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Must of you guys aren't aware but Nintendo Brazillian eshop officially launched last week!

Here is our very first weekly ranking:

I'll try to keep it updated every Saturday. But I will keep more columns to track things such as last week positions and number of weeks charting

@Raven I copy your Excel style, hope you don't mind



CaptainExplosion said:

I wanna try the Switch port of Final Fantasy VII now that both the main hero and villain are playable in Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Any advice before I go in?

yeah, acknowledge that it's a 23 year old game and that, as much as we love it, the mechanics and graphics are pretty basic. It's still a good game, but it's very dated. 



My Console Library:

PS5, Switch, XSX

PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, WiiU, Wii, GCN, N64 SNES, XBO, 360

3DS, DS, GBA, Vita, PSP, Android

IcaroRibeiro said:

Must of you guys aren't aware but Nintendo Brazillian eshop officially launched last week!

Here is our very first weekly ranking:

I'll try to keep it updated every Saturday. But I will keep more columns to track things such as last week positions and number of weeks charting

@Raven I copy your Excel style, hope you don't mind

Of course not, it looks very cool and a good idea!



To be frank, how much you like Astral Chain is entirely dependent on how much you care about action games being good at ... well ... being good at being an action game. Astral Chain kind of goes for a weird action/RPG crossover but doesn't do it nearly as well as something like Nier Automata in the RPG aspect, ultimately just being an action game with RPG elements. In saying that, it has one of the worst ranking systems an action game could possibly have, and while it's not "confusing" as the previous poster said it is true that it's not super intuitive at first either. You get used to the system though, but it doesn't forgive the terrible ranking system. Also the graphics while being some of the best on Switch, can actually be detrimental at times to the player as the high amount of particle effects and bright flashing colors can make it harder to focus on what's going on. There's a visual language most action games follow that Astral Chain doesn't do a good job of implementing.

It's a good game, and I wouldn't mind a sequel to perfect the formula but yea, it's not great. 



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With the addition of Doom Eternal, Switch has now moved up to my #4 top console of all time, behind only SNES, Wii, and Xbox 360.

If it keeps going the way it is, it might just become my #1 by the end of its life.



Mar1217 said:
curl-6 said:

With the addition of Doom Eternal, Switch has now moved up to my #4 top console of all time, behind only SNES, Wii, and Xbox 360.

If it keeps going the way it is, it might just become my #1 by the end of its life.

Prediction : By the time Metroid Prime 4 drops. It'll be your #1 console of all time 

Is that bold enough to ask Tbone to make a thread about? 



Mar1217 said:
curl-6 said:

With the addition of Doom Eternal, Switch has now moved up to my #4 top console of all time, behind only SNES, Wii, and Xbox 360.

If it keeps going the way it is, it might just become my #1 by the end of its life.

Prediction : By the time Metroid Prime 4 drops. It'll be your #1 console of all time 

If Prime 4 ever sees the light of day at all. :(

Monster Hunter Rise and BOTW2 (if it's even close as great as BOTW1) should go a long way though.

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Seems like Nintendo blocked purchases from people from other regions

Brazillians can still buying from US and Mexico stores, and I guess other American stores as well

But Australian, European and asian shops are blocked

That will heavily affect Brazilian customers, we are used to change our shops to South Africa and Russia to enjoy occasional sales

With current dollar exchange rate and the very limited Brazilian eshop I'm very likely not buying digital Switch games anymore which is... well tragic. We don't get physical releases either, seems like Nintendo is doing whatever it can to screw us

They could at least bring all games to BR eshop before doing this, for God's sake 



BasilZero said:

Bought Astral Chain (digital) off of Best Buy for around $12 - it was $41.99 on sale plus I had $30 of certs I used.


I also had some money left over from when I cashed in a eshop card and got 300 gold coins from astral chain so used it to buy Fire Emblem Shadow dragon and Blade of Light.

Edit: Also amazing how I now have more games on Switch (which its only been 3 weeks since I owned it) and already have more games than Wii and WiiU combined (also the most number of games I have had on a Nintendo home console since the N64)

How the heck you have 2 and half thousand games on Steam. But more curious, have you even bothered to play all them? Seems a crappy amount of games for anyone have time to spend on