geewhiz
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Monster Hunter Stories 2 I think fits the bill. It is fun can be played in small sessions. Play a battle or two kind of thing.
Yes, you all play on the same screen in the local co-op mode, and only a single Switch/game is needed. It zooms out as players get further apart.
I think it even supports single joy-con as well, though Iād imagine itād be a bit tougher than using full controllers.
Itās pretty good. There are the typical Zelda dungeon puzzles, with the Metroidvania-style progression blockers, the well-designed bosses, and the enemies with individual attack patterns. The controls are smooth and the combat itself feels really nice.
Procedural-wise, it seems like it mixes rooms up similar to something like Isaac or Hades, rather than having full rogue-like dungeon generation. Iām not sure how many of those room templates there are.
At the start you only have a single class unlocked, but thereās a bunch of them there. The main progression resource is the gems you get in dungeons, which are spent to unlock buildings in your village, each of which controls a stat tree that you also progress with the gems (health, magic, stamina, items, tools, etc). When you die you keep the gems you found so you can spend up at the village, because you lose them when starting a new dungeon run.
Picross S. Choose any of the available flavors.
Ephraim
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I hear Unpacking on the Switch is super chill and enjoyable. Considering how much you dig Animal Crossong, @ArmandoPenblade , maybe itās for you?
I plan on grabbing it if it goes on sale.
Yeah Iāve added like 10 games to my wishlist in the last 24 hours; time to see which ones are on sale now :D
Unpacking looks amazing, but, the gf would balk if I paid sticker price for its āgameplay length,ā though I recognize thereās more going on here than just dollars-to-hours.
LMN8R
3857
Unpacking is also on Game Pass, if thatās an option for you.
Dicey Dungeons is on Switch and I think on sale for 3 bucks. I had good fun with it on PC as a distraction game.
Oh, very good suggestion!
morlac
3860
Is awesome and on sale alot.
Itās on sale so I picked it up. My switch is becoming quite the little APRG machine.
Nice. Let us know how it plays in handheld. Iāve tried it on PC over the years, but I think Diablo 3 on consoles with a controller has spoiled M & K control for me with ARPGs.
I had tried Torchlight 2 at release on PC ages ago and couldnāt get into it, but loving it on Switch and just repurchased it for Xbox during current sale to play a different class/build.
I played a bit of Titan Quest tonight and itās not bad. So far itās a bit slower than Diablo 3 but thatās fine. The combat is still satisfying, I just have no idea which character type to pick.
Believe Torchlight 2 has generous respecs? Or maybe thatās a mod.
Wonder how controller support is on PC. Maybe I need to reinstall!
Oh sorry I meant Titan Quest.
Remake and rebalance it in the Grim Dawn engine and Iām there!
Ephraim
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Thanks for the Dicey Dungeons recommendation! It was so cheap with the sale I figured āWhy not?ā And Iāve played through the first level. I like it! The mechanics seem simple enough but I can see how thereās lots of opportunity for both complexity and challenge in the future.
I just unlocked The Thief and Iām curious as to how it will play differently from The Warrior.
Either they added an enormous amount of content to the Switch release of Puzzle Quest compared to the DS version, or my memory is even more broken than I figured.
Canuck
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My son has suddenly gotten into Harvest Moon: A New Beginning on the 3DS, which means I now own Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town on the Switch. I think I might actually like ANB better though. I like the art better than the chibby style of the new game and the world feels a little more alive with all sorts of critters to catch. Maybe that will soon become the case on the new game too.
The Thief isnāt too different but some of the others of the 6 (7 if you do a certain trick mid run) are very different.
They added like five new classes yeah.
