Switch Games 'n' Stuff

But yeah, not much in that one for me. Fire Emblem DLC is cool, and I'll probably get the Octopath demo.

I don’t know whether to play minish cap or metorid first.

That said, Professor Layton dropping by for three seconds, refusing to elaborate and leaving like a chad probably qualifies as an "unexpected bombshell"

If that's also first half then add it to the list, easy

Layton was a lovely surprise. It’s been far too long!
Nice to see Ghost trick and EO too, hopefully they will pull more from the ds/3ds catalogue in the future.

Yup. 34.99

The screenshots on the eshop page look incredible. Looks like a lot of work has gone into this.

I missed Metroid Prime the first go around - is it a generic FPS similar to Halo or does it have a bit more about it than that?

It's like a 3D ...err ...Metroid.

Its not an FPS. Its a Metroidvania in 3D. Puzzles, backtracking, traversing, boss battles.

Edit - Its closer to the Bioshock games. They borrow the Metroid Prime quite heavily.

This Metroid Remaster seems waaaaay more than a simple remaster, new textures, remodeling, 60fps.

Did someone say Metroid Prime?!

Price is a bit cheeky, and I'm a bit sad it's not a wholly new game, but on the other hand no-one has really done anything like Metroid Prime since, and it's long enough since I played it that I've probably forgotten pretty much everything.
Rock on!

Lowest BOTW has ever been on eshop is 41.99. So with this one being more expensive if you can use the 80 pound voucher for it that's the best deal you can get digitally I reckon.

Otherwise a few of us have punted at the 48 quid pre order for the physical at the base website. A chance they may increase it though but will just cancel if they do that.

How well do they emulate on pc? Might be a decent way to play it, I remember botw looking much better when it was upscaled bit no idea how it ran.

The last one looks damn good running on a PC.

That was a great Direct. Really wide range of games and lots looked interesting to me.

I'm not familiar with the re-releasing RPGs, but they both looked interesting. As soon as I saw Baten Kaitos I was amazed that no modern game had done a deck building RPG. With card battlers being pretty popular and tabletop games like Arkham Horror pretty much doing the job of showing how to do it, you would think it was an obvious mechanic to go with. Certainly intrigued to see how an older game does it.

Thought Decapolice looked pretty cool, as did Raincode. Not played a Professor Layton game before, but hear good things, so nice that one is coming to Switch. Good on Nintendo for committing to the delay of Advance Wars, but great to see that is finally coming out.

Of course, Metroid Prime is great to finally be coming to Switch. I do love the trolling from Nintendo that it is just the first game, but they do seem to have put the effort in. It certainly looks like a Switch game instead of a re-release of a Game Cube game.

Was initially a bit meh about Gameboy and Gameboy Advance games, but those actually looked pretty good. I'll probably dip into some of those for 5 minutes before forgetting about them, like most of the games on that Online service.

And Zelda, looking great as ever. Not a huge amount more shown, although tone looks like it is going to be a bit darker than before. The junk vehicles looked cool and should lend themselves to more improv physics shenanigans.

Yeah, that was pretty damn good, although it does make the Switch not look like a console that is soon to be replaced.