Poll of the Day > Any recommended Switch games?

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Since the system's life is winding down, I'm trying to fill my collection a bit. I'm more looking for exclusive games.

My current collection is:

physical:

Animal Crossing New Horizons
Fire Emblem Engage
Fire Emblem Three houses
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Metroid Dread
Monster Hunter Stories 2
Pokemon Legends Arceus
Pokemon Scarlet
Rune Factory 4
Super Mario Odyssey
Smash Ultimate
LoZ Breath of the Wild
LoZ Echoes of Wisdom
Triangle Strategy
Xenoblade DE
Xenoblade 2
Xenoblade 3
Xenoblade X DE

Digital:

Dead Cells
Hades
LoZ Tears of the Kingdom
Pikmin 4

I also have Super Mario RPG and Brothership coming in the mail, but should get them tomorrow.

On my radar are LoZ Link's Awakening and LoZ Skyward Sword. Hoping to get them for a good chunk off, but haven't seen a good sale for them lately. I'm tempted to get Metroid Prime remastered and Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door, but I have Gamecube versions of them, so they're not a priority. I'd take Pokemon games I'm missing, but they'd need a good sale and they tend to not really get them. I'm interested in Hyrule Warriors, but not sure which to get, what the differences are, and if they're both worth it or not.

I like the Hyrule Warriors games. And Fire Emblem Warriors though I never played Three Hopes. Age of Calamity, while great, has like a 15 fps framerate. Which will probably improve on Switch 2.

Super Mario Maker 2

edit; only the 2nd HW game is a exclusive. I played the first one and it is good if you like DW type of game

Yeah the first HW game was on Wii U and 3DS but the Switch version is the best version, plays at 60 fps and has all the content from the previous versions and more. It takes like 300 hours to 100% if not more.

First one is broad LoZ themed and second is BotW themed right?

Yeah first one is all of Zelda, second is a prequel to BotW. Theres another one coming this year thats related to TotK.

I liked what little I played of FE Three Hopes.

I never played Three Houses so I never picked up Three Hopes but Id probably like it.

Oh also if you never played it, Pikmin 3 was ported to Switch with all the DLC and some new content. It is my favorite Pikmin game. It has 3 characters that you switch between on the fly. So when you get really good at it its all about maximizing productivity. Its really short, but its meant to be played over and over. Pikmin 3 is my jam.

fire emblem three hopes is my favorite musou of all time

it provides an alternate view on the setting and allied npcs actually do shit without handholding, unlike hyrule warriors (at least the 2nd, never played the first) where they just exist to swap to. age of calamity isn't a bad game but it's a bad musou

the first fire emblem warriors game is.... aight, completely unnoteworthy plot but it's fun if you like the characters. it's also got competent AI. three hopes is a lot more focused though

gnosia used to be switch exclusive but it got ported to steam at some point. go play it anyways on either. it's mafia/werewolf

You got the top ones, just enjoy their online services before the plug is pulled and you're charged more for membership

A Robot Named Fight

Oh sorry that's not exclusive I don't think. Believe it is on Steam, as well.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land is really good. Not overly difficult, because Kirby, but a really good time.

Having trouble thinking of my own collection off the top of my head, but the sequel to Mario + Rabbids, called Sparks of Hope, is solid. Basically more of the same with refined gameplay.

Bayonetta 3 is good, as is No More Heroes 3, but those may be less attractive if you haven't played the prior games.

I actually loved HW Age of Calamity better than the original. Its a very different game, and much more similar to BotW and TotK if youre into that

Dragon Quest 3 HD2D

adjl posted...

Kirby and the Forgotten Land is really good. Not overly difficult, because Kirby, but a really good time.

Yeah Forgotten Land is great. And its getting DLC on Switch 2 in a few months.

FrozenBananas posted...

I actually loved HW Age of Calamity better than the original. Its a very different game, and much more similar to BotW and TotK if youre into that

A better comparison might be a character action game. The core combo structure is Warriors-styled (chains of weak attacks finishing with a strong attack that varies based on the number of weak attacks you did), but there's a lot less emphasis placed on mowing down hordes of weak enemies and controlling battlefields, in favour of focusing more on duels with stronger enemies and bosses.

The boss design in AoC is actually pretty neat a lot of the time. I just wanted a musou :(

(still beat the game and unlocked all characters tho, even went back for the DLC)

Yeah, it's a really good time (I don't know if I fully agree with how they handled the story, but it worked and the gameplay is solid enough to make up for it), but it's also a very different experience from HW. I'm kind of expecting AoI to go the same way, but I guess we'll see. AoI's in an interesting position because there's almost nothing to go on as far as character movesets go (Zelda's gonna Zelda, Mineru's got precedent to draw on, but that's about it) and they've therefore got kind of a blank slate for how they use the broad themes, but it's not like they haven't built characters out of nothing before (Hestu, either Great Fairy version, Agatha...).