Matt Gosper
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If you’d listed every possible game and franchise that Nintendo could revive in the year 2025 for the Switch 2, there are dozens of options I would’ve guessed before ever getting to, “Masahiro Sakurai is bringing back Kirby Air Ride.” Clearly, that’s why I’m not one of the visionaries working on the console, because that’s exactly what’s happened.
Back in 2019, Obsidian Entertainment did the unthinkable and gave us The Outer Worlds, a brand-new, narrative-driven RPG among the stars – a realisation of the “Fallout in space” dreams that have circled on message boards for over a decade. Set in a galaxy driven by capitalism and greed, you took an the role of a stranger in a colony beset by corporatist ideals that had become second nature to its people.
In recent years, the Persona series has grown dramatically in popularity, shifting from an underappreciated gem to a globally recognised powerhouse – largely thanks to the runaway success of Persona 5. While P5 has been released on almost every modern gaming system across the vanilla release and the later Persona 5 Royal expanded edition, its predecessors have been less prolific until their recent Switch release; Persona 4 arrived in 2008 on PS2 followed by its Golden update on Vita in 2013...
While it is a proudly Japanese-developed franchise, Silent Hill games have never really focused on Japan itself. Primarily set in the fictional town of Silent Hill in USA’s state of Maine, previous entries in the series have focused on buried secrets, hidden shames, and shocking truths. While the town of Silent Hill and its underground coal fire is iconic, Konami has chosen to turn the lens inward for Silent Hill f.
When the Switch 2 was finally announced, there was plenty of debate over what games we might see in its first year. With how many times and ways the recent Donkey Kong Country Returns games have been released, I certainly wasn’t expecting Donkey Kong Bananza as one of the first titles to arrive on the console.
Atlus is a Japanese studio that is practically bursting at the seams with RPGs, and their lineages are all interwoven. Branching out from the core Megami Tensei series – games like 2024’s Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance – are subseries like the well-known Persona franchise, as well as more underground hits like Devil Survivor or Devil Summoner.
Announced less than a year ago, Clair Obscur Expedition 33 is the ambitious debut title from French studio Sandfall Interactive. Expedition 33 tells a high-concept fantasy story: in a world similar to our own, things were torn apart 67 years ago in an event called the Fracture. Physics lost meaning, the city of Paris — known here as Lumiere — was ripped out of the world and flung into the distant ocean, and deadly monsters called Nevrons sprung up worldwide.
Right off the bat, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii makes its premise as clear as the name of the game does. You’re Goro Majima, the Mad Dog of Shimano… but through the wonders of retrograde amnesia, he’s a fresh slate who’s ready to pivot to a more nautical adventure. After washing ashore from a shipwreck, our eyepatch-wearing amnesiac is rescued by a young boy named Noah and becomes embroiled in the island’s local pirate issues.
In the lead-up to the reveal of the Switch 2 (or Super Switch, or whatever your personal conspiracy theory titles it), Nintendo players have been eating WELL in 2024. From Unicorn Overlord to Shin Megami Tensei V to Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom and 1000xRESIST, it’s been a year of bangers for the little hybrid console that could. But we’re not done yet – with the end of 2024 in sight, Nintendo isn’t slowing down at all. This week marks the first release in the Mario & Luigi serie...
It’s been a long time coming, but finally a Legend of Zelda game is a legend ABOUT Zelda. Long-standing jokes about the name of the franchise aside, Link has always been the star of the show, and the “legend” about Zelda was mostly that she needed help getting out of various bad situations. Not so in The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, though – this time it’s Link who’s been lost in the line of duty, and the spotlight shifts solely to the Princess of Hyrule to save the day.