Nintendo Switch (Currently Plagued) - Here we shit post about the new Nintendo console, The Switch

[xXx: State of the Union]

The problem with SSE is that those assholes won't stop updating the game.

For real, there was no reason for Anniversary Edition to not just be an entirely *new* version of the game instead of a forced update.

And if they're going to update the fucking game, they could at least fix *some* of the issues they never got around to instead of just adding dumb microtransaction content.

Like, don't get me wrong, I think modders are whiny faggots for the most part these days but Bethesda does have a habit of making problems that they really don't need to.

 

[BananaSplit²]

I think for me it doesn't particularly matter how others choose to play the game, just it's annoying when they keep on trying to insist that I'm wrong for preferring to pay and play it on the official hardware.

Some people have trouble to actually understand things that are different from their own perspective.
The Switch has replaced my desktop PC as the main platform for vidya, including 3rd-party games, because of personal convenience. Specs don't matter much for what I like.

 

[huecoffs02]

Some people have trouble to actually understand things that are different from their own perspective.
The Switch has replaced my desktop PC as the main platform for vidya, including 3rd-party games, because of personal convenience. Specs don't matter much for what I like.
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Yo any recommendations for good VNs on Switch?

 

[BananaSplit²]

Yo any recommendations for good VNs on Switch?

Little Busters! Converted Edition (pretty much the best Key's work - very long to get into all the routes and has a cozy baseball minigame)
Gyakuten Saiban 1-2-3 & Dai Gyakuten Saiban 1&2 (the Ace Attorney games, nuff said)
Famicom Detective Club remakes (on the short side but the production values are top notch and rare for a japanese ADV game)
Return to Shironagasu (Decent mystery VN/point-and-click for <10bucks, dunno if the dev fixed the japanese voices not playing if using english text, shorty after release)
Planetarian (short VN from Key in a post-apocalyptic world setting, also sold for 10 bucks)
There are a few others I would have easily recommended if they weren't moonrunes-only, such as Shin Hayarigami, Flowers Four Seasons, or the Memories Off franchise (besides the latest one). The genre itself has a huge language barrier.

I heard good things about Ao no Kanata no For Rhythm and Paranormasight File 23 but I haven't got the chance to play them yet.

The visual novels published by Prototype never go on sale on Switch, just fyi.
I also liked Fruit of Grisaia for the MC's bants but the common route is pretty long before you get into any of the heroines.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

The problem with SSE is that those assholes won't stop updating the game. Which means that mods are constantly breaking, thus breaking mod orders until updates for them are made by the creators. Even worse, the updates aren't about the game itself, but focused on the damn creation club that nobody uses. Its gotten to the point where the comments under every update announcement is players literally begging Bethesda to stop updating the game. The only way around it is go out of your way to turn off auto-update.

Yup. Their update two or three months ago (to tweak some in-game store bullshit) broke a bunch of mods and in particular the Dynamic Animation Enhancer which is a required file for a ton of other mods. And then you compound that with the fact that Valve have fucked up the ability to stop games from auto-updating and it's a real hassle.

Not sorry for the Skyrim talk, frens. Just scroll past if it's not your thing. But seriously play some ModRim.

Little Busters! Converted Edition (pretty much the best Key's work - very long to get into all the routes and has a cozy baseball minigame)
Gyakuten Saiban 1-2-3 & Dai Gyakuten Saiban 1&2 (the Ace Attorney games, nuff said)
Famicom Detective Club remakes (on the short side but the production values are top notch and rare for a japanese ADV game)
Return to Shironagasu (Decent mystery VN/point-and-click for <10bucks, dunno if the dev fixed the japanese voices not playing if using english text, shorty after release)
Planetarian (short VN from Key in a post-apocalyptic world setting, also sold for 10 bucks)
There are a few others I would have easily recommended if they weren't moonrunes-only, such as Shin Hayarigami, Flowers Four Seasons, or the Memories Off franchise (besides the latest one). The genre itself has a huge language barrier.

I heard good things about Ao no Kanata no For Rhythm and Paranormasight File 23 but I haven't got the chance to play them yet.

The visual novels published by Prototype never go on sale on Switch, just fyi.
I also liked Fruit of Grisaia for the MC's bants but the common route is pretty long before you get into any of the heroines.

