A bit... ok VERY annoyed that Tales of Vesperia is on sale everywhere but the Switch.
Namco pls
Namco pls
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Nintendo eShop - May 2019
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It's great! However, I was about to post how good it looks in 1080p and the frame rate is really good, but I see posts from February saying a patch completely decimated the FPS and it was a bug. I have not played since last fall so not sure if that's been fixed.
But if it has been fixed, I love this game and it's WONDERFUL on Switch :)
I originally was going to get it day one due to my love of Rogue-Likes and Lovecraft but something about the game play is off pudding to me.
The shooting mechanics and movement in game play videos seem odd...stiff. As far as the detective is concerned, it looks like he can only aim in four directions which rubs me the wrong way.
Don't get me wrong, I want this game but I think I'll sit it out until I get a hands on impression or it get's a price drop.
Xeno-V
Are you both talking about Wonder Boy, i.e the Dragon's Trap remake? In at least one of these two posts it sounds like it's Monster Boy that's being referred to maybe.
Are you both talking about Wonder Boy, i.e the Dragon's Trap remake? In at least one of these two posts it sounds like it's Monster Boy that's being referred to maybe.
Awesome! If you do end up getting it let me know, also NateDrake said the patch is coming next week. I don't want to rub it in but this weekend for me is all about the Mueca festival in Puerto de la Cruz ;)
Gotta agree with you on owl boy. the game isn't definitely bland. Its one of those games i had to take breaks from.
One of my favorite shooters on the eShop. But it is definitely hard and RNG plays a part in how easy a time you will have with certain runs. I put more than 30 hours into that one.
Does anyone want to make a case for songbringer and tangledeep? Both are on sale in au and have been catching my eye for a while.
Tangledeep is a community favorite, and I think you will get a lot of good feedback. I am not sure anyone played Songbringer.
But Songbringer is well liked on PC and it looks cool, so go for it.
I got Odallus on sale in NA, I have it on PC but it seems like it would be better suited on portable and I honestly barely use my PC for indie games. I also got Lovercraft untold, looking forward to that as well.
But Attack on Titan 2 demo caught me good, now I regret not buying it on clearance at Target for $17 last month. It's legit good, even not knowing much about the the Anime. The movement is cool, targeting big titans and lopping off parts is fun. Going to see if I can go cart.
Tangledeep is amazing. Heartily recommend. It'll be up there for my GotY, let alone indie of the year.
- Charming SNES-era pixel art and OST (listen if you need convincing).
- Fine-tunable difficulty settings that make it perfect for beginners, veterans, and challenge runners alike. (Among the options, you can turn perma-death on or off. On is the intended experience.)
- Deep character build customization. Enjoy the job systems of FFV, FFT, Bravely, Octopath, etc? Tangledeep's is similar, with 12 jobs, just condensed into one character. Mix-and-match job abilities as much as you want to create unique builds. (Creating job builds is so fun that I looked forward to dying with perma-death on. Big accomplishment there.)
- Addicting looter experience. There are 10+ weapon types and several armor types (all with differentiating effects), and although item drops are randomized, you can upgrade and customize your equipment by completing item dreams (think Disgaea: going into the item and completing a dungeon to upgrade it).
- Monster taming and breeding! Can tame whatever you want, and breed the various monster families together to create particularly powerful pets. (Optional, though. If you aren't into that, you don't have to engage with it. But it's really helpful.)
- Gameplay is very much the focus, but its story will take ~10hrs without restarting. The game's writing is charming.
- Playing with perma-death on, there's all sorts of meta progression between each run: you keep banked items and gold, as well as your garden and — crucially — pets. (Breed a powerful pet and it'll basically be able to carry you on subsequent runs.)
I think you may have just sold me on it! What difficulty do you recommend starting on?
The difficulty options are related to perma-death: Adventure (no perma-death), Heroic (perma-death), and Hardcore (perma-death and no meta progression).
