Switch Weekly - Your Nintendo Update

REVIEW Loop Hero — "if you’re ready to just poke at a rock solid concept until it cracks and bends to your will, Loop Hero is amazing". Here's another glowing review from Alex Harding at Switchaboo.

Neal Ronaghan // Nintendo World Report

Masayuki Uemura, the designer of the NES and SNES, has died age 78 — I had the pleasure of seeing Uemura give a talk last year (just before the pandemic really hit), touching upon his R&D impact at Nintendo.

Chris Scullion // VGC

Nintendo loses court case over eShop pre-order restrictions — Good.

Tom Phillips // Eurogamer

Banjo-Kazooie is coming to Nintendo Switch Online in January 2022
Tom Ivan // VGC

Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon is the Switch puzzle game I’ve been craving — Some glowing early impressions on this spin-off puzzler — it's out next week and looks to be a rather ingenious mix of traditional puzzler gameplay and dungeon crawling.

Giovanni Colantonio // Digital Trends

REVIEW Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX — "polishes and modernizes two classic RPGs that are somehow more fun and engaging now than they were 20-odd years ago".

Cory Tischbein // RPG Fan

REVIEW Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space  — "an exceptional throwback to the glory days of Telltale Games".

Sam Williams // Vooks

The 50 best video games of 2021 — I quite like a round-up article looking back over the year that was, and this is just that. Not Nintendo only, but plenty of Switch game highlights in here.

Polygon

Playing videogames carefully —Edwin asks what if care, rather than skill, was at the heart of the culture of playing videogames? Note, this isn't particularly Nintendo focused, and I'll also add — content warning on this one for mention of terminal illness. 

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell // Eurogamer

Dr. Mario or: How I learned to love video games again and accidentally made one — Filmmaker Albert Birney on how the video game of his 8-bit web series Tux and Fanny serendipitously came into existence.

Albert Birney // Talkhouse

How one small company is making the Switch Joy-Con you always dreamed of

Damien McFerran // Nintendo Life

🎮 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:

• Nintendo is busy building new development offices in Kyoto.
• Another Persona game is heading to Switch in March, but it's a fighting spin-off.
• This Luigi's Mansion statue is rather lovely. #AD
• Metroid Dread won Best Action/Adventure at The Game Awards.
• The eShop has a new feature showing which games are most played.
• Sakurai has 'no plans' for a Smash sequel right now, and don't assume it will come.
• Lovely trailer here for the Cuphead DLC, arriving in June next year.
• That hacker named Bowser has agreed to pay Nintendo ten million to settle.
• A lot of folks have downloaded Pokemon Unite.

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