Category: Nintendo

Let’s kill some time.

The weekend is here, which means it’s time to kick back and enjoy some quality time with games. Before we find out what we’re diving into, however, let’s take a look back at some of this week’s biggest stories.

First up, it looks like the GameCube controller might be making some sort of comeback, which is pretty wild. We also heard word from Nintendo that NSO is promising to bring “excitement” in 2025, so let’s all look forward to that. And of course, we gave our final verdict on the bizarre, but rather delightful Alarmo clock.

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Expect fixes and more.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night didn’t arrive in the best state on the Switch, but it’s been continually updated with new content, features and fixes. The next one has now been announced for “all platforms” and will be arriving early next week.

This update will include bug fixes addressing a store soft lock issue, classic mode slow loads and a fix for the Switch-specific Glacial Tomb crash. Here’s the full message, courtesy of the Bloodstained social media account:

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“Another modern way” to revisit the sequel.

Nintendo delivered quite a surprise for N64 fans this week, announcing Rare’s 3D platformer Banjo-Tooie would be joining the Expansion Pack service next week on 25th October 2024.

As part of this announcement, Rare (known nowadays for titles like Sea of Thieves) has taken to social media to voice its own excitement about fans having access to this classic in “another modern way”. Here’s what the UK-based studio had to say:

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“We expect future chapters to roll out in a timelier fashion. Hopefully.”.

Back in 2018, Dutch indie studio HomeBear — a two-person team made up of partners Joshua van Kuilenburg and You Miichi — released NAIRI: Tower Of Shirin, a lovingly-made point-and-click adventure game which we awarded an 8/10 in our review.

It’s been a fair old while, but the duo is now gearing up for release of the sequel, Nairi: Rising Tide. Having last spoken to the team way back in the mists of time (March 2018), we recently caught up with Joshua van Kuilenburg once more via email to find out why it’s taken so long to return to Nairi’s world, and what’s changed since those distant days when Switch was but a year old…

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Reach out, touch faith.

Fancy learning Latin? Well, you’re guaranteed to learn at least one word in the classical language by playing Faith: The Unholy Trinity: Mortis, or “death”, which flashes on screen every time you succumb. Facing off against legions of the damned armed with only a wooden crucifix and, well, your faith, it’s a given you’ll be succumbing quite a bit.

Dying a lot comes with the price of admission for developer Airdorf Games’ 8-bit horror odyssey, one that truly puts the ‘cult’ in cult status, which it has enjoyed since releasing on Steam and itch.io between 2017 and 2022. Now on the Nintendo Switch, fans of retro horror are in for a wholly unique entry in the genre that looks, sounds, and feels like nothing else.

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Coming to ‘current consoles’.

Developer Argonaut Games has continued its prmotion of the recently-announced remaster for Croc: Legend of the Gobbos with a rather nifty conparison video.

Although not officially confirmed for the Switch at the time of writing, the game is scheduled to release on ‘current consoles’, so we’re going to assume (hope) that this means a launch on Nintendo’s hybrid platform is on the cards.

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This new feature will launch in early 2025.

RPG Maker With made its debut on the Switch earlier this month here in the West, and now in an update, it’s been announced it will be coming to PlayStation 5 and 4 in Japan on 30th January 2025.

As part of this news, the development team Gotcha Gotcha Games has confirmed there will be cross-play support with the Nintendo version of the game. This will allow users across Switch and PlayStation platforms to share creations and assets via the “Maker Plaza”.

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More game reveals to come.

Earlier this year in February, Konami announced it would be releasing the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection for Switch. In the latest update, it’s confirmed this retro package will arrive locally on 27th February 2025, with pre-orders now available at select retailers.

Along with this, it’s also revealed three Game Boy Advance games have joined the line up. They include Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul and Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards and Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction. There are apparently “many more” titles to be revealed.

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“The bear & bird are back!”.

Nintendo has announced it will be expanding the Switch Online N64 Service with Rare’s classic Banjo-Tooie. It will be arriving next week on 25th October 2024.

“Banjo-Tooie™ is now coming to the Nintendo 64™ – Nintendo Switch Online collection of games! It’s the bear-bird duo Banjo and Kazooie to the rescue! Magical minigames, perplexing puzzles, and freaky foes await them in the stages ahead—through ancient ruins, underwater realms, and even an amusement park of sorts.”

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No hollow imitation.

Developer Powersnake took to the Future Games Show Spring Showcase earlier this year to reveal Voidwrought, an upcoming horror metroidvania that seems to have more than a little Hollow Knight peppered in its DNA.

This one launches on the Switch eShop on 24th October, throwing us into a creepy underground world packed with crafty combat and perilous platforming — ring any bells? The art style and movement mechanics instantly put us in mind of Team Cherry’s masterpiece, but this doesn’t seem to be any old hollow imitation (god knows we’ve seen some of them), with an underlying shrine-building objective appearing much more optimistic than the dark and down-trodden world of Hallownest.

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