Nintendo Switch Game News and Releases.

08-03-2022 11:23pm

Interesting platform challenge game out tomorrow with some simple but intersesting AI-related elements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yik6vD3EaUc

Tom Mann Centuria · 09-03-2022 1:21am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118754407#Comment_118754407

When it says 4 to 6 hours in the trailer I think that'd be how long it would take for me to clear the first level. Wouldn't have a prayer in these kind of games. I'm so far from being good at them they're not the slightest bit fun. I'd say my middle lad would have a blast with it though.

09-03-2022 3:13am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118754929#Comment_118754929

Definitely not one for everyone as he says

there are difficulty modes but yes - not sure if it's for me either tbh

do find the annoying heckling bastard angle interesting although it could equally get very annoying very quickly.

Mr E · 09-03-2022 7:56am

I like the look of it. 😊

I'll wishlist it anyway.

09-03-2022 3:08pm

Nintendo delaying the release of Advance Wars.

https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/1501558646320377860

UberPrinny_Baal · 09-03-2022 4:08pm

Damn, we have to wait until human suffering and death is fun again

This happened with the original Advance Wars and 9/11

mrcheez · 09-03-2022 4:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118757721#Comment_118757721

notable that the Eritrea conflict + refugee crisis wasn't enough to prevent the launch

UberPrinny_Baal · 09-03-2022 4:47pm

I mean, there's death and human suffering pretty much permanently in the modern world, isn't there?

Call of Duty still releases like clockwork, and all our action movies are shooty shooty bang bangs

While the thought is "appreciated", I think only people on Twitter would have been upset about Advance Wars, the most upbeat and happy of war simulators being released.

The only way delaying it will have a positive outcome is if Putin already had a pre-order and he calls this whole thing off so he can play as Andy and do hyper repair.

It does raise the interesting question of when the amount of human suffering is back to being low enough that Advance Wars is cool again.

I wonder who's the guy and what's the metric for deciding that one.

sligeach · 10-03-2022 12:57am

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Announcement Trailer

https://youtube.com/watch?v=R-78FD9xvc0

Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo are back from the sewers with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection! In collaboration with Nickelodeon, thirteen radical games from KONAMI’s entire archive of retro 8-bit, 16-bit, and arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) titles and their Japanese versions* will be coming to PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series XǀS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC Steam. Physical retail and digital versions will be available in 2022 at SRP $39.99.

This incredible collection of thirteen original classics gives chasing down Shredder, fighting the Foot, and tangling-up with Bebop and Rocksteady a fresh look at why KONAMI’s adaptations of the heroes in a half shell set the standard in beat ‘em up, action games. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection includes:

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (Super Nintendo)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan (Game Boy)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers (Game Boy)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (Game Boy)

KONAMI partnered with game developer Digital Eclipse to expertly adapt these classics for modern gaming systems with a fantastic set of quality-of-life features including save anytime and rewind, button mapping, and added online play for certain games** with local couch play for all titles where originally intended. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will also come with a digital game guide for each title to help players fight and sometimes swim through difficult areas.

The games are based on the characters and themes of the 80’s children’s cartoon and comic book series, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles often taking place in a fictionalized New York City, around the sewers, inside futuristic enemy bases and even across time itself! In collaboration with Nickelodeon, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will also include loads of extras using imagery from the original cartoons, comics and other historic TMNT media content in a compiled Museum connecting the franchise across the various mediums. Additionally, never-before-seen development art, sketches and game design material will also be included.

*11 Japanese regional versions total -No Japanese versions released for TMNT (Arcade) and TMNT: Tournament Fighters (NES) **Titles with online functionality -TMNT (Arcade), TMNT: Turtles in Time (Arcade), TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist, TMNT Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo)

I've no time for Konami, but this looks sweet and the nostalgia for some of these games is strong. I'm a bit surprised they got the licenses to re-release all of these.

UberPrinny_Baal · 10-03-2022 10:27am

Holy crap that's awesome

CiDeRmAn · 10-03-2022 10:31am

Fair enough, any title that might the point that "war has never been so much fun" should probably be delayed, especially if they are marketed to a younger cohort

CiDeRmAn · 10-03-2022 10:34am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118760530#Comment_118760530

Oh, that sounds fantastic.

