back with some Wario reviews and Nintendo news

REVIEW WarioWare: Get It Together is the ultimate Switch party game — Plenty of positive reviews for this new slice of silly Wario fun. It's described here as leaning into its own ridiculousness resulting in "an ambitious entry that successfully pushes the series into new territory". Sam Machkovech, writing for Ars Technica however said this new entry was somewhat "lukewarm", reccomending you rent it over buying a copy. Ryan Gilliam, writing at Polygon, notes that the complexity added takes away from what makes the series great. Andy Robinson at VGC concluded that Get It Together is "arguably a better multiplayer game than a solo one". For what it's worth, I'm having a real blast with it, but will admit that the new character switching dynamic, whilst neat, isn't an outright home run of an addition.

Alyse Stanley // Launcher (The Washington Post)

'I was institutionalized as a teen, and Wario was my only friend'

Cass Marshall // Polygon

REVIEW Baldo: The Guardian Owls — This beautiful looking Ghibli-esque adventure looks the part, but seemingly falls short everywhere else: "an excruciatingly frustrating game filled with bad design choices, clunky combat and traversal, a terrible UI and map and instant, unfair death waiting around every corner [...] this is one adventure you'd do well to avoid taking".

PJ O'Reilly // Nintendo Life

Platinum wants to bring Star Fox Zero to Switch — Platinum’s studio head Atsushi Inaba, speaking to VGC, has said that if Nintendo was interested, the developer would “definitely” be interested in considering a new version of Zero. I never played it on Wii U, so I'm all for it. 

Andy Robinson // VGC

Game Boy titles might be headed to Nintendo Switch Online 👀

Bryant Francis // Game Developer

Sonic Colors Ultimate launch bugs and crashes are being ‘assessed’, with a patch coming — Big yikes on these bugs.

Chris Scullion // VGC

REVIEW Road 96 — "a journey worth taking, but unless you’re willing to put up with its shortcomings, it’s one that I’d recommend you play elsewhere". 

Chirag Pattni // Nintendo Enthusiast

REVIEW Everhood — A glowing review for this seemingly quirky and odd "creative and inventive" rhythm-based indie, described here as "a jaw-dropping, mind-bending, audiovisual spectacle like nothing else, [...] a perfect reminder of everything indie devs contribute to gaming and why we should support them however we can".

Jay Rooney // Level Up Media

REVIEW PowerA Spectra Enhanced Wired Controller

John Friscia // Nintendo Enthusiast

REVIEW Key We

Ryan Janes // Nintendo Insider

ICYMI REVIEW Button City

Chris Brandrick // Switch Weekly

Stardew Valley is my favourite game I'll never play

Cian Maher // The Gamer

Mario Kart 9 should become more of a 'Nintendo Kart'

James Troughton // The Gamer

Nintendo should bring the 2D Metroid games to Switch before Dread

Ben Lamoreux // Nintendo Enthusiast

Animal Crossing: New Horizons museum exhibit finds the personal amid the pandemic — An exhibition at the UK's National Videogame Museum looks to explore the impact New Horizons had on players during what was the then start of a global pandemic.

Jay Castello // The Verge

🎮 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

⚡️ Quick Links:

• Four years on, could the Switch be about to receive its first actual price drop? A few sources hint at such.
• Another Metroid Dread trailer dropped, I ain't watched it though because: spoilers.
• A new Big Brain Academy game is landing on Switch before Christmas.
• Fancy trying Daemon X Machina? If you're in Europe and an NSO member you can.
• Sociable Soccer, a spiritual successor to Sensible Soccer, is coming to Switch.
• The timed exclusive indie title Bear & Breakfast has been delayed until 2022.
• Game Builder Garage seems like a great family game.
• The new WarioWare features assets from a Luigi's Mansion beta from 2001.
• Ok, I really want this Super Mario 64 LEGO block.

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