I guess I am going to have to get a Switch after all....

[estirose]

Late to the party (because the announcement was almost two weeks ago), but....!

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Yeah, it's the one game that would make me buy a Switch. I guess Fantasy Life Online gave the IP just enough oomph that they were willing to make an actual sequel!

ETA: I wish they'd done the trailer a bit differently. Looking at the reacts, people not familiar with the original FL tend to auto-class this as a "farming game" - hilariously, the first one did not have farming (I think it was one of the cut classes?). Also, it looks like an Animal Crossing clone, so if you didn't know this was a life sim/RPG hybrid along the lines of Rune Factory (without the romance)... yeah.

Comments

[cye_of_the_torrent]

:o So, is it officially Switch time, or is it "watch Let's Plays a lot" time?

[estirose]

It's definitely "I'm putting money aside for a Switch" time (I don't think they gave an actual date for the game? But Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is coming out 6 months after its Direct, so I'm going to assume the same for the new Fantasy Life, making a likely date in August-September). I am willing to do let's plays for a lot of series (I did it for Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, for example, before it stopped being a Wii U exclusive), but this is the one series I am not content to just watch others play.

Pokemon Scarlet or Violet (I haven't decided which version) and the Pokemon Snap remake are also on my list to pick up after Fantasy Life i.

This is also to support Level-5, which puts out fantastic games and fandom wants to convince to keep putting out games outside Japan. (I see there's a new Professor Layton in the new Direct, and despite not being heavily invested into Yo-Kai Watch I'm on the sidelines of that fandom and I'd be thrilled to see a new game for that IP as well.)

[cye_of_the_torrent]

w00t! I haven't played a lot of Fantasy Life, but ScarVi was awesome. Between the plot and the majority of the bugs presumably getting patched soon, I would definitely put that up first out of all the Pokemon games on Switch currently.

[estirose]

Wonderful! For reasons of my own (*cough* missing Murkrow line *cough*) I couldn't get excited about Sword and Shield. Besides version exclusives, is there any reason to pick Scarlet over Violet or vice versa?

[cye_of_the_torrent]

The plot is almost (like, 99.9%) the same no matter what, but: you get the male professor if you play Violet and the female professor if you play Scarlet. And of course, the uniforms/school is purple in Violet and orange in Scarlet. Ultimately, it's all about what exclusives you want + your aesthetic.

[estirose]

Well, that's going to make it tough. I adore Professor Burnet from the Sun & Moon games and would love to have a female professor, but I'm not fond of orange uniforms!

Thankfully this is a while away so I have some time to figure out which is more important. :)

[thesecondbatgirl]

I AM SO EXCITED FOR IT I CANNOT EVEN.

Now if they'll just give me a port to the switch of the original

[estirose]

Maybe if this takes off? Hope so though!