You could try the demo for the recent "Piczle Colors".
On the core it's a picross game but with some small twists to the rules.
It supports touchscreen and it has 300 puzzles.
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You could try the demo for the recent "Piczle Colors".
On the core it's a picross game but with some small twists to the rules.
It supports touchscreen and it has 300 puzzles.
Sure thing! I'll be interested to read your impressions since I know that we are both looking for some similar things in anything resembling a Zelda adventure, based on our shared enjoyment of Elliot Quest.
This sounds absolutely brilliant. Your review has me so intrigued. I have looked at a few YouTube vids since then and it looks really fun. I have not been passionate about football for a long time now (the last management game i played was Championship Manager 93/94 on the Amiga, which was one of my all time faves), but this looks like it could get me back in the fold.
Does the game offer a good challenge? I did not realise that the number of action sequencers you get to perform where related to player skill etc. That's a really clever mechanic. Are there other ones that really emphasize the importance of having skilled players in your ranks (rather than just you being good at the action sequences if that makes sense?)
Hope you don't mind the questions, but i'm struggling to find many resources for the Switch version.
At this time of the season, you're fucked up. Basically, you have two options. Starting a new save file, using your previous knowledge of the game for a better management. Or waiting until the season ends. All the players will star fresh in season 3, and the best part, you will probably obtain a better sponsor thanks to the better position in the classification, so more money.
Be aware that like in real life soccer, for a small club with a tight budget, the most complicated part is how to administrate your resources and players to survive an entire season.
Some tips, for not relying in energy cards:
- You have an intensity meter in each match than can be adjusted, and depending on the intensity, the players will spend more or less energy. If in the first half of a match you are able to score three goals, maybe it's a good idea to reduce the intensity and changing to a defensive approach to compensate.
- Always use at least 2 of your 3 possible player changes in each match, reserving one for a possible injury.
- Study your next rival and make rotations. It's cool to always play with the better player, but if you always use the same players, it doesn't matter how much energy cards you have, they will not resist an entire season. So if you are facing a weak rival with shitty players, don't use the best ones.
- You can obtain achievements prizes for completing objetives in your manager profile. Be sure to always claim them to obtain new cards.
- It's important to know what are the letters for each position in the play field. The two first letters are indicating the role of the player (attacker, defender or midfield player). And the next letters are indicating in which position he can play. Some players can only play in a position, for example in the center. But other players can play in two positions (center an left, or center and right), and it's marked with two letters for the two different positions instead of one. When you buy new players, try to prioritize the ones who can play in two positions. You will have more margin for making rotations.
- The card of the motivational talk is one the most useful. If you success in the mini-game, it will increase the energy of the 11 players. Use it wisely.
- Reserve your energy cards only for extreme situations in the later game.
- You're a small team. It depends on which country you have selected. But for example, in Spain, you start in the B4 league. Playing the national cup will make you face rivals of 4 leagues behind you. A B4 team is not intended to win to a team of the main competition like the FC Barcelona with players that will destroy you. So don't waste your resources selecting the best players for the cup, reserving them for the league instead. The same can be said of the intensity meter. Don' waste an insane amount of energy in a national cup match, playing an entire match with the maximum intensity only to have a small chance of survive.
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More than action sections, you are playing live strategy sections. Think in 'Valkyria Chronicles', but with soccer players instead of soldiers. Indeed, while you can take direct control of a player with the stick and move him around the play field, it's feasible to score goals by only using the turn based actions. And the only live action is to move a player. Once you stop using the trigger button to run, the time will freeze. So you can decide if you want to pass the ball to other player, or making a direct shoot.
Also, you can only play a limited number of live sections in each match, and these live sections are the only way of scoring a goal. Defensive actions can't be played. This implies that as much as'New Star Manager' is disguised of an "action" game, it's 100% a strategy and management game.
If you don't create a good strategy before a match, instead of generating live actions in which you can score a goal, you will receive goals.
And as you can read in my previous post, it's very easy to fuck up the things, reaching a point into a season in which your players are exhausted. Depending on how much intensity you select for each match, you will create more goal opportunities (strategy live sections) but you will also consume more energy.
