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Also time for an update!
- Goetia
- Picross S2
- Saturday Morning RPG
- Galak-Z: Variant S
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
- Crypt of the NecroDancer
- Pic-a-Pix Deluxe
- North

Edit - Finally done with this.... what an exercise in patience!

Last edited by Ganoncrotch - on 15 August 2018

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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Baddman said:

How is the bolded? I have been eyeing it for some time

It has a free demo, wouldn't it be better to find out yourself, don't you think?

Well  lol I feel stupid. I honestly didn't know it had one and I regularly check for demos.  thanks tho I am downloading it now lol



Ganoncrotch said:
farlaff said:

Hi there, fellows. Has anyone here played Salt and Sanctuary, Furi and (or) Dead Cells on Switch? I really wanted some impressions because I will eventually get all those games and the Switch would be my go to place for that kind of thing, but since action games need reliable performance to be more enjoyable, I was wondering if it wouldn't be better to get one or some of those on my PC. A guy's review, for instance, made me give up from getting Slain: Back from Hell on Switch because the framerate seems to be very unstable in the systems version. Heard similar things on Metascore user reviews for Furi. Any thoughts? 

regarding Furi I played through quite a bit of that on the PS4 but have to say after picking it up in the last week on the Switch (it's just 11.99 right now) the port seems solid enough, I've just done one encounter, playing it on the big screen and the most glaring thing to me was the lack of shadows or definite reduction of shadows in scenes compared to what I recall on the ps4 (it's been a while since playing it but it does look strange without them on the Switch) that said the first fight in the game seemed flawless to me, but I know that some of the later battles would have a lot more action in them and I could see the switch faltering a little bit given it already seems to be at the edge of its abilities in the very first fight. You know what I'll play the next few fights now in handheld mode and let you know in a while how they go! But for 11.99 that game is a steal imo, if you have patience with tough fights!  Some battles are like... 20 mins long and if you fail x 3 you gotta start at the very beginning.

 

Edit - Played bosses 2 and 3 in handheld mode with headphones on, was pretty much as good as the docked version , not perfect but at no point did the performance hamper the gameplay for me, would say at the very least you are talking about 40-45fps and generally waivering around the 50-55 the rest of the time, never near or below 30 in my experience. really if you haven't played Furi this is a game worth playing, but again the main issues isn't going to be performance, it's similar to cuphead in a way, that you really don't get much game outside of the boss fights, but those boss fights are incredible. (also, play it with headphones or sound on)

That's awesome, Ganon, thanks a lot! :) I'm no stranger to (very) long boss fights being somewhat of a Monster Hunter veteran, so this game seems to be right up my alley. You've just helped the guys make another sale. 👍



Ganoncrotch said:

Also time for an update!
- Goetia
- Picross S2
- Saturday Morning RPG
- Galak-Z: Variant S
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
- Crypt of the NecroDancer
- Pic-a-Pix Deluxe
- North

Edit - Finally done with this.... what an exercise in patience!

Jesus fuck, how many hours do you game each day?



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

Ganoncrotch said:


- Crypt of the NecroDancer

Also, how do you like that one?



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zorg1000 said:
Ganoncrotch said:

Also time for an update!
- Goetia
- Picross S2
- Saturday Morning RPG
- Galak-Z: Variant S
- Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
- Crypt of the NecroDancer
- Pic-a-Pix Deluxe
- North

Edit - Finally done with this.... what an exercise in patience!

Jesus fuck, how many hours do you game each day?

eeerrrr.... few mins here and there!

Tbh before the Switch it was a couple of hours online at night on either PC or the PS4, but now with the ability to pick up the console and stick it in my pocket when I head out I can make use of time on public transport, work, breaktimes.... pretty much always have the machine with me, work rest and play, if I'm not using it it will likely be tucked somewhere nearby charging. Or if I am using it while out and away from charging I string my 10k MAH battery back up to it from my pocket.

