Switch Weekly - Pokemon unite for your moolah

Hi, here's issue #242 of Switch Weekly, with your Sunday Nintendo update.

So, Mario Golf and Pokemon Snap for Switch. I bought both of them....and I've now sold both of them too. Pokemon Snap just straight up bored me — it really didn't capture my interest or seem compelling enough. The core mechanic wasn't quite the hook I remember it being. As for Mario Golf, I played a bit of the adventure, and did a few rounds online, and got my fill. It just felt a bit rough around the edges generally. 

I kept telling myself I'd come back to these games, but I knew that I wouldn't — as such, I've sold 'em and I've picked up Skyward Sword instead. I'm already having a much better time with it. I never played SS when it came out on Wii, so this is all new to me. I'm only around three hours in so far, excited to see where it goes.

Anyway, next week we've got over 30 games coming to Switch, including Great Ace Attorney, a new Samurai Warriors, and Neo: The World Ends With You. Full list is below — and a handful have demos too. 

Finally before I go I want to tell you that I've teamed up with the fine folks over at Digg to create some neat Switch Weekly merch: we're kicking things off with this red American Apparel t-shirt. Let me know if you grab one — I'd love to see pics! 

Thanks for reading,
Chris ✌️

🎮 Currently Playing — The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, Wild Guns

Monday, July 26

• Pets No More — Zombie pets arcade sports for up to four players.

Tuesday, July 27

• 🎮 Clone Drone in the Danger Zone — Robo-gladitorial sword fighting.
• 📦 Dariusburst Another Chronicle EX+ — Horizontal space shooter with a new lick of paint.
• ⭐️📦🎮 NEO: The World Ends with You — Square Enix action role-playing sequel.
• Night Book — An interactive video occult thriller in which you summon a demon.
• 📦🎮 Samurai Warriors 5 — A new entry in this tactical action musou.
• ⭐️📦 The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles — Time for some Victorian-style objections.

Wednesday, July 28

• Ayo the Clown — Cute 2.5D side-scrolling platformer.  (EU release date. U.S. TBD)
• 🎮 Unbound: Worlds Apart — Puzzle platformer with a neat portal mechanic.

Thursday, July 29

• B.ARK — Doggo shoot'em up adventure.
• Banners of Ruin — Deck building turn based strategy.
• Blaster Master Zero 3 — Mixes sidescrolling and top-down action.
• Christmas Tina — Visual novel via a Chinese and Japanese collaboration.
• Dungeon of Crawl — It's a dungeon crawler. (Jul 30 in U.S.)
• Eldest Souls — Elder? No, Eldest. Fast-paced souls-like.
• Kosmonavtes: Escape Reality — Escape room, puzzles, and adventure.
• OS Omega — Action adventure set in a computer. The virus wants to format your C drive.
• Paint the Town Red — First-person melee combat/rogue-lite adventure. (Already available in U.S.)
• Piczle Puzzle & Watch Collection — Ok, this gets cute points for the Game & Watch nod.
• SkyDrift Infinity — Flying action game, with online dogfights.
• Super Squidlit — A game designed within the limitations of the Game Boy Color. (Jul 30 in U.S.)
• The Long Gate — Looks to be an elaborate puzzle game with circuits to solve.
• Trigger Witch — 16-bit style adventure mixing magic and firearms.

Friday, July 30

• 10 Second Ninja X — Super fast paced action puzzler.
• Alfonzo's Arctic Adventure — Platformer. Said to be based on some Flash cartoon.
• Alone With You — Sci-fi romance adventure.
• Apple Slash — Slash your sword in this action game. Has Downwell style visuals.
• 📦 Bustafellows — Japanese noir otome visual novel.
• Cuccchi — Artist Enzo Cucchi's archive of work, presented in game form.
• Horror Tales: The Wine — Creepy post-pandemic action adventure.
• Papa's Quiz — Goofy party game for up to eight. Uses phones like Jackbox.
• Xenogunner — Run and gun platformer.

Saturday, July 31

• Easy Flight Simulator — Basic flight sim.