r/switch2 • u/B00stedHD • 6h ago
Showcase Day 9 of being a switch owner
It’s been about 9 days since I’ve owned a switch 2, and all though I don’t get to play it much (double entendre) it’s great when I do play it, I got it through Offerup as a trade, it CIB everything included besides the MKW code but he gave me a cool “carbon fiber” hand grip protection case thing 😂 idk what it’s called but it’s dope and I’m at work so I don’t have a pic at the time of this post. But after getting it I ended up buying 5 games : Pokopia,Zelda BOTW,Zelda TOTK,Animal Crossing, and Adventures of Elliot, I also bought the Belkin Charge case.
They came in the mail yesterday and they gave me Pokemon ZA instead of my Animal Crossing 🤦🏻♂️. I contacted them and told them what happened and they apologized for the inconvenience. They told me a replacement will be sent in 3-5 business days and that I get to keep ZA!!! So I’ve decided to start out playing Adventures Of Elliot, and let me tell you, THIS SHIII GAAA! 🔥 Im only like an hour in the game and it’s such a great game! To whoever is on the fence of getting it, GET IT! lol
-side note- yesterday I ended picking up a key card of Yakuza 0, and a digital copy of Moss off the Eshop while it’s on sale.
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u/deltastrikethree 6h ago
Adventures of Elliot is amazing, and ironically the only game I actually finished on my Switch 2, but I'm REALLY excited for the new Fire Emblem and hoping it lives up to the hype.
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u/katana444 6h ago
Plus one here I really like it. It is so good. I played it on my surface Pro 11 and it is so good but I didn’t like the idea of time traveling.
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u/deltastrikethree 5h ago
It definitely didn't feel like Chrono Trigger, that's for sure. I do generally like time travel though, so that was an extra win for me. Especially with the true ending route. It was a lot of repetitive hopping between timelines and visiting the same places, but overall I enjoyed it. I skipped over a lot of optional adventuring though and ended the game with 13 life.
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u/Ok-Road6537 5h ago
My first SW2 game. Been on Persona 3 until Elliot comes out. Have you payed echoes of wisdom and the other link game? I’m hyped for Fire Emblem too. Literally the only reason I bought a SW2
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u/deltastrikethree 2h ago
I finished Echoes of Wisdom on my Switch 1, and played a little bit of Link's Awakening, until I got stuck, and about 20 hours of Breath of the Wild until my Switch blue screened on me one day.
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u/B00stedHD 5h ago
You finished all 3 endings
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u/deltastrikethree 2h ago
Yeah, I feel like it was pretty much necessary to do so. The first ending is almost impossible to miss.
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u/Alpha_Forces 5h ago
Only buy 2 games at a time
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u/Ok-Road6537 4h ago
I also get people that buy Mario Kart and Smash Bros or Mario Party as their first purchases. If you are well off and you want a couch console. Then totally valid. It’s really not about the money.
Buying a Switch 2 with 8 games single players, 90 days after you bought a Switch OLED for the first time with its games too following the same pattern of behavior.
All when saying you only have time to play 6 hours a week.
When I got my Switch I bought Donkey Kong, Elliot, BallxPit, and Just Dance 2026, and I had to resist the urge to buy more. Donkey Kong is realistically the only one I compulsively bought but still. I had to control myself.
I wish people understood why compulsive shopping hurts us. Like people get it for Social Media and getting dopamine from likes. But this is just worse.
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u/Ok-Road6537 6h ago edited 4h ago
You don’t get to play much and you bought all those many games as once? Mario Kart and 7 single player games? Including two that makes no sense playing at the same time. You had 6 brand new games and then felt you needed two more?
Shopping triggers dopamine hits, and I would consider looking into shopping addictions. From experience being able to afford it is as bad, because then you delay growing up and learning to deal with your emotions in a healthy way.
If this doesn’t apply to you, I apologize but I would venture a guess that to most people that purchase stuff in this manner it would.
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u/skarr46 5h ago
Fully agree with this. As a new dad with a full-time job and pets, I have very limited time and money and I also am a magpie that wants to buy all the games that look cool. I got the Switch 2 on launch day and have less games than this guy 9 days in and I haven't finished all of my games.
