Switch Weekly - 🛡 Your calamitous Nintendo update

REVIEW Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity — Described here as a neat idea, with plenty of big battles, and a few unfortunate technical woes in places. Overall, it's something of an "uneven Zelda love letter" that's hugely entertaining, but performance issues scupper "the game's ludicrous highs". Hirun Cryer at GamesRader called it "an ace accomplice to Breath of the Wild". Neal Ronaghan at Nintendo World Report said this spinoff "successfully deepends the lore" of the BotW world and is a "soundly enjoyable" Musou game, but also noted technical issues.

Matthew Castle // VGC

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity creators discuss their favorite character, battle ladles — A brief Q&A with the team behind this Breath of the Wild prequel.

Michael McWhertor // Polygon

Doom Eternal for Switch has not been cancelled but is now a digital-only release — Good to finally have an update on this, albeit a far from ideal one. Expect more news later this month.

Matt T.M. Kim // IGN

Nintendo gift guide for 2020 — In case you missed this last week, I put together a gift guide for Nintendo fans. I've also added a few more items since publishing.

Chris Brandrick // Digg

REVIEW Chicken Police - Paint it Red — This visual novel/adventure detective game is described here as: "a brilliantly-written and joyously rich piece of narrative gaming" that's "one hell of an absorbing tale".

Stuart Gipp // Nintendo Life

REVIEW Sniper Elite 4 

Sandy Kirchner-Wilson // Cubed 3

REVIEW Serious Sam Collection 

Matt S // Digitally Downloaded

REVIEW Cake Bash 

Ben Kerry // Nintendo Enthusiast

Does cloud gaming have a future on Switch? — With Control and Hitman now a thing on the Switch, Chirag asks that if such streaming tech works as intended, what could it mean for the broader future of cloud gaming on Switch?

Chirag Pattni // Nintendo Enthusiast

Mad at school — A teacher recounts her experience playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and how its 'Maddedning' mode gave her structure.

Emily Price // Into The Spine

It's not easy porting games to the Switch — But developers do it anyhow

Keller Gordon // NPR

Trans representation in gaming

Dani Cross // The Digital Fix

Super Mario Sunshine is the most forward-thinking 3D Mario

James O'Connor // SuperJump

Animal Crossing and the future of 'cozy' Twitch streams 

Emily Morrow // Liftoff

Why I prefer the original Animal Crossing

Isaiah McCall // SuperJump

Monday, November 23

• 2urvive — Top-down tactical zombie shooter. (Nov 24 in U.S.)

Tuesday, November 24

• 📦 Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues — Beat ’em up adventure inspired by the show. (Already available in U.S.)
• Tracks - Toybox Edition — Build your own wooden toy train set.

Wednesday, November 25

• My Aunt is a Witch — Visual novel set in a world of magic.
• Out of Space: Couch Edition — Co-op multiplayer game about living together in space.
• Strike Force 2 - Terrorist Hunt — Tropical FPS.

Thursday, November 26

• Arrog — Hand-drawn blacn and white puzzle adventure game.
• In Celebration Of Violence — A fantasy action roguelike of 'exploration and murder'.
• Lovekami -Divinity Stage- — A 'romantic' visual novel.
• Maid of Sker — 3D first-person survival horror in an old hotel.
• Nordlicht — Journey to the north in this endearing puzzle adventure.
• Picklock — Play the thief in this strategic stealth adventure with isometric/voxel graphics.
• ⭐️ Picross S5 — Jupiter return with another entry in the much loved S series.
• QV — Action adventure game - kinda gives me a 'Kamiko but in 3D' vibe.
• Root Double - Before Crime, After Days — Near future visual novel.
• Sky Mercenaries Redux — A Switch exclusive 'Redux' edition of this 2D arcade shooter.
• The Explorer of Night — Escape the forest in this minimalist platformer.

Friday, November 27

• BFF or Die — Couch co-op puzzle game.
• Destropolis — Top-down shooter with a fully destructible environment.
• Girabox — Puzzle game in which you rotate the world around you to get to the goal.
• More Dark — Clean up Hell in this pixel platformer.
• Tiny World Racing — Top down mini arcade racer.