Switch Weekly - Your Nintendo Update

Hey, Chris here with issue #259 of Switch Weekly, and this week's Nintendo round-up. Hope you're doing well. 

It seems things are notably quieter now as we approach the holiday period. All the big releases for the year are behind us, so it's time to start looking ahead to 2022 — what are you looking forward to most next year? 

Next week sees around 30 games released including a new Big Brain Academy (a good holiday game no doubt), along with a ton of Danganronpa (not something I'm overly familar with). The full list is below for you.

In non-Nintendo news, a few days back I decided to pick up an Xbox Series S after giving the new Halo a try. I sunk countless hours into Halo 2 and 3, so if anything was going to get me to pull the trigger a new Halo was it. It's been a joy to check out Game Pass — always interesting to gain a bit of exposure to other ways of doing business. Microsoft have got an appealing offer here. 

Anyway, that's all from me.

Thanks for reading. Catch you next week,  
Chris ✌️

Monday, November 29

• 9-Ball Pocket — American billiards for up to four players.

Tuesday, November 30

• 📦 Beyond a Steel Sky — 3D adventure cyberpunk thriller, set in AI-driven future. (Dec 07 in U.S.)
• Clockwork Aquario — 'Long lost classic' arcade side-scrolling action restored for consoles.
• ⭐️ Mind Scanners — A retro-futuristic psychiatry simulation in which you diagnose the citizens of a dystopian metropolis. Looks like Papers Please for the mind. I dig the artstyle. M for mature.
• Tank De La Muerta — Adventure game featuring a zombie in search of love.

Thursday, December 2

• Archvale — Bullet hell RPG in a world filled with dark lore.
• ⭐️ Asterix & Obelix: Slap them All —  2D horizontal beat 'em up, an excellent hand-drawn look.
• Castle on the Coast — An arcade 3D parkour collectathon with a giraffe. Yup.
• 📦 Dairoku: Agents of Sakuratani — Meet 'part gatekeeper, part travel guide' in this visual novel.
• Football Battle — Soccer sports party game for four.
• Ghost Sync — Traditional RPG involving a magical lady and a spirit of a man possessing a dog.
• Jigsaw Fun: Wonderful Nature — 100 puzzles to solve.
• Miracle Snack Shop — Visual novel/dating sim. M for mature.
• Monobot — A rather moody looking 2D physics-based sci-fi action puzzle platformer.
• My Universe - Doctors & Nurses — Straightforward 3D sim.
• Pretty Girls Mahjong Solitaire - Blue — Tile matching that's M for mature. Also in Green.
• The Kids We Were — Award-winning voxel cinematic adventure with a heavy focus on narrative. Set in the late 1980s Japan.
• World Quiz — Over 5,000 questions on world knowledge.

Friday, December 3

• 6Souls — 2D action platformer with over 80 levels.
• ⭐️📦🎮 Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain — Mental agility for four players, from Nintendo.
• Construction Site Driver — Drive ten different vehicles in this construction sim.
• 📦 Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition — Visual novel murder mystery adventure from 2010. More below.
• 📦 Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Anniversary Edition — The popular high school 'killing game' adventure comes to Switch, one of many in the series coming this week. M for mature.
• 📦 Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Anniversary Edition — 2017 visual novel. M for mature.
• 📦 Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp — As above but with a board game slant.
• Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders — 2D point and click detective game set in ancient China.
• Disney Magical World 2: Enchanted Edition — Build your own Disney in this sim.
• Paradise Lost — An alternative WWII mystery adventure. M for mature.
• Unreal Life — Compare memories in this 2D puzzle adventure. (Already available in U.S.)
• Word Forward — Lexical puzzle game played on a 5x5 grid.