Category: Nintendo

Give us a cooler premise, we dare you.

Games don’t come much cooler than Sonokuni. This is a Hotline Miami-inspired action game developed by the Japanese hip hop group Don Yasa Crew and, just when you thought that premise couldn’t get any sweeter, it’s coming to Switch.

Inspired by Japanese mythology, Sonokuni will see you playing as a lone assassin, Takeru, tasked with taking down a surreal superpower. To do so, you’ll have to punch, kick and parry your way through opponents, all while bending time to make the action feel that bit more cinematic — another mark in the ‘coolness’ column for additional bullet time.

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Spelinker.

You know, we had a sneaky suspicion that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom would have some legs on it. From people’s ridiculous Ultrahand creations to glitches to challenge runs, it feels like players are always discovering something weird or new.

Well, fans have now found a huge hole (ahem…) tucked underneath the Hebra Depths, and Gaming Reinvented has provided a breakdown of how to reach it.

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Gentlemen, please…

As long as Pokémon TCG exists, there will always be scalpers looking to make a quick buck from the game’s rare cards and packs.

Case in point, a new video has surfaced in which two men appear to be fighting it out to take advantage of a kiosk restock. The video comes from TikTok user ‘yoc9official‘, who appears to be one of the men directly involved in the altercation, though he claims to be well-intentioned and is simply purchasing cards for his own collection.

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Now back to farming.

In case you missed it, Stardew Valley‘s most recent update (Version 1.6.15.1) included an error on the Switch. While the game was “mostly playable, there were some issues like “crashes”, text problems and some other issues.

Fortunately, the game’s creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has been working to resolve this issue and a patch for this patch has now been issued. Here’s what he had to say about this, along with the official website notice:

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The manga series ‘Baki the Grappler’ returns.

The manga series Baki the Grappler will be getting a Super Punch-Out!! style 2D action game for Switch this September.

This particular entry, officially known as Baki Hanma: Blood Arena, is based on the Netflix anime and is published by Purple Play and developed by Purple Tree, who also worked on the Punch-Out!! style game Thunder Ray.

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The Big N’s lowest ranking yet.

Metacritic has today revealed its 15th annual game publisher rankings, giving us an updated look at how the biggest publishers of 2024 performed based on critic reviews.

Nintendo wound up in 22nd place out of the 37 publishers in this year’s list which, considering it landed in sixth place last time, is quite the tumble. The Big N took home an average Metascore of 76 on its 13 releases in 2024, with no “Great” games (Metascore of 90 or higher) to its name.

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Kickflippin’ ‘eck…

Sigh… We really don’t like reporting on this kind of stuff, but alas, it’s our duty to you, our dear readers, to know what you’re getting yourself into.

Judging from images of the box art online, it looks like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 will require a mandatory download on the Nintendo Switch. Now, it’s not known at this stage exactly what kind of download will be needed, but given that it’s seemingly a requirement and not an option, we’re guessing that the base game simply doesn’t fit on a standard Switch cartridge.

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Sonic, ATLUS and Like A Dragon all name dropped.

SEGA has just released its latest financial report for Q3 of the current fiscal year, and the accompanying Q&A with company vice president Makoto Takahashi and director Nobuaki Yoshii gives a neat little insight about what the team has planned for the future (thanks, VGC).

After what has been a pretty busy 12 months for SEGA, releasing the likes of Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, Sonic X Shadow Generations, Yakuza Kiwami, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and most recently, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, the company’s investors were keen to know what comes next. However, the studio heads’ answer implied that the next financial year won’t be quite as packed with new releases.

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Squash those space bugs.

No Man’s Sky landed its ‘Worlds Part II‘ update back in January, with the space adventure getting treated to new solar systems, biomes, terrains and a bunch more wonderful stuff. This week, in an attempt to iron out some of the creases, developer Hello Games has released a hotfix to get the latest update running in tip-top condition.

As is usually the case with NMS hotfixes, many of the changes this time around have come from user-reported issues. It’s a long list of bugs that Sean Murray and co. have removed from the procedurally-generated galaxy and while the patch isn’t live on Switch just yet (it has already launched on Steam), the dev assures us that it “will be coming to other platforms as soon as possible” — so keep watching the stars.

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Read the rune, Konami.

Few RPGs, or video games, deal with war and hope in the face of tyranny like the Suikoden series. Konami’s prime RPG series, created by the late, great Yoshitaka Muriyama, is beloved by those who have played them – particularly the first two. They’re about the underdogs, about those who want better for their country, and not at the cost of a life. In the face of war, we push back against tyrannical empires and oppressive governments in order to give the people, and the oppressed, hope and a better life.

But Suikoden isn’t just about war. As is written in the Chinese epic The Water Margin, on which Suikoden is loosely based: “A close neighbor means more than a distant relative.” These games are all about interpersonal relationships and conflicts between friends and family, and they never shy away from the morally grey. But when ideals are challenged and faith is shaken, how does one maintain those bonds? Suikoden manages to balance topics of oppression, racism, politics, and familial relationships and friendships with delicacy and heart.

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