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The screen looked good, though I haven’t ever seen an OLED and tend to play docked. Lots of colour and higher resolution.
The device felt very similar to Switch 1 but yes it’s thinner and I think shoulders/triggers feel different.
The Pro controller wasn’t as identical as I expected. Hard to say what exactly without having the two together compare.
They begged a few of us to play Jamboree and the camera has a surprisingly wide angle of view. You shouldn’t have any Kinect style issues in a smaller living room.
I had a go on GameCube. Naturally it looks pretty awful on a big display, but no worse than Wii or GC via component. I wasn’t able to determine if the triggers are analogue, but hopefully that’s a given. I did ask but I don’t think the got knew about that. They showed 4 games and I played F Zero and SC2. Wind Waker was an option (4:3 SD, no thanks!) and Mario Strikers. The latter apparently won’t be available at launch. The controller felt solid but of course it was tethered to the stand so no wavebird-like freedom.
Metroid Prime looks pretty darned good. We were playing in 1080p at 120fps. I still have concerns about the Space Marine angle, it resembles Red Faction to or perhaps The Conduit in that respect. Plus loads of other humans fighting alongside. Hopefully this won’t ruin the conventional solitude and atmosphere. This is after all just 1 level.
The mouse controls probably best demonstrated in Metroid. I very quickly got pain in my wrists playing it this way. It felt a bit awkward. I often get this problem with mice and keyboard. It did seem to get a hit better once I realised I was supposed to just use the shoulder + trigger as mouse buttons (shoot/missile) and x/y (morph ball/visor I think?). They recommended people try mouse first but that you can also pick the controller up if preferred. They did mention you can play with them on your lap, but I’m not convinced! I think you can just swap your play style and there’s no need to change settings in the menu
In DK you can smash and dig just about everything. You can find hidden fossils underground and the tuning forks you hit highlights buried treasure. Neatly you dig up rocks and even surf them. They spin under you and you can hit them to spin faster.
The device felt very similar to Switch 1 but yes it’s thinner and I think shoulders/triggers feel different.
The Pro controller wasn’t as identical as I expected. Hard to say what exactly without having the two together compare.
They begged a few of us to play Jamboree and the camera has a surprisingly wide angle of view. You shouldn’t have any Kinect style issues in a smaller living room.
I had a go on GameCube. Naturally it looks pretty awful on a big display, but no worse than Wii or GC via component. I wasn’t able to determine if the triggers are analogue, but hopefully that’s a given. I did ask but I don’t think the got knew about that. They showed 4 games and I played F Zero and SC2. Wind Waker was an option (4:3 SD, no thanks!) and Mario Strikers. The latter apparently won’t be available at launch. The controller felt solid but of course it was tethered to the stand so no wavebird-like freedom.
Metroid Prime looks pretty darned good. We were playing in 1080p at 120fps. I still have concerns about the Space Marine angle, it resembles Red Faction to or perhaps The Conduit in that respect. Plus loads of other humans fighting alongside. Hopefully this won’t ruin the conventional solitude and atmosphere. This is after all just 1 level.
The mouse controls probably best demonstrated in Metroid. I very quickly got pain in my wrists playing it this way. It felt a bit awkward. I often get this problem with mice and keyboard. It did seem to get a hit better once I realised I was supposed to just use the shoulder + trigger as mouse buttons (shoot/missile) and x/y (morph ball/visor I think?). They recommended people try mouse first but that you can also pick the controller up if preferred. They did mention you can play with them on your lap, but I’m not convinced! I think you can just swap your play style and there’s no need to change settings in the menu
In DK you can smash and dig just about everything. You can find hidden fossils underground and the tuning forks you hit highlights buried treasure. Neatly you dig up rocks and even surf them. They spin under you and you can hit them to spin faster.
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