Nintendo Switch - The Bear and Badger

Moot_Geeza

Mario Golf please. Chuck a few Golf Story characters in and I'll swoon.
Towerfall Ascension available immediately.
Donkey Kong Rabbids DLC available immediately.
Luigi's Mansion 3, March 2019.
Super Monkey Ball Redux (surely this has to happen at some point)
Mario 3D World for Christmas.

acemuzzy

Sea of Thieves

Wookienopants

Dark Souls Remastered to actually get a release date and I’ll be happy

Raiziel

Wish list games would be Oblivion and Fallout 3 ports/remasters.

Kow

Bayonetta is doing my head in with the kill all angels with weave attacks within time limit. Nearly threw the switch out the bus window.

igorgetmeabrain

N++ coming to Switch this week.

Moot_Geeza

Hello igor, nice avatar. I enjoyed N+ on XBLA, but somewhere between then and now I lost interest. Not sure why as on paper I'm up for a no-frills streamlined devious platformer.

Runner3 is reviewing as expected. £23 is too rich for my blood, but I'll be in at some point.

yourfavouriteuncle

West of loathing by the end of the month. Boom!

optimark_prime

afgavinstan wrote:

Samba De Amigo revival pls.

+1

AndCallMeCharlie

bloodstained curse of the moon should be out today

AJ

I really don't understand these games aping NES graphics; it looks ugly.

hylian_elf

Tell me about it. Enjoying Celeste (on PS4) but it looks horrid.

AJ

Cellest isn't quite as bad, at last they've gone 16 bit wit that one.

afgavinstan

We need a 12-bit middle ground tbh

Wookienopants

AJ wrote:

I really don't understand these games aping NES graphics; it looks ugly.

It’s retro!
Retro is cool!
Hipsters love retro shit.
Fucking hipsters

ShabbyMcCrabby

I dunno. Celeste is fine for me because it started as a Pico8 project so even lower res, so it makes sense to keep it similar. Plus it has really nice animation.

N++ is tempting though. Well suited to the switch. I have it on PS4 but never quite feel like playing it on the TV. Have loved the series since it was a free thing on the PC. Well I think it was free, maybe I just pirated it.

Tempy

It’s nearly always devs replicating what they enjoyed in their youth, it’s hard work doing pixel animation so I doubt they’re picking it for kicks. Even NES aping games like Shovel Knight are doing stuff way beyond the capabilities of those systems, there’s a real art to games that capture the look and feel of 8 and 6 bit games but are significantly more elaborate. Sonic Mania is a good example.

AJ

It's hard work doing good pixel animation; I've seen plenty of things where they've just gone with pixel art to (unsuccessfully) try and hide the fact they've no art talent.

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Have loved the series since it was a free thing on the PC. Well I think it was free, maybe I just pirated it.

It was free; it started life as a Flash game.

Moot_Geeza

Tempy wrote:

It’s nearly always devs replicating what they enjoyed in their youth, it’s hard work doing pixel animation so I doubt they’re picking it for kicks. Even NES aping games like Shovel Knight are doing stuff way beyond the capabilities of those systems, there’s a real art to games that capture the look and feel of 8 and 6 bit games but are significantly more elaborate. Sonic Mania is a good example.

Agreed, Mania is often described as 16-bit in appearance but to me it looks more like the 32-bit Sonic that never was than another Megadrive game, be it 32X or early Saturn era. The big ring bonus stages are chucking about the most obvious incongruous trickery, but there's plenty of other stuff going on.

[Deleted User]

I thought Sonic CD was the graphical jumping off point for Mania.

Moot_Geeza

Oddly enough I think that bonus stage might've been possible on Mega CD, but not some of the more standard looking bells and whistles in the main levels.

AJ

The sphere bonus stages? That could have definitely been done on the SNES, without SFX or anything. I forget what the hardware rotation was like on the MD, but it may well have been possible on that, too.

What are these other bells and whistles? I've not played the game.

Moot_Geeza

The sphere one ran fine on a standard MD (3 and Knuckles). I'm on about Mania's chaos emerald stages:

I guess this looks hideous to some, but imo they've done a remarkable job of making it look like a bonus stage in a Sonic game circa 1995.

Moot_Geeza

It's somewhere between the Sonic CD special stages (super scaler/mode 7 type visuals) and the Saturn exclusive Sonic 3D special stages (polygons).

Edit:

Probably worth chucking this in too (32X):

AJ

Yeah, those polygonal bits wouldn't have worked on a 16-bit system without SFX/32X. Nothing that would have looked super out of place being replaced by a sprite, though.

Blue Swirl

The 8bit/NES style graphics thing can work really well, when used well. See Shovel Knight. But it is getting overused, and in some cases in being used to hide a lack of art direction. It's just video game fashion, it all comes round in cycles. A few did it because it genuinely worked for their work. But others then jumped on the band wagon.

afgavinstan

Sonic Mania is great but yo gimme some Streets Of Rage Mania eh

Elmlea

I don't get Stardew Valley. All I did was hoe some ground and plant a thing. Am I missing something? What should I do before the work cycle 'clicks?'

AJ

Become a child with lots of time but little control over your real world environment?

Moot_Geeza

Heads up anyone waiting on Steamworld price drops, they've all appeared in the sale section. As has Aqua Kitty DX @Nina.

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