The team behind Anima Flux has announced plans to release the game on Switch. Right now it’s on track to launch in Q4 2024.
Anima Flux, a co-op Metroidvania game, features a pair of genetically enhanced soldiers who’ll need to fight through swarms of mutants in a desolate, dystopian space city and save humanity’s last stronghold. More information can be found in the following overview:
“My first memory is of a toy… at least, I think it is.” Those are among the first words uttered in Dome-King Cabbage, a surreal visual novel that has a wholly unique sense of style unlike anything else in the genre. Created by solo developer Joe Buchholz (also known as Cobysoft Joe), Dome-King Cabbage feels like the type of strange, psychedelic project that could only come from the indie scene, and has quickly become one of my most anticipated indies.
Skul: The Hero Slayer has surpassed two million copies in sales, Neowiz and Southpaw Games announced today. That milestone is based on the performance from all platforms combined worldwide.
Skul: The Hero Slayer first made its way to Switch in October 21. Read more about the game below.
It’s time for the newest North American Nintendo Download report for the week of December 28, 2023. The latest releases include Chico and the Magic Orchards DX and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
Linkito, an upcoming puzzle game from Kalinarm, is currently in development for Switch. We’ll be seeing it on the console at some point, but there’s no word on any sort of release window currently.
Linkito involves connecting blocks, though there’s more to it than just that. The game will ship with a level editor and the ability to connect to other platforms like Twitch.
To close out 2023, Nintendo has provided a look at the 30 most-downloaded games on the Japanese Switch eShop.
Suika Game, which became a worldwide hit this year, topped the chart. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was arguably Nintendo’s biggest release of the year and follows right behind. Pikmin 4, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince round out the top five.
Below are the full results:
To celebrate the start of 2024, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems are gearing up for a new Ring In the Year summoning event for Fire Emblem Heroes.
Special Heroes who are enjoying New Year’s festivities wearing kimonos will be featured. Nerþuz: New-Year Doter, Kvasir: Unknown Future, Kana: Rising Dragon, and Seiðr: Time’s Goddesses make up the lineup.
Selini was previously funded on Kickstarter, and during the funding period, a Switch version was also secured. Developer Cymban ultimately raised a little over €20,000.
As stated officially, Selini is described as “a nonlinear exploration platformer touching on the relationship between human and artificial intelligence in a non-verbal fashion.” The game promises exploration, combat with boss battles, ability upgrades, and puzzles. Players will also revive abandoned machinery and use it as a transportation to interconnect the world.
System: Switch
Release date: December 1, 2023
Developer: Square Enix / Tose
Publisher: Square Enix
There has been a resurgence of great turn-based RPGs over the last decade – the Switch itself becoming somewhat of a bastion for fans of long stories and level grinding, with no shortage of adventures to unwind with as the system moves ever onward in its lifespan. Monster taming games have been around for quite some time, emerging in 1987 with Megami Tensei, a mature-themed romp through a world of demons and pacts, but soon joined by more lighthearted franchises like Dragon Quest V’s monster recruiting mechanic, Pokemon’s Game Boy games launching to huge success, and the lesser known series Monster Rancher’s disc-related gimmick spurring many monster-taming fans to action placing every CD they could get their hands on into their PlayStation in order to spawn a new and potentially powerful creature. Dragon Quest Monsters’ titles play more like your classic castles and dragons adventure, just with a team you raise and strengthen a little differently than you might if you were playing something like Final Fantasy. The series now returns with Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, and players will get to see another side to a mainline game’s most evil villain character while simultaneously becoming a very powerful monster wrangler.
