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I was getting a bit annoyed in XC2 in between losing Nia and getting the Nopon, but now that I have more than 1 party member it's a lot better. Plus I went to an Inn and levelled up, which also helped.  I've done most of the sidequests in the 2nd town you get to (I apparently can't remember the name of anything in this game). It's really quite fun. I do feel like it takes a long time to get WP and SP though. Also the Specials are kind of slow to charge up, especially when there's 4 levels of them. The requirement for one of my Blade's skills are to use his Level 2 special 6 times. It's tough to do this in random encounters because enemies will die before you charge it up that much. Which kind of leaves fighting higher level enemies, or bosses. Does it ever go much into Attack effects? I know Break/Topple from the original, but what does Blowdown do?
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irlZaphod posted:I was getting a bit annoyed in XC2 in between losing Nia and getting the Nopon, but now that I have more than 1 party member it's a lot better. Plus I went to an Inn and levelled up, which also helped. You gotta learn to Cancel into Drive Arts. Auto-attacking is a three-hit combo, and you get a much better charge on your Special Meter (along with extra damage) if you save your Drive Art for the third hit of the auto-attack combo as it connects (for Rex with the Aegis sword, it's when he thrusts it into his target). Also stick Instruments into your Pouch. They make your Drive Arts recharge much faster.
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With Battle Chasers delayed forever I was worried I wouldn't have a jrpg to bring with me for my Christmas travels to kill long flights so Romancing SaGa 2 is great news!
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You gotta learn to Cancel into Drive Arts. Auto-attacking is a three-hit combo, and you get a much better charge on your Special Meter (along with extra damage) if you save your Drive Art for the third hit of the auto-attack combo as it connects (for Rex with the Aegis sword, it's when he thrusts it into his target). Also stick Instruments into your Pouch. They make your Drive Arts recharge much faster.
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No you want to be doing just as the strike lands or slightly after.
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irlZaphod posted:Yeah I've been using Cancel, although the timing is tricky sometimes. I thought I could do it any time between the 2nd and 3rd strike of the combo, or when Rex is winding up for the 3rd strike, but like you say it does seem to be when it connects (the game did say that, but I dunno... it didn't seem to be working for me at first either). I have an accessory which increases the window allowed. If the strike has already landed, is that too late? You'll know if you nailed the timing because you'll see a transparent blue circle expand out from the point of impact. It's actually very forgiving about when you trigger the Cancel, the trick is knowing when the start of that window is.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:What's the best place to get an 8bitdo controller? They're listed on Amazon but there are a ton of different sellers so I'm assuming that 95% of them are selling counterfeits. The ones listed by 8bitdo are legit. I also bought the FC30 over the summer from Dynamic Distributor and it was legit. It even came with a free case for the controller. As for non-Amazon, check Fry's Electronics. They sell 8bitdo and a bunch of other good obscure controller accessories.
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Pinball FX3 outta fuckin nowhere  It's LIVE on the US eShop right now, and has a few tables for FREE  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bZJ09lYONA Pinball FX2 on Steam was real real good, and they kept adding tables for reasonable prices.