@huecoffs02 The Famicom Detective games are freaking great. And yeah Phoenix Wright is awesome. I am pretty basic when it comes to these so I only really played those two. I think they brought Return of the Obra Dinn over to Switch. That game is sort of a visual novel. It's good!

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

You know which game should appear in the N64 emulator for Switch?

This shit right here is amazing.

 

[skykiii]

Some people have trouble to actually understand things that are different from their own perspective.
The Switch has replaced my desktop PC as the main platform for vidya, including 3rd-party games, because of personal convenience. Specs don't matter much for what I like.
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For real,

It's like, I could use MAME to play Sunset Riders (my nephew--he'snine--really likes Sunset Riders)... or I could just get the Arcade Archives release for seven bucks and have an edition that works and plays fine right out of the box.

That said, I did use MAME for one of our two-player gaming sessions. See my nephew is a big fan of Alien and Predator and guess what game I'm about to mention introducing him to.

Funny thing about Capcom's AvP arcade game that got a chuckle out of me, my niece, and my nephew.... so I found I did the best with the buff human dude (I forget his name), and he has this attack where he sorta dashes forward, but every time he does this he shouts something that seriously sounds like he's saying "fuck!" We were all kind of embarrassed especially as their parents were in the room (fortunately my sister and her husband are pretty chill).

... It just now occured to me that if I could've found a third controller, I could've let my niece play as well... (yes, she does game).

.......

@BananaSplit² Actually, I want VN recs as well... but only in like mystery genres.

I already own the two Famicom Detective Club games, most of Ace Attorney, and while there's a certain trilogy I don't own yet.... let's just say if I were a woman, I'd be an Ultra Despair Girl.

(why hasn't anyone made a Monokuma-themed Five Nights at Freddy's game yet?)

But yeah, outside of those? Has to be in English unfortunately.

Actually, it doesn't have to be a VN... anything mystery-adjascent is fine. Its fine if it involves paranormal elements too.

Only thing I will outright reject is ARG elements (this single-handedly kept me away from Inscryption). I'm too lazy and stupid for such things. Basically as long as everything necessary to solve the game is within the game itself, its fine.

..................

ADDENDUM: That makes me think. You know what game I wish would get ported to the Switch?

Case Closed: The Mirapolis Investigation... the only Detective Conan game that was ever localized (in PAL regions unfortunately). I don't have a Wii so a Switch port would be a fine way for me to play it.

I would say I want that Conan/Kindaichi crossover game to get ported too but... that one sucks. I watched a lets play of it. It sucks. The story is stupid and it feels rushed. Conan and Kindaichi don't even meet. What a let-down.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Yo any recommendations for good VNs on Switch?

Here's what I have:

Aokana
Aviary Attorney
Buried Stars
Centennial Case
Clannad/Clannad Side Stories
Grisaia
Harmonia
House in Fata Morgana
Island
The Letter
Little Busters
Lovekami Trilogy
Marches Forest
My Girlfriend is a Mermaid
Oshirabu
Return to Shiroganasu Island
Root Film
State of Mind
Tomoyo After - It's a Wonderful Life
Will: A Wonderful World
World End Syndrome
YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World

 

[whatever I feel like]

If you don't want to coom Nintendo actually payed a well respected VN team to make a non-ecchi VN-styled game, Buddy Team Bond. I think its a mystery team where you and your buddies solve crimes.

edit: Actually, I wonder how that will do, value-wise on the collector's market. Maybe I should pick one up before its too late.

edit 2: Never released in the west, well shoot. Didn't it show up in a Nintendo Direct though, once?

 

[Epoch]

Yup. Their update two or three months ago (to tweak some in-game store bullshit) broke a bunch of mods and in particular the Dynamic Animation Enhancer which is a required file for a ton of other mods. And then you compound that with the fact that Valve have fucked up the ability to stop games from auto-updating and it's a real hassle.

Just for anyone who is reading this thread and wants to mod Skyrim, use Mod Organizer 2 instead of Vortex. It stores everything in a virtual file system so you can have your mods on a completely different drive from the game if you want. Set Skyrim in steam to only update when you launch it, then use Mod Organizer to launch the game, which you will do anyway because it doesn't touch the game files at all, so if you want to play with mods you need to launch through Mod Organizer so it can apply the virtual file system.