The balance of the game is the finest part. Every single match is fascinating and so damn satisfactory, thanks to this live strategy sections.
The type of situations that the game can generate are on par with the turns of 'Into the Breach'.
So damn good.
It's like PC Futbol, then!
J/k but man, that sounds so much more interesting and fun than football manager to me. Think I'll grab it when it gets a discount, though, i really can't afford more games now.
This is incredibly helpful! I was especially confused about the abbreviations for positions. I wish they would've better explained that. Thanks so much for the tips!
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I don't know if Epilexia is getting this or not, but I'll get it right now. This looks awesome ^_^
Picross S2 probably. Pic-A-Pix is fun too though it has worse presentation but lots of great cheap DLC, including really huge puzzles that aren't in the Nintendo versions.
One last question regarding this game -
I was about to buy it when i read a review that criticized it for being far too easy and offering no challenge. Apparently the lack of any timers etc when trying to score a goal meant that you can score with almost every opportunity. The reviewer stated that they did not even so much as draw a game until they got to league 2. Did you find yourself in a similar situation?
Thanks again.
I have found Steam reviews with both opinions, some people complaining about the game being too easy, and some people complaining about the game being too hard.
People complaining about this being easy, probably haven't advanced into the middle of the second season (after the first tutorial season consisting of 4 matches).
The game has been fine tuned as an experience in which with every new division, the difficulty will rise.
With the starter players, you have a good enough team to win the B4 league.
But then, you need to ascend to the B3 league, the B2 league, the B league, the A league, and then trying to win the Champions league.
It doesn't matter if at the end you are able to domain the live sections as to mark a goal in every action. When the difficulty escalates and against a team with better players, you may only generate 2 to 4 occasions for match, and this is only if you select a strategy for attacking with maximum risk. But with this strategy against a stronger team, you can easily receive 2 to 3 goals.
In my experience, it's not always possible to score goals in the live sections. I have found them with a perfect balance: you always have the feeling that you can score the goal, even when you fail. And you will fail a lot of opportunities. Because sometimes your player can make a mistake, or the goalkeeper can take the ball, and you're done.
I have experienced some fascinating matches in the second season, specially in the national cup in which you will face teams of the upper divisions.
I remember a match in which over the limit of the time, I was able to win 3-4 in the second half of the 30 min extension of the match.
And this required to maximize the effort bar of my players until the maximum, in a way in which in the next match, they were exhausted, so my performance on the league was severely affected.
I remember other match in the league, in which I was only able to obtain 2-2 after increasing the effort to the maximum in the last 5 minutes, selecting an attack strategy... and dramatically scoring the goal after two shoots to the poles and after losing a ball in a dribbling against other player. At the end, the goal felt like a damn miracle.
So the truth is that the beginning of the game (the first tutorial section, and first half of the second season) is easy once you learn how to play, but not too easy: I enjoyed of every live action A LOT. And I also failed like the 25% of the actions in this part, which is intended to be easy.
Then, in the half of the second season, a lot of people will find the opposite: they didn't do a good management of their resources, so the players are without energy.
And in the third season in the B3 league, you will be forced to create a very smart strategy buying and selling players with a tight budget, or you're done.
The game reaches a point in which every match is a challenge. And you really have the feeling of being a small and humble team without money and resources, in which every small decision can decide a complete season.
And with the live actions being increasingly more hard the more you advance.
Nope, no real players.
(Sorry for the double post, I didn't see the notification while I was writing the previous message, to also include this reply in the same post)
Great reply there. Thanks for taking the time to write all of that. I will be defiinately picking it up. It sounds like the perfect balance for what I am after.
People interested in New Star Manager should download the mobile version (which is free) to get a feel. It's pretty much the same game, except with ads and microtransactions. You can actually play a lot without even touching microtransactions.
