The Nintendo Switch

But it doesn't have the annoying shit of WRPGS. You're not endlessly updating levels and grinding for skill points. You're not running after things to craft. Your weapons break, but then you just pick up another one from the enemy or use your physics playground to take them out in other ways. Weapons breaking is not a sign you have to grind for more, it's just part of the playful unpredictability of enemy encounters. You climb towers, but not to see your map dotted with symbols you dutifully run around picking off - you have to look around the landscape yourself and see if anything interests you, mark it down and head off, even if you don't know what it is until you get there. You hear about a legendary beast or a village with a secret, but only in hints, so that exploration becomes your tool, not a GPS arrow.

This is the absolute opposite of every WRPG game. Instead of checklists _play_ is encouraged at every step of your way. Where in other such games you'd trigger a cut scene and be led to a new area, here you're choosing wether to put grass on fire to chase away guarding enemies, catapult something heavy at them or glide in from a higher level. You interact with the world in a way that seems instinctively right in the moment, not in a way you're instructed to, or that's dictated by menus and numbers.

man i really like menus and numbers

Grand Theft Triforce: Don't Starve Edition actually does sound like amazing fun

just got mine, feels nice and UI is super snappy. really appreciate how simple it is to add accounts from different regions and quickly access the different eshops on the same device. touched a cart with my tongue and it tasted awful! now to lose myself in GTA Hyrule.

Please don't mention GTA.

Although this still sounds good, it's a worry that they're introducing things that have become really boring and homogeneous in games. SuperBunnyHop did a good video about this sort of stuff a few years ago.

https://twitter.com/DiscreetLatino/status/820024873896603648

I just sold my Switch.

those of you with zelda pls report back on whether the gameplay is more fun / less aimless sandboxy than it looks. my initial impression is that its a game that i can just watch ppl stream and not miss out on some deep participatory experience unlike the best zelda games of the past

suspect mario odyssey is the game that will actually make me break down and buy this thing, can't really get my mario64 acrobatics fix elsewhere

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6ARg6nWUAATY6c.jpg

anyone able to report on what the Zelda game is like on WiiU ?

i will soon

Played the first hour or so of Zelda. It feels like a 3D version of the first game except huuuuuuge. Nothing that has struck me as WRPG at all. Not a huge fan of the joycon thumbsticks or the v thin L & R buttons. Downloaded the Tetris PuyoPuyo demo from the JP shop, it downloaded in the background and played it on my EU account. Region free at last.

im starting to talk myself into getting one of these now but idk what the availability is gonna be like after this first wave. is it looking like wii where you have to camp out to get one for the entire first year?

Imported the japanese ps4 version of puyo-puyo tetris a while back and can confirm that it is extremely great

Got an hour to kill here at work then it is Zelda time! Wii U version.

https://twitter.com/NeoGAFNewThread/status/837718513561264128

to paraphrase an old doctor's saying, if sliding the switch in and out of the dock hurts so much, then quit jerkin off your switch

I'm hype for zelda was just being a dick. screen issue is actually the first genuinely legit concern I've seen tho

ppl need to embrace impermanence jus my imo

you'll be no-casing ur iphone at that rate

I have never put a case on any iPhone of mine.

Aren't people going to put screen protectors on their Switches anyway?

Some semi-spoilers depending on what you consider spoilers -

zelda is crazy, tons of fun, a top wiiu title for sure. the graphics seem a little grainy at times if that's something that bothers you, but the art style is pretty solid, and the vibe is reminiscent of shadow of the collosus imo, in the sense of isolation in a foreign world. the story is pretty compelling so far. the real star is the mechanics. you can climb basically anything, surf on your shield, and glide eventually. probably other stuff too. i really dig cooking, you need to do it for health but also for buffs some of which are required to advance in certain areas. right now everything is still expanding in all directions but at least as of a few hours in it is really great. there are also abilities that create interesting utility in certain situations and i think at some point robots might be a thing but i can't confirm yet

make another thread immediately please

yeh i got a Shadow of Collosus vibe too, with the isolation and the grip meter. the little details are fun too - was climbing at night and came across a camp of baddies at the top. They were asleep around the fire, but I walked too loudly which woke them up. They got up and ran to the back of the camp - haha they are scared of me I thought, so I chased after them. Then I realised too late that they'd stored all their weapons at the back and had gone to retrieve them. They turned quickly with weapons raised and suddenly it was 4 on 1. I died.

theres already a breath of the wild thread iirc

this is kinda boring, it's too easy to die and I can't tell where I am supposed to be going. also getting real real sick of falling off the tower and dying.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

damn this is sold out everywhere. i went online to almost buy this on a whim (i've heard Zelda is low-res but i use a projector) and it is sold out everywhere. i tried all the stores in my state and there is nothing in stock. then i went to amazon and found a console and Zelda for $350. by the time i got to the shipping page, it was gone, someone else had already bought it.

that was me.
*plays awesome zelda game*

jk, i wish nintendo was just a software company. i would love to play zelda so much right now.

I hope there's a good CastleVania in the works for Adam

my favorite jackson browne lyric

yeah anywhere you could possibly buy it or reserve it online is sold out. supposedly the big box stores like target and best buy that do in-store purchase only have some but there's no way to know for sure without making the trip.

So it's not as big a flop as we feared?

Oh, I hope my brother buys this soon so I can try it :)

lol Sufjan. Bloodstained looks like it will be cool. and i can't believe they are actually a Castlevania cartoon. i think it involves people from Adventure Time so that's pretty promising.

i wonder if any ILXors will experience the technical issues getting reported like the controllers losing sync etc. wouldn't surprise me if that was just the internet blowing up edge cases out of proportion as usual.

I would love to play a castlevania revamp on this thing

or another top down zelda

breath of the wild was prototyped in 2d

watching twitch streams and i super want to play this btw

cant find any info about when the next restock is gonna be

seen it available online in forced bundles throughout the weekend, just keep shooting for it

I watched a bit of a 1-2-Switch stream last night. It looks like you'd need to be drinking for it to be fun.

Just realised that the ghosts in Mario are a lot like most cows, they only come towards you when you turn your back on them.

Glancing at the Zelda thread, peering at the glimpses of the retro-2D Square RPG, and skimming a stupid clickbait Gamespot article about the system's exclusives has me bizarrely tempted to buy a new console and games for it for the first time since um... begging my parents for a Genesis. (Not counting picking up a PS in 2000 or abusing my roommate's XBox 360 or whatever.) I mean: Arms is an arena fighting game where up to two players play duke it out as combatants with extendable arms. Shut up and take my money!

I want one of these so bad it's exacerbating my anxiety

same

it really sells itself, it's a wonderfully slick piece of hardware. seeing it in person was just a !!!! moment where i went from 'will probably get this' to 'need one immediately hellp'. it didn't fully register that this zelda game is on a HANDHELD until i saw it.

I'm going to be cynical AF and continue to spend my beer money as labeled until there's a day 60 patch and there's a Terraria port with non-local multiplayer. I think. I can't believe I'm saying any of that.

Terraria port is already confirmed for this year (dont know about co-op though). Minecraft too which should really expand the reach to a lot of people given Vitas are so hard to find.

Been playing local co-op bouts of King Of Fighters 98 and Metal Slug 3 in the office this week with the joycons - so much quick pick up and play fun. great little machine.