If you're a veteran of JRPGs, I'd say go with Heroic; it's the intended mode of play, and like I said, I viewed the game's perma-death as a welcome opportunity to try new things. If you're less adept, or are looking to have a more carefree experience, start out with Adventure mode.
Outside of those options, you'll see a bunch of optional toggles at the start, which you can enable or not as you see fit (stuff like 'Free Job Changes' or 'Recover Health/Stamina/Energy outside battle'). I'd suggest going vanilla at first with none of those, but they can spice up future runs.
The game isn't super difficult by default once you figure its mechanics out, although you have to play strategically sometimes, versus named monsters or the story bosses. There are things called Pandora's Boxes (big golden treasure chests) that, if walked over, give good rewards but permanently increase the strength of all enemies in the game (for that character's run). I'd recommend never opening those unless you're challenge seeking later, because they can add up quick. If you are looking to test yourself later, there's always NG+, which drastically ramps up enemy strength while weakening you.
(First thing I'd recommend doing on startup is going into the character menu's options tab and looking around. Definitely turn "Confirm Analog Movement" OFF. It's on by default — or at least it was when I started — and it makes navigation seem slow and unintuitive, but when it's off it's just as snappy as you'd expect.)
Yeah, this was a Vita launch game, wasn't it. Totally forgot it was Drinkbox.
First play through of tangledeep on heroic lasted me about an hour.
I started with the summoner job and just got too cocky. I do enjoy how the game over screens shows you some tips where you stuffed up.
Still trying to get my head around the UI, and all the menus. Overall I'm really enjoying it, it's giving me dungeons of dredmore vibes.
Now to decide what class to try next.
I started with the summoner job and just got too cocky. I do enjoy how the game over screens shows you some tips where you stuffed up.
Still trying to get my head around the UI, and all the menus. Overall I'm really enjoying it, it's giving me dungeons of dredmore vibes.
Now to decide what class to try next.
For people like Arturo and The 8-Bit Raider , asking how is 'Lovecraft's Untold Stories', here are my impressions.
First thing, the Switch port.
In portable mode, the size of the sprites is really small. Instead of creating two adapted resolutions, one with a bigger screen size for the docked mode, and one zooming the camera for the portable mode... they have used the same resolution and zoom.
This is disappointing, because they are using a completely different size and camera zoom in the screenshots of the eShop, that are indeed adapted to how the game should be displayed in portable mode.
In these eShop screenshots you will see bigger sprites, a readable map, you can distinguish the small objects... it's like they have created an adapted resolution for the portable mode, but they haven't implemented this in the final build.
So this is by far my major complaint of this version: not having a zoom button to have a closer view in portable mode.
My second complaint is how poor is the implementation of the save function for a game designed for a portable console.
The game is divided in chapters, and they are really long. Much longer than your normal floor in other roguelites such as 'The Binding of Isaac'. Also, the game has a much slower pace, because the developers have put a lot of attention in creating a setting which feels close to the Lovecraft's universe. In a way in which the exploration and the investigation parts have a bigger weigh than the combat. Plus in each chapter's map there is a lot of backtracking. If for example you reach a distant corner of the map and you want to explore other zones of the chapter, you will need to go back through the previous visited rooms.
I was at the end of the chapter 1, with only a few rooms to explore in a distant corner of the map.
Exhausted, I decided to pause the game. I selected the option of returning to the menu.
In the menu, there are two options, one for a new game and the other one to continue your previous walkthrough.
I selected to continue... and instead of saving my actual run, the game took me back to the start of the first chapter.
So this continue option will always take you to the start of the current chapter. And you never should return to the menu or closing the game if you haven't finished the current chapter, if you don't want to lose your progress. But this is never specified by the game.
And how about the implementation of HD rumble or any type of rumble? Nope. There is no rumble in this game.
Outside of the quality of the Switch port, the game is okay.
The roguelite part is redundant, and it's a game that should have worked much better without randomized parts. Because the only randomized part is the layout of the maps, with the prologue of each chapter being fixed.
And the permadeath is not as punishing, because after each death the game will give you an option to start from the beginning of each chapter, with the same stats and objects that you had in your inventory after completing the previous chapter.