It's a fun and addictive game, like New Star Soccer, but I personally don't think it's worth $20. It's a game that will have you glued to the screen for a few days, until you start noticing how the game is just guiding you through the grind. You will manage energy, build the club in a rather straightforward path, use a few cards to improve players, etc. Not super deep in terms of management and tactics, but it's fun when you take control in the pitch.
If you really like football, Football Manager 2019 is a much better game, and it's on sale.
It's a fun and addictive game, like New Star Soccer, but I personally don't think it's worth $20. It's a game that will have you glued to the screen for a few days, until you start noticing how the game is just guiding you through the grind. You will manage energy, build the club in a rather straightforward path, use a few cards to improve players, etc. Not super deep in terms of management and tactics, but it's fun when you take control in the pitch.
If you really like football, Football Manager 2019 is a much better game, and it's on sale.
Have you played the Switch version to judge the balance of the game?
It's completely different to the mobile version, which is intended as a pay 2 win game.
Indeed, the management part is much more complex and tricky that it may seen at a first glance, but in the mobile version you can bruteforce the game to win by buying new cards with money.
So as much as you spend money in cards, you're not forced to investigate and delve into all the layers of strategy that the game offers. Why to make rotations in your team, if you can always play with the best players?
Trying to compare 'Football Manager' with 'New Star Manager' is like trying to compare apples with oranges, or like to compare 'Gran Turismo' with 'Mario Kart'.
One is focused in being a complex simulator with hundreds of options, it has real licenses. The other one is centered in offering only the fun parts, and intended to be enjoyed from the first minute without going depth into the mechanics, but it's hard to master.
Plus the live strategy actions offer a completely different mechanic with its own flavor.
And contrary to 'Football Manager' which in Switch suffers from laggy menus or a not so great touch interface, all the UI, the touch controls and the performance are on point in this Switch version of 'New Star Manager'.
Plus you can play the action sections with a controller, something not present in the mobile version. Plus a lot more of adjustments, or new features like nightly matches.
Also, a reminder that the 'New Star Soccer' series started as a PC game in the 4 first entries, and it was later ported to mobiles.
I respect a lot to 'Football Manager'.
But there is a market for two games, one being more accesible and the other one more realistic. In the same way as we have arcade racers and real driving simulators.
Maybe the people who enjoy 'Mario Kart' will not have the patience to enjoy 'Assetto Corsa'.
Regarding Escape Doodland, I got the game and played five of its ten stages. It's Bit Trip Runner on drugs with great and very adequate music! I can tell I'll beat it quickly, but it's very fun to play and whenever you clear a stage, you unlock a harder version of it with no checkpoints at all.
You're constantly running and of course you can jump, but there are some extra moves you can use when you collect items through the stage. One of them is... well, if the monster that constantly chases you is too close, you can fart in its face to slow it down a bit. You can also double jump and "fart jump" (which sends you up like a rocket).
I wouldn't recommend it at full price because it might be too short, but at one dollar? Definitely worth it if you have any interest in games like Bit Trip Runner.
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Thanks for the recommendation! Giving that this is distributed by QubicGames, it will be on sale at €0.99 every few months, so I think that I will pass, and maybe get the game in a future sale. The art styles seems nice, but in the videos it doesn't look as an essential in the genre (but I can be wrong).
In April I expect to satiate my thirst for running games with 'Bubsy: Pawns of Fire', which seems an even more wild and demented version of 'Runner3', with the same bad taste in its humor until the point of obtaining a M rating.
I love when Choice Provisions decide to abuse of drugs, they have become the 80s' Peter Jackson of video games, with some doses of John Waters.
Not for the faint of hearth.
And yeah, I'm still waiting for a port of 'Race the Sun'. My Switch will never have a perfect and rounded library without the GOAT endless runner.
I didn't really play the Switch version, but I don't have too, since my post wasn't really about the balance. I'm sure the Switch version is a lot more generous with consumables. I mean, that's a given considering they are charging $20.
But it's the same game, the same structure. My point is only that the mobile version will give a precise idea of what the game is about, so why not give it a shot? In fact, you can play that version for hours and hours with a steady pace. The economy only starts giving you trouble much later into the game.
