I am a new switch owner. I purchased the red/blue joycon bundle at Target as they had the $25.00 gift card promotion.
That's where they get you. "Oh I'll use this $25 gift card to buy one game to get started."
I have purchased 13 games, a screen protector, two types of carrying cases, a cartridge case, a 400gb card from SanDisk's website to avoid bootlegs, Splatoon pro controller, the green/pink joycon and a joycon dock charger.
All that definitely did not cost $25.
I'm really disappointed that there are no instruction manuals in the games. It also doesn't help that Nintendo has an opt-in feature for developers/publishers to include an instruction manual. I'm a person that reads an instruction manual before starting a game and I feel lost playing these games.
My Hero One's Justice? Completely lost and didn't know what I was doing for the first hour. The tips on the loading screens should have been featured in the options menu as some of them are walls of text that you can barely finish reading before it cycles to the next tip.
Superbeat: Xonic? Worse. I'm playing and I had no idea how to progress in world tour mode. I spent 30 minutes frustrating myself in searching answers and eventually learned that World Tour is locked behind a leveling system. You start the game at level one and you are supposed to level grind through arcade mode. In doing so, I wound up pressing random buttons on the song select screen without realizing it and turned on some mods that confused me. I had to exit the game because I didn't know what I pressed.
Aside from the lack of instruction manuals, I am happy with my purchases. It's a bit of a let down that you only get about three hours of playtime from the battery when playing in portable mode, but it doesn't bother me too much as I play about 30minutes worth during my lunch break at work. It does suck that it also takes about three hours to charge the console.
