Let's start with the big thing: Riza bought us a Nintendo Switch a few days ago. We're both pretty sure that, once Nintendo pulls the plug on it, a softmod will come out, at which point we'll have access to most of the world's videogames. Like, seriously. Between my Windows 7 computer that still has Safedisc capability, Riza's gaming PC, our jailbroken 3DSes, the Wii, the 360, and a softmodded Switch, and our plans to add a Steam Deck to that lot, we'll be pretty set on gaming for the rest of the next 10 years.
Alongside the console, they also bought a second controller to go with the first one they got to play PS1 games on their tablet, and a copy each of Minecraft and Sonic Mania. They spent several hours yesterday downloading demos and free stuff from the eShop, just to see about what's who and who's where on this new old console that I've spent the past 3 years making fun of on this website.
I've played pretty much everything at this stage, and I'm currently teasing myself by playing the Tomodachi Life demo. The difference between the OG Tomodachi Life and Living the Dream is basically the difference between The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. The Switch doesn't have a "Mii Maker", per se, even though you can make Miis to serve as account icons, and you can import those Miis into the game, but the game itself is like Mii Maker on steroids. There's heaping great handfuls of new hairstyles, most of which service the player complaint that last-gen Miis didn't have any good African hair options. This has been fixed, as well as adding some textbook enby hairstyles. However, you can also set hair based on the front and the back: select a fringe style, then select how it flows down the back. Makeup and facial decals can be repositioned, all mouths can support lipstick, there's just so much here. Rather than using my own account Mii (a close approximation of my 3DS Mii that I remade by sight), I decided to make Tina Belcher. For the second resident of what I called "Westrogen Island", I made kind of a Nichijou-looking anime girl. For the third, an Edward Elric-adjacent blond heartthrob.
But, we hit the wall pretty soon. Your island can only reach level 2, only house 5 Miis, and only receive 2 shops in the Welcome Edition. As it happens, the reason why we have a demo version of this game at all is because the OG 3DS version had one.
Anyway, with Riza's permission, I think the next game we get for the Switch should be the full version of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. They had also been talking about Red Dead Redemption 2, but A) they have that one on Steam and, B) it's little more than an interactive movie. If we're talking about games that we both want to play? Tomodachi Life is better for that reason. We can't play it together, but that's what Minecraft is for. I mean, yeah, technically, there's also Sonic Mania, but 2-player functions on that game hinge on a single point of failure, insofar as the game camera will follow Sonic, and so more often than not, player 2 just gets pulled along for the ride by player 1 pretending that player 2 is an NPC. Riza doesn't do that exactly, but it paints a better picture than anything else of how 2D multiplayer Sonic platformers work. The Mega Drive games are like that, too, incidentally.