The new Samus Dread game will wrap up the story arc started with the original Metroid. This can mean only one thing:
When you beat the game Samus takes off her helmet and it transpires that in the last 35 years she has now become a trans man, taking the 'story arc' full circle.
Well Nintendo was meh mostly. Another barren year for switch for me.
You're doing it wrong. I've bought 50 games in the past few weeks. You need a huge sd card and get the dozens of great indie games. I keep telling people, there a YouTube channel Switch UP, which does video reviews of virtually every indie game. There's awesome stuff, I still haven't come close to getting everything worth getting. Games like Moon lighter, Children of Morta, Dead Cells etc. And they're perfect to play portable, in bed and on the big screen. You need to load up your wishlist on the shop, check once a week and get them when on sale. I'm going to buy 9 games in the sale tommorow and there are still dozens more on my list.
Stardew Valley is excellent. Best Harvest Moon in years. The character portraits are kind of rough, but other than that it's great. And with all the updates the dev has done over the years, it's super rich in content.
Bloodstained is good. Still felt like a bit of a letdown and not as good as the Castlevania games that inspired it. The first Guacamelee is actually a better metroidvania game in my opinion.
Try the SteamWorld games too if they're available. They're awesome.
Hollow Knight is quite good too if you haven't gotten around to it yet.
Steam World and Guacamelee are both on sale on switch now.
Speaking with The Verge, Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser said that the developers at Nintendo “absolutely have plans going forward” and asked fans to be on the lookout “for more to come.”
Hollow Knight is amazing. I just beat it with 98% completion (with a handful or less of wiki uses). I'm hoping that its replayability is high, but with how long it is, I'm unfortunately skeptical.
Shovel Knight is a possibility, but I'm more into metroidvanias, and it looks more like Mega Man, which I've never been into.
Steam World reminds me of Spelunky, which didn't hold my interest for long, despite the appealing concept.
Guacamelee might scratch my metroidvania itch. There are a few I'm looking at (such as Bloodstained and Blasphemous).
What I'd like to do is get everything non-Nintendo on Xbox because it's my main platform and I want backward compatibility. The only catch there is that I've heard about people permanently losing access to their entire Microsoft accounts for tiny things (even unrelated to gaming), and this is concerning. Less of an issue with Nintendo, but they're unreliable for backward compatibility. *shrug*
SteamWorld Dig is kind of its own thing. aside from being underground, there really aren't any similarities Splunky. SteamWorld Dig 2 actually incorporated Metroidvania elements and probably fits that genre more than any other.
That said, trust me, Guacamolee is the way to go if you're looking for anything in that arena. It focuses more on platforming than others in the genre, but it gives you a huge world and two dimensions to explore. And you get to go to hell, so that's fun.
Got to love it. Just as a huge Switch sale drops, Nintendos new firmware means I and many others cannot actually download games we've purchased. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-06-18-a-week-on-some-nintendo-switch-users-say-theyre-still-unable-to-download-games-and-updates
BTW Hades and Fire watch also on sale. And I finally got the E3 announcement I wanted, Enigmatis is coming to switch in 6 days time. Hopefully it means 3 will be ported and earlier games in Artifex Mundi games back catalogue get ported.
Yeah, I only updated this morning, thinking Nintendo would have solved it by now. Nope.
They pulled the update and then reinstated it. So you shouldn't have had the problem, weird. I read about and deliberately didn't install the update. But then the switch just automatically installed it when it was in sleep mode. 😑
BTW all the Square Enix games are on sale. FF the Zodiac age and FFXII remastered are 50% off.
Today I've bought 9 games:
Afterparty
Oxenfree
True Fear Forsaken Souls 1
True Fear Forsaken Souls 2
Metro Last Light Redux
Firewatch
The Journey Down Trilogy
I'm trying to decide between:
Paradise Killer (open world murder mystery)
Children of Morta
Dust an Elysian Tale (awesome looking combat platformer)
Sundered (epic looking metroidvania)
Roki (Well received graphic adventure)
Dead Cells (excellent Rogue like)
Darkestville Castle (funny graphic adventure)
The Dark eye Chains of Satinav (Daedalic graphic adventure)
Bioshock Infinite
EDIT: I chose Darkestville Castle and The Dark Eye Chains of Satinav, both graphic adventures.
Lego Mario airship announced:
Looks pretty cool
The new Samus Dread game will wrap up the story arc started with the original Metroid. This can mean only one thing:
When you beat the game Samus takes off her helmet and it transpires that in the last 35 years she has now become a trans man, taking the 'story arc' full circle.
You're doing it wrong. I've bought 50 games in the past few weeks. You need a huge sd card and get the dozens of great indie games. I keep telling people, there a YouTube channel Switch UP, which does video reviews of virtually every indie game. There's awesome stuff, I still haven't come close to getting everything worth getting. Games like Moon lighter, Children of Morta, Dead Cells etc. And they're perfect to play portable, in bed and on the big screen. You need to load up your wishlist on the shop, check once a week and get them when on sale. I'm going to buy 9 games in the sale tommorow and there are still dozens more on my list.
Steam World and Guacamelee are both on sale on switch now.Bowser on Animal Crossing New Horizons
I miss Reggie. We never see Doug Bowser. I’m starting to question if he ever really existed.
Shovel Knight is a possibility, but I'm more into metroidvanias, and it looks more like Mega Man, which I've never been into.
Steam World reminds me of Spelunky, which didn't hold my interest for long, despite the appealing concept.
Guacamelee might scratch my metroidvania itch. There are a few I'm looking at (such as Bloodstained and Blasphemous).
What I'd like to do is get everything non-Nintendo on Xbox because it's my main platform and I want backward compatibility. The only catch there is that I've heard about people permanently losing access to their entire Microsoft accounts for tiny things (even unrelated to gaming), and this is concerning. Less of an issue with Nintendo, but they're unreliable for backward compatibility. *shrug*
That said, trust me, Guacamolee is the way to go if you're looking for anything in that arena. It focuses more on platforming than others in the genre, but it gives you a huge world and two dimensions to explore. And you get to go to hell, so that's fun.
Probably busy playing Mother 3 and StarTropics 3. That son of bitch.
I heard Reggie is secretly working for Valve and has been playing Haf-Life 3. 😡
According to something I saw on reddit, he's even playing those games on a Switch Pro.Damn you Reggie!
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-06-18-a-week-on-some-nintendo-switch-users-say-theyre-still-unable-to-download-games-and-updates
Yeah, I only updated this morning, thinking Nintendo would have solved it by now. Nope.
They pulled the update and then reinstated it. So you shouldn't have had the problem, weird. I read about and deliberately didn't install the update. But then the switch just automatically installed it when it was in sleep mode. 😑Today I've bought 9 games:
Afterparty
Oxenfree
True Fear Forsaken Souls 1
True Fear Forsaken Souls 2
Metro Last Light Redux
Firewatch
The Journey Down Trilogy
I'm trying to decide between:
Paradise Killer (open world murder mystery)
Children of Morta
Dust an Elysian Tale (awesome looking combat platformer)
Sundered (epic looking metroidvania)
Roki (Well received graphic adventure)
Dead Cells (excellent Rogue like)
Darkestville Castle (funny graphic adventure)
The Dark eye Chains of Satinav (Daedalic graphic adventure)
Bioshock Infinite
EDIT: I chose Darkestville Castle and The Dark Eye Chains of Satinav, both graphic adventures.
One of the best Metroidvania's! Like Hollowknight, but more puzzely and more variety