Thread: As the Switch 2 nears, reflecting back on the insanity that is the Switch RPG library

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Damn. If not quite at the same level as the DS/3DS libraries, Switch has to be right up there, if not even better in some aspects like having the entire Xenoblade series.

13 Sentinels Aegis Rim
Astlibra Revision
Astral Chain
Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist Of Salburg
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk DX
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX
Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea DX
Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book DX"
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX" Main Game
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX"
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream
Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy
Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key
Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land
Bravely Default 2 (YMMV)
Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers HD Remaster (YMMV, also how the fuck is Chrono Trigger still not on Switch/PS5/Xbox?!)
Chrono Trigger HD-2D Remake would be here if it existed.
Child of Light
Crown Trick
PENDING - Dragon Quest I&II HD-2D Remakes
Dark Souls Remaster (YMMV)
Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen
Divinity Original Sin 2
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
Dragon Quest XI S: Echo's of an Illusive Age
Dragon Quest Builders Remaster
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Diablo 2: Resurrected
Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls
Disgaea 1
Disgaea 4
Disgaea 5
Disgaea 6 (YMMV)
Disgaea 7 (YMMV)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection
Fantasian: NEO Dimension
PENDING - Fantasy Life I: The Girl Who Steals Time
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem: Three Hopes
Fire Emblem: Engage (YMMV)
Final Fantasy I Pixel Remastered
Final Fantasy II Pixel Remastered (YMMV)
Final Fantasy III Pixel Remastered
Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remastered
Final Fantasy V Pixel Remastered
Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII (YMMV)
Final Fantasy IX (YMMV without Mogori Mod on PC)
Final Fantasy X/X-2
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Grandia 1+2 collection (YMMV)
KOTOR
KOTOR II: The Sith Lords (YMMV, Garbage Port)
Live A Live: HD-2D Remake
PENDING - Lunar 1/2 Remaster Collection
Mario & Luigi Brothership (YMMV)
Monster Hunter Generations/Ultimate
Monster Hunter Rise/Sunbreak
Monster Hunter Stories Remaster
Monster Hunter Stories 2
The World Ends with You Remix
NEO: The World Ends with You
Nier: Automata
Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Paper Mario: The Orgami King (YMMV)
Paper Mario TTYD (YMMV)
Persona 3: Portable (Persona 3: Remake should be a shoe in for Switch 2)
Persona 4: Golden
Persona 5: Royal
Red Dead Redemption (YMMV)
Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song
Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
Rune Factory 3S
Rune Factory 4S
SaGa Frontier Remaster
Skies of Arcadia Remake I fucking wish.
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Shin Megami Tensei V/Vengeance
Super Mario RPG Remake
Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars
Star Ocean: The First Story R (YMMV not nearly as well done as Second Story R)
Star Ocean: The Second Story R
Shiren the Wanderer
Tactics Ogre: Reborn
Tales of Symphonia "HD Remaster" (Beware, Garbage Port)
Tales of Vesperia HD Remaster
Tales of Graces F Remaster
PENDING - Trails from the Sky: The 1st
Trails of Zero
Trails of Azure
Trails of Coldsteel (YMMV)
Trails of Coldsteel II (YMMV)
Trails of Coldsteel III (YMMV)
Trails of Coldsteel IV (YMMV)
Trails into Revarie
Trails Through Daybreak
Trails Through Daybreak II
Trials of Mana HD Remaster
Triangle Strategy
Unicorn Overlord
Valkyria Chronicles: Remaster
Valkyria Chronicles 4: Complete
The Witcher 3: GOTY
X-COM 2
Xenoblade Chronicles DE/Future Connect
Xenoblade Chronicles 2/Torna the Golden Country
Xenoblade Chronicles 3/Future Redeemed
Xenoblade Chronicles X DE
Ys: Origins
Ys: The Oath in Felghana
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
Ys IX Monstrum Nox
Ys X Nordics (Proud Nordics Remaster Revealed 1 Month after Western Release)
 
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Three Hopes is a musou god dammit this whole list is ruined

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Three Hopes is a musou god dammit this whole list is ruined

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I've heard it does expand on Three Houses. Three Hopes and Hyrule Warriors/Age of Calamity are a tier above regular musou.

Hell I think Age of Calamity has the better story then Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom also, and is the better Zelda game to boot. Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity is the best Zelda game on the Switch. YEAH I WENT THERE.
 
