Tanuki: Pon’s Summer is out now. Here’s my first look

Tanuki: Pon’s Summer is out today on both the Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch (as well as PS5, PS4, Xbox and PC). It’s around $20 on the eShop.

This one was on my radar for a while. Developed by Denkiworks and published by Critical Reflex — you play as Pon, a rotund little tanuki working as a part-time postie on a sleepy Japanese island. You have to deliver parcels by BMX, pulling off various sick tricks and grinding rails as you ride around town, spending your earnings to restore and fix up the local shrine before the upcoming end-of-summer festival. Between making deliveries, there’s a bunch of little minigames to take on too, like baseball, sumo and sushi making.

I’ve played the opening of the game (the Switch 1 version, played on Switch 2), and you can watch the whole thing right here:

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