Switch Weekly - #200: Your Nintendo update

▶ Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – Champions Unite! — A new trailer showing off the Champions in this upcoming musou game. Oh and Impa has been confirmed as a playable character too.

Nintendo // YouTube

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity looks like a promising prequel

Paul Lombardo // Super Jump

A new Joy-Con drift lawsuit accuses Nintendo of ‘creating a product designed to break’ — A French consumer group are calling for Nintendo to change the Joy-Con manufacturing process. Good luck to them — I hope this sort of pressure keeps up as it's clear Nintendo, depsite making changes, have not solved this.

Tom Ivan // VGC

▶ How will Nintendo compete with the PS5 and Xbox Series X? — With the next generation of consoles upon us, Alex and Jon from Nintendo Life ponder where Nintendo fits into all of this?

Nintendo Life // YouTube

REVIEW Lost Ember — "While Lost Ember is not a long game, it’s definitely a game that deserves your time".

Joachim Ziebs  // Nintendad

REVIEW WWE 2K Battlegrounds — "let down [..] by limited and repetitive combat, dopey AI, an excessively locked roster and a series of bewildering design choices".

Chris Scullion // Nintendo Life

▶ Leaving Breath of the Wild’s Plateau is the ultimate call to adventure — This great six-minute video expresses the liberating feeling that Breath of the Wild offers, and will no doubt make you want to jump back into Hyrule.

Marty Sliva (The Escapist) // YouTube

Does Nintendo have a refund problem?

Gavin Lane // Nintendo Life

Super Mario at 35: 'The little plumber who defined a genre'

Christian Hewgill // BBC

Hades resonates now because it reflects our real lives during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kirk McKeand // The Gamer

How Carrion’s inhumanity makes for a unique horror experience

Brandon R. Chinn // Super Jump

Nintendo Switch launches in Brazil, the first Nintendo product to go on sale in the country since 2015 — The Switch arrived in Brazil last week. Know any Nintendistas? Be sure to let them know about Switch Weekly. 😄

Helena Nogueira // IGN

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Tuesday, September 29

• ⭐️ Alwa's Legacy — A magic-filled 'modern retro adventure game'.
• Bacon Man: An Adventure — Claim the 'meat throne' in this tough platformer.
• Projection: First Light — Shadow puppet platformer.
• Umihara Kawase BaZooKa! — Clear the screen of enemies in this multiplayer action game. (Oct 30 in U.S.)

Wednesday, September 30

• Candy Raid: The Factory — Basic top-down puzzle adventure. (Oct 1 in U.S.)
• Detective Case and Clown Bot in: Murder in The Hotel Lisbon — Point and click adventure.
• Farm Builder — Strategy puzzle board game, think Carcassonne but for farming. (Oct 1 in U.S.)
• ⭐️ Ys Origin — "one of the greatest Japanese A-RPGs of all time". (Oct 1 in U.S.)

Thursday, October 1

• Electronic Super Joy 2 — A 'brutally' hard platformer with 'brain-smashing' electronic music.
• Hot Shot Burn — Violent party brawler for four players, with online.
• Liege Dragon — Stand up to the dragon in this fantasy RPG.
• Logic Puzzle Collection: Sudoku - Permudoku - Nonodoku — Lots of puzzles here, cheap. (Oct 2 in U.S.)
• Macbat 64 — Yep, this looks like a Nintendo 64 style platformer alright. Budget price.
• Nubarron: The adventure of an unlucky gnome — Twisted fairytale platform adventure.
• Orangeblood — Alternate timeline RPG with a 'dirty, exotic vibe'.
• Powertris — Quickly rotate blocks in this 'tribute' to classic logical games.
• Shmubedi Boo — Multiplayer platformer in which you have to collect Apples. (Oct 7 in U.S.)
• Smoots World Cup Tennis — I don't know what a Smoot is, but they are playing tennis.
• ⭐️ Super Mario Bros. 35 — For Switch Online members: play the original SMB with 34 others.
• The Last Days — Handheld-onlyBermuda Triangle hidden object mystery game. 
• Warsaw — Turn-based RPG set in the ruins of a besieged city.

Friday, October 2

• 103 — Unlock memories by observing in this adventure game.
• Birthday of Midnight — Arcade adventure with a golf-like mechanic.
• Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan — Another hidden object puzzle game.
• Let's Sing Queen — Have yourself a real good time with this Queen karaoke.
• Make a Killing — First-person survival horror.

Saturday, October 3

• Quell — Zen logic puzzles.

Sunday, October 4

• Space Grunts — A fast-paced arcade action game with a 'roguelike setting'. (Oct 5 in U.S.)