Earlier this week, Nintendo announced a new gifting feature for Switch 2 and Switch. It’ll be going live next week. When the feature is active, you will be able to gift digital games that you purchase through Nintendo eShop on your device to family group members.
It’s a smart move with the holiday season coming up. That said, the feature is far from perfect. You can’t just give a gift to anyone, which is a drawback.
Will you be giving the new gifting feature a shot? What are your general thoughts about it? Let us know in the comments below.
Stephen Yap
100%ed it (…or at the least, got 20 Hearts, all six Great Fairy upgrades, 100 Gold Skulltulas, got all of the “Biggest” Bags, grew all 10 Magic Beans, five Bottles, etc.), save for the few missing enemies in the Hall of the Fallen but whatever. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is my favorite The Legend of Zelda game (especially the Nintendo 3DS version) for its overall design and while additional features and Quality of Life improvements are nice to see on the Switch 2, this remake makes a few…questionable design choices on the rebound, namely one where, despite there not being much reasons to spend Rupees (in the original game), the Great Fairies’ upgrades now cost Rupees and this can be a bit of an annoyance for those who want to play through this game “casually”. Another thing that would’ve been nice to have is more “fast-travel” points because while the original game is still a “masterpiece” in my book, getting to and fro between areas can be a bit of a drag (especially as Young Link, wherein he doesn’t get to ride on Epona unlike his Adult counterpart). Oh, and the lack of Master Quest or even a “Hero Mode” is a bummer to me. All-in-all, though I’ll still prefer the original and (especially, the 3DS) game at the end of the day, this remake did give me a great time left and right, and is therefore another first-party game I would say that is worth it for me to look back on the Switch 2 for (alongside Kirby Air Riders and Splatoon Raiders).
Justin
It’s pretty much exactly what I want in a remake. I was concerned it was just another remaster but nah i was way wrong. I’m enjoying all the designs updates and changes. Especially the dialogue, there are so many more people to talk to and things to learn. It’s so good. I honestly was not expecting this many changes and additions.
Arkz
I’m loving it, if I could change just one thing it’s that they used dlss instead of fsr1. It looks great but on certain things like hair, some foliage, mesh climbing ropes, etc, you get a shimmering effect. Bit weird they haven’t used it in any first party stuff given how they spoke about it being a feature in the direct before launch. My only thought as to why has been in the event that the Switch 3 went with an AMD chipset instead of Nvidia, they wouldn’t need to bring out updates for all their games that used it to disable it and use something else or bypass it altogether. Even that thought is kinda grasping at straws though, really don’t know why they didn’t use it here, it would help with that one little issue. Other than that it’s fantastic, I’m loving seeing how things look compared to the original and 3ds remaster. Also it would have been cool to let us use Farore’s wind outside of dungeons, would have been very useful for bits where you need to go back and forth between locations that are a fair distance from warp points or lost woods connections.
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