Switch 2 is here! Well, not mine, but in general. Should be getting mine soon though. How many of you have gotten it already? And how are you liking it so far?
Finished Chatper 9 of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition ! I was expecting this to happen in the story, it was kinda predictable. Still, interesting to see.
Got the flight module after that, and now I can fly everywhere! Completed FrontNav of Noctilum, and now just running around doing affinity missions so that I can be couple of levels above the recommended level to start the next chapter.
Played a good amount of Marvel's Midnight Suns. It seems to me that I am spending lots of time in the Abbey, instead of doing the fighting. Not that abbey parts are boring. It's interesting to see the super-hero drama. There's tons of dialogue. I think I am on day 7 or 8, so not too long in grand scheme of things but haven't heard a single repeated line, IIRC.
Trying to most of the side missions before continuing with the main missions, so this will probably take a long while to finish. I am around level 7 now, and have unlocked lots of abbey areas.
Characters unlocked
I have unlocked Spider-man, and the next main mission is with Dead Pool, and I am assuming will unlock him. Also have some locked missions with some other new characters like Morbius.
Also started Ghost of Tsushima.
I originally played it a while back on PS+ Extra, but then my sub expired when I was just about 10-15 hours in. So bought it on on-going sale and downloaded it when I was near the end of The Surge, but when I finished it, I didn't want to start another melee action game right away, so went with Marvel's Midnight Suns.
Then my kid started playing Ghost of Tsushima Legends (MP part of the game), and I saw him playing it and got the itch to play it myself. And here I am.
I am apparently in the start of Act 2, but was hadn't done any main mission yet and was clearing the first area, so continued with that and have completely liberated the firs area now. Going to start on the main mission in second area now.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
I got it on Thursday, first time ever I get a new Nintendo console on release date! I'm really enjoying it! I only bought Mario Kart World for Switch 2. I haven't tried the new stuff for the Zelda games, because I know once I do that's all I'll be playing for weeks. But I will go through some of my backlog, see if I notice any improvements on different games. I also want to get Cyberpunk at some point, it's just with these prices, I need to really think before getting a new game...
Mario Kart World is amazing. I still haven't gotten used to it, but I've finished all the cups in Grand Prix. It's cool because it's more Mario Kart, but also I feel like I'll still keep playing Mario Kart 8 forever. Makes sense Monolith helped out. I know they mentioned it before, but experiencing is a whole thing, they actually built an open world Mario Kart! I've been enjoying all the little references and easter eggs. It'll be a blast to play this with friends!
Finished Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, the main story at least. There's a lot of content on this game, and I played a bit of the post-game stuff. I think I might keep going to get the final ending. In regards to performance with Switch 2, there is an issue with loading screens on 1, they take forever. This improves on Switch 2, but the main improvement I noticed was in the stages where you get to play with the Divine Beasts. It feels like a completely different experience, it runs much smoother.
I am definitely getting the new Hyrule Warriors on Switch 2. They really work on the story on these games (way more than Nintendo do). So if you're interested in the story from Zelda games, I definitely recommend Age of Calamity. I hope they fix some of the technical issues for the new one though. It's not about hardware limitations as much as issues with the camera in some parts. I feel like the camera should get further away in some circumstances, instead it kind of gets locked between the enemy and a wall and you can't see anything, neither your character nor what's happening. Also I hope they moke more different enemies. I don't know how many Moblins I defeated, but it got boring π
Congratulations on getting Switch 2! Switch was my first ever console that I got on launch. And hopefully Switch 2 will be the second! (I also wanted to get PS5 on launch, but got delayed a bit due to some reasons, still, got it in the first year)
There are still some booster dlc trophies I haven't gotten in MK 8 yet, so I may keep playing it for a while. I don't like to close my game on Switch, so don't switch between different games as much as I do on PS5, but with Switch 2, I can keep my main game on that, and play different things on Switch, so will probably finish everything then... unless I get MK World and don't feel like going back...
You keep making me get back to Age of Calamity. I think I have done most of the story, will give it a try after finishing and XC-X, you can tell me how much is left to finish the game.
Thanks! Yeah I don't plan to get rid of my Switch either. Mario Kart 8 and World are different enough that I think I will keep playing both. But I still play Mario Kart 64 too, so maybe I'm not a good example for this kind of thing!
Age of Calamity has so much content, I don't even know how far I am from 100% π Every time I complete a thing, a few more show up on the map. I finished the main story and did plenty of the smaller quests, but I still have so many to go. And I'm at almost 40 hours in this new save file.
lol, yeah, I remember that part about the Age of Calamity. It seems like it would never end, but IIRC I was doing all side content, so hadn't actually finished the story.