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What's crazy is that your list is still missing a ton

Paper Mario TTYD
Skyrim
Disgaea
Mario & Luigi Brothership
Live A Live
The Last Spell
Rune Factory
Fates of Ort
several Pokémon RPGs
Dungeons and Gravestones
Shiren the Wanderer
Astria Ascending
Nexomon
Vampire Survivor
Diablo 3
Undernauts Labyrinth of Yomi
Steam world Quest
Valkyria Chronicles
Crown Trick
 
You can take out the old ports/remasters (KOTOR, FF, Tales etc...) and it's still an absolutely stacked list. Kinda stings we didn't get a proper Etrian Odyssey title. They're supposedly working on one but I don't have much hope. No idea how EO goes into developmental hell.

And you listed YS VIII but not IX and X. What the hell dude, your autistic list making skills are slipping

Edit: @DonDonDonPata missed Super Mario RPG.
 
You can take out the old ports/remasters (KOTOR, FF, Tales etc...) and it's still an absolutely stacked list. Kinda stings we didn't get a proper Etrian Odyssey title. They're supposedly working on one but I don't have much hope. No idea how EO goes into developmental hell.

And you listed YS VIII but not IX and X. What the hell dude, your autistic list making skills are slipping
Ys X Nordics was revealed to be getting a remaster literally a month after releasing in the West.
 
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You can take out the old ports/remasters (KOTOR, FF, Tales etc...) and it's still an absolutely stacked list. Kinda stings we didn't get a proper Etrian Odyssey title. They're supposedly working on one but I don't have much hope. No idea how EO goes into developmental hell.

And you listed YS VIII but not IX and X. What the hell dude, your autistic list making skills are slipping

Edit: @DonDonDonPata missed Super Mario RPG.

Yeah I missed a ton more. The Switch is packed.

There are several Etrian-style RPGs on the Switch, like Undernauts, Saviors of Sapphire Wings, and Strangers of Sword City, Demon Gaze, Mary Skelter, etc


More games to add to the list:

Caligula Effect 1 and 2
Siralim 3
Ultimate ADOM
Record of Agarest War
Brigandine
Harvestella
Mercenaries Blaze (and Rideon's other Mercenaries games)
Langrisser 1 and 2
Various Daylife
Alliance Alive HD
Tangledeep
DioField Chronicle
Front Mission ports
Eiyuden Chronicle
MONARK
Arc of Alchemist
All of the Nippon Ichi collections (Rhapsody, Makai Kingdom, etc etc )
 
Yeah I missed a ton more. The Switch is packed.

There are several Etrian-style RPGs on the Switch, like Undernauts, Saviors of Sapphire Wings, and Strangers of Sword City, Demon Gaze, Mary Skelter, etc


More games to add to the list:

Caligula Effect 1 and 2
Siralim 3
Ultimate ADOM
Record of Agarest War
Brigandine
Harvestella
Mercenaries Blaze (and Rideon's other Mercenaries games)
Langrisser 1 and 2
Various Daylife
Alliance Alive HD
Tangledeep
DioField Chronicle
Front Mission ports
Eiyuden Chronicle
MONARK
Arc of Alchemist
All of the Nippon Ichi collections (Rhapsody, Makai Kingdom, etc etc )

I'll have to check some of these out eventually. I'll await an EO annoucement for Switch 2 but if there's nothing, I'll probably look into one of those games. I miss first person dungeon crawling.

And since we are listing off ports/remasters

Grandia 1+2 collection
Lunar Collection (pending)
Dungeons & Dragons bundle (Baldurs Gate 1+2, Icewind Dale, Torment, Neverwinter Nights)

Too many RPGs not enough time for this console
 
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X-com 2 is classed as an RPG? I always thought those type of games were like strategy turn based games.

What about the two rabbids and Mario games do they count as RPGs?

Sorry autocorrect.
 
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X-com 2 is classed as an RPG? I measure thought those type of games were like strategy turn based games.

What about the two rabies and Mario games do they count as RPGs?
Depends to be honest, people have different ways of grouping things.

If Valkyria Chronicles, Fire Emblem are in, why not X-Com 2?
 
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I've heard it does expand on Three Houses. Three Hopes and Hyrule Warriors/Age of Calamity are a tier above regular musou.

Hell I think Age of Calamity has the better story then Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom also, and is the better Zelda game to boot. Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity is the best Zelda game on the Switch. YEAH I WENT THERE.

I finished playing Age of Calamity just after Tears of the Kingdom, and I think it did a good job of dividing the story between the different characters. It was especially nice to actually have Zelda involved in the gameplay, rather than having her pop up only in the finale.
 
Damn. If not quite at the same level as the DS/3DS libraries, Switch has to be right up there, if not even better in some aspects like having the entire Xenoblade series.