I miss more randomized parts. There are events tied to the exploration part that can randomly appear in each chapter. But they always have the same scripted events. So at the end, it's only a question of memorizing through subsequent runs which is the correct option to select in the menu. For example, you find a voodoo doll, the game gives you various options to interact. One will decrease your life meter, the other one will increase it. But always having a fixed solution for this will eliminate the risk-reward part that is essential in a good designed roguelite.
The combat is by far the worst part, it works in a similar way to 'Hotline Miami', with the difference that giving how dark is the map, there are not as much strategies that you can use to fight the enemies. So at the end, you are shooting cultist in dark corners of the room, and when you receive damage or you kill them, you never will have a sense of accomplishment or of being good playing the game. Nothing to see with the superb combats in games like 'Nuclear Throne'. And how confusing can result the combat is only accentuated by how small are the sprites in portable mode.
To be fair, the combat doesn't pretend to be the main focus of the game. A lot of the rooms are empty and without enemies, and it's a game more about how you manage your resources and items to survive.
The development team has been smart enough to understand what are the strengths of the game, and with a limited budget and resources they have been able to create a roguelite with a distinctive flavor, much more centered in the exploration part. And they have really nailed the Lovecraft setting. With a lot of references and homages to his stories. With a really ambitious use of its pixel art, including an overwhelmingly variety of assets. In which even the more small and subtle details have been taken into account to construct each scenario.
Nothing revolutionary, not a genre defining game. And a game that it's much more enjoyable in docked mode, due to the too damn small sprites. But it's also a game with its own personality and nailing the Lovecraftian setting. Until a point in which this will result in the only objective audience for the game: people who are super into Lovecraft's novels.
First thing, the Switch port.
In portable mode, the size of the sprites is really small. Instead of creating two adapted resolutions, one with a bigger screen size for the docked mode, and one zooming the camera for the portable mode... they have used the same resolution and zoom.
This is disappointing, because they are using a completely different size and camera zoom in the screenshots of the eShop, that are indeed adapted to how the game should be displayed in portable mode.
In these eShop screenshots you will see bigger sprites, a readable map, you can distinguish the small objects... it's like they have created an adapted resolution for the portable mode, but they haven't implemented this in the final build.
So this is by far my major complaint of this version: not having a zoom button to have a closer view in portable mode.
My second complaint is how poor is the implementation of the save function for a game designed for a portable console.
The game is divided in chapters, and they are really long. Much longer than your normal floor in other roguelites such as 'The Binding of Isaac'. Also, the game has a much slower pace, because the developers have put a lot of attention in creating a setting which feels close to the Lovecraft's universe. In a way in which the exploration and the investigation parts have a bigger weigh than the combat. Plus in each chapter's map there is a lot of backtracking. If for example you reach a distant corner of the map and you want to explore other zones of the chapter, you will need to go back through the previous visited rooms.
I was at the end of the chapter 1, with only a few rooms to explore in a distant corner of the map.
Exhausted, I decided to pause the game. I selected the option of returning to the menu.
In the menu, there are two options, one for a new game and the other one to continue your previous walkthrough.
I selected to continue... and instead of saving my actual run, the game took me back to the start of the first chapter.
So this continue option will always take you to the start of the current chapter. And you never should return to the menu or closing the game if you haven't finished the current chapter, if you don't want to lose your progress. But this is never specified by the game.
And how about the implementation of HD rumble or any type of rumble? Nope. There is no rumble in this game.
Outside of the quality of the Switch port, the game is okay.
The roguelite part is redundant, and it's a game that should have worked much better without randomized parts. Because the only randomized part is the layout of the maps, with the prologue of each chapter being fixed.
And the permadeath is not as punishing, because after each death the game will give you an option to start from the beginning of each chapter, with the same stats and objects that you had in your inventory after completing the previous chapter.
