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For short bursts, Captain Toad is excellent. You can also (mostly) dip in and out if anything - it starts up very quickly.
Zelda is astoundingly good.
also +1 to Captain Toad, though I have it on 3DS.
How is it to ‘dip’ into? I read somewhere that it’s easy to lose where you are being such an expansive game.
It is huge and it doesn't nanny you like (fer instance) Skyrim, but I didn't find it particularly hard to work out what I was meant to be doing in general.
Maybe this is bad parenting but are there any games that my 2 and half year old would be able to understand/play?
I think I mostly did it that way - 9-10 each evening.
After 100 hours of gameplay over the last year I think xenoblade Chronicles 2 is up there as my favourite game.... although I only came to this realisation in the last 20 hours of play. It was really annoying for the rest of it.
Quests are doable in small chunks as long as you don't hit the end of a chapter and a 20 minute cut scene
Mario Vs Rabbids is also often overlooked, but surprisingly good
Currently I have lost mine to the wife as Super Mario 3 comes with the online subscription
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Zelda is still a good enough reason by itself to buy the console. You can play it for 100 hours and still have lots to do. Mario Odyssey is excellent as well, and MarioKart does exactly what you'd expect it to do, and it great for multiplayer.
I was a bit disappointed with Donkey Kong, controls were terrible compared to the really sharp controls in Mario, but lots of people seem to love it.
Hollow Knight is essential IMO, really excellent Metroidvania game although very hard in places. Great story and characters and haunting art and soundtrack.
If you're into retro Metroidvania games then Axiom Verge is worth a look too.
The Switch is also a great way to play The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim if you've not played it up until now.
If you're into Roguelikes/Roguelites then there's the Binding of Isaac and Enter the Gungeon, and Super Meat Boy.
Dead Cells (uses procedurally generated levels and permadeath although you keep some items/progress) is good too, although I'm a bit rubbish at it and have yet to beat the final boss.
For something completely different, Celeste (a game about climbing a mountain) and A Night in the Woods (really more of an interactive story but with some platforming and Guitar Hero elements) are both brilliant.
Golf story is also great, and very funny in places, and Owlboy is very enjoyable (though a little short) too.
Doom is on my "to get" list but it seems to be out of stock everywhere. Wolfenstein II is also meant to be decent.
I tried a demo of Captain Toad but it didn't grab me enough to spend £30 on it. It's quite cutesy and kids should love it though.
Mario + Rabbids is probably my next physical game, expectations were low but it's meant to actually be very good (in many top 10 lists)
Basically it doesn't matter what you like, there will be a game for you. Apart from the 3 Nintendo essentials (Zelda, Mario and MarioKart), the indie games have it for me at the moment.
The graphics look great as well.
I’m already feeling like I need to get Zelda...