Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-131168-20170303211206/@comment-131168-20170305041501

Well I see I am not alone. *thumbs up* I have yet to dock the bugger, but have put in quite a few hours into Zelda by now. After playing Just Cause 2 I wondered if a game could have a world nearly as open as that, but still with some ability/item-based travel restrictions like in a Zelda game. Breath of the Wild seems like it is very much going in that direction.

If you guys haven't heard this, it's also extremely easy to access the eShops of other regions. You just set up a second system account and attach it to a secondary Nintendo Account which is set to whichever region you want. The only slight hoop to jump through is that account needs to use a different email address than your main account; I just set up a forwarder on a domain I've got to keep things simple. It's rare the times I'd want to purchase something not in English, but even as things are it's neat to be able to download the JP demos of Dragon Quest Heroes and Puyo Puyo Tetris.

There are only a handful of big Nintendo games currently scheduled for this year, but there are quite a few that aren't even exclusives I'm pretty interested in just because I'd rather have them on a platform that's both easy to play portably and on the big screen rather than just one or the other. I Am Setsuna and Disgaea 5 some of the bigger ones in the near future. Later in the year it could be a pretty good way to play games I've already put time into like Minecraft or Skyrim. Lack of Virtual Console currently kind of sucks, but with so many announced indie games there will soon be a lot of interesting content in the $20-and-under price range anyway.

My system friend code is 7096-3109-7026--not that it will do much for now other than show my Mii and let you know how recently I've played Zelda