GoNNER (Switch eShop)

This game looks awesome. ACG has a great interview with the publisher. NSFW https://youtu.be/pTt0NqdsfU0

I was really looking forward to this game - for quite a while since I couldn't wait to see what my first platformer experience on Switch would be like. But GoNNER has been a surprising letdown. You're not told anything about the controls - you're not really given any reasoning behind your own actions (save for a few pictures and very limited explanatory text), what you're facing or even why Death is your supposed ally. The narrative as a result is incredibly weak and barebones, when something like, "help the whale sail the cosmos again" would have been a couple notches up. The combat and controls are... okay. You're mostly just holding the shoot button while playing a game of "keep away" with the monsters. Though the controls are pretty solid, so I can't find any fault there.

TBH, while the game is cheap, I think its current asking price is pushing it - especially after trying it myself. I have no idea of how long the game will take me to finish and it doesn't really communicate to you in any way whether you're making progress or not. So it honestly plays like a shot in the dark. Some might get some fun out of it, but I expect most just won't. The game is actually worth half it's original asking price in my opinion and I really wish I could get my money back because of how lackluster it turned out to be.