The Nintendo Switch

hop online!

Seems pretty laggy online, at least according to my kids...

well I guess you should grind it out against your kids and git gud~

which chars do you like to play? all the anime sword dudes are pretty easy because their normal attacks have bigger hitboxes

more seriously I'd say make sure you know how to shield, grab, throw, use your normal (A button) attacks and aerial attacks. When my sister and I were small playing Smash on N64 I'm pretty sure we only believed in special (B button) attacks for a long time.

like not use them well necessarily just get the inputs down.

I’m getting there. Back in the day, we would play 4-player free-for-alls with weapons so it never felt that bad to lose. Much worse in a 1:1 battle. I’ve been using Ganandorf and I can beat L9 CPUs like 25% of the time. My kids play faster characters and have gotten really evilly good at spiking and edge-guarding. I think that’s my next frontier, but that shit feels particularly cruel.

it's just part of the game, think of it like having someone stuck in the corner in a trad fighter

pokemon direct in a few mins

Pokemon sword & shield

game world looks based on England

looks pretty nice for a Pokemon game but not revolutionary

grookey > sobble >>> scorbunny

gotta say i disagree w/ you entirely

scorbunny > sobble >>> grookey

all three of them look like professor layton characters

sobble > scorbunny >>> grookey for me

high five on putting the green chimpanzee at the bottom too. what is this, pokemon or survey monkey dot com?

are you guys having strokes

xp

'scorbunny' sounds like a gross website or an english countryside depending on how you pronounce it. neither is acceptable.

also, fucking green chimpanzee would be called groopanzee and wouldn't have a tail. visit a goddamn zoo.

groozee is a cool name, actually

like saying 'thank you' incorrectly but also adorably

i said chimp because polygon reported "Grookey, the grass type, is described as a mischievous, curious chimp" so checkmate, mr primate pedant

"I said trump because facebook reported "hillary hid the bodies" so checkmate, america

"

now we see the true stakes

what

you should have checked snopes.com to see if grookey really is a chimp. you would have found a soundcloud of the bestie boys singing "grass monkey. that funky monkey." is my point.

thread got weird

pokemon will do that

i was trying to have a comically serious argument w/ will m about the best new pokemon. perhaps the cohen testimony leaked in too much.

yeah man once you got american about it i was like, my maple leaf ass cannot keep up anymore

also someone pointed out to me that the blue one is making the pikachu meme face, and now I AM MAKING THE PIKACHU MEME FACE

it is still wild to me that this is now where we're at with handheld graphics

https://i.imgur.com/X70jLk4.jpg

Sure, but with a decent designer it can look as good as titles of old.

both games on my wishlist, Fe and Gris, are on sale

thanks for the heads up, been waiting for Gris.

^same, thanks NA. Fe looks up my alley too--anyone played it?

i think i wishlisted it because it showed up on a few end-of-the-year lists

gris is really good. play it on a big screen with good headphones/stereo imo

yeah I'm excited for that. Am I right in thinking that the difficulty level is fairly gentle?

yeah it's a v easy puzzle platformer, the appeal is that it's an audiovisual marvel

oof did the first quarter of gris yesterday

absolutely stunning :)

played the first couple dozen levels of Baba Is You, easy recommend if you like fiendish puzzle games

Sold.

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more evidence that whoever is running the nintendo online thing doesn't actually like or know anything about NES games

https://kotaku.com/startropics-on-switch-is-missing-the-clue-you-need-to-b-1833384044

don't get me wrong - i was very excited to pick up my switch last night and realize that i could now play kid icarus, a classic game that i never played back in the day and never got around to emulating. but they're "reissued" is so incredibly bare bones, like literally the minimum possible effort. and even the SP versions of the games, which in the right hands could be a really cool idea, somehow always end up being something that i'm not even tempted to try

startropics was never released in japan so the ppl running the service probably don't know much about it yes

i don't know if that's supposed to be a gotcha or whatever but my point still stands that they make the minimum effort. imagine having the opportunity to re-release these games, and all the interesting things they could do. they could just email whoever runs @supermariobroth and ask them for a few ideas about old concept art they could share, or pay someone $150 to write a decent blurb for the games, or dig up an old interview with Miyamoto from schmuplations, or reward players for beating a game with some sort of gamebreaking cheat, or put up global leaderboards for certain games, etc etc etc.

also, if i were re-releasing some japanese game that i'd never played and was never released in the united states, i'd probably spend half an hour reading the wikipedia page on it before putting it out just to make sure it didn't have a hardcore sex scene after Act II or whatever

takes me 30 minutes to read a wikipedia page btw