#276: Your Nintendo Update

Hey , here’s your update on the week in Nintendo — issue # 276 of Switch Weekly.

Biggest news from the past seven days has to be Zelda getting delayed into 2023 . Aonuma confirmed the news in a video that I’ve linked below.

Other than the Zelda delay, the end of E3 as we know it was confirmed . No in-person or digital event. What 2023 holds for E3 remains to be seen. Geoff Keighley’s Summer Games Fest will return .

Ok, so I was trying to hold off on buying Kirby as the backlog is real, but I failed. 😅 I picked it up earlier and the week, and it really is a joy. I’ve been playing it in short bursts of one or two levels at a time, and I’m currently around 25% of the way through. It’s proving to be a real charming and creative platformer ( looks like it has plenty to keep completionists busy too ). Drop me a message (just hit reply) if you grabbed it and let me know your thoughts, alternatively here’s a Twitter thread you can jump in on and reply to.

Next week there’s nearly 30 games coming to the Switch including the new LEGO Star Wars and the Chrono Cross remaster. The full list is in the issue below.

Thanks to all of those who checked out the State of Switch survey results , the response has been excellent. If you enjoyed reading the report why not get me a coffee to show your support. There’s also a thread here on my Twitter account too which runs through some quick highlights — any shares on that are much appreciated.

Finally, for the month of April the Switch Games Club will be playing EarthBound . Details here on how you can join us .

That’s all from me.

Cheers ✌️
Chris

🎮 Currently Playing — Kirby and the Forgotten Land

Monday, April 4

• Dashing Dodgems — Top-down racing local party game for four.

Tuesday, April 5

• ⭐️📦 LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga — Nine films told in one massive game. Gonna be one big brick count.
• 📦 MLB The Show 22 — Snazzy baseball action from a Sony first-party studio. Online play.

Wednesday, April 6

• Outbreak: Contagious Memories — 3D survival horror with a choice of retro fixed, over-the-shoulder, and first-person shooter camera views. M for mature.
• Z-Warp — An ‘intense’ vertical shoot’em up presented in neat retro pixel art style.
• Worm Run — Budget arcade endless runner.

Thursday, April 7

• ⭐️📦 Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition — HD remaster of 90s RPG Chrono Cross.
• ⭐️ The House of the Dead: Remake — Late 90s arcade rails shooter. M for mature.
• Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter — 2016 3D adventure detective mystery.
• Happy’s Humble Burger Farm — Burger restaurant sim meets survival horror.
• Mokoko X — Qix-style arcade puzzler.
• Radioactive Dwarfs: Evil From the Sewers — Top-down retro style action. M for mature.
• Traditional Braves — Turn-based sim/RPG.
• Urban Cards — A ‘cutthroat capitalist deckbuilder’.
• Boreal Tenebrae — Retro-style mystery adventure with 90s stylings and TV inspirations.
• ⭐️ Chinatown Detective Agency — Cybernoir point and click adventure. Looks intriguing.
• Slipstream — Outrun style retro racing game for four players.
• Red White Yellow Zinger — Falling block puzzler, visually looks like Lumines.
• Spingram — Reconstruct patterns in this challenging puzzler.
• Floating Farmer — Budget farm-based logic puzzles.
• Kombinera — A ‘brain-bending’ puzzle platformer with 300 levels.
• Cars Puzzles Game – Funny Cars and Trucks — Kids edutainment.

Friday, April 8

• 3D Box Sokoban — Budget logic puzzler in which you push and pull boxes.
• Astrodogs — Poochie? Nah, this is an arcade action game featuring a Shiba Inu pilot.
• Calm Colors — Low-poly chill puzzles.
• Rocket Cows — Budget-priced destructive 3D physics game featung cows….and rockets.

Saturday, April 9

• Axolotl — Basic 2D platformer.
• Micro Stunt Machina — Get little homemade style cars to the finish line.