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M.K.Ultra:
As we approach the launch of Switch 2, what better time than to take stock of all the awesome games we played on Switch. While any general favorites list will likely include the usual suspects, in this topic we will highlight a specific genre, publisher, or some other characteristic to narrow our focus and in doing so reveal a broader set of great Switch games.

I am thinking about once a week (or two?) I will post a category for us to consider (though others can surely do this as well - especially if I slack off  :-[) and then everyone can chime in with their favorite(s) in that category. Just try and stick to games that are available on Switch.

M.K.Ultra:
For our first round of Switch favorites, let's take a look at Role Playing Games (RPGs) that are available to play on Nintendo Switch.

What are your favorite RPGs on Switch?

M.K.Ultra:
Honestly, I have not played that many RPGs, only branching out into that genre in the last few years, but the more I play them the more I seem to like them. On Switch I would probably call out Shin Megami Tensei V. This was my first SMT game but I found it to be a good entry point into the series. I really liked the mechanic of recruiting the baddies to my party as well as all the neat foes that Atlus pulled from myths and legends of different cultures. The game is long and I spent about 100 hours on it, but I don't recall any of that being grinding. I should mention that I only played the launch version of the game and don't know how it compares with the re-release that added content.

As an honorable mention I will throw out SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech. I have been happy with all of the SteamWorld games and played everything except Tower Defense and the two newest entries. This game has all the charm and good writing you might expect from Image and Form. It is also much shorter than a typical RPG taking me only about 20 hours. The battle system was card based which was new to me, but I thought it worked really well. I also had fun searching for all the treasures. A couple of those are really tough to find.

NWR_insanolord:
I'm not a big RPG guy so I haven't played a ton of them, but I will say from a game design perspective Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are easily my favorite games in that series, only held back by their technical issues. Also I've recently been playing through Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which didn't seem to review particularly well but I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

Ian Sane:
RPGs are probably the most represented genre in my Switch collection but I have a pretty long backlog so some key games like Persona 5 Royal are still sitting there unplayed.  I tend to grab a lot of them when they're on sale so they don't get played right away.  And because RPGs are long I tend to alternate between them and other genres so I'm not playing 100 hours games back to back.

I'd say the best one I've played thus far is Dragon Quest XI.  DQ games are usually very traditional in their mechanics but that's not necessarily a bad thing because sometimes you just want straightforward turn-based RPG gameplay that's done really well.  The rest of the game feels and looks modern though so it isn't strictly a throwback.  It's just a no-frills approach to the gameplay.  It does have sections that are in 2D with retro style graphics though.  These look really nice but they're not as fun because those areas have random battles while the 3D areas do not.

I guess part of why I recommend it is that it's both something an RPG aficionado would really like but it's also a great introduction to the genre.  It has all the traditional elements of an RPG with experience points, spells, weapons, armor, towns, dungeons, etc.  The game also has a very generous demo on the Switch that lasts a good 10 hours or so.  So if you're potentially interested in the genre it's perfect for a Switch owner to try.  Then you can branch out to weirder stuff like SMT's demon fusing or Xenoblade's semi-action combat.  We're in an era where Final Fantasy isn't even turn-based anymore so DQXI is like the best "normal" RPG there is and then everything else branches out of that and goes in different directions.

I'll give an honorable mention to Pokemon Scarlet which tends to have a bad rep because of its technical issues.  It is a very janky game and you'll see graphical glitches if you just play the game for 30 seconds and move the camera around.  But in terms of how it plays, it's the 3D Pokemon game I wanted on the Gamecube.  So in that sense maybe it's graphics fit very well.  I would prefer the game to be polished of course but the open world design makes it feel like the grand Pokemon adventure I thought the series would become once it went 3D but instead the main series stayed on handhelds for a long time.  Though my goal was strictly to explore the world and fill the Pokedex.  I don't do serious battles or anything like that and I tend to only play a new Pokemon every three generations or so.  I'm not a hardcore Pokenut so maybe your opinion would differ if you are.

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