Originally published on Switch Weekly

Issue #334

November 5, 2025

Your Nintendo Update

Hi , here’s issue #334 of Switch Weekly, your Nintendo round-up.

As you might expect, it’s another week where a lot of the good reads are all about Zelda. I’ve only managed to play around 15-20 hours of TofK so far, and a lot of that has been idly exploring. As I am yet to do much of the story, I’m starting to see more spoilers out in the wild — they will be unavoidable at some point soon I imagine. Anyway, hit reply and let me know your playtime and how you are finding the game — would love to know. 😊

Next week there is just under 30 games coming to the eShop — and the full list is below for you.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers ,
Chris ✌️

🎮 Currently Playing : The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

What Tears of the Kingdom gets right – and wrong – about accessibility

Grant Stoner // IGN

▶ Nintendo copied Rare’s Homework — Yes, this is about Tears of the Kingdom and the much maligned Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts game of 2008.

hotcyder // YouTube

Tears Of The Kingdom plays like a dream, so what’s Pokemon’s excuse?

Matthew Schomer // DualShockers

REVIEW Puzzle Bobble EveryBubble — ” a puzzler well worth busting a move to “.

Jordan Rudek // Nintendo World Report

REVIEW Farming Simulator 23 — ” a clear non-starter for newcomers that clearly lacks plenty of content that longtime fans have come to enjoy on more powerful hardware “.

Matthew Zawodniak // Nintendo World Report

REVIEW Fights in Tight Spaces — A few optimization concerns, but otherwise: ” It takes a lot for a roguelike to feel truly fresh on Switch, but Fights in Tight Spaces does a great job of taking a well-worn format and making it feel just that “.

Trent Cannon // Nintendo Life

Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’s incredible opening is one of Nintendo’s best

Jim Norman // Nintendo Life

Why Tears of the Kingdom’s bridge physics have game developers wowed

Nicole Carpenter // Polygon

I wish I hadn’t replayed Breath Of The Wild this year

Andrew King // The Gamer

Nintendo’s Satellaview blazed a trail for today’s season-based, ephemeral games

Jonathon Greenall // Nintendo Life

Indie dev’s joke gets adorable poker game temporarily banned from Nintendo eShop

Joshua Rivera // Polygon

What watching my daughter play ‘The Legend of Zelda’ taught me — You may hit a pay/email wall here.

Tom Bissell // The Washington Post

🎮 Upcoming Releases

All releases are digital, Europe & U.S. unless otherwise stated.
Release data sourced in collaboration with Switch Scores .

⭐️ = Ones to Watch · 📦 = Physical release · 🎮 = Demo available

Tue

⭐️ To Hell with the Ugly — A stylish looking, narrative-focused adventure with a 1950s LA film noir setting. M for mature.

Wed

Constellations — A chill puzzler about finding patterns in the stars. (June 1 in U.S.)
Decarnation — A 2D cryptic horror adventure with an emotional story.
Laserpitium — You need to ‘free the galaxy from artificial governance’ in this side-scrolling 2D shoot’em up.
Mythargia — A 2D side scrolling retro adventure featuring a journalist discovering an island’s story.
The Tartarus Key — Escape a mansion whilst solving puzzles and solving a mystery in this 3D adventure with PS1-era visuals.
Undead Hordes 2: Necropolis — A necromantic action game with RPG, strategy and hack’n’slash elements.

Thu

Aery: The Lost Hero — Control a bird in this story-driven, narrative 3D flight exploration game.
🎮 Boxville — Award-winning animated film meets puzzle game about ‘speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories’.
⭐️ Etrian Odyssey HD — A spruced up version of this 2007 Nintendo DS dungeon crawler RPG. II and III are also available.
📦 Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection — All three of the above in one bundle. Physical version .
GyroGunner — An omnidirectional scrolling top-down twin-stick shooter with 80s style pixel art.
Hidden Bunny — A budget hidden object puzzle game.
Japanese Nekosama Escape: The Sweets Shop — Escape room featuring cats and sweet treats.
⭐️📦 Killer Frequency — A ‘retro slasher’ horror comedy 1st person adventure set in the late 80s. Physical version .
Korokoro Harley — Budget 3D action game about rolling a hedgehog around.
Kuroi Tsubasa — A 120,000 word visual novel adventure featuring a little devil.
Move the Pin — It’s like one of those puzzlers I always see ads for on mobile.
Powers of Hex — This one ‘ should illicit memories of classic, 2D platformers from the 80s’.
Project Nightmares Case 36: Henrietta Kedward — Survival horror in which you experience ‘a twisted tale of paranormal terror and mystery’. M for mature.

Fri

7 Horizons — 8-bit style action platformer.
Johnny Trigger: Sniper — Cartoony sniper game.
📦 Super Mega Baseball 4 — Baseball with the legends of the game. Physical version .

Sat

Kitten Island — Cat themed 2D platformer.

⚡️ Quick Links

Huh, a new Daemon X Machina game has been announced.
No suprise here: Nintendo don’t want the Dolphin emulator freely available on Valve’s Steam store.
A new issue of Switch Player mag is out now, featuring a crossword from me .
This fan-made Zelda LEGO Ideas project is rad.
The FRONT MISSION 2: Remake has been delayed to an unannounced date.
Intellivision Amico ‘exclusives’ Shark! Shark! & Astrosmash are Switch bound .
Digital Foundry have taken another performance look at TotK , this time with the help of Modern Vintage Gamer.
New Splatoon rip-off Foamstars could help launch a new genre: the Splatlike .
Here’s an illuminating way to travel around the depths in Tears of the Kingdom.
Splatoon is eight years old today , the first game came out on this day in Japan on May 28, 2015.

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Your Nintendo Update

🎮 Upcoming Releases

⚡️ Quick Links

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Former Nintendo employees reveal what it took to launch the NES in America

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