#127: Your Nintendo Update

▶ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – New Content Approaching — Persona’s Joker character is now available in Smash as the first paid DLC character. The game has also been upgraded with a free update, including a stage builder which has already resulted in some… interesting custom stages .

Nintendo // YouTube

REVIEW Katana Zero: a game about death, death, death, and life — This 2D side scroller offers gameplay that “is well-executed but can’t quite live up to the presentational highs” on offer. Yet the author concludes that overall it’s “a cynical and sometimes ugly story told with unusual warmth and sincerity” .

Russ Frushtick // Polygon

REVIEW Cuphead — I’ve been working my way through this over the past few days, and it’s worth every penny. Sure it’s tough, but its presentation and style are a sheer labour of love — “it’s easily one of the most visually jaw-dropping 2D platformers you’ll ever play” .

Chris Scullion // Nintendo Life

▶ Cuphead Switch analysis: A flawless conversion? — “what is possibly the most faithful console conversion of a modern game we’ve seen yet” .

Digital Foundry // YouTube

Cuphead: The imperfections of a perfect port — Jon Irwin touches on how ports often vary from system-to-system and how debates surronding where the ‘best’ place to play a title may soon vanish due to increasingly faultless conversions.

Jon Irwin  // Variety

PREVIEW SteamWorld Quest is a card game RPG as fiendish as it is lovely — This game is out next week, and despite being completely different to its fore-bearers, this preview claims it’s “not a surprise so much as an unexpected delight” .

Joe Skrebels // IGN

Unraveling the enigma of Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, 20 years later — Ok, so the Virtual Boy wasn’t strictly VR, but following Nintendo’s recent attempt at a VR ‘thing’ with Labo, this article from a few years ago makes for a fascinating read. It goes through the history behind the screen technology of the Virtual Boy and how the product came to be

Benj Edwards  // Fast Company

REVIEW My Time at Portia — A “few disappointments really let an otherwise lovely game down”
Laura Thornton // Vooks

REVIEW Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster — “an incredible package”
Miguel Moran  // Nintendo Enthusiast

Tencent set to release Nintendo Switch in China

Patrick Frater // Variety

Report: Cheaper “Switch Lite” will be dockable, come in the fall

Kyle Orland // Ars Technica

Nintendo Switch update adds ability to transfer save data between systems

Tom Phillips // Eurogamer

PREVIEW Mortal Kombat 11 on Switch feels great and looks good enough
Chris Compendio  // Dual Shockers

‘Picross S3’ coming to Nintendo Switch on April 25

Emily Gera // Variety

Monday, April 22

• Robox — Sock ’em, knock ’em fighter.
• Beyond Enemy Lines: Covert Operations — Single player FPS. (April 23 in US)

Tuesday, April 23

• Mortal Kombat 11 — Brutal fatalities on the go.
• Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen — The ‘ultimate’ version of this action-RPG.

Wednesday, April 24

• Deponia — A puzzle adventure from the “Lucasarts of Germany”.
• Theatre Tales — A digital puppet show of classic fairty tale.
• Gym Hero — Clicker game. (April 27 in US)

Thursday, April 25

• SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech — Roleplaying card game.
• Aggelos — 16-bit style action-RPG.
• Cytus α — Music rhythm from the team behind VOEZ.
• Lost King’s Lullaby — Celtic adventure roguelike.
• Picross S3 — The third entry in this popular nongram series.
• Death Coming — Play as the reaper in this non-linear puzzler.
• Vandals — Turn-based stealth graffiti game, something for Banksy.
• Type:Rider — An adventure puzzle game through the history of typography.
• Homo Machina — A puzzler inside the human body. Great visual look.
• Joe Jump Impossible Quest — Budget ‘impossible runner’ platformer.

Friday, April 26

• Boxboy + Boxgirl — Over 270 stages to solve in this 2D puzzle-platformer.
• Dig Dog — Not dug. Action roguelike in which you play a dog digging for a bone.
• Moero Chronicle Hyper — Japanese dungeon crawler. (April 25 in US)
• Shalnor Legends: Sacred Lands — Action adventure RPG.
• Super Blood Hockey — The ice doesn’t stay clean for long.
• Hotel Dracula — Run a hotel for vampires, and humans.
• Rogue Bit — You play as a single bit of sentient computer memory.