The Nintendo Switch

ordered mine! and zelda and a screen protector. did not get splatoon for some reason.

Splat2n is def not for everyone unlike Zelda/mario but it's a pretty much perfect realization of its concept

I've been playing without a screen protector. I want to see the marks I leave in a lynel fueled rage.

As soon as I saw they were in stock on Amazon I loaded all the answers on this thread and ctrl-F’d for the answers to my accessories question. I didn’t get an SD card though because we have those just lying all around the house

did not get splatoon for some reason.

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welcome tombot

hate screen protectors, i'm living on the edge

Screen protectors are a sign of a sick society.

i might peel mine off since it got a bit of dust under it somehow and i only use my switch docked or in bed anyway

I have a 6 year old

I'm going to follow all the important internet wisdom of applying it in a steamy room and then letting it cure for 24 hours

golf story is good but not super polished, you can kinda tell its from a first-time studio

i think my biggest complaint with it is the actual golf, the courses are all gimmicky and 9-hole so far. the mario golf games had some realistic, well designed 18-hole courses in addition to the gimmicky ones whereas this game seems to be entirely the latter.

we just got one of this, like literally 5 minutes ago. haven't bought a new system in an AGE. stoked.

:o

obligatory

http://i.imgur.com/IZVquF1.gif

Stardew Valley out on Thursday.

Haven't played a life sim since Animal Crossing on GameCube I think and that didn't get nearly as much love from me as Harvest Moon 64 did so I'm excited for Thursday

yeah I've put off playing Stardew waiting for this port, i'm excited

yeah i'm in there as well

Should be a hit at our house, I suspect I'm not going to be the one playing

music and art look cool, but second-job-as-game has never appealed to me

IN FRONT

Finished Golf Story just in time for Stardew Valley. Lots of good jokes and a decent if somewhat easy golf game. The camera pullback to show the entire map at the end was a great moment and made me laugh.

Today's agenda is
Work
Haircut
Stardew Valley

I'm skipping the haircut

My hairdresser is hard to book so I gotta keep that appointment D:

the solution is to not have hair imo. more time for gaming

no time for IRL work until the Stardew Valley work is done, imo

I am honestly so jazzed to start breaking rocks

some good prognostication lols upthread re: the Switch's chances in the marketplace btw

ecstatic to be proven wrong tbh

lol yeah I just re-read the start of the thread this morning, good stuff

I want sold on it until I saw it in person for the first time and then it was pretty immediate

lmao the reveal at the end of golf story, can't believe i didn't notice that

bought Stardew Valley on my laptop 7 months ago, played an hour, never played it again because laptops are heavy and hot and run windows 10.
got it on Switch, can pull it out of my work draw and play 10 minutes whenever. gonna play a shit ton.

been holding off on playing axiom verge until the switch version came out, sunk a couple of hours into it over the weekend. it's real good! love a metroidvania

stardew is surprisingly great, been fun.

Bootstrapping my farm is a lot of work, worried that that first chicken coop or fruit tree sapling will be perpetually out of reach

after playing through about 5-6 seasons on the PS4 version, i got a lot little burned out playing by myself. but i've been patiently waiting for the multiplayer patch, which seems to be on the way:

https://stardewvalley.net/stardew-valley-multiplayer-news/

multiplayer stardew seems like such a nobrainer

is there any ilx hivemind consensus on --

axiom verge?
lovers in a dangerous spacetime?
golf story?
oxenfree?

i played axiom verge on PS4 and can confirm that it scratches the metroid itch, if that's what you're looking for.

lovers in a dangerous spacetime is v cute but somewhat shallow game that is definitely intended primarily for 2 players

Golf story is pleasant and very much an unofficial successor to the game boy Mario golf games, though in the end I didn't feel it was as good as those. It's twee, unpolished, and not very deep, but it doesn't overstay its welcome. I felt the courses were too gimmicky to have replay value as a pure golf game after finishing the story mode, unlike Mario golf which i replayed endlessly as a kid.

Re: Axiom Verge, is it mostly a Metroid clone or does it have it's own unique mechanics? It didn't grab me visually when I looked at it in the eShop.

on the other side of the metroid spectrum, Steamworld Dig 2 is the most enjoyable indie game I've played on switch so far

others might want to weigh in, but i would say it leans toward metroid clone. it's about 80% as good as a metroid game, at <50% of the cost, so it comes out pretty well. it's the kind of game that you tell people is pretty good, and mean it, but then late at night you think "will they be disappointed? probably not. but maybe. probably not though"

the graphics have that NES-and-a-half look that suggests that, while aiming for a distinctive look would have been too much work, so would have been accepting the actual aesthetic constraints of 8-bit visuals. anyway while looking at pictures on gis to determine how i felt about this is found this:

http://res.cloudinary.com/lmn/image/upload/c_fill,h_169,w_300/e_sharpen:100/f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/v1/gameskinnyc/a/x/i/axiom-45cef.jpg

and yeah no, i feel dumb enough playing videogames already without them insulting me in the name of self-awareness

especially when whoever wrote the dialogue thinks they've earned semi-colons and can't get their adjective order right

Started Castlevania 4 on the snes mini and was disappointed to find that it isn't a metroidvania.

Golf story is pleasant and very much an unofficial successor to the game boy Mario golf games, though in the end I didn't feel it was as good as those. It's twee, unpolished, and not very deep, but it doesn't overstay its welcome. I felt the courses were too gimmicky to have replay value as a pure golf game after finishing the story mode, unlike Mario golf which i replayed endlessly as a kid.

i am enjoying this game so far, i think not having mario golf to compare it to helps

did you hear that the NES golf is i. built into the the Switch as an Easter egg ii. only available on the day of Satoru Iwata's death?

(this is the most uncle-who-works-at-Nintendo-sounding thing ever, but apparently true)

What is the date and means of access then?

July 11 and doing Iwata's hand gesture with the joycons. It only works on version 1.0 of the switch OS though apparently, the first time you connect to the internet and update it gets locked away permanently.

I think people determined that it was included by the devs as a sort of digital 'omamori', a good luck charm that's not supposed to be opened.

that's pretty wild