Nintendo Switch - Games You Can Play Right Now

I started playing Haiku the Robot, which is on sale for just a few more hours and it feels like a nice little metroidvania.

So my brother-in-law got me Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - Reunion (what a mouthful) for my birthday, and once I got past a few stupid boss fights, and missions started opening up, I've been having a really good time. Most of the missions are really quick, and I'm getting better at it. I like the short, fast missions too. Fun times.

Y'all!

Kid Chameleon got added to Sega Genesis NSO.

KID CHAMELEON!

I lost dozens of hours to that one as a kid. Still not sure if I ever beat it. Maybe my favorite Sega game.

Hollow Knight on sale again.

Indie Showcase going now. First couple games are coming this summer or fall. But I'm sure a surprise release or two is coming

Quilts and Cats of Calico, adorable.

Free DLC for both Shovel Knight and Cult of the Lamb. Nice

There we go, Teslagrad and its remaster releasing today

Ooh Blasphemous 2. First one was fun.

Coming this summer

Same for Oxenfree 2!

July 12

And another Five Nights at Freddy's available today

The first Teslagrad is a really good game. I think I'm gonna pick the second game up but will just get it on PS5 as I enjoy playing on the TV more than a handheld (which is what my Switch exclusively is).

The game I'm playing right now on Switch is Have A Nice Death, it's basically a rogue lite in the vein of Hades mixed with Dead Cells, it's super playable & the whole aesthetic is really well done. The flow of combat & the little animations are delightful. I'd heartily recommend it from what I've played so far.

Rift of the Necrodancer looks awesome.

Blasphemous 2 looks good too. I should probably give the first one a shot sometime.

So I really don't like Cadence of Hyrule.

The music is great obviously.

But the combat, the timing, the game itself... Just not working for me. I've tried a couple of sit down sessions with the trial, 30 min or so each time. I feel like I've spent most of my time dead and retrying the same areas over again. Ugh.

Every secret cave I've found is useless. Either the enemy is too strong, or the chest is hidden behind an obstacle I don't have an item to pass yet.

Just not going well at all. I tried Zelda first but I don't read Link as being much stronger.

Anything obvious I'm missing? I could try one more time. But I'm thinking about never playing it again and being thankful there was a trial so I didn't waste money

Have you played Crypt of the Necrodancer already?

merphle wrote:

Have you played Crypt of the Necrodancer already?

Nope.

Just wanted to try the Zelda one since it was a free trial this week.

Stele wrote:

So I really don't like Cadence of Hyrule.

The music is great obviously.

But the combat, the timing, the game itself... Just not working for me. I've tried a couple of sit down sessions with the trial, 30 min or so each time. I feel like I've spent most of my time dead and retrying the same areas over again. Ugh.

Every secret cave I've found is useless. Either the enemy is too strong, or the chest is hidden behind an obstacle I don't have an item to pass yet.

Just not going well at all. I tried Zelda first but I don't read Link as being much stronger.

Anything obvious I'm missing? I could try one more time. But I'm thinking about never playing it again and being thankful there was a trial so I didn't waste money

You could just suck at rhythm games like I do.
Hi-fi Rush is cool as hell, but I am so bad at it.

IIRC Cadence of Hyrule has an option to turn off the timed / "rhythm" aspect so that you can take your time and consider your next move, turning it into more of a turn-based rogue-like type thing. That might be more your speed.

Or you might just not like the game, which is fine too.

Stele wrote:
merphle wrote:

Have you played Crypt of the Necrodancer already?

Nope.

Just wanted to try the Zelda one since it was a free trial this week.

Understood. I was just trying to determine whether it was something Zelda-specific about the formula that wasn't clicking with you, or if it's this game type in general.

I got Cadence of Hyrule around the time when it came out, since I thought it was a cool idea and wanted to support Nintendo letting people try things. It was fine. I hit a wall early on with some enemies in like the first hour, and once I got past that things went pretty smoothly (I think my playtime was like 6 hours total, so most of it was fine). That said, once I beat it, I really had no interest in replaying it or trying another seed. The rhythm mechanic is interesting in concept, but wound up being a bit more irritating in practice.

But it's still easier than Necrodancer. I tried that after Cadence (it was like $2 on the eshop) and found it to be a brick wall.

hbi2k wrote:

IIRC Cadence of Hyrule has an option to turn off the timed / "rhythm" aspect so that you can take your time and consider your next move, turning it into more of a turn-based rogue-like type thing. That might be more your speed.

Or you might just not like the game, which is fine too.

