SIxty minutes – how long Nintendo took on Wednesday afternoon to remind you that no other video game manufacturer created such joy. Nintendo was a live broadcast: A deep diving to the new console After many speculation. Of course, the Switch 2 is the company’s first real hardware sequel-Radical new Kit part of its predecessor updated and Spreed-up version. However, the updates are interesting.
Naturally, we get a larger screen (7.9 inches, for sure) displayed at 1080p at full HD; But at the same time, we all get the Joy-Con inspections that click on the console through strong magnets rather than the fiddly slides that we all put in the wrong way. The buttons are also larger, so adults will be able to play Mario Card with a little skill. However, the main new feature for auditors is a new Rollerball that allows each to work as a mouse. This will allow new dot and click features and some interesting control options. I love showing this with a wheelchair basketball game, where you shifted a long surface to mimic the controllers by pushing the wheels.
The new Mario Card Game Mario Card World looks pretty nice. Perhaps inspired the likes of Forza Horizon and Test Drive Unlimited, offers an open world to walk around, and there will be circuit races, as well as the durability competitions you put on one side of the map. According to the trailer shown during the publication, 24 drivers in each race can be the most in the history of the series. There is even a free Roam mode that allows you to explore wherever you want and get natural drivers with your friends.
“Friends” was definitely the contact of the flow. A new C button in Joy-Con opens the Gamechat facility that allows you to start a group debate with your friends and family with a Switch 2 console; If you buy the Switch 2 camera, there is even a video chat option. Like a kind of sugar color version of Zoom, your friends appear along the base of the screen while playing a game, and even if you play different things, you can all chat. Many of the trailers shown during the presentation showed that your friends’ video images will be included in the game. This is Nintendo always makes the best: embarrassing yourself and/or finding new ways to confuse and satisfy elderly relatives.
Was this a knockout victory for Nintendo? Well, a share Game announcements, but we didn’t get a big new 3D Mario adventure – but they sometimes come a little after the launch. In addition, fans are already holding about game prices. The machine is released with an acceptable £ 395.99 (or £ 429.99 with Mario Kart World), while Mario Kart World seems to make retail sales for £ 75. Too much, but then Mario Card 8 lasted throughout the entire life of the key, and most of them took hundreds of hours of entertainment.
The pre -order process opened on April 8 will be interesting. Scalpers turned the launch of Xbox series X and PS5 into an ugly and expensive drama with Sony’s Machine To be sold at $ 2,000 Thanks to limited usability at some point.
Nintendo is good in joy and this looks like a really beautiful machine. However, in a cheerful economic climate, fans (and parents) will closely follow the pre -order and sales figures very closely for the next few weeks.
What should he play
Since I played the Classical Law of the West for Commodore 64, I’ve been a sucker for western Adventure games, so it’s nice to see a new player in the city. Rose water It is a Steam Punk infusion dot and click imitator who follows the journalist Harley Leger, who came to the town of meticulous border for a job in the local newspaper, but involved in a treasury hunt.
Created by Grundislav Games, the studio’s 2018 title is a spiritual successor of Lamplight City, but you can only come fresh. It is full of interesting characters and challenging cerebral challenges, and the crisp pixel art is the Treatment of Rootin ‘Tootin’. I am sad.
Available at the following address: PC, Mac
Estimated game time: 15-20 hours
What should he read
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Maybe Nintendo Switch 2 News is timed with Polygon to coincide There is a piece About Playing the Legend of Zelda: Wii UIt was the platform intended for the machine before the switch finished. Many people have actually forgotten that they got a WII-U version and … Okay? Still an interesting reading.
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New Industry Site Games Work There is an interview Head with Alain Tascan Netflix Games. Wii -style family sees the TV games as the future for the platform: orum For party games, I believe that we can have fun instantly, I believe that we can use the phone as a very innovative controller. You have a gyroscope, you have a microphone, you have a speaker, you have a touch screen… If you give it to creative people, what are you doing? Unfortunately, despite some bright games, this initiative is perhaps Netflix.
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I am very pleased to see Christian Donlan as a fan of strange horror games in the mid -1990s WRITING FOR EUROGAMER About Harlan Ellison’s Twisted Terror Adventure, I You don’t have a mouth and I have to scream. The narrative, which was tortured by AI-overlords, could not be more timely in time.
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Question block
I continued this week Bluesky Asking questions and this concise inquiry game back Rainer Sigl:
“Where is the game counterculture? Is there? “
My equally concise response: complex. Depends on how we interpret the term.
The copy of the Short Oxford English Dictionary describes the counter -culture as follows: “A lifestyle against what is often considered normal.” This can adopt almost all independent game development, but we can be more specific.
Perhaps Bennett Foddy’s hyper-fruit games are cultured because they are not intuitive to deliberately control. Or maybe Flatgame StageDevelopers are cultural, because developers create simple plays intentionally, because video games need the latest visuals and the ideas that need a strong challenge component.
Maybe Robert Yang’s games It is cultural against abundant like contemporary and Beat Me because they challenge the heteronormative orthodoxy of the mainstream industry. As in this regard, I postpone to Anna Antopy, the developer and writer who has a bright book. Zinesters video game A global video game, which has been happy for years, makes a compelling and detailed situation for the existence of the opposite culture.
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