The Nintendo Switch

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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Woop woop

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

gotta read slowly to savor all the hardcore sex scene info

it wasn't really supposed to be a gotcha. the impression i get repeatedly is that the people who work at Nintendo HQ are extremely insular to the point where they don't really know how to do services or anything other than what they've traditionally done as a company which is make hardware and games

finally got around to calling nintendo about the whole primary console thing and it took all of about five minutes to get sorted

oh good!

Their customer service in my experience is the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEv0kdNqM1A

stoked for u g g

has it got a release date yet? read upthread i think that it got delayed

why did they need a four person panel to discuss untitled goose game

GOTY.

goose of the year

Honk!

Cuphead coming to Switch

zelda necrodancer is cute idea

goose seems destined to disappoint unfortunately

how could it

i am putting all my hopes + dreams into goose game, it's going to be everything i've ever imagined and so much more

not sure what people are expecting it to be besides the simple comedy-stealth game they've shown

Cuphead coming to Switch

― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:14 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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cuphead next month, cadence of hyrule is 'spring'

also an indie sale up now, if you haven't played Yoku's Island Express yet it's 50% off, pick it up

PR with everything announced

Everything is "a roguelike" which apparently doesn't mean anything other than "has procedurally generated elements" at this point, which is disturbing but I'm no linguistic conservative.

Some other highlights:

The Red Lantern, a narrative/procedural first person musher
RAD, third person procedural 3D action with random mutations for your protag
Katana ZERO, 2d action platformer with katana
Vlambeer stuff
Creature in the Well, top down pinball-inspired action??
Overland, a turn-based strategy zombie(?) road trip

honestly this was mostly an all-killer no-filler presentation

RAD is a doublefine game notably. its got their style

I hope Cadence of Hyrule is the first of many (or at least several) indie games getting to play with Nintendo IP.

crypt of the necrodancer is good because it is actually a real roguelike under the rhythm mechanic, none of this rogue-lite nonsense

katana zero and creature in the well look various levels of interesting. blaster master zero 2 will be a good retro game like everything inti creates makes but i kinda got tired of those

Vlambeer stuff

INCLUDING NUCLEAR THRONE ffs. it's available right now! buy it if you haven't played it already because it is AMAZING.

i cosign the praise for nuclear throne

fwiw the ps4/vita versions of nuclear throne are still buggy so caveat emptor

discovered I could use the weird points received on my 5 year work anniversary toward eshop gift cards. Got yoku, which is fun as promised.

weird points kick ass

pinball still so primally satisfying. I would never buy a straight pinball game, though. These things were likely said to pitch yoku, but they are true.

my partner has no interest in games and is pretty resistant to anything switch-related, but she really dug yoku

what is "roguelike"?

it's a game that's like "Rogue"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

ilx will break that link - you'll need to add the final )

roguelikes are games with randomly generated levels and no saves/continues/permanent progression, when you die you start over from the beginning in a newly randomized world.

named after rogue, an ascii tile based dungeon crawler from the 80s that spawned many alike games before the term got widened to more styles of gameplay with modern indie games

does FFVII hold up ? I’ve never played it

not particularly? they lost a lot of the original art and such for 7-9 so they're not HD remasters, it's just scaled up 3d models on top of the original 322x244 prerendered backgrounds which doesn't look great imo. there's also a music bug in 7 and 9 that they infuriatingly never fixed from the PS4 releases

gameplay wise it's still alright but pretty glacial unless you use the speedup button they added into the rereleases