Switch Weekly - Strawberries, Golf, and Jet Skis

REVIEW Kirby's Dream Buffet — Despite being "a little lacking in content and options" overall this puffball party is described as a "hilarious and satisfyingly silly game that balances its gameplay nicely between moments of skill and utter mayhem". Kelsey Raynor at VG247 wasn't so taken, noting that she "reached the end of each banquet wishing for a little more".

Nathan Ellingsworth // Pocket Tactics

REVIEW Cursed to Golf is a stroke of genius — "a perfectly tuned game that expertly walks the balance between challenging and compelling".

Chris Scullion // VGC

Nintendo Of America's testers say they faced years of sexual harassment — This is a detailed report, with numerous accounts, outlining how contracted female game testers working for Nintendo (via Aerotek) are said to have had to endure 'frat house' experiences, sexist behaviour, and consistently unsatisfactory action/responses from management. Dissapointing to see.

Sisi Jiang // Kotaku

REVIEW Wave Race 64 — This N64 classic is now available on the NSO Expansion Pack - here's a review if you aren't familiar. "almost as impressive now as it was in the '90s". Jack Yarwood for Time Extension took a look back at what the critics made of it back when it first debuted on the Nintendo 64 (magazine scans included).

Dave Frear // Nintendo Life

Nintendo to shrink Switch packaging to boost shipping efficiency — The console box will be getting about 20 percent smaller. They really ought to change the game cases, as they waste sooooo much space – but yeah, doing that mid cycle would anger many a collector. 😅

Daniel Vuckovic // Vooks

Will the Nintendo Switch ever see a price drop? — Pretty much no price changes in over five years.

Kyle Orland // Ars Technica

REVIEW Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince — "hews a bit too close to its predecessor" but on the whole is "a solid action-adventure game, [..] that makes great use of those Legend of Zelda building blocks in crafting a satisfying journey".

CJ Andriessen // Destructoid

REVIEW We Are OFK — "a wonderfully queer and wonderfully representative experience, even if it's not exactly what most people would consider “a game”.". Sam Machkovech writing at Ars Technica calls it a "modern, thoughtful update to the visual novel concept for disaffected Gen Z".

Oliver Brandt // Vooks

Narrative design in pursuit of authenticity in musical biopic We Are OFK

Chris Kerr // Game Developer

REVIEW Thymesia - Cloud Version — "has all the ingredients necessary to make for a solid indie Soulslike, but falls short of greatness due to messy implementation of mechanics, bland level design, weak lore, and issues with difficulty balancing". The cloud version also seems to suffer some performance issues, resulting in "a Switch experience that's best avoided at all costs".

PJ O'Reilly // Nintendo Life

After Nintendo, Reggie Fils-Aimé wants gamers to give the metaverse a chance

Tom Caswell // Inverse

Sega solved the drift issue almost 30 years ago — Here's how

Tobias Isakeit // iFixit

Frogun illustrates the dangers of leaning on the classics

Merritt K // Fanbyte

18 things I wish I knew before starting Cult Of The Lamb

Ari Notis // Kotaku

BioShock is everywhere in games, and yet nowhere in itself — This masterpiece of a game is now 15 years old, and — as it's on Switch — it feels appropriate to share this piece here.

Justin Carter // Gizmodo

How I went from dismissing indie games to loving them

Paul K. Barnes // Superjump

Iconic Wii Sports Mii Matt joins Switch Sports

Victoria Kennedy // Eurogamer