Nintendo Switch Thread - Page 205

On June 07 2024 08:15 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

speaking of wholesome fun...
Advanced Wars 1+2 is on sale for 30% off.

On June 07 2024 09:46 CicadaSC wrote:
What does this have to do with stormgate!

On June 07 2024 10:18 Turbovolver wrote:
Etrian Odyssey games were on discount a few weeks back (here at least, and maybe still are not sure). I picked up Etrian Odyssey 3 and have been enjoying the hell out of it, just as much as number 4 and number 5 that I played on my DS. The novelty of drawing your own maps has worn off a little, but still adds something to make adventure/exploration feel more meaningful and adds variety to the usual dungeon crawler stuff.

On June 07 2024 14:53 Turbovolver wrote:

They are oldschool dungeon crawlers. The sort where it's 3D but the sort of 3D that's been in computer games for decades, and you move rigidly through a map composed of squares by choosing to step forwards or backwards, or turning left and right. The novelty (works well for DS or Switch) is that you draw your own map of the dungeon.

Apparently as far as this genre of oldschool dungeon crawlers goes they aren't super challenging, but they are definitely harder than your typical turn-based RPG and tend to have interesting, non-traditional classes.

Great music, too, but not a huge amount of story. I wouldn't say they are for everybody, but I'd definitely recommend the series (at least EO3/EO4/EO5 that I've played) to people who want a classic turn-based RPG with some challenge.

On June 10 2024 06:55 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I've played Paper Mario 64 several times, and I loved it. I recently played Super Mario RPG (for the Switch), and really enjoyed that game too. And today, I just started Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (for the Switch). I've never played it before, and I've managed to stay spoiler-free in regards to the plot and the gameplay. The only news I've been subject to is that a lot of Paper Mario 64 fans say that TTYD is amazing and the perfect sequel and essentially God's gift to Mario RPGs. They praise it with such high intensity that I couldn't help but worry that the game would be overrated, and that the hype would be exaggerated.

I'm only a few hours in - I just beat the big dragon (Hooktail) - so my opinion is still forming. This game's visuals are nicer than Paper Mario 64's visuals... which is to be expected, since it's comparing a remastered/high-definition Switch game from 2024 to an old N64 game from 2000. The folding up into a paper airplane is cute. I also like how easy it is to switch between allies during regular, non-combat gameplay.

Other than that, I'm pretty disappointed so far. It's probably partially because of the hyperbolic build-up that I couldn't escape from, but it's also partially because of the gameplay and combat. There were a bunch of things that TTYD could have improved upon from Paper Mario 64, but they just repeated (or, in my opinion, made slightly worse).

Ally #1 in Paper Mario 64 was a Goomba who only attacks by jumping, and starts with an "enemy analysis" skill.
Ally #1 in TTYD is identical: Goomba who only attacks by jumping, and starts with an "enemy analysis" skill.

Ally #2 in Paper Mario 64 is a Koopa Troopa who only attacks ground enemies, and has a "kick shell to hit blocks and retrieve far-away items" skill.
Ally #2 in TTYD is identical: Koopa Troopa who only attacks ground enemies, and has a "kick shell to hit blocks and retrieve far-away items" skill.

That's just lazy. They made the new Goomba ally a girl (TTYD) instead of a boy (PM64), and they gave the new Koopa Troopa a bandage on his nose (TTYD) instead of on his cheek (PM64). That's just offensively, condescendingly lazy.

I'm sure that, eventually, the allies will start to deviate, but right now this is just the same game, with a parallel story and different towns.

Were the 50+ textboxes of a computer being in love with Princess Peach really that necessary? I don't mind playful dialogue and characters with personalities, but everyone is stupid and everything is a fourth-wall break. I'm already overly saturated with forced humor in this game, and I say this from the perspective of someone who inserted a very, very healthy amount of humor, puns, and fourth-wall breaks in my own video game. TTYD has too much, even for me, to the point where it's now distracting and it's detracting from the story. I think Paper Mario 64 did a much better job of balancing comedy with seriousness, especially when speaking with NPCs.

In Paper Mario 64, I thought the combat was fun and reasonably complex, but I had wished there were more battles, more experience offered per defeated enemy, more leveling, and a way to feel stronger through fighting (instead of just level-ups increasing your health points, flower points, and badge points - never really increasing my base damage). So far, TTYD is looking to be identical to Paper Mario 64 in terms of these game design decisions, which - for me - are missed opportunities.

It's also the same enemies, the same allies, the same attacks, and the same badges*, so far, so about 95% of TTYD's combat has been identical to Paper Mario 64's combat. It seems that the only change to combat is the occasional (once every 10-20 battles) introduction of RNG, when the game randomly has a crowd member attack me or an enemy, a stage piece falling, or a slot machine bonus. I definitely don't consider that to be an improvement.

Does the 15-item inventory ever get bigger? I've been maxed for almost the entire early game, to the point where I've been leaving behind item after item because I can't carry any more.

Honestly, I'm disappointed that I'm so disappointed. I think it's a good game, but it's just so... redundant. I hope that the rest of the game proves to be more unique, and learns from Paper Mario 64, as opposed to just copy/pasting from it. If I had never played Paper Mario 64, then I'd probably appreciate The Thousand-Year Door as much as I currently love Paper Mario 64, because I would be incorrectly impressed at how unique TTYD is, blissfully unaware of how identical this game really is to its predecessor (so far).

*There's one badge that's different. It makes your attacks sound like a squealing frog. And it's arbitrarily been shoehorned into relevance because Hooktail has PTSD from frogs? I'm sorry, but that's fucking stupid.

On June 18 2024 03:02 KobraKay wrote:
Are there big switch things still to come or will tjey start revealing switch2 stuff?

On June 14 2024 07:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


Update: Got the third ally (Madame Flurrie) and I'm in the dungeon with the Punies. Yeah I can't stand this game anymore. I'm done. It's just not improving whatsoever. What a disappointment.

On June 18 2024 03:47 BisuDagger wrote:

Being in the same place as you with regards to games played, I was hoping you'd give me a reason to play TTYD lol.

On June 18 2024 03:24 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


It was reiterated multiple times - including today - that tomorrow's Nintendo Direct will not have any information on the next-gen Nintendo console.

Personally, I'm expecting a few more remastered titles and a general coasting through the end of 2024, with a bunch of decent, mid-level fun games. 40 minutes is a lot of time to fill though, so maybe we'll get some really cool surprises. I can't imagine we'll get any huge news about an upcoming, groundbreaking, blockbuster first-party franchise, but I'd love to be wrong!

On June 18 2024 05:08 KobraKay wrote:


Yeah that was the strange part for me, the 40 min long