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Issue #‍315 | January 15, 2023 · Time to engage with Persona ports

Hey, issue #315 of Switch Weekly here with your Nintendo update.

Many thanks to those of you who got in touch last week with thoughts and comments on the upcoming State of Switch 2023 survey. It will be returning in the middle of next month, so any and all thoughts are very much appreciated.

There's just over 20 games hitting the Switch next week, including two Persona ports and the all new Fire Emblem Engage. Hit reply to this email and let me know if you plan on getting anything.

BTW, did you see these rad looking GameCube Joy-Con from Nyxi? I have an immense need..

Thanks for reading. I'll catch you next week.

Cheers,
Chris ✌️

If you thought last year was "sad" for Switch, 2023 might be hard to handle

Gavin Lane // Nintendo Life

Ubisoft "surprised" by lackluster sales of Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope — This doesn't come across as wholly surprising to me considering for the past five years we've all been conditioned to seeing the original game on sale for around $10. No matter its merits, I think seeing the first game on constant discount has maybe hurt this one?

Steven T. Wright // Gamespot

Saudi Arabia increases Nintendo stake to 6%

Tom Phillips // Eurogamer

▶ The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017 Trailer — It has been six years since this amazing trailer gave us all another glimpse at the Nintendo Switch's greatest game, Breath of the Wild. It is crazy to me that we are now only a few short months away from its sequel and we know soooo very little. On the one hand I love that the follow up is so shrouded in mystery - but another part of me feels the fear of second-album syndrome has gotta be weighing heavy on Nintendo's collective shoulders. BTW, if you want to check out the 2017 reveal presentation again, I made a sub-30 minute cut right here.

Nintendo // YouTube

▶ The Switch doesn't feel old to me

Nintendo Life // YouTube

Fire Emblem Engage sounds like a battle over the soul of the franchise

Sisi Jiang // Kotaku

REVIEW Chained Echoes — "a wonderful mash-up of '90s JRPG tropes, masterfully woven together to produce an experience that feels simultaneously nostalgic and fresh".

Mitch Vogel // Nintendo Life

REVIEW Lone Ruin — "a roguelike with style but it lacks in originality, making for an overall experience that’s worthwhile for fans of Hades and Diablo, but one that doesn’t quite match up to the epic scale of those adventures".

Connor Christie // Pocket Tactics

REVIEW Terror of Hemasaurus

Metro

What is the difference between Story Of Seasons and Harvest Moon? A handy explainer

Kate Gray // Nintendo Life

‘Excuuuuse me, Princess!’: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon

Nicole Carpenter // Polygon

Octopath Traveler and constructing an eight-fold world — Melding eight stories into one makes this narrative one to experience.

Joe Richards // Superjump

Nintendo's golden ticket - How one boy won a trip to Japan and met Miyamoto

John Szczepaniak // Time Extension

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Legendaries avoid a problem that plagued previous generations

Smangaliso Simelane // GameRant

The Rare mistake that led to an N64 upgrade

Jared McCarty // Superjump

An obsessive gamer’s guide to chronic pain peripherals

Nicole Clark // Polygon

🎮 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

Mon

Mrs Cat Between Worlds — A 2D precision platformer. (Jan 17 in U.S.)

Tue

RE:CALL — An adventure/puzzle game with GBA style visuals.

Wed

Graze Counter GM — Top-down scrolling 2D shooting game. (Jan 19 in U.S.)
Wings of Bluestar — HD bullet hell side-scrolling arcade shoot'em up.

Thu

A Matter of Principle — An interactive comic/novel history lesson of sorts.
⭐️ A Space for the Unbound — Slice-of-life pixel art adventure set in the late 90s rural Indonesia that tells a story about anxiety, depression, and supernatural powers.
Minimal Move — A 3D spacial puzzler with co-op.
⭐️ NeverAwake — A nightmarish twin-stick shooter with a neat look.
⭐️ Persona 3 Portable — You wanted to see Atlus' much loved JRPGs on Switch — so here's some more. M for mature.
⭐️ Persona 4 Golden — ..and another one. You can get both this and the above in a bundle too. M for mature.
Rubber Bandits — A 1-4 player party brawler about grabbing as much cash as you can.
🎮 Smilemo — Side-scrolling action game featuring a smiley in virus-filled computer.
Trenches — A WW1 first-person survival horror game. (Jan 20 in U.S.)
Void Prison — Fast-paced, endless arcade twin-stick shooter that puts you inside an ever-shrinking ring.

Fri

Drift and Drive — Mission based drifting 3D racer.
Escape to the Ocean — Fishy adventure.
⭐️📦 Fire Emblem Engage — A new tactical RPG which brings back some much loved characters.
Gardenia — A 3D gardening sim with elements of platforming, crafting, adventure, etc.
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 — It's 2023, but ok.
OmegaBot — A tight 2D action side-scroller with challenging robotic bosses.
Peachy Boy — Budget 2D puzzle-platformer with a main character that looks like Kirby's cousin or something...

⚡️ Quick Links

'Kirby and The Forgetten Land' is getting a panel at the upcoming 2023 Game Developers Conference.
Missed it above? These GameCube style Joy-Con from NYXI look rad.
A much needed bug fix update is coming to Pokemon Scarlet/Violet next month.
Become focused, organized, and calm with Todoist. The world's #1 task manager and to-do list app. #Ad
Watch a Salmon Run team rack up a 241 egg world record in Splatoon 3.
There's now a demo of Square Enix's Dragon Quest Treasures on up the eShop.
AGDQ has wrapped up, raising over 2.5 million dollars for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.
I'm late to the party here, but the 1,000th Pokemon looks like a...cheesestring.
I enjoyed this video of a composer reacting to the Zelda theme.
The original Legend of Zelda in VR is more terrifying than you’d expect.
Ok, these Cuphead Nendoroid figures are pretty sweet.
That Fujifilm printer that worked with Animal Crossing now plays nice with Splatoon 3 too.
This is from a couple of years ago, but a developer got their Animal Crossing character to react to gestures with machine learning.
Sakurai's YouTube updates continue to prove interesting, and his latest on Kirby Air Ride is no different.
What if the Link to the Past manual artwork was animated? Wonder no more.
Comic: The 'true' story of the Uncle-that-worked-at-Nintendo.

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