 

That said... of the nearly 100 Switch titles I've bought at this point, there are almost half of them which have yet to be touched once, so for the 300 hours I lost to breath of the Wild, I've got things like Disgaea 5 sitting on less than an hour or two, when I find a game I enjoy I play the absolute heck out of it until I deem it to be... "complete" say with Splatoon, that didn't come from doing all of the single player content, that came from finishing Splatfests at the highest reward ranks, doing every mode until I had it down to the absolute best of my ability, but when I feel that point in a game I mark it as being "done" even the vid in my sig of doing that remix boss without damage, I still think that is something that there is not a whole lot of idiots out there (at least on youtube) who would go to the bother of it, but Rogue Legacy was another game which I loved to the point of wanting to play it as well as it can be played... and that games controls I would argue are one of the purest and damn near best of any game I've played in 30 years at this hobby.

TL:DR - I play good games as much as it takes to get their controls and gameplay perfected (as best I can) And the Switch makes that something I can do on the go at times when before I would have been tapping away on messenger.



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farlaff said:
Ganoncrotch said:


- Crypt of the NecroDancer

Also, how do you like that one?

I've not opened it yet, but heard some really good things about it from both a friend and some youtubers I really enjoy so when I seen it on sale I said I would pick it up for some play down the line.

Previously recorded were the youtubers btw, a spin off chan from red letter media who have since stopped making gaming content, which is a shame because it gave a window to see more rich evans without the others of RLM making him look like a goon..... he is a goon though to be fair to them! :D

at 8:55 in particular they talk about how it would work great if it ever came to a mobile device... since they had the alpha release on the PC back in 2015, long before the Switch was a thing.

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RolStoppable said:
farlaff said:

Hi there, fellows. Has anyone here played Salt and Sanctuary, Furi and (or) Dead Cells on Switch? I really wanted some impressions because I will eventually get all those games and the Switch would be my go to place for that kind of thing, but since action games need reliable performance to be more enjoyable, I was wondering if it wouldn't be better to get one or some of those on my PC. A guy's review, for instance, made me give up from getting Slain: Back from Hell on Switch because the framerate seems to be very unstable in the systems version. Heard similar things on Metascore user reviews for Furi. Any thoughts? 

The framerate of Dead Cells is instable when good weapons are used. There are significant drops when turrets are used and they are so powerful that you'll choose them over other weapons almost always. Additionally, there are frameskips where 0.5-1 seconds aren't rendered at all and they don't only happen when entering a shop, but also during enemy encounters. That's irritating.

The performance of Dead Cells on Switch isn't on a level where the game can be recommended, but...

...the game itself can't be recommended to begin with. Two huge errors in game design:

1. The difficulty spike for the final boss is unbelievable. The previous boss is a piece of cake that can barely attack during the 10-20 seconds the fight lasts, but the final boss has about 20 times more health and kills you in a couple of hits. Since this is a game where you have to stand still to heal, it hardly matters how many healing potions you have; you probably won't be able to use them without getting another hit that makes the heal moot.

2. The premise is to replay the game again and again, with permanent upgrades making later runs easier. However, the only real upgrade are the number of healing potions you carry with you. Unlocking weapons is much closer to a downgrade because the weapons you pick up are randomized, so the more weapons you unlock, the lower the chance that you get a good one. There are no permanent stat upgrades to HP, attack, defense and speed. There is no equipment that carries over, so everytime you find something good, you will have nothing of it after you died.

Combine those two fundamental things which are tremendously detrimental to how fun Dead Cells is and it's very easy to speak the verdict that the game is shit. Dead Cells shouldn't be bought on any platform. It's no fun to replay an hour long game that you'll likely not beat and future runs don't raise your chances to pull it off, because your character starts with the same garbage he always starts with (except number of healing potions).

A typical case of reviewers handing out scores without beating the game, because the average reviewer can hardly be called good at video games. Sure, if Dead Cells worked as advertised, then it could be a good game. But it doesn't, so it's a waste of time and money.

Sorry to hear you had such a bad experince. I'll follow your advice and keep the distance



Just got Letter Quest: Remastered on sale. It’s insanely addicting.

Also, for anyone on the fence about Morphite, there’s a demo on the eshop now. New demos for old games get buried the way the eshop is currently so it’s easy to miss.