Category: Nintendo

I can sing a rail shooter.

Developer Success’s flagship franchise since 1991, Cotton‘s enigmatic Halloween world and cutesy-witchy theme struck a chord with fans of the shoot-’em-up genre. Its zany premise of broomsticking across badlands in search of delicious candy, coupled with a magical mix of coloured gem grabbing, weapon power-ups, flashy bomb attacks, and mouthy fairies, have been staples in every instalment since the beginning.

Bar one pachinko outlier, most Cotton games follow the same 2D horizontal shooting format, including 2021’s Cotton Fantasy: Superlative Night Dreams. But with Panorama Cotton, a 1994 Mega Drive exclusive and one of the system’s most technically impressive titles, Success switched the action to a 3D perspective, plotting the camera behind Cotton’s back. It delivered a Space Harrier-style dynamic across eye-bleedingly colourful stages, occasionally with varying paths. Despite being a graphical showcase for the system, it wasn’t as critically well-received as its predecessors, never appeared overseas (until 2021), and had a famously low print run.

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Donningtooooooon!

Picture this… You’re at Download Festival in Donnington Park, you’re rocking out to a bit of Queens of the Stone Age, and suddenly you have an urge, a need, to play Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.

But, oh no! You don’t have your Switch with you. Furthermore, you didn’t want to bring your Switch to Download Festival for fear of it being lost, trampled on, or ruined by the inevitable downfall of rain during the British festival season.

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Landscape mode added to Android devices.

Apart from the Switch, Nintendo has a bunch of mobile apps it’s still maintaining and one of them happens to be the Switch Online app, which allows users to connect and interact with others online in select multiplayer games.

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No, not that one.

There have been plenty of requests for a physical release of Tomb Raider I-III Remastered on the Switch, but how would you feel about a hard copy of The Lara Croft Collection instead? With this in mind, Limited Run Games has announced it will be releasing a physical version of this particular package containing Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris on the Switch later this year.

There’ll be a standard edition for $39.99 (estimated to ship in October) and a collector’s edition available for $89.99 (estimated to ship in November), with pre-orders going live on 10th May 2024. The higher tier will come with a copy of the game, a special Trapezoid Box, acrylic standee, soundtrack, steelbook, and art prints.

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Blast-off.

Konami has revealed that Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked will be launching on Nintendo Switch and other consoles on 11th June 2024.

In just over a month’s time, Konami’s opossum knight will be making his grand return. Re-Sparked is a collection of all three of Sparkster’s games — Rocket Knight Adventures, Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2, and Sparkster.

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Cyberpunk 2077 takes the crown.

After a short delay, the latest UK Charts are in, and despite its mixed reception, Endless Ocean Luminous has managed to crack the top 10 to land at, well, number 10.

In fact, there’s been a bit of a shake up this week – likely due to retail sales on specific titles – as Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition has managed to shoot all the way up to the top spot to beat out the likes of Stellar Blade and EA Sports FC 24.

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Oh Crab!

Over the years, many games have tried to recreate the precise, difficult nature of FromSoftware’s Dark Souls, a revolutionary title that created the aptly named Soulslike genre. Another Crab’s Treasure, from developer Aggro Crab, is another one of these endeavours, albeit with a significantly more colourful approach compared to the usual intensity of many Soulslikes.

The adventure begins with the introduction of protagonist, Kril, a Hermit Crab living above the surrounding ocean in a small tide pool. Before long, Kril is removed from his precious shell, as he now seemingly owes money to a creature by the name of the Duchess due to new tax laws. A Loan Shark — who takes the form of a plastic Shark-head-on-a-stick toy with a top hat — takes Kril’s shell as collateral, sending the adorable young crustacean on a journey to the depths of the ocean to retrieve his shell and return to his lovely tide pool. The writing is charming and full of witty remarks from the game’s cast of characters, resulting in an engaging narrative that will provide a few laughs here and there.

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Currently only two first-party games confirmed.

Nintendo has confirmed that a Direct showcase will take place in June 2024, focusing on softeware for the Nintendo Switch during the latter half of 2024.

This will hopefully offset what is looking to be a fairly quiet year for the Switch, with only two first-party games currently known to the public: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD. Considering these launch on 23rd May and 27th June respectively, Nintendo has, at the time of writing, absolutely nothing lined up for the remainder of the year.

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Dive in!

Update :

Nintendo has shared a first look at its Tetris 99 x Endless Ocean: Luminous Maximus Cup event, which you can view above. Once again, this event will kick off later this week on 10th May and runs until 13th May. Nintendo is also currently offering some Endless Ocean-themed icons.

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Nintendo release when?

After a surprise announcement at The Game Awards in 2022, the sequel to Hades has finally entered its early access phase.

While it’s only available on PC for now, it’s given many fans of Supergiant’s original roguelike hope there’ll be an announcement about console devices at some point in the future.

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