Blaster Master Zero - I am aware that I really liked the NES game. It was really good. However every single game past that, before BMZ was terrible. Woefully terrible. Thus BMZ was a risk. Would it actually be good or just another garbage sequel/remake. Thankfully BMZ is totally amazing. Well work getting if you like the genre. Also Blaster Master Zero 2 is also pretty good in it's own right.
Vostok Inc - I don't know why I bought it back in 2017 on the Switch. It was cheap enough and I wanted something new to play. I had zero information about the game and was ok with sacrificing a few $$ if it was bad. Thankfully it's a really good game. It's basically the cookie clicker genre done well. The writing in the game is hilarious. Also there's no clicking. While the planets auto generate money, you are flying around in your space ship shooting other space ships and listening to the boss of each system taunting you in their own unique way.
I do recommend checking out the demo if this interests you. Just note well, the numbers in the demo are skewed so you can only play the first system. In the full game you can easily play through the whole game with zero hassle.
Fast Racing RMX - I didn't think too much about this game. I just bought it. I liked the F-Zero games. So I thought this would be much of the same. It is but with one major flaw. The good is that RMX is one of the prettiest and smoothest games on the Switch. Plays like a dream. The developers deserve every credit for this. However that one flaw is almost all of the game's content is initally walled off to the player. You have to place top 3 in cups to unlock more cups. Doing so is nearly impossible thus for the average player they will get to experience disappointing little of the game's content. This is coming from me, who was decently good at F-Zero and F-Zero GX.
One flaw ruined the otherwise good work the developers did. Thus I can't recommend this game. Steer clear of it unless you are someone who complains that F-Zero GX is too easy
20XX - After the garbage that was Mega Man 11 I just leaped into this game without thinking. It's a weird concept but it works really well. It's a rogue-like Mega Man game. You get RNG powerups and upgrades throughout each playthrough. The only downside is the boss powers are all terrible. Limited ammo and not that good at all. Also after beating each boss robot you get a choice, to take the boss power or another random RNG powerup. Most times the RNG powerup is better.
Your base weapon can be changed out also for a different one if you get the pickup in game. This makes the character play much differently.
The two initial characters are a Mega Man clone and a Zero saber clone. The other 2 characters you earn are hard to use and specialty characters you get for beating the game at least once.
Also unlike most roge-likes there is 3 difficulty modes. A 3 lives mode, a 1 life mode, and a 1 life mode with optional hard modifiers. The base game is the same though, well the same RNG each time.
Also finally the order in which you do the bosses is RNG. This matters as the first few you choose are easier versions and the last few you choose are harder versions. So based on your character and what powerups you have, you'll choose a different order of the bosses.
Not the hardest rogue-like game out there. I just play it in 3 life mode, zero penalties for doing so. Great game, I really recommend it. Even better on sale for a cheaper price too.
Ni No Kuni 2 - We all know the first game is great. What about the second game? It's got a bad rap but I still picked it up. Just because I could and it was on a great sale price at the time. What did I think of the game? It's not perfect and parts of the game are fundamentally flawed, but overall despite this I really enjoyed it. A great fun game and well worth the time sink.
The flaws? The squad battles just feel like a chore, not because of what they are, they are cool. it's because you have to level each mini squad when you get them. Levelling up your favourite team is boring. It's a totally separate level system to your standard party. Most people just use the initial 4 mini squads and that's it. I picked a mostly ranged set of squads and levelled them up. Zero pointchanging them up because I'd have to level them up doing squad battles over and over. They should have removed levels from the squad battles and just made them all tactical.
Also the DLC is garbage. What it is, is fun, however it's all just RNG loot farming. Doing mini dingeons over and over hoping certain materials drop to craft the better gear required to do the harder DLC mini dungeons. Rinse and repeat. I hard quit the DLC and never finished it because of this.
Past this, the game overall is fun, a nice story and honestly not that bad. Just get it on sale, as I'm not sure it's worth full price anymore.
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze - As a fan of the DKC Trilogy and after Returns being alright getting Tropical Freeze was a no brainer. I quickly realised that Tropical Freeze is not an amazing game. It's average at best. It's a competent platformer. However all the RARE polish in the Trilogy is absent in Tropical Freeze. I'll keep it short and say Tropical Freeze disappointed me greatly. Apart from the modern graphics in Tropical Freeze which look great, the Trilogy is better in every other way.
DOOM + DOOM 2 - We've all played this decades ago but why this is on the list is I've never owned these on console before. After the issue fixing patches were dropped I jumped at these games. I'm glad I did. They are pretty good chocloate style ports. Not pure vanilla, but do a good job of replicating the vanilla experience, mostly. Add in the fact that you get Plutonia, TNT and Sigil as free downloads. Well you do have to sign up to Bethesda.Net to get them so I guess the price is giving Bethesda your information. You only have to sign in once to download this DLC. You don't have to sign in anything to play any of the content.
Post patches, the only issue still there is Nightmare is not right. It's not fast monsters and cheats are not disabled in it. An issue not fixed based on the BFG edition this port is based on.
As an aside I'm not getting DOOM 3 as that's garbage. I might get DOOM 64 one day as it's not a bad game, just not my favourite DOOM game ever.
I'll stop here and maybe later I'll share some more games.
