Nintendo Switch hype thread

[hiplop]

GOLF STORY IS SO GOOD

Might be my fav game of last year!!! So incredible

Steamworld dig 2 as well

[hiplop]

if you havent played it: play bayonetta 2. Its awesome.

[xRECKONERx]

yeah bayonetta 2 is gr8

so many people love golf story can someone please sell me on it

[Chevre]

I went over to my friends and I just had Skyrim. I didn't want to play it in handheld (and maybe, subconsciously, I didn't want to play it ) So after looking over the eshop list I settled on Golf Story. It's only $14.99 after all!

Essentially, it's a golf video game -- you've got your bar at the bottom and you tap A once to set power and again to set accuracy, plus all the usually melange of club selection / hitpoint on the ball / etc. -- but I guess it's only

sometimes

a golf game. Like Golf Story seems really generic but it sums up what it is perfectly -- it's an RPG about golf. As you traverse the areas -- you traverse areas! you're not just playing golf all the time -- there's all sorts of miniquests to do and set pieces to interact with. For example, one of the first things you do upon entering the first course is someone tells you to hit a button with a golf shot. When you do that, it quickly flashes over to a building where one of four lights lights up, implying there are three more buttons to find. And that's another thing: you can make a golf shot practically anywhere. That means you're essentially practicing everywhere and hitting lots of little secrets. All the meanwhile there is an at-your-own-pace main quest that you're progressing. Also quests are often little twists on regular golf -- in the first area you're always dealing with moles that move your ball, in the second one there's a series of quests where you have to complete a whole by only using fairway and green, and then rough and green, etc.

It's a little extra at times, but don't you kind of want that in a golf game? The switch or joycons are rumbling SO MUCH during this game. The dialogue is quaint, but it's good and they're using typography to assist in good ways (dialogue boxes tilt, text size changes for emphasis, interruptions are like, done with dialogue boxes?). And yeah it's not

pure

golf 100% of the time but it's not outright mini golf either. The controls are funky but more in the way that it's trying to cram the myriad of ways you can alter a golf shot onto the controller. Once you figure out how actual shots compare to what it predicts, it makes sense. Like, given the difficulty I've had with SMO and Skyrim, it was super pleasant to go to something that just immediately clicked.

I don't know, I love it. After I bought it my friend was like "can you play it up on the TV so I can see?" and once I did he was like "ok I need to get this".

There's also multiplayer!

[xRECKONERx]

okay well fuck you i need it now

[Chevre]

you're welcome bae

[hiplop]

Its like Mario golf advance for the GBA but with a great story

[McMenno]

you can make a golf shot practically anywhere.

please don't do this in real life

[Annadog40]

I just got the switch and downloaded the demo for kirby and I wonder. Would it be possible to have a classic tank, dps, healer type build and the four people keep to those roles?

I think maybe the chef or the artist could be the healer since they can summon food.

Maybe rock or Umbrella as the tank. It'd probably be safer to not have Kirby be the tank. The fire guy or other elementals could be buffers.

[Ranmaru]

I'm still waiting on Super Mario Maker Switch. I guess I'll play some Xenoblade 2.

[Kcdaspot]

Should we post friend codes here?

[Kcdaspot]

Also where's my smash 5 hype you shits?

[Psyche]

right now the game im most interested in besides the next gen of pokemon is undertale
have been thinking of picking up that "new" south park game too

[xRECKONERx]

i mean it was fine but the gameplay isnt good compared to the previous one

the "tactical" turn based gameplay wound up feeling sorta flat

[hiplop]

Also where's my smash 5 hype you shits?

Just waiting on more info! Super hyped but in stall rn

[xRECKONERx]

Also where's my smash 5 hype you shits?

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[Annadog40]

Isn't it technically smash six?

[hiplop]

No

[Spiffeh]

Haven't played the Switch since December since I've been at school

I graduate in two weeks and plan to get back into it when I have access to my Switch again

Any good games you guys recommend that have been released since December?

[Kcdaspot]

Puyo puyo Tetris and stardew Valley

[Psyche]

ive played pokken!
it feels like an abbreviation of a full fighting game
no way i can go from a game like tekken and enjoy this

[Ranmaru]

Who played Mario Tennis Aces? It was hype. I intend on getting it now.

[Chevre]

I HATED IT

It was so hard and gimmicky

[Papa Zito]

My wife flipped out over the Pokemon Let's Go announcement and wants one of these things now.

[hiplop]

Who played Mario Tennis Aces? It was hype. I intend on getting it now.

i loved it!!!