#248: Your Nintendo Update

REVIEW WarioWare: Get It Together is the ultimate Switch party game — Plenty of positive reviews for this new slice of silly Wario fun. It’s described here as leaning into its own ridiculousness resulting in ” an ambitious entry that successfully pushes the series into new territory “. Sam Machkovech, writing for Ars Technica however said this new entry was somewhat ” lukewarm “, reccomending you rent it over buying a copy. Ryan Gilliam, writing at Polygon , notes that the complexity added takes away from what makes the series great. Andy Robinson at VGC concluded that Get It Together is ” arguably a better multiplayer game than a solo one “. For what it’s worth, I’m having a real blast with it, but will admit that the new character switching dynamic, whilst neat, isn’t an outright home run of an addition.

Alyse Stanley // Launcher (The Washington Post)

‘I was institutionalized as a teen, and Wario was my only friend’

Cass Marshall // Polygon

REVIEW Baldo: The Guardian Owls — This beautiful looking Ghibli-esque adventure looks the part, but seemingly falls short everywhere else: ” an excruciatingly frustrating game filled with bad design choices, clunky combat and traversal, a terrible UI and map and instant, unfair death waiting around every corner […] this is one adventure you’d do well to avoid taking ” .

PJ O’Reilly // Nintendo Life

Platinum wants to bring Star Fox Zero to Switch — Platinum’s studio head Atsushi Inaba, speaking to VGC, has said that if Nintendo was interested, the developer would “ definitely ” be interested in considering a new version of Zero. I never played it on Wii U, so I’m all for it.

Andy Robinson // VGC

Game Boy titles might be headed to Nintendo Switch Online 👀

Bryant Francis // Game Developer

Sonic Colors Ultimate launch bugs and crashes are being ‘assessed’, with a patch coming — Big yikes on these bugs.

Chris Scullion // VGC

REVIEW Road 96 — ” a journey worth taking, but unless you’re willing to put up with its shortcomings, it’s one that I’d recommend you play elsewhere ” .

Chirag Pattni // Nintendo Enthusiast

REVIEW Everhood — A glowing review for this seemingly quirky and odd ” creative and inventive ” rhythm-based indie, described here as ” a jaw-dropping, mind-bending, audiovisual spectacle like nothing else, […] a perfect reminder of everything indie devs contribute to gaming and why we should support them however we can “.

Jay Rooney // Level Up Media

REVIEW PowerA Spectra Enhanced Wired Controller

John Friscia // Nintendo Enthusiast

REVIEW Key We

Ryan Janes // Nintendo Insider

ICYMI REVIEW Button City

Chris Brandrick // Switch Weekly

Stardew Valley is my favourite game I’ll never play

Cian Maher // The Gamer

Mario Kart 9 should become more of a ‘Nintendo Kart’

James Troughton // The Gamer

Nintendo should bring the 2D Metroid games to Switch before Dread

Ben Lamoreux // Nintendo Enthusiast

Animal Crossing: New Horizons museum exhibit finds the personal amid the pandemic — An exhibition at the UK’s National Videogame Museum looks to explore the impact New Horizons had on players during what was the then start of a global pandemic.

Jay Castello // The Verge

🎮 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

⚡️ Quick Links:

• Four years on, could the Switch be about to receive its first actual price drop? A few sources hint at such.
• Another Metroid Dread trailer dropped , I ain’t watched it though because: spoilers .
• A new Big Brain Academy game is landing on Switch before Christmas.
• Fancy trying Daemon X Machina ? If you’re in Europe and an NSO member you can.
• Sociable Soccer, a spiritual successor to Sensible Soccer, is coming to Switch .
• The timed exclusive indie title Bear & Breakfast has been delayed until 2022.
• Game Builder Garage seems like a great family game.
• The new WarioWare features assets from a Luigi’s Mansion beta from 2001 .
• Ok, I really want this Super Mario 64 LEGO block .