I miss more randomized parts. There are events tied to the exploration part that can randomly appear in each chapter. But they always have the same scripted events. So at the end, it's only a question of memorizing through subsequent runs which is the correct option to select in the menu. For example, you find a voodoo doll, the game gives you various options to interact. One will decrease your life meter, the other one will increase it. But always having a fixed solution for this will eliminate the risk-reward part that is essential in a good designed roguelite.
The combat is by far the worst part, it works in a similar way to 'Hotline Miami', with the difference that giving how dark is the map, there are not as much strategies that you can use to fight the enemies. So at the end, you are shooting cultist in dark corners of the room, and when you receive damage or you kill them, you never will have a sense of accomplishment or of being good playing the game. Nothing to see with the superb combats in games like 'Nuclear Throne'. And how confusing can result the combat is only accentuated by how small are the sprites in portable mode.
To be fair, the combat doesn't pretend to be the main focus of the game. A lot of the rooms are empty and without enemies, and it's a game more about how you manage your resources and items to survive.
The development team has been smart enough to understand what are the strengths of the game, and with a limited budget and resources they have been able to create a roguelite with a distinctive flavor, much more centered in the exploration part. And they have really nailed the Lovecraft setting. With a lot of references and homages to his stories. With a really ambitious use of its pixel art, including an overwhelmingly variety of assets. In which even the more small and subtle details have been taken into account to construct each scenario.
Nothing revolutionary, not a genre defining game. And a game that it's much more enjoyable in docked mode, due to the too damn small sprites. But it's also a game with its own personality and nailing the Lovecraftian setting. Until a point in which this will result in the only objective audience for the game: people who are super into Lovecraft's novels.
Same. It should have been on sale for the 20M of the series, just like on the other platforms :(
I am talking about Wonder Boy, not Monster Boy, as for now I was focusing on what's on sale.
Not sure what Poised Turtoise meant though :)
Thanks for these impressions, sounds like I'll wait for a sale. Still interested in this one.
Noooo - you guys got me so excited to get Tangledeep off my wishlist and into my library, but it's not on sale on the NA eshop. =(
Now that the dust and initial hype has settled how's everyone who bought Shakedown Hawaii enjoying it?
Now that the dust and initial hype has settled how's everyone who bought Shakedown Hawaii enjoying it?
The news people want is confirmation of the obvious: that it won't have any Switch-centric bells and whistles because it's a straight PS4/PC version port. Some are still harboring false hope that it will have gyro aiming or some such.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/sh...ss-man-let-me-handle-my-business-damn.115494/
I havent played Strikey Sisters yet, but looking at it and comparing it to my time with Spiritsphere I'd say get Strikey Sisters for sure. I was really disappointed in Spiritsphere it's really basic and bored the hell out of me
Recently bought European Conqueror X and Shadows of Adam. Very interested in buying For the King since the PC reviews(and two Switch reviews) so far have been mostly positive.
honestly though, I have been addicted to the free to play game Gems of War since it released. Never played it much on mobile, but really enjoying it on Switch. I loved Puzzle Quest 1, and 2 years ago. Even spent some money which I rarely do on free to play.(although spending money isn't really needed)
honestly though, I have been addicted to the free to play game Gems of War since it released. Never played it much on mobile, but really enjoying it on Switch. I loved Puzzle Quest 1, and 2 years ago. Even spent some money which I rarely do on free to play.(although spending money isn't really needed)
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that's what it looks like. we have no reason to believe otherwise, they've been upfront about the features in RER1+2. not a single bleep about RE4 other than "it's coming on X!" so there will be nothing.
Thanks for your feedback Mudo! I'll check out a bit more of Strikey Sisters to see if it's really worth it.
Nice!!! Great pickups.
It goes without saying that you would like Steamworld Quest if you enjoy CSH and Heist.
I too found Spiritsphere lacking depth & agency. I'm fond of the artwork, but it doesn't play well.
You sold me a copy good sir. I bought it on Steam first to see if I will like it enough to buy it on Switch.
Gotcha! They clarified in a separate post that they meant Monster Boy. It was the 'pricey' comment that had me thinking they didn't mean Wonder Boy.