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This week's drop (all releases Dec 14, unless otherwise stated). Note: eShop updates at 12 noon EST/9am PST for NA, 15.00 CET/14.00 GMT for Europe. Switch ACA NeoGeo The Last Blade - $7.99 / £6.29 / €6.99 Digital - [NA] [EU] THE LAST BLADE is a fighting game released by SNK in 1997, set in Japan’s Edo period with a roster of unique swordsmen to choose from. Thematically, the game is similar to the SAMURAI SHODOWN series, but also features a wealth of innovative systems to set it apart. One such system is the ability to choose between Power and Speed styles when selecting a character. The Power system focuses on high damage while the Speed system focuses more on intricate combos and speed. The game also features a unique Hajiki ability that allows players to deflect or repel attacks. The game also allows the player to cancel super attacks into Desperation Moves adding another strategic element to the game. Finally, the game features a wealth of flashy attacks thanks to the inclusion of Super Secret Skills and Super Desperation Moves. Black The Fall - $14.99 / £ ? / € ? Digital - [NA] [EU] After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from the oppressive grasp of the Communist regime. Through hidden passages, shadow and grief, he struggles. Ingenuity, reflexes and deception are his tools. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned little robot. Could they escape this bleak and deadly world, together? Bleed - $14.99 / £13.49 / €14.99 Digital - [NA] [EU] Wryn is a girl with a big arsenal and big dreams -- she wants to be the ultimate videogame hero! Help her take down the Greatest Heroes of All Time in an action-packed bid to claim the title for herself and show the world what a true hero looks like! Bleed is an action-platformer focused on stylish, acrobatic dodging and fluid, challenging gameplay. There's no filler -- just you and your skills against seven levels of enemies, obstacles, breakneck set-pieces and inventive bosses! The End is Nigh - $14.99 / £13.49 / €14.99 (Dec 12) Retail/Digital - [NA] [EU] The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where the player takes control over Ash, one of few things that have survived the end of the world. Follow Ash as he flops his way through a future of pain and suffering. Feel his stress levels rise as you throw him into an endless swarm of decaying, mutant animal-like creatures and help aid his final epic quest...to simply make a friend (out of pieces of people he finds along his journey). Oh, also you collect video game cartridges and tumours! If that does anything for you. Enter the Gungeon - $14.99 / £ ? / € ? Digital - [NA] [EU] Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past. Select a hero [or team up in co-op] and battle your way to the bottom of the Gungeon by surviving a challenging and evolving series of floors filled with the dangerously adorable Gundead and fearsome Gungeon bosses armed to the teeth. Gather precious loot, discover hidden secrets, and chat with opportunistic merchants and shopkeepers to purchase powerful items to gain an edge. Hiragana Pixel Party - $8.99 / £6.99 / €7.99 (Dec 16) Digital - [NA] [EU] A chiptune rhythm-action game that also teaches you something! Learn to read Japanese Hiragana and Katakana characters in a fun chiptune adventure! Not just for people who want to learn Japanese, this is a game anyone can enjoy. Progress through 16 different worlds remembering patterns and repeating them in time to an all-original chip music soundtrack! Learn how to recognise the shapes and sounds of each symbol in the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries. Learn them all and be able to easily read and pronounce Japanese words! Hiragana Pixel Party does not teach words or phrases, but teaches how to recognise characters and read them out as words. Mecho Tales - $9.99 / £ ? / € ? Digital - [NA] [EU] An all-new adventure in the world of Mecho Wars! Run and shoot through chaotic platforming levels filled with spikes, bottomless pits and an army of deadly robots. Go it alone or team up with your friends in 4-player local multiplayer. Directed by Luc Bernard. Mutant Mudds Collection - $9.99 / £10.99 / €12.99 Digital - [NA] [EU] It’s the greatest collection of muddy games under one roof! Revisit the platforming fun of the award-winning Mutant Mudds Deluxe and Mutant Mudds Super Challenge on your Nintendo Switch. But wait, there’s more! A brand-new game has been added to the collection!! Fend off the rising mudds from below in the new explosive puzzler, Mudd Blocks. Never Stop Sneakin' - $14.99 / £ ? / € ? Digital - [NA] [EU] Can you believe it? That madman, Amadeus Guildenstern, just traveled through time and kidnapped all the U.S. Presidents! Yes, all of them! Even the bad ones! If you're going to fix history, you'll need the help of the world's most elite stealth operatives: The Department of Sneakin'. Infiltrate the enemy base, avoid their patrols, and hack their systems to gain valuable intel. Build your Sneakin' HQ, and figure out how to stop Guildenstern's time-traveling scheme! One More Dungeon - $7.99 / £6.99 / €7.99 Digital - [NA] [EU] One More Dungeon is a first person shooter roguelike with procedurally generated levels and pixel-art graphics. Being a nameless adventure seeker, your job is to reach the final level deep within the dungeon and destroy the obelisks that are used by