21st May 2025, 7:32 AM
Yep, I had found that :) unfortunately, I didn't feel like maxing out my powers and figured I had enough to beat Mecha-Ridley. Once that was done I kinda lost interest. Awesome game though, glad I played it.
I don't like the idea of companies renting out games instead of selling them but Nintendo Online has been great for this so far. There are all sorts of games I never caught before, and I think one-and-done will be enough. Plus there are others where I have the hard copy (Metroid, Zelda for NES), but replaying them on Switch is just easier. No swearing and blowing into the cartridge and trying to get the NES to work. Plus these will actually save, so that's nice. The batteries are probably dead on all my old cartridges.
On saving, it's also neat to create checkpoints anywhere so I can skip long, tedious parts of games that I'd need to redo every time I die. Which, as it turns out, is a lot! Star Tropics is harder than I remember :/ then you've got your Ecco the Dolphins, which were intentionally made to be difficult so people didn't rent it once and beat it over the weekend. Screw that, I'm cheating.
I don't like the idea of companies renting out games instead of selling them but Nintendo Online has been great for this so far. There are all sorts of games I never caught before, and I think one-and-done will be enough. Plus there are others where I have the hard copy (Metroid, Zelda for NES), but replaying them on Switch is just easier. No swearing and blowing into the cartridge and trying to get the NES to work. Plus these will actually save, so that's nice. The batteries are probably dead on all my old cartridges.
On saving, it's also neat to create checkpoints anywhere so I can skip long, tedious parts of games that I'd need to redo every time I die. Which, as it turns out, is a lot! Star Tropics is harder than I remember :/ then you've got your Ecco the Dolphins, which were intentionally made to be difficult so people didn't rent it once and beat it over the weekend. Screw that, I'm cheating.