Nintendo Switch

[RubberJohnny]

Remember Sadness, the first Wii game?

[joe bazooka]

That's exactly what I was thinking of. Those Sadness guys didn't even attempt to make it likely. A press release written by somebody without a basic grasp of English, couple of black and white picture and WHAMMO. People still remember them.

[rgraves]

16 hours ago, Napole0n said:

What game is this? It looks really nice.

It's called 'Seasons of Heaven' apparently. Here's some spiel:

 

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One of America’s great authors, Louis L’Amour once said, “There will come a time when you believe that everything is finished. Yet, that will be the beginning.” In Seasons of Heaven that is exactly what a small group of people who find themselves survivors of the greatest purge every known will ultimately come to realize. In their struggles to survive on a stripped and barren earth, they will learn that humans across the world literally died as a result of their own careless actions.

 

Centuries of lying waste to the very land that sustained them was what would kill them in the end. The animals would be killed and eaten into extinction. The water needed to sustain all life would be polluted until it was undrinkable, and the air would be filled with waste that would suffocate the oxygen that was vital to their survival and the survival of everything else on earth. As the survivors learn to survive in a whole new world they will have to remember that the very things that gave their fellow humans a sense of superiority and even omnipotence were what had killed them in the end.

 

Seasons of Heaven will take you from deep inside of a mystical forest at the beginning of time all the way through to the twenty-first century and the fall of civilization. It will take you on a journey with Yann, a young boy with Asperger’s syndrome and his faithful companion, Ani, a French bulldog who Yann is able to communicate with through telepathy. As you follow along on their journey you’ll have the opportunity to meet the rest of the major players and bear witness to the enlightenment of some and the demise of others. This story will allow you to experience the awe of discovering the most beautiful, magical place that ever existed while at the same time staying only one step ahead of the dark and vile underbelly of the human race.

 

[rgraves]

2 hours ago, muffin said:

I think, what it is, is an independent developer releasing a few screenshots for a game that does not and will never exist. By saying it's a Switch exclusive they are guaranteeing exposure for their company. 

I think they are a bit more serious than that. They've been working with Nintendo at least:

 

And they are most likely going to be showing it in Jan:

 

[Bojangle]

Love the concept and it looks lovely.

Shame it's vaporware.

 

[smac]

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One of America’s great authors, Louis L’Amour

 

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Hmm, spergboy the dog whisperer taking us on a guilt trip to promote environmental awareness sounds a lot less appealing than those screenshots initially promised.

[Mr Cochese]

I wish I had dog telepathy to make up for my lack of social skills and emotional intelligence.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

It's like a twee post-gamer gate version of Captain Planet.

[Chosty]

Sounds a similar concept to the cultish sci fi short story/film 'A Boy and His Dog'...about a boy who can communicate telepathically with his dog in a post-apocalyptic future. Looks more green than the film, though.

[Girth Certificate]

the dock better not mark up the screen, original 3DS style. The Switch is too pretty to be attaching rubber feet to.

[SpagMasterSwift]

Something to play when outside neglecting your real dog.

[gone fishin]

21 hours ago, TehStu said:

That sounds dreadful. Who do they expect to sell this thing to? It'll be perceived as a tablet (fairly), and you can get Kindle Fires for peanuts and share purchases across a family account, not to mention essentially unlimited games with that kids subscription thing.

 

Sorry, I'm sure this has been covered, but that statement above stuck out to me as a hard sell for Nintendo.

 

They show their target audience demographic in the reveal video - 18-35 year olds who want to play a game by themselves at home or on a plane, or want to have shared gaming with similar 18-35 year olds at either a rooftop party or the back of a Type 25 VW campervan (has to be Type 25, the older VW campervan model is for 40+ year olds.)

[Zathras]

[scottcr]

Am I the only one who things Seasons of Heaven is some kind of mash-up of two amazing Slayer tunes?

[Mr Cochese]

Sounds a bit more prog to me.

[scottcr]

Seaons (in the Abyss)  and

 

(South) of Heaven

[Mr Cochese]

Maybe I was thinking of Manowar.

[mushashi]

5 hours ago, Chosty said:

Sounds a similar concept to the cultish sci fi short story/film 'A Boy and His Dog'...about a boy who can communicate telepathically with his dog in a post-apocalyptic future. Looks more green than the film, though.

 

If it had the same themes as that film, the average gamer would lap it up, post-apocalypse, mutants, various factions, etc. As a game, it's basically Fallout where you can talk to your dog companion in a language you both can understand, pre-ordered.

[NEG]

Samurai Mario is definitely going to be a thing/power-up:

 

http://www.polygon.com/2016/12/9/13899180/super-mario-switch-teaser-samurai-mario

[RubberJohnny]

Globetrotting Mario then, with the Mexican themed area we've already seen, similar to what Sonic did with Unleashed.

[Sarlaccfood]

Super Mario..... Earth?

[robotattack]

3 hours ago, NEG said:

Samurai Mario is definitely going to be a thing/power-up:

 

http://www.polygon.com/2016/12/9/13899180/super-mario-switch-teaser-samurai-mario

 

 

Except the T-shirt has a Super Mario Run logo at the bottom.  Someone on Neogaf said it had something to with a play on words... that I can't remember. 

 

Someone in the comments of that story said "Someone mentioned it’s a reference to the 1985 Japanese movie "Ran":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_(film)

 

You can see the Kanji on his shirt matches the Kanji on the movie poster, it’s a play on words with "Super Mario RAN" instead of "Super Mario Run", since they sound pretty similar in Japanese."

 

Which was similar to what the Gaffer said, but they didn't mention the film. 

[RaoulSilva]

12 hours ago, Sarlaccfood said:

Super Mario..... Earth?

Super Mario Lands/Worlds!

[Harsin]

Mario slowly realises that he's in an entertainment product and him and his friends have been slaughtered again and again for gamers' amusement. At the end you break out and go to Nintendo HQ and a bunch of toads slaughter devs while Mario violently jumps up and down on Miyamoto's head.

[matt0]

15 hours ago, Sarlaccfood said:

Super Mario..... Earth?

 

Super Mario World Tour. 

[RaoulSilva]

5 hours ago, Harsin said:

Mario slowly realises that he's in an entertainment product and him and his friends have been slaughtered again and again for gamers' amusement. At the end you break out and go to Nintendo HQ and a bunch of toads slaughter devs while Mario violently jumps up and down on Miyamoto's head.

Freeze all mushroom functions.

[David Heath]

Wii U has been the only home Nintendo console I haven't owned, but I want this on launch.

 

Where's the best place to pre order from?

 

There's nothing in the original post but a bunch of pages back people were mentioning an online retailer who are well trusted (?).

[Super Craig]

Most places probably won't be putting pre-orders up until after the January 12th event. Amazon is probably the best bet.

[the_debaser]

I've preordered from shopto but they don't have a price yet.