The Switch 2 thread

There are some physical copies being produced too by a company I can't currently remember the name of.

It's great to be such a help to everyone with my input.

OK Brian, you're younger than some of us here, we get it stifled sob

OK Boomer

Chibi-Robo is coming to Switch Online in a few days. I've never played it but I know Brian always spoke highly of it. Looking forward to giving it a go.

The GameCube emulation is low-key one of the best reasons to own a Switch 2. They've passed the point where these games feel retro, they're just great games and they're "free" (if you have an online subscription) right there on your console. Wind Waker, F-Zero, Soul Calibur 2, Mario Strikers and now this.

Looking forward to it, it's quite a cult classic it seems.

I've never played Chibi-Robo but I've always wanted to. Edge spoke very highly of it back in the day.

As it's typical for buying a new console, I have gotten absolutely hooked on a twenty year old game I could have been playing on have a dozen consoles I already owned. Zelda Wind Waker still holds up! And modern TVs really show off it's incredible use of colour.

Also Celeste is £4.50 in the Nintendo shop just now. It's rarely on sale and it is one of the best videogames ever made.

I hope they start drip feeding GC games at like two or three at a time or it's going to take a while to really be awesome. Also I'm very biased but Fire Emblem would be an amazing choice next, not only would it be a huge get to have for the system, freeing it mostly from ebay oversellers, it's an amazing game and great start to the series.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance has been confirmed as one of the next few games out, alongside Luigi's Mansion, Mario Sunshine and a couple of Pokemon things. It's nice to see them getting a couple of the rarer titles in there, both Fire Emblem and Chibi-Robo have been the domain of scalpers for years.

Oh no, I had a copy of Fire Emblem, I don't want to look at how much it goes for now do I?

I sold my Wii Fire Emblem to CEX last year to pay for my RG35XX. The staff was shocked at how much they were giving me for it. They then put it on the shelf behind the counter for £85. It is still there.

I am loving this console. I think I’ve played more video games in the last few weeks than I have in the whole of the rest of the year.

Donkey Kong Bananza - Good and fun. Breaking stuff and clambering all over the place is great, but so far it’s not got the surprise and innovation that I found in Mario Odyssey. Which is fine, I’m still enjoying it.

Mario Kart World - Also good and fun. The ribbon tracks (rather than circuits) and having 24 karts on track might not make it a better game but they do make it distinct from MK8.

Old games! I haven’t had access to all the old game libraries before (on the Switch, I do have access to most of these on my 35XX) and it’s nice to be able to jump into some old classics whenever I feel like.

I am absolutely hooked on Wind Waker. It was always one of my favourite games but it’s been at least ten years since I last played it. It still holds up and it still looks gorgeous. The ever shifting colours of sky and sea look incredible on modern TVs.

Paper Mario - I recently wrapped up Origami King and it was so good that I thought I’d try the N64 Paper Mario. It’s quite basic in comparison but it’s still good and nice when you want something less high energy than Donkey Kong.

UFO 50 means that I have another library of games on here. And these are all new! Some of them are fucking weird. I haven’t put the time into them that I need to.

Celeste - less that £5 in the sale, I though I’d like to have it on console and I am now half way through. I have collected over 50 strawberries and I have died over 1000 times. I thought I’d have to retrain my thumbs to play it again but it looks like my muscles still remember from three years ago and I’m finding this play through much easier than that first one. (The 1000 deaths are mostly because of me trying to get some really difficult strawberries along the way). No joke, I think this might be The Best Videogame.

Talking of best, I realised the other day that almost all of my favourite games are right there on the Switch now. I bought No Man’s Sky for Switch, the Personas, Celeste, Portal 1&2, Mass Effect. All it needs is Half-Life and Earth Defence Force…

There are two EDF games on Switch: World Brothers and World Brothers 2. I think possibly also a couple of games that are only out in Japan. The whole series confuses me though so I have no idea whether those are good ones or not.

We spent an enjoyable couple of hours playing Soul Calibur 2 on the GameCube emulator the other night, that really holds up well. Shame half the characters are locked behind the single-player mode though, that feels like a chore given that we just want to beat each other up in versus mode.

Terms like "good" "bad" and "cheap shovelware" lose all meaning in the EDF franchise. I think world brothers are ones where they remade EDF with voxels.

Yeah, none of them are good in any conventional understanding of the word. The question with the EDF games is whether you are the kind of person who can enjoy them anyway.

I would also argue that you don't ever need to play more than one EDF game in your life. I say this as someone who, for reasons I don't begin to understand, owns about a dozen of them, across multiple formats.

In some ways I feel that the EDF games are more honest about what a videogame is than most.

Random Switch 2 upgrade dropped for Easy Come, Easy Golf which despite the terrible terrible name has always been a pretty good entry in the Everybody's Golf series. It ran pretty badly on Switch 1 but it's now got a 60fps mode and a resolution bump as well as a bunch of new features, and is really rather nice.

Bizarre that they dropped this patch on the very same day a new entry in the series landed, but it means I can just play the one I've already got rather than splashing out on a new one I guess.

Apparently the new game isn't developed by Clap Hanz, so the 60fps patch seems like a tiny lil' fuck you to the new devs.

I think the history is:

Camelot made the first Mario Golf game.
Lots of Camelot devs left to form Clap Hanz.
What was left of Camelot kept banging out Mario Golf games.
Clap Hanz made all the Everybody's Golf games, until…
It got booted off them by the publisher. It then released its own, off-brand version (Easy Come, Easy Golf)
New developer (Hyde) released the next 'official' Everybody's Golf.

That makes sense.

Apparently the new one is a slightly worse version of the PS3 game and has terrible performance on pretty much every platform, so I think I'll stick with Clap Hanz for now.

I'm absolutely hooked on the 'did they/didn't they use AI or just a Tree Gen program' drama

These are great. Yes, it's a tenner to fix a problem that Nintendo should have fixed themselves (awkward thumbsticks) but fix it they do. Recommended if you spend any time playing in handheld.

GAME do a decent set of generic ones for 2.99 I use on the Switch and Ally (would probably fit the Switch 2). But those ones in particular are lovely - the indented ones from Skull and Co improve any pad a huge amount.

When do we think we will see new/different or coloured joycons for Switch 2?