The management aspect is just the game guiding you through the motions. Very strict path progression. Like I said, it's fun, but not super deep.
And I agree with you that NSM and FM are very different games. They are, however, comparable in a broader sense. Considering they have similar price points, I think FM offers a whole lot more for the price. But indeed, it's far more complex and not for everyone.
At $10 I feel the game would be an easier recommendation from me. But again, I do recommend people giving the mobile version a try if they are on the fence, it might just be one's cup of tea.
Thanks! Glad to see Towerfall Ascension finally getting a discount, might grab it.
That Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection 'sale' at 35 euro is laughable though, that is the standard price for the US and Canada as it is now without the 30% discount, ah well.
Hope that eshop sale hits NA too.... Diablo is probably the last thing I need as far as effectively using my time goes, but I'd be interested in picking it up at $40...........
It's ridiculous we don't have them yet.
Switch now has a longer gap between launch and folder implementation (~23 months) than the 3DS (~14 months) and Wii U (~22 months). The newer the system, the longer the wait. Also can't be understated how vital eShop downloads have become on Switch, compared to how Nintendo was just finding its digital footing with 3DS/Wii U, and yet we're waiting longer than ever for folders despite the greater need.
This year's gotta be the year though... right?
Honestly I'd even be mostly happy with an option to not have the list of games re-sort itself and just stay in a fixed order. And also to open directly to the full list rather than scrolling to the far right every time.
I'd welcome these additions with wide open arms. In a perfect world, we'd have a host of organizational options at our disposal by now, but this is Nintendo, operating at their own glacial pace with zero urgency for basic UI improvements.
It's expected yet infuriating at this point. :/
Man, this Escape Doodland game is super fun. It's weird from the start, but it gets nuts later on. The fishes in the underwater levels are pure nightmare fuel.
So I'm starting Disgaea 5 and I was wondering at what point would be optimal utilize the special content and take the money, extra scenarios and download the extra classes? Should I wait till I finish the story first? Do as soon as possible? Or does it even matter?
You're free to use any of it whenever you want, but it's meant for post game stuff.
Man, this Escape Doodland game is super fun. It's weird from the start, but it gets nuts later on. The fishes in the underwater levels are pure nightmare fuel.
Damn, this screen alone has sold me the game more than any of the videos that I watched this morning.
I like Binding of Isaac way, way, way more than I probably should. Got it during the $20 sale and wow. I haven't had this much fun with an action rogue-like since I first played Rogue Legacy.
Nintendo Life says 'to the moon' may come to switch.
I never played this game, it seems incredible. The trailer alone is a tear jerker lol.
I never played this game, it seems incredible. The trailer alone is a tear jerker lol.
What the problem with those games where killing humans is ok, but not dogs? First Mark of the Ninja, then Wargroove. Let me kill dogs god dammit.
Thanks. Side by side it's easy to spot differences, but honestly for someone like me who grew up in the 80's, it's the exact same game. Is it a walking simulator, or is there some gameplay? I don't want to watch to much on youtube to avoid being spoiled, but I absolutely dig the mood of the game. However, I finished Gris and Transistor in January and hated both because of style over substance basically, so I'm kind of burned with game where gameplay ain't the focus of the developers.
I never played it. Looks great.
Ten hours played now, it is so addictive, though I only killed the mom once so far cause I'm terrible at it
All of my friends are super into Isaac. I feel like a sad, sad man because the game never clicked for me :(
Meanwhile, still having tons of fun with Shining Resonance while all of my friends think it's just OK.
What the hell is wrong with me?
Meanwhile, still having tons of fun with Shining Resonance while all of my friends think it's just OK.
What the hell is wrong with me?
what is wrong with you? :P
also I was excited to see Cinders appear under the Coming Soon tab on eShop, I didn't know that was getting ported
You are a person who are able to be yourself. Stay that way.
BTW, I will probably get Shining Resonance in the future. I am indifferent to Tony's art, but JRPG is still my favorite genre. Glad you like the game.
Phantasy Star if you're into old school RPGs. It's one of the best from that era imo.