho i haven't played them since it first came out on snes in 1994 and i was 10yo.