forces of Evil to invade the world. Use a melee weapon, magic staffs, and antique artefacts, to burst way through the hordes of enemies inhabiting a few game areas. Party Planet - $39.99 / £ ? / € ? (Dec 12 NA / ? EU) Retail/Digital - [NA] [EU] Party Planet features 30 fun-packed party games for up to 4 players! It's the ultimate MUST-HAVE game for family and friends of all ages. And with the portability of Nintendo Switch™, turn just about any location into a party! Plantera Deluxe - $4.99 / £4.99 / €4.99 (Dec 7 NA / Dec 12 EU) Digital - [NA] [EU] In the world of Plantera you grow your own garden and breed plants and animals to earn coins with their produce. Use the coins to buy new plants and animals, and also special items and garden expansions. Watch everything grow, help planting and harvesting, buy new things, and defend your garden from sneaky magpies, rabbits, foxes, and wolves. Raise your level and the productivity of your plants and animals! Earn more and more, and create your own dream garden! Poly Bridge - $14.99 / £ ? / € ? Digital - [NA] [EU] Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles! Play the fully featured campaign with 100+ levels of challenging physics puzzles or make your own puzzles and bridge designs in the Sandbox. Success begins by getting cars to their destinations by any means; build suspensions, ramps and jumps, double-deckers, moving drawbridges, and much more. Complete every level under budget and with a sturdy, unbreaking bridge, to become a Poly Bridge Master Engineer... and unlock the secret world. Stern Pinball Arcade - $ free / £ free / € free (Dec 12) Retail/Digital - [NA] [EU] Stern Pinball Arcade is the most realistic and accurate pinball game ever created! Stern Pinball Inc® has created many of the all-time greatest pinball tables. They are the most experienced and largest producer of real pinball machines in business today! Unepic - $9.99 / £8.99 / €9.99 (Dec 15) Digital - [NA] [EU] Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great video game player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination. Eager to keep playing within the RPG to create his own adventure, he decides to go along for the ride until his delirium comes to an end. Once inside the castle, Daniel is inhabited by a mysterious shadow. This dark spirit can communicate with Daniel, but not control him. The shadow has a simple goal: to escape from the prison of Daniel's body. There's a catch, though – the dark spirit can only escape if Daniel perishes. Struggling against enemies in the castle, with the dark spirit attempting to murder him at every turn, Daniel finally discovers his goal: to kill Harnakon, the master of the castle, and free the Pure-Spirits who are trapped within. While the stage seems set for a typical role-playing adventure, Daniel will soon discover that everything is not what it seems... Yooka Laylee - $39.99 / £34.99 / €39.99 Digital - [NA] [EU] Explore huge, beautiful worlds, meet (and beat) an unforgettable cast of characters and horde a vault-load of shiny collectibles as buddy-duo Yooka (the green one) and Laylee (the wisecracking bat with the big nose). Embark on an epic adventure to thwart corporate creep Capital B and his devious scheme to absorb all the world’s books...and convert them into pure profit! Using their arsenal of special moves, our heroes will tackle a huge variety of puzzles and platforming challenges in their search for Pagies, the golden bounty used to unlock – and expand – stunning new worlds, each jammed to the gills with oddball characters, hulking bosses, minecart challenges, arcade games, quiz shows, multiplayer games and much more! Get ready for the full Yooka-Laylee experience, with all the updates, including the much requested camera and voice patch! Gear up with up to four Joy-Con controllers for some multiplayer madness in Rextro's Arcade*. There's a pre-purchase discount for both Mutant Mudds Collection, and Unepic, if you buy them today.
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Infinitum posted:Pinball FX3 outta fuckin nowhere well, time to go bankrupt
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irlZaphod posted:The description of Unepic makes it sound thoroughly terrible. It is actually real real good.
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Infinitum posted:Pinball FX3 outta fuckin nowhere Are the free tables the the Son of Zeus, Adventure Land, and Sorcerer's Lair?
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Detective No. 27 posted:Are the free tables the the Son of Zeus, Adventure Land, and Sorcerer's Lair? Yes
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irlZaphod posted:Yooka Laylee - $39.99 / £34.99 / €39.99 Remember when Yooka Layle was going to be the saviour of the collectathon genre? 
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Infinitum posted:It is actually real real good.
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Feel bad for Jools Watham, his last game utterly flopped on 3ds and probably would have done well in Switch, this collection probably would have done well early but at this point at this time of year will just be lost in the other releases.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Are the free tables the the Son of Zeus, Adventure Land, and Sorcerer's Lair? quote:Modern classics in this collection include: I presume those are free since there's no price listed on the game itself.