I'm not a major fan of the genre, but I do own a japanese copy of Turtle in Time for my Super Nintendo, definitely going to get this in physical.

pixelburp · 10-03-2022 10:45am

Insert obligatory, "Konami make video games???" snark 🤓

That's some serious package though, pretty impressive. Hopefully the performance and stability is OK (and the older games survive nostalgia)

UberPrinny_Baal · 10-03-2022 10:53am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118761390#Comment_118761390

I can tell you that as a kid my friends and I had a ton of fun playing TMNT fighter on the Megadrive

I can also tell you as an adult very into fighting games that Modern FG players figured out in that game Casey Jones tatsu (spinning move) is like 99% invincibility frames, is totally unbeatable and in no way should have made it into the final release of a game 😂

It's funny seeing old stuff taken apart by modern knowledge

The Nal · 10-03-2022 10:53am

40 dollars? FFS Nintendo.

I have most of them on ROMs. Grand to play for a couple of minutes before you realise theyre a bit sh1t and dated. Like a Streets of Rage parody.

UberPrinny_Baal · 10-03-2022 11:02am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118761432#Comment_118761432

My excitement is rooted in the fact that we're both getting the Streets of Rage like games, or side scrolling beat em ups, or "conveyor belt" fighters

And the actual Street Fighter 2 esque fighting games. Good retrospective on the latter here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFn9uVwdle8

The Nal · 10-03-2022 11:41am

Charginf 40 quid for 30 year old games is peak hype insanity.

Tom Mann Centuria · 10-03-2022 12:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118761432#Comment_118761432

In what way is Nintendo to blame for this price? I don't quite follow why it's their fault in this case.

Fysh · 10-03-2022 12:08pm

Ach, it's $40 for a collection of 13 games presented in a wrapper to make them playable on modern hardware with minimal faff. For folks who're into the games that's about $3 a go. Which is better pricing than we were getting on the Wii shop for old games. Plus, for those who are particularly interested, the Japanese versions are also included.

If it's not for you, that's fine. But I'd argue that this is one of the more reasonable collections of old games as things go - and the fact that the Konami of 2022 is putting it out is quite the surprise.

I mean, I'm not buying it either - nostalgia doesn't hold up for me for most collections of older games like this, and mainly what I still recall fondly of this series is the soundtrack. But I'm glad it exists for folk who do want it :)

CastorTroy · 10-03-2022 12:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118761309#Comment_118761309

Cannon Fodder is coming? 😃

mrcheez · 10-03-2022 12:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118761663#Comment_118761663

They need to start the price high so when they drop it to the "real price" of 60% off during sales it will fly off the virtual shelves

You should never buy these at launch imho

CiDeRmAn · 10-03-2022 2:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118761977#Comment_118761977

We can but hope, and recall that this was a game that came out to tremendous review scores and lots of criticism from the British press.

Now I want to play Cannon Fodder... I have it on the Megadrive, Snes and I think the Jaguar...

10-03-2022 5:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118762653#Comment_118762653

Cannon fodder with a mouse on the Amiga was the OG experience tbh

pixelburp · 10-03-2022 5:08pm

A moment of silence please for Jools and Jops.

Ahhh, the hours I ~~wasted~~ spent, back in the day, trying to keep my first few boys alive.

coffee to go · 10-03-2022 5:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118763688#Comment_118763688

Preach! I can’t see how playing Cannon Fodder with a joypad would be any craic.

That said, as an Amiga kid who only made the console transition later in life, I must now admit that holding up on the joystick for most platformers instead of having jump buttons was a traumatic experience.

CiDeRmAn · 10-03-2022 5:53pm

I played it on a host of systems, but never had an Amiga, back in the day.

I had it for my PC, back in the mid-90's, so was able to have mouse-controlled military madness as it should be.

The Nal · 10-03-2022 5:56pm

I love mouse games. Lemmings is still an absolute masterpiece.

17-03-2022 8:34pm

Mario Kart 8 DX Booster pack 1 (2 cups or 8 tracks) is downloadable. Not playable yet, think it unlocks around 23:00 or midnight Irish time.

Ol' Donie · 18-03-2022 1:21am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118799148#Comment_118799148

I've just played the first new cup.

I know they're mostly old tracks, but do they seem sort of...empty? I mean the stuff around the track, there seems to be noticably fewer characters watching the race and less going on than on the original MK8 tracks, which were all beautiful.

Is it just me?

Len_007 · 18-03-2022 1:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118800279#Comment_118800279

I think there's a degree of truth to that. In the fly by (with different angles of the track) at the start of the race I noticed some seriously low poly toad's and Yoshi's, thankfully on when on the starting grid they looked back to normal.

I felt the Ninja track (is it the only brand new one?) had the best design ideas, while the others were very average.

