#131: Your Nintendo Update

Resident Evil 4, Remake & Zero on Switch are competent ports of brilliant games — I’ve seen a few grumblings about the price of these ports ( and the lack of motion controls in RE4 ) – but it seems having these on a portable is a win for many.

John Linneman // Digital Foundry – Eurogamer

REVIEW Assassin’s Creed III Remastered — “easily the weakest ‘Remastered’ version of the game that’s been released thus far”

PJ O’Reilly // Nintendo Life

Game Freak ‘prioritising’ original game projects — The Pokémon developer is “increasingly prioritising original game creation, in order to grow the experience of its staff” .

Andy Robinson  // VGC

⬇️ Editor’s note: I included the below item in last week’s issue, but the link was wrong. Here it is again with the correct address.

Why haven’t more publishers and devs learned from Super Smash Bros? — With the celebration of all things gaming that is ‘Smash’, Nintendo have highlighed just how arbitrary many of the barriers to collaboration truly are.

Mike Sholars  // Polygon

REVIEW Sniper Elite V2 Remastered — “underwhelming”
Matthew Zawodniak  // Nintendo World Report

REVIEW American Fugitive — ” a lot to love” but “choppiness” needs fixing
Britt Roberts  // Nerdly

Tetris 99 devs on how it came to be, scrapped mechanics, future plans

Nintendo Everything ( via 4Gamer )

Tetris 99 is a maelstrom of industry trends

Jon Irwin  // Variety

▶ The history of Resident Evil and Nintendo

Nintendo World Report TV  // YouTube

A grand vision of how a new Kid Icarus game could look on Switch

Adam Sherrill  // Nintendo Enthusiast

Monday, May 27

• Monkey Business — Simian platformer.

Tuesday, May 28

• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons — This award-winning adventure comes to Switch with a new two-player mode.
• Little Friends: Dogs & Cats — Sure looks like Nintendogs. (May 27 in US)
• Crystal Crisis — Colour matching combat puzzler.
• Chime Sharp — A fast-paced puzzle game with a music synthesizer element at its core.
• GoFishing 3D — Basic 3D fishing sim.

Wednesday, May 29

• Happy Words — How many points for S C R A B B L E?
• TerraTech — Looks like Mechano meets Minecraft.
• Among the Sleep — An enchanced edition of this first-person horror. (May 28 in US)
• Vectronom — A ‘hypnotic’ game about music, geometry and flow.

Thursday, May 30

• Gato Roboto — A 2D platformer with cats in mechs.
• Anarcute — A ‘cute’ riot game.
• 30-in-1 Game Collection: Volume 2 — Jack of all trades….
• Ragtag Adventurers — Boss-rush arcade action.
• Fun Fun Animal Park — Kids mini-game collection. (Already available in US)
• Animated Jigsaws Collection — Three jigsaw packs in one.
• Ages of Mages: The Last Keeper — Couch co-op beat ’em up.

Friday, May 31

• Lapis x Labyrinth — Help a town from bankruptcy in this action platformer. (May 28 in US)
• Super Arcade Soccer — More budget friendly footie.
• Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa — A mish-mash of visual novel, RPG and puzzler. (June 04 in US)
• Warlock’s Tower — A retro puzzler with Game Boy-era visuals.
• PixARK — Dino survival, with online play.
• Crypt of the Serpent King — An indie bare bones dungeon crawler from the Xbox 360.
• Robot Squad Simulator — Use a variety of robots to complete specialised missions.
• Golem Gates — A ‘post-apocalyptic sci-fi blend’ of action meets card battler.
• Selma and the Wisp — Eerie platfomer.
• Watermelon Party — Four player puzzler.