February Nintendo Partner Showcase Recap — GeekTyrant

Nintendo not too long ago held their first Nintendo Direct for 2024. It was a 25-minute lengthy Partner Showcase highlighting video games coming to the Nintendo Switch this yr. I do know many are awaiting an even bigger Direct for Nintendo to announce their subsequent {hardware}, however that doesn’t imply there aren’t cool issues coming. There had been a good variety of releases, however I’ll admit that there wasn’t a ton for me. What obtained you essentially the most excited?

I’m excited for Epic Mickey: Rebrushed. I at all times needed to play the unique sport on the Wii, however by no means obtained round to it. This remake options up to date graphics and extra which ought to usher in new followers and veterans alike. I used to be additionally actually excited for the announcement of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection. I’m an enormous fan of the unique Battlefront II sport and so my hype meter shot via the roof with this announcement. Not solely can we get each video games on fashionable platforms, however new maps and even new characters have been added! This is very large! The final sport that I’m excited for is Gundam Breaker 4. I’ve by no means performed a sport on this collection, however I do take pleasure in me some Gundam. I’m slightly nervous that the gameplay shouldn’t be one thing I’ll mesh with, however I nonetheless wish to give it a attempt.

One sport that appeared enjoyable however I don’t suppose I’ll like was Another Crab’s Treasure. I like the thought of a Soulslike sport the place you play as a hermit crab. I don’t know why, however the concept does delight me. Here’s the total listing of video games proven off. Sound off within the feedback for what obtained you essentially the most hyped!

• Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

  • Join Mickey Mouse on a colourful journey as he traverses Wasteland, a world impressed by Disney traditional tales. Play the 2010 traditional together with a wide range of upgrades on this enhanced remake of the action-adventure 3D platformer initially launched on the Wii console. Along with up to date graphics and different enhancements, Mickey Mouse’s skills have been improved with a complete new set of abilities and extra. For followers of the unique and new followers alike prepare for an journey of really “epic” proportions when Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed launches on Nintendo Switch this yr.

• World of Goo 2

  • This sequel to World of Goo contains much more goo! Put your creativeness to the take a look at and use dwelling liquid creatures to construct bridges, develop towers, terraform terrain and gas flying machines. Discover new forms of Goo Balls with distinct skills – together with Explosive, Growing and Shrinking Goo – throughout greater than 64 ranges set in a harmful, physics-based world. Go for the goo when World of Goo 2 launches on Nintendo Switch as a console unique on May 23.

• Grounded

  • Survive, construct and discover on this immersive co-op survival-adventure sport the place you’re the scale of an ant and the place the insect life reacts to your actions. Play solo or with as much as three mates on-line* and uncover the treacherous wonders of your individual yard. Build bases to guard your stuff and craft new instruments, weapons and armor to enhance your probabilities in opposition to hazards of all shapes and (very giant) sizes. Plus, create and share recent adventures in Playgrounds Mode. Grounded launches on Nintendo Switch April 16.

• Penny’s Big Breakaway

  • Join Penny and Yo-Yo in a 3D platforming journey from the workforce that introduced you Sonic Mania. Swing, sprint, flip and trick your means over 11 colourful worlds and 40 ranges. Use tasty treats to quickly rework Yo-Yo, granting it skills to enhance motion pace, defend Penny from hurt and rather more! Evade seize and the Emperor’s infinite penguin military by using a wide range of yo-yo acrobatics and transformations. Plus, exhibit your speedrunning abilities in Time Attack Mode, and redeem cash you’ve collected for bonus objects, phases and unlockable extras. Discover your true star energy in Penny’s Big Breakaway, now obtainable on Nintendo Switch!

• Endless Ocean Luminous

  • Plunge into an unlimited, underwater world that adjustments with every expedition on this new Endless Ocean sport from Nintendo. Explore the depths of the mysterious Veiled Sea by yourself, or dive in with as much as 30 gamers on-line.* There are over 500 totally different species of marine life to come across right here – you could even discover creatures regarded as extinct and even legendary. Where will your undersea journey take you? Endless Ocean Luminous surfaces on Nintendo Switch May 2.

• A “Rare” Quintet Debuts on Nintendo Switch

  • Five video games, all developed by Rare, are being added to the Nintendo Switch Online and Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack* collections … at this time! Nintendo Switch Online members can take pleasure in KILLER INSTINCT and BATTLETOADS IN BATTLEMANIACS as a part of the Super NES – Nintendo Switch Online library, and SNAKE RATTLE N ROLL and R.C. PRO-AM as a part of the NES – Nintendo Switch Online library. Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members can play these titles and Blast Corps, which brings harmful vehicular motion to the Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online library.

• STAR WARS: Battlefront Classic Collection

  • Fight throughout the STAR WARS galaxy on this assortment of large-scale fight classics! Featuring the 2004 STAR WARS Battlefront and its 2005 sequel STAR WARS Battlefront II, every sport options solo campaigns, native multiplayer matches** and large on-line* battles of as much as 64 gamers. Pilot legendary starships and defy the percentages as acquainted characters like Luke Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader. This assortment additionally contains further playable characters akin to Kit Fisto and Asajj Ventress and bonus maps like Jabba’s Palace, Bespin: Cloud City and Yavin 4: Arena. STAR WARS: Battlefront Classic Collection lands on Nintendo Switch March 14. Pre-orders can be found now in Nintendo eShop.

