Ocarina of Time Brings in the Numbers for Nintendo Switch 2! 📈 | Ep. 152

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Today happens to be Friday. It is Friday the 13th. It is Friday,

November 13th. It is 7.52 a.m. on the East Coast. This is episode 152. too.

So I have a quick confession to make. Last night when I was sitting down to pull all my notes together for today's show, so that's typically what I do.

I take little notes throughout the week and then I sit down the night before and I just pull my notes together so I know what I'm going to talk about.

I really wanted to skip today's podcast. It was the first time.

I've done over 155 episodes, if you count the bonus episodes.

It was the first time where I really wanted to skip recording an episode and just dive into the forest temple in Ocarina of Time.

I haven't been able to play much over the past couple of days, and last night was like the first night this week where I could really sit down and log some time.

I was thinking about it, and honestly, you know what? I am fully committed to the promise of Me, You, and Switch 2 every Tuesday, every Friday.

I have not missed a day yet, and there's no way that the allure of Hyrule, the charm of Saria's song is going to be the thing that pulls me away from delivering the news to you. So I'm here. I'm ready to go.

It will be a quick one, though. There's really not too much to cover.

The big headline this week sticking with ocarina of time nintendo put out a release that the legend of zelda ocarina of time has sold over 5.2 million units in the first four days following its launch last week that's worldwide numbers, it is the fastest selling switch to game to date, and it is on track to be one of the best selling games if not the best mario karts world tour is still up there as number one.

We did have other games released this past week, if you can believe that.

A little to the left, Nintendo Switch 2 edition is now available for $14.99.

And then there's a lot of games that we talked about in our every game releasing in November episode that released on the 10th or the 12th. We had Shrek 2 Remastered, which is $26.99 currently.

Ratcoin Chaos Max edition, which is $12.

Tanooki Ponds Summer, Sonic Pico Park. Barbie Rewind came out,

I think, yesterday. Harold Halibut.

Uh we have pikamin for nintendo switch 2 edition plus dandori academy that is finally out, and then we also have metaphor re-fantasio and i just want to focus on that one for a second so metaphor is a pretty long like it's one of those super long rpgs it is from atlas who is the persona folks it's been out on ps5 for about two years so there is no shortage of reviews, and details and footage of this game if you wanted to learn more but if you are curious on the, nintendo switch 2 version i'll link to two good reviews that i read one from nintendo world report and one from nintendo life, nintendo world reports jordan rudick gave it a nine out of ten his pros familiar but fun battle system likable cast novel job class like archetype progression, performance options both docked and handheld and his cons, main story doesn't always hit and slightly overstays its welcome and joe hill from nintendo life gave it an 8 out of, 10 he concluded his review writing and i read verbatim, anyone looking for a huge sprawling adventure with lovable characters compelling parallels to the real world and progression systems that will keep you coming back for more will be far from disappointed with this game but there's no metaphor for a dodgy frame rate and visuals that can occasionally take you out of the fantasy.

Joy is streamlined, satisfying, and challenging combat, an artistic masterpiece with memorable music to boot.

Brilliant characters with beautiful depth across the board. A story that will stick long after the 80 plus hour game time.

And his cons, poor optimization for Switch 2, muddy textures and inconsistent frame rates and occasionally dull side dungeons.

Again, he gave it an 8 out of 10.

And I was looking at some Pikmin reviews. I'll link to those too.

There's a review roundup for Pikmin as well.

Looks like Nintendo Life's Jim Norman gave it a good rating.

A 7 out of 10, looking at the current update for Switch 2 and the bonus content, the Dandori Academy bonus content, which is trickling out like month over month.

So I've read a couple of reviews where people just wanted all the content.

They didn't want to like slow roll the content, which is a fair, fair statement.

I'm still waiting for some Shrek 2 reviews. I haven't seen anything yet, but rest assured, as soon as I know how Shrek 2 is performing on Switch 2, I will let you know.

There's a couple other games that caught my eye this week. Another game released called Castlebound.

It looks like a side-scrolling roguelike game. Looks very chaotic.

A lot of action going on at once on screen. It could possibly be a fun multiplayer game. It supports up to four players.

And the graphics have that Paper Mario look to it.

Um which you know you can visualize you know kind of like paper-like characters uh on 2d 3d backgrounds uh chiptune soundtrack uh there's a launch trailer on nintendo's site that i'll link to uh but castlebound might be a game worth checking out and there's a really quirky game called mouse work, and this game got a preview video it is a game that is mouse mode only for switch to it'll release in december i really like the art style uh.

You know it's kind of got like that wario wear type of thing going on so i'm gonna share a link to this article which has the trailer video if you want to check that out and the last thing i'll mention the only other real interesting bit of news that isn't directly related to switch 2, but it made the rounds nintendo posted a 12-month contract position for a digital archivist.

For historical systems i I thought this was really interesting.

I'm going to read the intro to the job post.

We are seeking a digital archivist historical systems to support the preservation organization and accessibility of historical hardware and software information.

This role will design and implement a structured framework for organizing technical records, engineering, documentation, source materials, and institutional knowledge related to legacy systems and platforms.

If you are into video game history, like if you follow, you know, any of the video game history foundation work that they do.

They are true archivists and librarians of sorts.

And it's really fascinating to me. So I think this is based out of Redmond, Washington.

It sounds like a great gig if this is in your area and this is your area of expertise.

So maybe check that out. I'm sure they're getting flooded, flooded with people who want to work for Nintendo. But interesting role that popped up.

So that's it for today i want to thank you so much for your time your attention go to switch2pod.com for all the things that switch with the number two pod all the show notes all the links all the subscribe links i hope you have an amazing weekend do something you'd love to do i'll, be trying to sneak in as much ocarina of time as i can i'll be back on tuesday with the latest and greatest news until then much love now go play some games.