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Sorcerer's Lair is the only table in Pinball FX worth a poo poo.
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Infinitum posted:Stern Pinball Arcade is a different game
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https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/940566931987423232?s=17 They really gonna outsell the WiiU in one year.
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Yeah Pinball FX3 just dropped out of nowhere. It's real good as well.. which sucks because it's time for bed
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Al Borland Corp. posted:https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/940566931987423232?s=17 How many units did the WiiU ship? The Wii?
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Elman posted:Remember when Yooka Layle was going to be the saviour of the collectathon genre? To be fair, it was announced before we knew what Super Mario Odyssey was, and that A Hat in Time would eventually come out soon and also be great.
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Rolo posted:Square is showing interest in porting their older games. I hope this doesn’t just mean the minimum-effort mobile ports of old Final Fantasy games.
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irlZaphod posted:The description of Unepic makes it sound thoroughly terrible. I watched a friend play some of it on PC a few years ago and the writing was g a r b a g e
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Pinball FX 3 is a solid port. It is disappointing that there's so few tables at launch tho. I would probably double dip for the Bethesda pack since Fallout and Skyrim are great tables that saves your character between runs. Also, protip: Top left of the main menu has a button that let's you play in vertical mode. It owns bones with joycons detached.
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Mons Hubris posted:Did they ever say for sure whether Gungeon on Switch will include all the new Advanced Gungeons and Draguns content? The Switch version will have update parity with all the other versions, yes. They've been tight-lipped on when exactly the AG&D expansion is coming but they still say it'll be out by the end of the year -- I kind of have a hunch the Switch version is gonna launch with it on Thursday, but we'll see edit: if anyone hasn't been keeping up with the game since launch, we're talking about a big free update coming with 20+ guns, 20+ items, new room layouts, a new floor and boss, some balance changes, an easy/"generous" mode where a resources drop a lot more, and other stuff. The game had some balance issues when it came out but it's had some changes made since then and I've really come around to it. It's easily up there with Binding of Isaac for me goferchan fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Dec 12, 2017 |
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Heads up for those who got the new 8bitdo controller, there's already a couple of firmware updates that include Switch related fixes.quote:Firmware v1.20 http://support.8bitdo.com
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Lodin posted:Pinball FX 3 is a solid port. It is disappointing that there's so few tables at launch tho. I would probably double dip for the Bethesda pack since Fallout and Skyrim are great tables that saves your character between runs. You can also press the - button to change orientations on the fly, though vert mode is obviously the best. Really appreciate that it actually changes the whole UI
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Manky posted:You can also press the - button to change orientations on the fly, though vert mode is obviously the best. Really appreciate that it actually changes the whole UI How are you guys using the vert mode? Just like, Switch lying flat on a surface, or do you all have those easel-style stands that goons were flipping out about back in the pre-order days of the thread?
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SteamWorld Heist: Ultimate Edition coming December 28 (priced $19.99 / £14.99 / €19.99) https://twitter.com/ImageForm/status/940508481148391424
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repiv posted:Heads up for those who got the new 8bitdo controller, there's already a couple of firmware updates that include Switch related fixes. I thought it was fine with 1.10, personally, but I'll give this a shot. Getting an error with the new zip file, though. I played like 4 hours of Xenoblade with it yesterday and it's a lot more comfortable than I expected. The sticks are pretty nice and the buttons and d-pad are responsive. I don't know that I'd want to use it for anything that required fast reflexes on the shoulder buttons, since they're a little small, but Xenoblade is very deliberate in how they're used.
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Does anyone have experience with Slain? Is it the metroidvania with face melting metal game that I think it is based off the video?
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irlZaphod posted:SteamWorld Heist: Ultimate Edition coming December 28 (priced $19.99 / £14.99 / €19.99) That's a real good game. The Next Penelope is also a good game and that's coming to Switch as well next week I think.
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FiestaDePantalones posted:Does anyone have experience with Slain? Is it the metroidvania with face melting metal game that I think it is based off the video? Nope, it's not a Metroidvania at all, it's more like classic Castlevania left to right kill everything stages. It's okay but not great imo.
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