• SOUTH PARK: SNOW DAY!

  • Team up with Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny to save lots of the city on this co-op motion sport. Customize your individual New Kid and battle your means via the snow-piled streets of South Park solo or with as much as three mates in an all-new story. Equip a wide range of weapons and deploy devastating particular skills on an journey to save lots of the world and luxuriate in a day with out college. SOUTH PARK: SNOW DAY! will launch on Nintendo Switch March 26. Pre-orders can be found now in Nintendo eShop.

• Another Crab’s Treasure

  • Become a hermit crab and reclaim your prized shell in an epic treasure hunt throughout a polluted ocean! Wear the trash round you – cans, cardboard and no matter else you discover – as shell-like armor to guard your self in opposition to crabby foes and different threats lurking within the deep. Collect over 60 shells with distinct particular skills to defend your self, and enhance your fight prowess with Adaptations realized from a wide range of ocean creatures. Have a shell of a time when Another Crab’s Treasure washes ashore on Nintendo Switch April 25.

• Contra: Operation Galuga

  • Blast via a reimagining of the traditional motion sport from the ’80s with fashionable graphics, new options and explosive co-op fight! Contra: Operation Galuga launches on Nintendo Switch March 12, and you’ll expertise the extraordinary motion your self with the free demo, obtainable now in Nintendo eShop. Pre-orders additionally start at this time in Nintendo eShop.

• Pepper Grinder

  • This action-packed, dig-venture platformer stars Pepper – a seafaring soul with a ardour for prospecting. Armed together with her trusty sidearm Grinder, Pepper burrows via terrain and water, controls machines and pulverizes enemies as she makes an attempt to get well her lacking fortune! Engage in puzzle platforming, battle bosses, energy up with treasure and uncover hidden ranges. Pepper Grinder spins up on Nintendo Switch March 28. Dig into this colorfully animated world with the free demo now obtainable in Nintendo eShop!

• Suika Game Multi-Player Mode Expansion DLC

  • Make huge fruit … with mates! Suika Game – the fruit-matching informal puzzle sport phenomenon – is receiving a paid DLC season move that provides native two-player battles to the combo, with on-line* multiplayer arriving sooner or later. Enjoy the fruits of your labor within the Original mode together with the brand new Time Limit and Attack modes. Enjoy this candy DLC for Suika Game, now obtainable on Nintendo Switch! New gamers trying to make their very own huge fruit also can buy a bundle that features the sport and its Multi-Player Mode Expansion DLC, obtainable now in Nintendo eShop.

• Pentiment

  • Journey to sixteenth Century Bavaria and face decisions and penalties that may ripple all through a small group for years to come back. Step right into a dwelling illustrated world impressed by the earliest printed books and meet a colourful forged of characters within the small city of Tassing and close by Keirsau Abbey. Each resolution you make alongside the way in which can affect the group’s future for generations. Find your individual means via this turbulent time when Pentiment launches on Nintendo tomorrow.

• Tales of Kenzera: ZAU

  • Embark on a poignant action-adventure sport impressed by the wealthy myths of Bantu cultures. As Zau, you will need to face your individual feelings to turn into a worthy Nganga, or non secular healer, and reclaim your father’s spirit. Wield cosmic powers from the solar and moon and courageous the gorgeous and treacherous lands of Kenzera alongside the God of Death. Tales of Kenzera: ZAU launches on Nintendo Switch April 23. Pre-order at this time for a ten% low cost and particular perks.

• ENDER MAGNOLIA

  • Bloom within the mist: Explore an interconnected map filled with secrets and techniques and intrigue on this sequel to ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights. Action, journey and a story of destruction and renewal unfurl earlier than Lilac and their companions. Defeat bosses, purchase new abilities, flip enemies into useful familiars and deepen bonds along with your companions alongside the way in which. What mysteries await on this mystical land, thought to be the supply of all magic? ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom within the mist blossoms on Nintendo Switch this yr.

• Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble

  • AiAi and mates are again within the latest journey within the Super Monkey Ball collection! Customize your character from over 300 choices, roll out throughout greater than 200 phases, launch previous rivals with the brand new Spin Dash transfer, play with mates in an all-new co-op Adventure Mode, and for the primary time in collection historical past 16 gamers can tilt their strategy to victory on-line.* Let the Rumble Begin! Aim to be Top Banana when Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble launches completely on Nintendo Switch June 25. Pre-orders can be found now in Nintendo eShop.

• Monster Hunter Stories

  • Become a Monster Rider and befriend numerous monsters from the Monster Hunter collection on this enhanced model of the unique RPG epic! Originally launched in 2017 for the Nintendo 3DS system, Monster Hunter Stories for Nintendo Switch options HD visuals, new voice overs, a museum mode stuffed with artwork and music from the sport and extra content material that was beforehand solely obtainable in Japan. Monster Hunter Stories rides onto Nintendo Switch this summer time.

• Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!

  • The hit solitaire horse racing sport is galloping its means onto Nintendo Switch! Reach the end line by enjoying solitaire and put collectively the most effective playing cards you’ll be able to to assist your horses take house the gold. Win huge, and also you’ll have new horses so as to add to your steady. Featuring new guidelines that enable for extra strategic play, comfy Joy-Con controls and racing segments reborn in 3D. Compete on-line*, play at your individual tempo or simply breed and acquire cute horses. No matter the way you play, a great time is within the playing cards. The full Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! sport and a playable demo is now obtainable on Nintendo Switch!

• Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

  • Forge your path via a post-apocalyptic world on this definitive model of Shin Megami Tensei V. Two full story paths await, together with a brand-new storyline with new areas and demons, and the place your decisions will decide the destiny of all existence. Navigate conflicting and tragic ethical selections and confront a dramatic story of revenge or discover the unique Shin Megami Tensei V saga. Which path will you select? Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance launches on Nintendo Switch June 21.

• Arranger

  • A Role-Puzzling Adventure: Follow Jemma, a small-town misfit on a journey of self-discovery, on this puzzle-packed journey sport. When Jemma strikes, the world round her strikes too – creating each a playful sense of chaos and a daily stream of small, considerate puzzles so that you can remedy. Customize your expertise with varied help choices and get absorbed within the story via an expressive artwork type with comic-panel story scenes. Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure launches on Nintendo Switch this summer time.

• Unicorn Overlord

  • Regain your throne alongside reliable allies on this tactical fantasy RPG from Vanillaware. Cultivate a military of over 60 characters – together with people, elves, large beasts and heavenly angels – and traverse a vibrant world within the iconic Vanillaware type as you carry out heroic deeds all through the 5 nations. Unicorn Overlord launches on Nintendo Switch March 8. Try the free demo obtainable now, and carry over your progress to the total sport if you buy it.

• GUNDAM BREAKER 4

  • Create your final Gundam and deploy it throughout a wide range of fight missions. Defeat your enemies, purchase their elements and equip new skills. Then combine and match elements from over 250 base kits to personalize your individual Gunpla with the largest number of cellular fits and elements of any Gundam Breaker sport up to now. Plus, you’ll be able to acquire, pose and show your creations in Diorama Mode. Express your type and prepare to sortie! Break, construct and battle when GUNDAM BREAKER 4 launches on Nintendo Switch this yr.

• FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time

  • A brand new chapter of the FANTASY LIFE collection is about to unfold! Change between 14 totally different roles known as Lives everytime you like, and discover a brand new island filled with mysteries. Build your individual city within the current and journey into the previous. Meet returning characters and uncover the ruined island’s secrets and techniques. Plus, as much as 4 gamers can play collectively on-line.* FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time launches on Nintendo Switch Oct. 10.

• SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured Daydream

  • Enter a distorted model of the SWORD ART ONLINE world that exists past reminiscences, time and house on this motion sport that options solo play and on-line* co-op. Pick your function within the type of your favourite SWORD ART ONLINE characters and workforce up in 20-player raids to defeat highly effective enemies. Customize your favourite character, quest with mates and problem high-level raids! SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured Daydream launches on Nintendo Switch this yr.

• Kingdom Come Deliverance – Royal Edition

  • The acclaimed historic motion RPG involves the Nintendo Switch system. Play as Henry and expertise an open world stuffed with difficult fight, majestic castles and luxurious forests. Improve your abilities, earn perks, forge your tools and remedy challenges in a wide range of methods – with stealth, melee fight, persuasion, coercion and extra. Face the results of your decisions as your selections form the world round you. Featuring the total Kingdom Come Deliverance sport and all its DLC, Kingdom Come Deliverance – Royal Edition expenses onto Nintendo Switch March 15. Pre-orders can be found now in Nintendo eShop.

• Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

  • Restore concord to Moominvalley on this story-rich musical journey that captures the essence of the Moomin tales. A collection of hideous parks have cropped up, disrupting the panorama and its harmonious nature. As Snufkin you’ll pull out indicators and knock over misplaced statues as you vigorously attempt to restore nature and the inhabitants’ house whereas placing an finish to the industrious Park Keeper’s plans. Experience a symphony with each footfall, elevated by music and melodies from the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, and wander Moominvalley along with your coronary heart open when Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley launches on Nintendo Switch March 7. Pre-order at this time to obtain the beauty Cherished Keepsakes DLC.

• Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board!

  • Experience the world of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba via a board sport! Select a well-known character and roll the cube to advance your journey round boards that characteristic iconic landmarks from the anime. Each board has a daytime and nighttime interval. Play a wide range of occasions and minigames throughout the day to organize for the night time. Then, as soon as the solar units, the hunt for demons begins! Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board! slices its strategy to Nintendo Switch April 26.