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Nintendo Switch Year in Review 2021
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til there’s a bravely default sequel…
I expected Pokemon Shield to be up here but it seems I fell off harder than Mixer.
Honestly, I'm finding trouble finding Switch games I actually want to play actively. I've not really enjoyed newer Pokemon games and nothing else really runs decently on it. Maybe I should just go back to Monster Hunter given it doesn't experience jarring frame dips and bugs, I only really played it with my irl friend when he was over but he fell off that too. I have a pretty sizable library but nothing really jumps out to me. Fighting games on the Switch are actual dogshit resource-wise, especially in the largely minimal rollback presence and freakishly high input latency in the console itself, so I dislike playing them here. That's a massive library flaw in my demographic for sure. The retro emulation this console has on its online service is also not great, which further chops everything down for me.
Maybe it's because my Switch is from the first month of release (yay mods!) but it's just not very powerful. To say nothing else, hearing it become a jet engine when running games my Vita would shrug at is certainly something to behold. And yes, I have cleaned the fans, and I've seen other perfectly fine Switch consoles do the same thing. I'm not out for experiences that are seamless, but I would love for there to be better graphical quality that is less focused on "pushing limits" and more focused on being a seamless experience. Part of the appeal of Nintendo is "gameplay over graphics", y'know?
I am a passion-seeking junkie when it comes to games though, so I am a pretty harsh critic. The "goat" games that people rant about aren't very impressive to me outside of like...Super Mario Odyssey? BoTW kept me playing but didn't feel extravagant. I've not bothered to finish the PMD remake or Metroid Dread though I absolutely should, those are probably what I should stream soon actually. I'm surprised Mario Kart 8 Deluxe isn't up here, I do play that semi-regularly I thought?
It also seems that I'm just playing on my Switch less and less;
This is pretty funny. You can see where I got my gaming PC (Apr) and then when I started streaming games in my Discord server (Oct);
Also fuck portable, all my lads hate portable, the Switch could fry an egg on it after like half an hour of undocked usage I swear;
Honestly, I'm finding trouble finding Switch games I actually want to play actively. I've not really enjoyed newer Pokemon games and nothing else really runs decently on it. Maybe I should just go back to Monster Hunter given it doesn't experience jarring frame dips and bugs, I only really played it with my irl friend when he was over but he fell off that too. I have a pretty sizable library but nothing really jumps out to me. Fighting games on the Switch are actual dogshit resource-wise, especially in the largely minimal rollback presence and freakishly high input latency in the console itself, so I dislike playing them here. That's a massive library flaw in my demographic for sure. The retro emulation this console has on its online service is also not great, which further chops everything down for me.
Maybe it's because my Switch is from the first month of release (yay mods!) but it's just not very powerful. To say nothing else, hearing it become a jet engine when running games my Vita would shrug at is certainly something to behold. And yes, I have cleaned the fans, and I've seen other perfectly fine Switch consoles do the same thing. I'm not out for experiences that are seamless, but I would love for there to be better graphical quality that is less focused on "pushing limits" and more focused on being a seamless experience. Part of the appeal of Nintendo is "gameplay over graphics", y'know?
I am a passion-seeking junkie when it comes to games though, so I am a pretty harsh critic. The "goat" games that people rant about aren't very impressive to me outside of like...Super Mario Odyssey? BoTW kept me playing but didn't feel extravagant. I've not bothered to finish the PMD remake or Metroid Dread though I absolutely should, those are probably what I should stream soon actually. I'm surprised Mario Kart 8 Deluxe isn't up here, I do play that semi-regularly I thought?
It also seems that I'm just playing on my Switch less and less;
This is pretty funny. You can see where I got my gaming PC (Apr) and then when I started streaming games in my Discord server (Oct);
Also fuck portable, all my lads hate portable, the Switch could fry an egg on it after like half an hour of undocked usage I swear;
What the everliving shitsucking mother of all holy bitchtits is a thad
Pick up a football
Pick up a football
What else is above chad?
a football, if you'd pick one up
why would you pick up a football. that's against the rules
i had to read this a couple times because i forgot that people live in inferior countries to mine
/s
in case you hit it in the water you need to put a new one back on the green
i remember this day was caused by my 50+ y/o old man and his love for shredding my sanity with block walls through old mansion. and boomeranging me in mario kart 8 dx shine thief before swiping the shine and doing donuts through wuhu park streets. what a gaming legend.
apparently march is my gamer month
Yeah I have 206 hours in Unite, and last year played Switch for 202 hours total. This game really is pretty addictive.
I think I left a playlist on for Smash that one day because I think most of the hours come from the first half of the year. Even though Pokemon Unite is my most played game at this point, it doesn't feel like that much time has passed based on my battle count of about 700. Assuming the max 10 minutes per game it's about 116 hours of time spent actually playing matches, which is still a lot. Maybe it comes from fomo through playing a few CPU games every day for the daily rewards and also idle time on menus. Probably worth reflecting on the time I spend though. Thank you nintendo switch year in review 2021. Also Picross S3 is good, I skipped 1 and 2 and haven't gotten to 4 yet because there's a lot of content and I want the hintless medals.
On 3DS I played a bit of Pokemon Picross and liked Zelda Picross from my nintendo. It's pretty relaxing and the core gameplay might be basic, but also satisfying to get through puzzles and reason them out. Compared to pokemon it's definitely a full experience out of the box with 150 main puzzles that are reused for the mega versions, but they still feel fresh and more challenging to puzzle out. Everything is available from the start, except the puzzles for clip picross (micross/murals in Pokemon) that you unlock by finishing main puzzles. I picked up S3-S5 when S5 released and the others were on sale. I just checked and they're on sale again now because S7 is coming out soon with touchscreen controls. I'm not sure if they'll patch touchscreen support into the previous releases, but they've done it for other QOL features in the past.
Compared to Mario Super Picross on SNES online I have to say the controls are fluid and I also like the visuals of doing the puzzles and seeing them in colour afterwards, especially the big clip picross illustrations that you form. Also the music is chill and does its job of being listenable for a long time. Unlike pokemon there isn't any theming in particular, so all the puzzles are pixel pictures of real world stuff like food or animals or other things. A feature I like is that you can suspend puzzles at any time independently like a save state and it doesn't get deleted when you load back in.
EDIT: Also there are demos on the eShop for S4 through S7 I believe. I don't know how far they go but it's probably worth trying out if you're interested.
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