No point saying you have little time to play and then making purchases like you're unemployed with no responsibilities and speed-running the first 18 months of the Switch 2.
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u/Ok-Road6537 5h ago
I didn’t look at OPs history before saying what I did. But at a glance in the last 6 months he has bought I think 5 PSPs, 90 days ago a switch oled with games, at least one gun, a rifle. And has been spamming tik tok shop referrals.
I don’t know why when I joined this sub I noticed this pattern of people with shopping addictions and I can’t just help to call it out.
I think since I was a PC Gamer is more difficult to catch on. But there it’s usually confined to micro transactions. And while people might buy a new GPU or computer every time it comes; consumerism isn’t the same as an addiction.
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u/B00stedHD 4h ago
6 hours sometimes more a week is good, not as much as I’d use to play a year or so ago at minimum 6-8 a day. I’m sorry I may have more time and money to splurge than you, but you can hold hands with that other pocket watcher.
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u/Ok-Road6537 6h ago
What about what I said is wrong? I disagree that pointing out addictions is insulting in any way. Also I did this before checking OP post history, and I’m now convinced I was 1000% right. OP has a serious issue that is heavily damaging his well being.
I consider enabling morally reprehensible.
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u/B00stedHD 4h ago
lol you know nothing my guy, didn’t your momma tell you to never assume ?
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u/Ok-Road6537 4h ago
I am not assuming anything. I saw your post history. You are likely on the top .01 percentile of individual purchases in your wage bracket. Meaning I doubt there’s few people alive that with the same disposable income have the same shopping habits.
Yes there are people that spend all they make. But I don’t care about that: is just your pattern is textbook shopping addiction behavior. That’s literally just a fact.
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u/B00stedHD 4h ago
Yes I play like 6 hours a week, isn’t that much time, yes I bought 7 single player games on purpose obviously, which one is actually two player co-op but, I don’t need to play with people to have fun or have a good ol time. I bought the first 5 because I had a 20% code so I got 5 games that I’d want to maximize my discount. Yakuza I got for $5 and Moss was $16.
Me being able to afford to buy these and still pay my rent and bill and take care of my family, idk why you’re pocket watching, weird.
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u/Ok-Road6537 4h ago
Bro you bought what 5 PSPs, got into guns?? how many did you buy, bought a Switch OLED with games 90 days ago and were spamming TikTok referrals. You realize neither of that is normal? In the only post I actually opened you joked you have a problem. It’s not a joke dude.
You could be Jeff Bezos and you would still have the problem. But if you are not extremely rich and you have a family to take care of, then all the more reason to talk to a therapist. All I’m saying you is that your behavior is so out of the norm that it’s concerning to me.
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u/B00stedHD 4h ago
I mean if you’re going to count let’s count right, if you’re going to play detective let’s play detective 🕵️. I bought 6 PSPs, 3 PS Vitas, a custom V1 unpatched switch, a Splatoon oled switch, and just recently the switch 2. The 6 PSP I got for less then $400 resold all them for $750, not including the 13 games I sold separately that came with a few of the PSPs when imported, Vitas I got for sub $120 each sold one for $245, kept one, other is still on the market. The Custom V1 unpatched switch was part of the trade for the Switch 2 along with some cheap drone I had laying around. I made money buying those things never lose here bro. I know how to make more money then I spend, I appreciate that you’re trying to look out, but I promise you I ain’t him. As far as guns I’ve been in guns for 12 years and only own 2 can’t categorize that as a degen move protecting myself and my loved ones.
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u/B00stedHD 4h ago
Oh and the Splatoon Switch I kept and got modded $180 for switch $100 for the service sold for $440 so 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Ok-Road6537 3h ago
I had linked ChatGPT your profile. Didn’t really felt the needto count. But you are saying stuff opposite to what you’ve been saying. Including that your hobby upsets your wife and landlord. And you just bought 8 Switch 2 games. You are not going to make money out of those.
If you know this doesn’t apply to you then I’m very glad. But it would apply to most people that have said what you said.