13 Sentinels Aegis Rim
Astlibra Revision
Astral Chain
Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist Of Salburg
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk DX
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX
Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea DX
Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book DX"
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX" Main Game
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX"
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream
Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy
Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key
PENDING - Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land
Bravely Default 2 (YMMV)
Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers HD Remaster (YMMV, also how the fuck is Chrono Trigger still not on Switch/PS5/Xbox?!)
Chrono Trigger HD-2D Remake would be here if it existed.
Child of Light
Crown Trick
PENDING - Dragon Quest I&II HD-2D Remakes
Dark Souls Remaster (YMMV)
Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen
Divinity Original Sin 2
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
Dragon Quest XI S: Echo's of an Illusive Age
Dragon Quest Builders Remaster
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Diablo 2: Resurrected
Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls
Disgaea 1
Disgaea 4
Disgaea 5
Disgaea 6 (YMMV)
Disgaea 7 (YMMV)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection
Fantasian: NEO Dimension
PENDING - Fantasy Life I: The Girl Who Steals Time
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem: Three Hopes
Fire Emblem: Engage (YMMV)
Final Fantasy I Pixel Remastered
Final Fantasy II Pixel Remastered (YMMV)
Final Fantasy III Pixel Remastered
Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remastered
Final Fantasy V Pixel Remastered
Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII (YMMV)
Final Fantasy IX (YMMV without Mogori Mod on PC)
Final Fantasy X/X-2
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Grandia 1+2 collection (YMMV)
KOTOR
KOTOR II: The Sith Lords (YMMV, Garbage Port)
Live A Live: HD-2D Remake
PENDING - Lunar 1/2 Remaster Collection
Mario & Luigi Brothership (YMMV)
Monster Hunter Generations/Ultimate
Monster Hunter Rise/Sunbreak
Monster Hunter Stories Remaster
Monster Hunter Stories 2
The World Ends with You Remix
NEO: The World Ends with You
Nier: Automata
Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler II
Paper Mario: The Orgami King (YMMV)
Paper Mario TTYD (YMMV)
Persona 3: Portable (Persona 3: Remake should be a shoe in for Switch 2)
Persona 4: Golden
Persona 5: Royal
Red Dead Redemption (YMMV)
Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song
Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
Rune Factory 3S
Rune Factory 4S
SaGa Frontier Remaster
Skies of Arcadia Remake I fucking wish.
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Shin Megami Tensei V/Vengeance
Super Mario RPG Remake
Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars
Star Ocean: The First Story R (YMMV not nearly as well done as Second Story R)
Star Ocean: The Second Story R
Shiren the Wanderer
Tales of Symphonia "HD Remaster" (Beware, Garbage Port)
Tales of Vesperia HD Remaster
Tales of Graces F Remaster
PENDING - Trails from the Sky: The 1st
Trails of Zero
Trails of Azure
Trails of Coldsteel (YMMV)
Trails of Coldsteel II (YMMV)
Trails of Coldsteel III (YMMV)
Trails of Coldsteel IV (YMMV)
Trails into Revarie
Trails Through Daybreak
Trails Through Daybreak II
Trials of Mana HD Remaster
Triangle Strategy
Unicorn Overlord
Valkyria Chronicles: Remaster
Valkyria Chronicles 4: Complete
The Witcher 3: GOTY
X-COM 2
Xenoblade Chronicles DE/Future Connect
Xenoblade Chronicles 2/Torna the Golden Country
Xenoblade Chronicles 3/Future Redeemed
PENDING - Xenoblade Chronicles X DE
Ys: Origins
Ys: The Oath in Felghana
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
Ys IX Monstrum Nox
Ys X Nordics (Proud Nordics Remaster Revealed 1 Month after Western Release)
What's crazy is that your list is still missing a ton

Paper Mario TTYD
Skyrim
Disgaea
Mario & Luigi Brothership
Live A Live
The Last Spell
Rune Factory
Fates of Ort
several Pokémon RPGs
Dungeons and Gravestones
Shiren the Wanderer
Astria Ascending
Nexomon
Vampire Survivor
Diablo 3
Undernauts Labyrinth of Yomi
Steam world Quest
Valkyria Chronicles
Crown Trick

And then on the NSO you have all the classic rpgs. Absolute powerhouse of a console for rpg fans and rpg lovers. It's like a dream console tbh considering the library of games. There's no way to finish all the great rpgs in even the span of a decade unless your career is streaming. And even then, it'd be an enormous challenge.
 
DLC, patches, games not complete on cart or even available physically, endless stupid rogue-like and rogue-lite crap, lots of other modern day gaming bullshit. Not to mention garbage ports on its aging hardware.

DS > Switch...and greater than the 3DS too

That said, there's still tons of great games on the 3DS and the Switch but the NDS is still the GOAT.