#205: Your Nintendo Update

REVIEW Pikmin 3 Deluxe — ” Pikmin 3 unsurprisingly is still fantastic and Pikmin 3 Deluxe is arguably the best version of the game out there. “. Jim Hargreaves, writing for The Sixth Axis , notes how this latest Wii U port is Nintendo carrying on their revival of ” what some might call their lost generation of games ” adding that this entry is an ” intriguing, if not excellent, entry in the strategy genre “.

Ryan Janes  // Nintendo Insider

▶ Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase | October 2020 — This little presentation gave us a good look at the now delayed RPG Bravely Default II, a release date for Immortals Fenyx Rising, No More Heroes shadowdropping, and as I mentioned above cloud versions of Control and Hitman. If you’d rather not watch the nearly 20-minute video, iMore have a write-up of all the announcements .

Nintendo // YouTube

Interview: “There would be no Control on Switch without the cloud,” says Remedy — As mentioned above, the Switch release of Control uses the power of the cloud rather than the Switch’s built-in processing capabilites. Here, Remedy’s Mikael Kasurinen (Game Director), Mika Vehkala (Technical Director), and Thomas Puha (Communications Director) discuss this ‘landmark release’.

Gavin Lane // Nintendo Life

REVIEW Carto — This indie ‘world-building’ puzzler seems pretty chill and charming to boot. An experience that’s ” committed to low-stress, just-engaging-enough fun “, and something that will restore ” just a bit of your faith in community” .

Graham Russell // Siliconera

REVIEW Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm — ” fails to have its own identity ” yet ” clever puzzles, and solid pacing elevate it to the very tip-top of the ‘Zelda-like’ list “.

Brett Medlock // Nintendo Enthusiast

REVIEW Disc Room — Top-down action game. ” Like Minit and Gato Roboto before it, Disc Room is another compact but wonderful title from publisher Devolver. “.

Jordan Rudek // Nintendo World Report

REVIEW Mad Rat Dead — ” such a bizarre, entertaining mesh of normally disconnected concepts that blend and creates something magical “.

Orpheus Joshua // Noisy Pixel

REVIEW Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty — ” an acceptable imitation of Abe’s Oddysee, but nothing more “.

Stuart Gipp // Nintendo Life

50 Journalists covering Nintendo
I’ve brought together a list of some of the key people covering Nintendo , including dedicated news hounds, respected critics, recognized columnists, and up-and-comers. These are some of the folks I’ve linked to here in Switch Weekly over the years, as I explained in this Twitter thread .

‘Switch Pro’ could feature a Mini-LED display, according to a new report — This screen tech is a hybrid of LCD screens with OLED-style local illumination, which offer not only screen improvements, but battery gains too.

Gavin Lane // Nintendo Life

A Switch Pro would signal a radical change in Nintendo’s philosophy

Abram Buehner // CBR

Video games are all about failure, but none more so than ‘Hades’

Jordan Oloman // NME

Nintendad’s favorite spooky/horror games — Yes, Halloween was yesterday, but if your still feeling spooky here’s a list to keep the scary vibes going.

Nintendad

Tuesday, November 3

• Gunslugs — Pixel arcade action game, first released in 2013.
• ⭐️ Jurassic World Evolution: Complete Edition — Build your own dino park.
• Roah — Fighter / adventure game with a fantasy vibe.
• Tauronos — Explore an ancient labyrinth in this Greek themed arcade adventure.

Wednesday, November 4

• Seven Knights: Time Wanderer — This popular mobile RPG comes to Switch. (Nov 5 in U.S)

Thursday, November 5

• 8-Bit Farm — A sim game with a fairly explanatory title.
• 📦 Café Enchanté — Visit a Tokyo cafe with a difference in this adventure game.
• Crazy BMX World — Budget 2D arcade stunt platformer.
• Dragon Lapis — 8-bit style RPG with chiptunes to match.
• Fantasy Tavern Sextet -Vol.1 New World Days- — A ‘slightly naughty’ drama adventure.
• Iris and the Giant — Face your inner demons in this collectible card game/RPG/roguelike.
• My Little Dog Adventure — Play as a good boy in this 3D ‘story-driven exploration’ game.
• My Riding Stables 2: A New Adventure — 3D equestrian sim with horses aplenty.
• Outbreak The Nightmare Chronicles — A 3D ‘retro survival horror’ set in a deserted manor.
• 📦 Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups Save Adventure Bay! — 3D adventure with co-op. (Nov 6 in U.S)
• Tens — A dice puzzle game that combines sudoku with block dropping.
• The Bluecoats North & South — Turn-based strategy based on the U.S Civil War. (Already avaialble in U.S)
• The Pew Pew Bundle Vol. 1 — A bundle of three shoot em ups.
• What the Fork — Couch co-op forklift sim.
• YesterMorrow — 2D platformer adventure with parallel timelines to figure out.

Friday, November 6

• 📦 Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia — Based on the hit TV show apparently. (Nov 3 in U.S)
• Chess Minimal — Budget price. Online play should you fancy checking some mates.
• ⭐️ Descenders — 3D downhill freeriding with procedurally generated worlds.
• Fantasy Friends — This looks like some sort of weird super saccharine Animal Crossing style game, with Unicorns and fairies. (Nov 20 in U.S)
• Memoranda — Point and click adventure with oddball ‘magic realism’ elements.
• Oneiros — A first-person surreal puzzle-adventure.
• Ord. — A text adventure with a minimalist use of words.
• Squeakers — Budget multiplayer building game. (Couldn’t find a good link for this one)
• Trail Boss BMX — A BMX racer with 40 3D levels.
• 📦 Tropico 6 — Manage multiple islands in this long running construction/management sim.
• World of Solitaire — Five versions of the card game here.

Sunday, November 8

• Re:Turn – One Way Trip — A 2D side-scrolling puzzle adventure horror game. (Nov 7 in U.S)

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