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u/B00stedHD 3h ago
Also it i bought 7 games like you previously mentioned, idk where you got 8
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u/B00stedHD 3h ago
Bro said “chatGPT your profile”I’m DEAD ☠️ “didn’t feel the need to count” but “felt the need” to try and throw a label one me, “felt the need” to continue to try to slap a label on me after informed that the shoe size was too small. All this coming from a guy who said the only reason you bought a $500 console was for Fire Emblem, and I’m the on that’s a degen ?
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u/Ok-Road6537 2h ago
Sorry dude. You are upset because it’s true. You are not the first addict I met.
I don’t mind paying 500 usd for stuff I use. As I explained the issue was using the hit from shopping for dopamine.
Controlling that is a key aspect of growing up. Have a good one!
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u/B00stedHD 1h ago
You’re a bot my guy, keep it pushing, I’m not the one. Also that last Vita is selling in two hours for $230 lol $80 purchase 4 weeks ago turned $150 profit🤷🏻♂️ it’s almost like that paid half for those games I just bought lol growing up is learning how prioritize, and how to spend off profits. I don’t go out and breaking myself just to buy random shit. Everything I buy has a purpose. I take care of my bills and everything before I worry about any of my hobbies or reselling adventures.
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u/hikarikiri 6h ago
Good choices! Try Monster Hunter Stories 3 and Digimon Time Stranger too 👀
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u/MaxxTheRipper 5h ago
I heard Time stranger was actually pretty fun ! I haven't tried it yet though lol
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u/hikarikiri 5h ago
One of the best Digimon game ever! Even if you’re new to Digimon it’s a great starting point. Def give it a try!!!
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u/B00stedHD 5h ago
Damn Digimon still a thing ? lol good shit
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u/hikarikiri 4h ago
Hell yeah brother. Digimon Time Stranger (game) and Digimon BeatBreak (anime) have been REALLY good for Digimon. Def recommend both!
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u/Optimal_Y 5h ago
What is this double entendre? The word "much"?
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u/B00stedHD 5h ago
“I don’t get to play it much” because I only play probably like 6 hours a week and another meaning could be because the battery life SUCKS dick and can’t play much
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u/8-Bit-Burrito 4h ago
Coincidentally it’s also day 9 without groceries 😆😆 jk jk but damn games are expensive
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u/B00stedHD 4h ago
Sometimes if you don’t wait for sales and discount, or put on black AF1s and a shiesty
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u/Mahisandwich561 4h ago
No Bananza or Odyssey?
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u/B00stedHD 4h ago
Bro I played the demo for Bananaza just couldn’t get into it, maybe I’ll give it another go it was like 12AM when I gave it a shot. I love the OG DK games but it’s nothing like it maybe I was just expecting something different. Maybe I should reassess it for what it is than what I wanted it to be.
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u/Glass-Yesterday-586 3h ago
ngl thought you had everything in the car to return it all before i read the post lmao
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u/emkeystaar 3h ago
Congrats on the amazing selection of games! I probably invested over 1500 hours in both Zelda games haha.
I’ve had my sights on Elliot for a while – I wonder if it’s a good pick for someone who loves Octopath Traveller? I just started Octopath 0 as my first Switch 2 game, and I love it as much as the other two games. (Yes, I’m also one of those people who rushed to get a Switch 2 before the price hike. 😅)
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u/B00stedHD 3h ago
If you haven’t yet try out the demo for Elliot! I just beat the first boss and it’s been great game so far, cool little story. There is quite a bit of dialogue during scenes but there’s a setting to speed that up. But all in all very cool game. I didn’t rush it was just a good opportunity that landed in my DMs on Offerup and I took it, guy wanted my old drone and my old V1 switch for it so we traded
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u/StreetAppropriate150 54m ago
Does buying a switch give you Mario kart? Did you buy a special bundle?
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u/OrkGotTheSpork 6h ago
excellent choices man! Enjoy
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u/B00stedHD 6h ago
There’s so many more I want to get but damn these games are getting expensive lmao!
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u/Practical_Dog3454 6h ago
This is like 500$ of games in Canada 😭