Yeah tell me about it…

Though I’m glad I didn’t go for P4 as well since they announced the remake literally 2 weeks later the sale. Kind of an asshole move honestly.

Got Persona 5R when SEGA did a sale a couple weeks ago, I’m about 12 hours in.

I’ve played a ton of Shin Megami Tensei games and spin-offs but it’s my first Persona (though I did play Tokyo Mirage Session, and it’s clearly more Persona than standard SMT).

An history of title confusion in the Metroid series.

1980s-1990s : no, no, the main character is not called Metroid, the lifesucking reptilian jellyfish are the metroids

2000s : OK, the lifesucking jellyfish are supposed to be extinct now, but she’s got some DNA of them, so technically, you know, she’s kind of a metroid…?

2020s : Metroid lady’s gonna eat your face.

That’s just a couple screws, right?

They could have made them more accessible, I agree, but nowadays even simple AA/AAA-operated toys tend to lock their battery compartment with a screw.

I’ve had to open a switch 1 to replace the fan. That was quite a bite more annoying, with many more screws and tiny connectors to unplug and plug again. At least no soldering, but, I hope I don’t need that again on my 2 any time soon.

I thought 4-player was already making it a bit difficult to see where you’re going… 8 must be complete chaos.

I wonder how it runs though. Even on Switch MK8 4-player’s framerate is a bit subpar, despite culling a bit of scenery and such.

There was a freaking dedicated button for a streaming service interface embedded in the home menu on the Wii U. Not a channel, actual part of the main menu toolbar, always on screen.

That shit never even had any service attached to it in Europe, it was just wasted space.

Yep, pretty much. It has some quite visceral moments, and clever parallels and double meanings.

I don’t play a lot of games like that, the very few VN I play are usually quite a bit more interactive. This is pretty much all story, but I enjoyed it.

It’s very much a one-way trip kind of VN, but I might revisit it one day, so, nice that it gets a small visual boost.

I did it not too long ago and it’s still too fresh in my mind for a replay.

Also, emphasis on “was”. Freaking FOMO-farming bastards.

Remember the 3DS? It came with a freaking media player. One you could load with whatever MP3 file you dropped on the SD card. And you could have it keep playing on the headphones while the console was closed.

Switch 1/2 's OS is so barebones.

The latest Rhythm Heaven/Paradise/whatever has a similar feature, but it’s only for its own soundtrack of course. It has a soudtrack player mode that shuts off the switch’s screen to save battery.

Wow, it wasn’t even there yet? They’re really spreading that content like a half-spoon of jam on the largest slice of bread ever.

Anyway, still not a one time purchase, still a pricy subscription, so fuck that.

This is an actual famicom/NES game? That’s quite impressive.

Yeah, still not paying a subscription for those. If it’s not permanent access, it doesn’t exist.

Hey, at least we got Phantasia GBA. Remember the Ancient War of Legend, “Kangaroo”?

Hall effect sticks don’t have that problem, and they’re not new. Dreamcast controllers had one.

And nowadays third parties can make them even in the tiny joycon form factor.

Both exist. Crypt of the Necrodancer, which still exists only as a Switch 1 game, had devs pushing updates to their code to try and fix a bad bug that happened exclusively on Switch 2.

But at the same time, and probably more commonly, there are patches to the Switch 2 backward compatibility layer so more Switch 1 games run correctly through it (possibly with patches dedicated to special cases, but still part of the Switch 2 OS). I suspect the games in that list are examples of that since the source seems to be Nintendo’s own compatibility list.

Switch 2’s backward compability is not hardware-level, it uses a translation layer.

It’s almost complete at this point, but it’s not perfect, which is is why there are still a few games that don’t work (7 of them have been identified in the linked article).

So no, when they say they released compatibilty fixes, they didn’t tell the game to crank up the resolution, they tweaked the compatibility layer so the game run normally.

I used to have a few of the broken ones, now I think the only one still having problems is AOT2, which is on their list.

I’m not fine with it, but I’m subscribed for the online service. I hate that model, but hey, I have access to it for basically unrelated reasons, so I use it sometimes.

The extra sub just for more consoles can kiss my ass however, no matter how much I’d like to be able to play some of these. I would pay a reasonable one-time price for some of them.

Pokopia is a silly spin-off that would have been an automatic success on IP alone. It has 300 pokémon at launch, runs great, has loads of content and custom animations and feels very alive with many real-time, interactive elements.

Meanwhile the game built around the series’ minimal core mechanics apparently runs like shit, has about half as many characters as Pokopia and not even a fifth of the total roster, and doesn’t even implement correctly the simple established rules of a turn-based RPG battle.

Depends. I don’t know if this is the case here, but if the game uses a very custom engine, switch 2 compatibility can be a problem.

It took months for crypt of the necrodancer devs to fix its compatibility issues on switch 2, and it still very rarely but occasionally has sound problems. For a while it was completely impossible to play.

I am at a point where I think my library is fully Switch 2 compatible (not counting the physical hardware specific stuff obviously), but the 3-4 games that had problems where all indie games that seemed to be more complex than just standard unreal or unity stuff.

So even a switch 1 version would need extra work to check everything works on 2, and potentially more support. Must be a hard choice to make because of the huge switch 1 user base, but I get it.