Astral Ascent.
It’s two player side scrolling Hades with four different characters you can play.
I expect it to be my personal game of the year. But I’m a big rogue like fan and enjoy couch co-op with my son.
So it hits all the right buttons for me.
Joystick drift and flick. I have two and they both do it.
My son and I both favor the far cheaper 8bitdo controllers
Does anyone else read this as, we’re not fixing the pro controller and are planning to reuse that design for the Switch 2?
Yeah the cat quest games were super funny. I don’t think I finished either one of them but both were enjoyable the time I spent with them.
Unicorn Overlord. I’m really enjoying it. Both the story and the gameplay. The voice acting has been good too.
As a kid I was in love with Superman. But, when I first got a Nintendo, I got to be the hero.
That hero was Link.
So, my favorite then and still my favorite now. Link!
I played trails to azure or whatever. Kinda fun but also menu hell. I like menus and tweaking characters, but when it gets to be too much, the analysis paralysis kills games for me. And this was one it killed after about two or three hours of actual play (and many more staring at menus)
Get new friends that play on Switch.
Problem solved!
So, Wargroove 2 has a few modes I’ve played in the last 24 hours that greatly increases the depth and replayability for me.
Played multiplayer with my kid and that’s good fun. Also there’s a whole rogue like subgame with character unlocks that are right up my alley.
So yeah, I’m sure I’ll get my $20 out of it. It does lock up, but infrequently. And I imagine they’ll fix it as soon as they can. Overall it runs really well though. Quick load times etc.
I just finished the first campaign. And aside from what I mentioned about their not feeling like there’s any sense of character progress or customization (this is what I would tie to three starring missions) it’s really good.
Looking forward to Unicorn Overlord. Hopefully it hits all the right notes for me and not just 80%
Wargroove 2. The combat and story are pretty good. I wish it had stuff to unlock by three starring missions though.
Picked up Wargroove 2 last night. So far enjoying it.
If it’s reasonably priced I’ll grab it for sure.
Love me some rogue likes! Contributed a lot of design and code to ToME ($5 on Steam, not on Switch unfortunately).
I’d love to upgrade the hardware but if I can’t play my cartridges and downloaded games without repurchasing I won’t anytime soon.
The clearest hint yet that a Switch 2 is arriving next year came last month when Nintendo showed game developers a version of Breath of the Wild running on Switch 2 hardware behind closed doors at Gamescom.
Backwards compatibility?
It did and yeah, I have no idea how they did it.
You could save and quit when you died. So to beat the game with one life, you had to do it in one sitting.
Or know the controller two trick someone posted. But I didn’t know that.
I think Zelda actually was the first game you could save.
Metroid used a code.
You would have saved ten year old me a lot of arguments with my dad lol
We begged my dad to get us a Nintendo for Christmas. He’s like I think we should get a VCR.
Christmas morning we unwrap a VCR box, with a Nintendo box inside it.
Of course I think I probably cried before my dad pulled the Nintendo out.
Zelda was my favorite. Ten year old me played it so much I did the first quest with one life (which I think meant a single sitting as I don’t remember it having a save and exit option outside of dying).
But, never beat the second quest!
Well I haven’t finished it completely. Like Hades once you beat it you can just keep going up in difficulty and as you do you keep on unlocking new stuff.
But I’ve now beat the final boss twice.
In my opinion it’s better than Hades if you have any interest in co-op. Even playing single player I’m enjoying it more than Hades but I prefer side scrolling games over top down. And I feel like astral ascent has more depth to it, which makes sense because they cribbed from Hades and improved upon it you know.