Yeah maybe I can look at the options again. I did turn on rumble beat originally. But it was so strong it started to bother my hands, so I turned that off. Then I think I missed the beat more often. But either way I was having trouble with attacks and dodging enemies. Even simple things like reflecting Octorok seeds... I would often block it but not reflect it. If I tried to wait to the next beat to reflect, I get hit.

Maybe I do suck hah.

Thanks everyone.

In both the original Crypt and Cadence of Hyrule the key is surviving long enough to get a weapon that covers more than one square. The extra distance makes it easier to not get hit, and the wider spread just gives you more options for how to move tactically.

Iirc, I also had some success with mapping movement to YXBA; the critical verb in the game is movement, so it helped to have that on my dominant hand. I'm not sure how much of that is inherent benefit and how much is me having played the original Necrodancer on PC with my right hand on the arrow keys.

It also gets easier if you can really crank the music up, which might not be an option when playing handheld.

Stele wrote:

So I really don't like Cadence of Hyrule.

The music is great obviously.

You’re not alone. I got all excited for Cadence of Hyrule and bought it day one based on hype and I can’t think of a worse-spent $25 outside of the whole Vita thing. I dropped Cadence in about 10 minutes and never looked back.

I might be out already on Advance Wars Reboot Camp.

I gave it an honest try, but between the art style, the AI changes and the units being hard to distinguish from one another at a glance, I just feel like this is the inferior way to play the game. I've finished Dual Strike, AW1 (GBA) and all but the last battle in AW2 (GBA). So I'm a series veteran and I just much prefer the presentation in classic entries in the series.

The WayForward artwork is great and I enjoy that, but I just can't get past the presentation of the combat itself. It makes the game harder to play than it needs to be and more time consuming than it needs to be. It doesn’t help that I still have all of these games portably and can easily play a few turns of AW1 or AW2 while waiting in line at the store or the doctor. I find those versions superior and easier to pick-up-and-play.

It may be time to just roll the credit towards Tears of the Kingdom.

For want of a RPG palate cleanser, I've started tearing through Super Mario World via the NSO SNES virtual console. Harder than I remember, but I'm approaching Castle #5 when the furthest I had made it in my tiny youth was the Vanilla Dome/3rd section. No real secrets unveiled beyond the World 1 Yellow Switch, but I'm not here to be a Completionist, just to roll credits and knock this off my list before diving back into a RPG.

The Bioshock Collection. Is the games included in there the remastered versions? On the Eshop, they sell the individual games as remastered versions.

Nevermind. Found the answer. Thank you

Anyone own two Switches? I have an OLED Switch. But that darn Blue Switch Lite looks so nice. I'm so tempted... Is it a pain in the ass to switch between the two?

It's like when the 2DS came out and I regret not getting one just to have one even though I have a New 3DS XL.

If you are the main user, it's pretty simple. Though cloud save isn't as straightforward as it should be.
Even with a family plan or similar, as long as the primary user has a switch to themselves and the other is shared, it works well with downloads.

Balthezor wrote:

Anyone own two Switches? I have an OLED Switch. But that darn Blue Switch Lite looks so nice. I'm so tempted... Is it a pain in the ass to switch between the two?

It's like when the 2DS came out and I regret not getting one just to have one even though I have a New 3DS XL.

I own 2 Switches. I have that exact configuration, in fact. A blue Switch Lite and an OLED Switch.

It's not a pain to switch between them if you're on the Internet. As lunchbox said, there are sometimes hassles with cloud saves, but I haven't had much trouble with that, to be honest. There are some games like Animal Crossing or Pokemon where cloud saves are unsupported and switching back and forth would mean literally doing manual save transfers over bluetooth. They provide good facilities for that, but it's not seamless by any stretch.

All of that said, the one I have the hardest time with is being offline. Ever since I got my OLED I want to play that most of the time. The screen is gorgeous and makes the text much easier to read, obviously. So I play that all of the time at home and when I travel I now prefer the OLED for flights. When I go out and about around my city, however, I prefer the Lite because of the fact that it's plausibly pocketable vs the OLED.

What this means practically, though, is that I have to unregister the OLED as my primary console between flights. So during long home stretches it becomes my "secondary" console. Meaning I have to unregister the OLED and "reregister" the Lite as my primary. Then when I travel again I have to do the same process in reverse. It's not hard, but it's a little time consuming. I can confirm you can do this over and over. It's just kind of dumb.

So if you can get past those headaches you do get the best of both worlds, but that's what it's like.

DSGamer wrote:

I own 2 Switches. I have that exact configuration, in fact. A blue Switch Lite and an OLED Switch.

We should form a club or something.

Kurrelgyre wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

I own 2 Switches. I have that exact configuration, in fact. A blue Switch Lite and an OLED Switch.

We should form a club or something.

Count me in, though I also have the OG Switch as well.