Also play Morrowind (using OpenMW) like a real gamer. If you need any help just pop by in the Elder Scrolls thread.

 

[BananaSplit²]

Centennial Case

I've played that one but it did strike less as the usual visual novel and more as a FMV (full-motion video) game, with one late-game chapter which was a point-and-click section & a set of puzzles to solve. It was enjoyable imho, with the minor annoyance that it would always send you back to the deduction grid upon a game over instead of simply reverting back to the screen where you had to select one of the choice prompts.

YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World

I consider this remake to be a blasphemy of the legacy game, between obvious icons placed on interactive elements (instead of letting the player try clicking anything on the screen) and the massive downgrade in the art direction.

Spoiler: YU-NO Old vs New artstyle

Original art is Nagaoka Yasuchika's while Nagi Ryou was in charge of the remake. Nagi was also tasked to do the art for the Langrisser 1+2 remakes and he can't go on par against Urushihara Satoshi or the chinese mobile game either way. I don't recall that the Switch version of YU-NO ever got the (CERO-rated) original game, which was a first-print bonus for the older Playstation Vita and PS4 releases several years back.

Oshirabu

Should be pointed out that the Switch version is a pack of two comedy romance VNs that are both solely yuri (girls in love for each other). I will personally note that the english translation is terrible.

edit 2: Never released in the west, well shoot. Didn't it show up in a Nintendo Direct though, once?

Only in the japanese Nintendo direct and it had a bunch of nippon TV commercials to boot.
Buddy Mission Bond was primarily developed by the Angelique team, which is a otome franchise (VNs aimed for the japanese female audience) thus co-partnered with Koei-Tecmo. It also has Yusuke Murata (Eyeshield 21, One Punch Man, etc.) as the lead artist of the game.

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

Should be pointed out that the Switch version is a pack of two comedy romance VNs that are both solely yuri (girls in love for each other). I will personally note that the english translation is terrible.

Why is it terrible?

Also, I don't think the original Yu-No was released in English, was it? I thought it was a Japan only Saturn game.

 

[Chiri]

I consider this remake to be a blasphemy of the legacy game, between obvious icons placed on interactive elements (instead of letting the player try clicking anything on the screen) and the massive downgrade in the art direction.

My disappointment upon seeing the new designs was palpable, even as someone who dropped YU-NO the first time I had to actually deal with the time travel mechanic. The art and music in that game is absolute SOVL.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

@SSj_Ness you don't like Beetle Adventure Racing? What the heck!?

 

[BananaSplit²]

Why is it terrible?

It's been a while (and I only made one screenshot comparison) but I recall memes added out of nowhere, the TL avoided on purpose carrying certain cultural terms no matter the circumstance, and the young blonde gal had a condescending tone in the English text that wasn't present in the script & voice acting.

It's possible to instantly interchange text languages with one press of a button in the Switch versions of Prototype-published visual novels at least.

 

[IrishGuy088]

Since Elden Ring I'm going to need something more than more BOTW to really impress me.

Elden Ring was mediocre shit.

 

[Betonhaus]

Elden Ring was mediocre shit.

...are you caught up on this thread yet? that was ten pages and ten days ago

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Original art is Nagaoka Yasuchika's while Nagi Ryou was in charge of the remake.

What a giant difference. I'm so used to the generic crappy modern anime aesthetic everywhere that I actually thought that art looked good until I saw the side-by-side.

@SSj_Ness you don't like Beetle Adventure Racing? What the heck!?

Eh, I'm not a racing guy unless it's Mario or Diddy Kong or something. I do hear that's a good one for what it is.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Honestly, looking at the images I disliked the original art too. Peak over-detailed mid-90s, like straight out of a low-quality OVA. Which, you know, as a VN from back then is to be expected, I suppose.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

Honestly, looking at the images I disliked the original art too. Peak over-detailed mid-90s, like straight out of a low-quality OVA. Which, you know, as a VN from back then is to be expected, I suppose.

At least there was actual soul to that art, and it didn't feel dry. It also felt truly unique to the artist rather than just completely generic.