Gaming Best platformers on switch?

Julie_Pilgrim · Oct 22, 2020

Here are the ones I already have

Celeste
Sonic mania(I have the pc version tho)
Super Mario odyssey

I think that’s it

enderer · Oct 22, 2020

yooka laylee
super meat boy
cuphead
mega man 11
donkey kong country tropical freeze
captain toad treasure tracker
spyro remaster
crash bandicoot remaster
mario 3d all-stars
hollow knight
rayman legends

Julie_Pilgrim · Oct 23, 2020

enderer said:
yooka laylee
super meat boy
cuphead
mega man 11
donkey kong country tropical freeze
captain toad treasure tracker
spyro remaster
crash bandicoot remaster
mario 3d all-stars
hollow knight
rayman legends

playing through cuphead
playing throught super meat boy
have hollow knight
mario all starts is arriving soon
beat rayman legends years ago

but thanks for the other parts of teh list

StarveBread · Oct 23, 2020

Celeste,
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition,
VVVVV,
Blasphemous,
Neon Abyss,

I don't have Ori and the Will of the Wisps yet but I heard its good so I'm also recommending it.

godreborn · Oct 23, 2020

if you want to call them platformers (might be adventure games), but guacamelee 1 and 2 as well as monster boy are quite good. I've only beaten monster boy out of that trio. it has lots of puzzles and things to collect. I'm missing a lot of things iirc.

godreborn · Oct 23, 2020

I didn't have rayman legends, but I just bought it. it's on sale at this very moment for $9.99 instead of $39.99, so you might wanna grab it.

peteruk · Oct 23, 2020

thank you for creating this thread, I don't play games very often but when I do it's always platformers (usually Mario ones), so having this thread with a list of the best ones is helpful.

I'll check out a few videos on YT and go from there

godreborn · Oct 23, 2020

I bought both ori games after watching a bit of the gameplay. I'm curious about odd world as well. is that a platformer?

StrayGuitarist · Oct 23, 2020

Okay, it's not exactly a platformer, more of a shooter with platforming elements, but definitely check out Bleed on the Switch. It's a very fast-paced, 2D sidescrolling twinstick shooter that has a lot of tricky platforming obstacles and such, a distinct boss at the end of each level, some funny character dialogue in a light story, all with a lot of fun replayability. It's usually really cheap, <$1 when on sale usually, so it shouldn't be hard to pick up. It's kind of like if someone merged a Megaman game with Smash TV and gave it a very light dip in whatever sauce Nuclear Throne was baked in.

Julie_Pilgrim · Oct 26, 2020

StrayGuitarist said:
Okay, it's not exactly a platformer, more of a shooter with platforming elements, but definitely check out Bleed on the Switch. It's a very fast-paced, 2D sidescrolling twinstick shooter that has a lot of tricky platforming obstacles and such, a distinct boss at the end of each level, some funny character dialogue in a light story, all with a lot of fun replayability. It's usually really cheap, >$1 when on sale usually, so it shouldn't be hard to pick up. It's kind of like if someone merged a Megaman game with Smash TV and gave it a very light dip in whatever sauce Nuclear Throne was baked in.

Thanks, this looks awesome

mesmeriize · Oct 27, 2020

Prob hollow knight and celeste

banjo2 · Oct 27, 2020

Super Metroid, Cave Story

Julie_Pilgrim · Oct 27, 2020

banjo2 said:
Super Metroid, Cave Story

First one isn’t really a switch game, and is cave story a platformer?

godreborn · Oct 27, 2020

thanks to this thread, I bought ori (both of them) and rayman legends. I had rayman legends on the wii u I think, but I never really delved into it.

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Scott_pilgrim said:
Second one isn’t really a switch game, and is cave story a platformer?

you should see which have demos. though, unfortunately, a lot of switch games don't. one thing I don't like is that demos can't be filtered out if you're downloading or redownloading games, so you might accidentally select one.

Julie_Pilgrim · Oct 27, 2020

godreborn said:
thanks to this thread, I bought ori (both of them) and rayman legends. I had rayman legends on the wii u I think, but I never really delved into it.

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you should see which have demos. though, unfortunately, a lot of switch games don't. one thing I don't like is that demos can't be filtered out if you're downloading or redownloading games, so you might accidentally select one.

I already have cave story, just asking cause from what i played it doesn’t really seem like a platformer

godreborn · Oct 27, 2020

I dunno. I have the game for the wii u, I think. I've never beaten it. it kinda seems like a metroidvania platformer iirc. the shantae games are good as well, but pretty easy in case you're wanting a challenge. there's three, possibly four, on the switch.

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the shantae games are kinda in that metroidvania style. you get abilities to go further in the game, and it's just one giant map. there are heart pieces (squids) where three or four give you an extra heart. metroidvania or zelda-esque platformer. that's how monster boy is. that's a really difficult but fun game. once you beat that game, it tells you how many times you died. I died over 400 times with no faq, so I suggest you do the same. the game is fairly long from what I remember. I don't like the wonder boy game all that much even though I bought it. I think it's from the same series.

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you can juxtapose that with link's awakening (not really a platformer, but it has some platformer elements like jumping). I had never played the game before, used no faq, and I only died 38 times. it also tells you how many deaths it took you to beat the game.

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new super mario bros u deluxe is pretty good. I'm playing the wii u version at this moment, but I bought it for the switch. I've completely beaten both nsmb u and luigi u, and I think it took around 50 hours. I have the stars memorized for nsmbu (not luigi u though, but most are pretty easy to find due to shorter stages).

dkc tropical freeze is a masterpiece, and I highly recommend it. I read that it's one of the switch games to sell over a million copies, so it's likely there will be another sequel at some point.

RyRyIV · Oct 27, 2020

I'll throw out a bit of a dark horse suggestion with Grimvalor. It's a side scrolling, hack and slash platformer that I really had a lot of fun with when I played it for review. It's got mild RPG elements too, so it really is a bit of a hybrid of many different types all rolled into one fun package.

banjo2 · Oct 27, 2020

Scott_pilgrim said:
Second one isn’t really a switch game, and is cave story a platformer?

Neither are, but they're both on Switch, so
I would say it is, you do platform, but

maybe not

Julie_Pilgrim · Oct 27, 2020

banjo2 said:
Neither are, but they're both on Switch, so
I would say it is, you do platform, but maybe not

Whoops, I meant first game

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