Looks like they've ditched the Anti Grav aspect too. Still, hard to complain for the value that it offers with that price point.

griffdaddy · 18-03-2022 1:46pm

I really enjoyed the new additions. The ninja track in particular is great, definitely loads of shortcuts to discover there. Pretty sure it's new, doesn't have a console next to it in the name so I'm presuming so

CastorTroy · 18-03-2022 6:55pm

Not sure how it'll play, but seems Hogwarts Legacy is coming to Switch.

18-03-2022 7:06pm

Ninja Hideaway is from Tour but strangely doesn’t have the “Tour” tag.

I’ve never played Tour, and the GBA and DS courses are so far removed from memory, they feel like net new courses.

Overall a great start to the Booster Packs imo.

18-03-2022 7:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118801569#Comment_118801569

Only a small few retro courses got anti-grav in the past so it’s not unusual.

18-03-2022 9:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118801569#Comment_118801569

It's from the android and ios freemium-model mobile game, as are the Tokyo Blur track and Paris Promenade.

Nintendo are the master recyclers!

The Golden Dash Cup is set to see the return of Paris Promenade from Mario Kart Tour, Toad Circuit from Mario Kart 3DS, Choco Mountain from Mario Kart 64, and Coconut Hall from Mario Kart Wii.

Meanwhile the Lucky Cat Cup will see Tokyo Blur from Mario Kart Tour, Shroom Ridge from Mario Kart DS, Sky Garden from Mario Kart Advance, and Ninja Hideaway from Mario Kart Tour.

sligeach · 22-03-2022 3:52am

OMG! Switch Gets FOLDERS! Nintendo Switch Version 14.0.0 Update TOUR! (GROUPS, BABY!)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=W6sTCMSu7DI

At looooooooong laaaaaaaaast!

Mr E · 22-03-2022 10:17am

It's a bit clunky, but it's good!

mrcheez · 22-03-2022 11:33am

Holy crap my ears exploded.. even hurting my ears at min volume 😅

Exclamation Marc · 22-03-2022 2:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118817217#Comment_118817217

It's not on the Home screen though (unless I'm missing something) which is a bit disappointing.

CiDeRmAn · 22-03-2022 2:55pm

The folders are handy, I just slotted my Shmups into one of them... turns out I have an awful lot of Shmups in my collection...

Mr E · 22-03-2022 4:00pm

Imp of the Sun is out on Thursday. Looks lovely! I'll be watching for reviews with interest.

https://youtu.be/UzguSX9A2ek

22-03-2022 9:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118819392#Comment_118819392

Oh that looks pretty. It’s coming to Xbox too so might see if it shadow drops on Gamepass like Tunic.

sligeach · 23-03-2022 1:54pm

Kirby and the Forgotten Land has an average score of 85% thus far from 56 reviews on Metacritic.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land/critic-reviews

23-03-2022 7:49pm

Kirby's graphical design looks amazing.

Seems to be more of an "experience" game as there is apparently no challenge.

But sometimes that's a plus.

Fantana2 · 23-03-2022 10:12pm

Have played them demo with my son. It’s not hard at all but it’s good fun. Will probably get it.

brady12 · 24-03-2022 12:15am

nintendo have really won me over with two demos this week. I hadn't a clue about kirby tried demo on whim and thought it was awesome . googled reviews of older games and they were pretty average . i said maybe they put the best of the game in the demo but obviously not by the reviews ! this game wasn't on my radar but i will probably buy it now . also triangle strategy demo has me totally sucked in too !

UberPrinny_Baal · 24-03-2022 10:22am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118825503#Comment_118825503

Kirby games have always been way too easy and very underrated music compared to his Nintendo peers of Mario and Zelda.

I guess it makes sense that a platformer series where you have infinite jumps isn't going to be very hard.

I think the Kirby Epic Yarn games on Wii literally didn't let you die? You just got a lower stage score for getting hit I think.

I think it's okay if you go in with the expectation they're not going to challenge your Gamer prowess.

I LOVED Kirby Squeak Squad/Mouse Attack on the DS, so I had to set myself challenges like beating various modes with only one hat and never switching (even when the game really wants you to). That was some nice "fake" difficulty, because certain sections are designed to be done with specific powers, and if you refuse you have a hard time.

The boss rush was especially challenging with this limitation, as if you get hit enough the hat flies off, and you only have limited time to reclaim it. Losing the hat for me was a "failure" state, and keeping only one power for the whole was a fun challenge.

CiDeRmAn · 24-03-2022 6:53pm

Tempest 4000 is out on the Switch!

Just picked it up for €17.99

And it is amazing

29-03-2022 3:07pm

Nooooooo :(

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1508806409797963784?s=20

mrcheez · 29-03-2022 3:11pm

hey at least he bowed in shame so all can be forgiven

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