Oh man, I never realized how much I wanted couch Qvadriga until you mentioned it. To be able to destroy someoneās chariot and watch them react in real time as their charioteer is dragged along. Sounds divine. Iām not sure how inputs would work, but I guess they could bind moves to buttons and have them entered simultaneously like picking plays in Tecmo Bowl.
First impressions: the ring is bigger than i expected and feels nice and sturdy. It does have active hardware inside (There are pins in the joycon connector).
Thereās only a couple of āmiddlingā reviews in so far, but they seem consistent with each other. Nothing that keeps me away from the Switch version, really. Just saying thereās some performance issues on occasion, and resolution even in docked mode is only 720p. But itās supposedly perfectly great in handheld mode.
If only I could download itā¦ Itās weird, I checked at midnight EST when games usually launch in the store, and it wasnāt yet available. Now, nearly 12 hours into the official release date, itās still not available for download. Is this typical?
Nope. Sometimes there are delays (I suspect most publishers donāt bother to specify an hour, which is why it goes live at midnight).
Butā¦ Hat in Time showed up in the Japanese store at Midnight yesterday, and I was surprised to not see it in the European one 7 hours later. Maybe they pulled the worldwide release a bit because of the issues you talk about?
Sometimes, really weird things happen: Vlambeer released Super Crate Box for the Switch a couple of weeks ago. Well, you can still buy it in the US, but you canāt anymore in Europe (āThe title isnāt available for purchase anymoreā it says). But I guess it could be just the usual Vlambeer drama since they lost their minds releasing Nuclear Throne.
And I just checked and itās there. Grabbing it now! Itās huge (16GB!) Iām all in with the āSeal the Dealā expansion, figured might as well fully invest, based on the kidsā interest. Especially since the YouTubers theyāve watched playing this were all onto the expansion already, of course.
These may be the worst load times Iāve ever experienced. Sure, at 16+ GB it definitely had to go onto an SD card, but so have several other games and Iāve never seen this before. On first load I stared at the splash screen for at least 40 seconds. Maybe it was closer to a minute. I nearly forced the game to quit.
Seems pretty smooth once youāre playing. The co-op play is both appreciated and problematic at the earliest (non Seal the Deal) levels where itās clear that itās not true coop, but rather Hat Girl is very much primary and Bow Girl is secondary. Only Hat Girl can activate dialogue, for example. And the camera is really pinned to her. If youāre playing Odyssey, itās more like the Mario / Cappy relationship that your typical Mario / Luigi partnership.
Hyper Sentinel is 12 cents for now on the Switch.
Itās a sort of very retro shmup (probably drawing inspiration from a C64 game whose name I forgot). You are swiping a level left and right, and you have a small invulnerability window when you are changing direction/looping. Itās a bit too fast paced for me, and the power ups donāt feel balanced from what I played, but I kind of like it as it is a genre Iāve never been quite exposed to.
Here is the Steam store page which holds more info than the Nintendo one. The trailer was so horrible I almost passed on it though.
I think that discount is to try to promote the release of their Silk game.
I did the setup and the first three missions, which I think was the first complete āworldā. So I fought Dragaux once. As you said, itās all incredibly polished, as almost only Nintendo games can manage.
Iād say you might need slightly larger than a yoga mat area, but what do I know, Iāve only just begun. I would add two warnings. Watch for ceiling fans. I didnāt do any exercises that had any rapid overhead movements, but I did raise hit the fan the first time I was stretching with my arms above my head. And second, you probably do want some kind of mat, because you will sweat. You probably donāt want to drip sweat all over a carpeted living room floor, for example.