The Nintendo Switch

theres some good twitch clips of it taking out peoples nuts because they didnt follow the directions right

lol Karl i'm in that boat

I'm weeks late to this conversation but I've been replaying LttP on my SNES emulator and it's just the greatest IMO

still haven't gotten a Switch but I really want Mario Maker 2

Very glad Obra Dinn let’s you know whether you have enough info to solve something. Can’t imagine the rabbit holes you’d senselessly dive into.

That said have been digging deep and working hard on some of these mysteries somewhat unnecessarily because I wasn’t aware there were fresh bodies/clues to uncover.

I get how this could feel repetitive if you blast through it, felt fatigue from doing just that early on, but stretching it out now and it’s a real treat.

Ring Fit Adventure: it’s fun, I’m sweaty

Great, now I have to get it

it is fun! it is taxing! we need to start a thread.

How much floor space do you need for it? I have... a single spot to stand on and not much else.

playing obra dinn

think it needs a lot of attention!

I really love Ring Fit Adventure. You'd probably be fine with an 8x8 space. A half-hour session at middling difficulty wipes me out.

you can't invert the Y-axis in luigi's mansion 3 ?!!!!!!!!!!

fuck that shit, inverted 4 lyfe

I admit, I at least appreciate the sense of humor of the "Bloodstained" developers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpweNG4rWIM

luigi is pretty good! the first hour or so is clunky and fairly slow, but when it steps into gear it becomes quite involving

and lack of inverted y axis is fiddly but not a dealbreaker

i can't think of many 3rd person games that have inverted axis options. did mario sunshine?

you mean on nintendo systems?

3rd person non shooter i should say, i know fortnite et al do

right I mean generally 3rd person AAA open world games have it (eg Just Cause) but those are shooters. the uncharteds have inverted but those are maybe just shooters too

well DQXI has inverted too, that's not a shooter

I am inverted 4 lyfe obv, being a non n00b

when did inverted look stop being the default?

classic thread

Steamworld Dig is 3 bucks on the Nintendo Store right now - I’ve never played it but it’s a fun Metroidy game, is that correct?

steamworld dig 2 is really good. 1 is lesser but still fine

but yes to it being metroidy. i think 1 has some randomly generated maps whereas 2 is fully designed

i can't think of many 3rd person games that have inverted axis options. did mario sunshine?

back then a lot of games didn’t, but it feels super obvious to include the option now

the super dumb boss levels in luigi, made harder by the incredibly shit controls, are so unnecessarily frustrating that i am on the fence about abandoning this altogether. it’s not fun.

I read a kotaku article about the terrible default controls / button placement. It strongly suggested using the shoulder buttons for be flashlight (and other abilities) to free up the right thumb for turning Luigi using the analog stick. I hadn’t played the game, but it might help.

God, I’ve turned into what I once hated as a kid - Winnie Cooper giving the tip about how to find a secret warp whistle in SMB3 in the Wizard, during a tournament for a game that supposedly no one had ever played (in the context of the movie)

Ring Fit Adventure for Nintendo Switch: How fit is YOUR ring?

cheers karl! so many functions being under the right hand is a nightmare so i‘ll definitely try that.

without spoiling too much, there’s a moment with frying pans which makes you aim precisely at something generic which you can’t see due to shit camera placement, with counterintuitive aiming controls (and no option to invert axes); and the retaliation attacks are faster than luigi can move, which basically means the only way to get through it is to keep hacking away until you get lucky. it doesn’t feel like skill at all.

there’s another boss which obviously requires some specific technique, but i mashed the a button for five minutes and it died.

Saw a review that said something like how even for all its challenges it's easy to imagine making it through the whole game without dying once.

nintendo hard

nintendo just shadowdropped whatever this is today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq45aR4CvF4

Excited to try that when we need a break from Death Stranding

this looks to be of the genre "games that lead to irl arguments with your spouse"

My partner doesn’t really care for vs mode so co-op is our best bet when we’re not just taking turns

can someone please quell my anxiety over the new pokemon games

are they going to suck

i don't see why they would be any worse than previous pokemon games unless you're one of those people who's super invested in having all 600 legacy pokemon in the game and mad that they're trimming back

all pokémon games are the same, this is their primary selling point

gotta buy em all

finally on the Fire Emblem Three Houses train toot toot

yeah i still haven't started it whoops, i'm playing the other teacher sim jrpg first

I'm visiting my family for a couple of weeks, was halfway through Cold Steel 1 before I left and thought i'd set up remote play properly but somehow can't connect to my PS4 :((( Probably something to do with their router, but don't want to mess with it really. So started up FE3H and it's a fun time once you get used to it, a lot of similarities to Cold Steel (& Persona) structurally so far.

i think remote play is LAN only, you can't do it over the internet (yet, i suspect they're working on a way to do this for PS5 and not just punting handhelds to Nintendo completely)

Nah remote play works outside your LAN in theory, I’ve done it. Super flaky though and probably not worth the hassle of getting it set up in the first place.

hell yeh the stretchers looks amazing

have they said when they're going to start adding further SNES games to the online service ?

there's no schedule anymore it's just whenever they feel like it

nationalise nintendo

Anyone get Overland? I've never played a turn-based game, but this looks pretty cool/scary.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, October 5, 2019 6:02 AM (one month ago)

I'm still thinking about this