What are you hoping Santa will bring you for Christmas this year? If you are lucky perhaps you will get the cheerily-titled The End Is Nigh, which Nicalis is bringing to Switch as a physical release on 12th December.
For those not in the know, The End Is Nigh is the latest game from award-winning designer Edmund McMillen, creator of indie-game sensations like The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy.
In the game you play as Ash, a little anthropomorphic globule who sets out to find himself a friend in the aftermath of a global catastrophic event. Ash must avoid mutated monsters, lethal hazards and deadly pitfalls as he navigates the wasteland, picking up collectable tumors (yum!) and playable mini-game cartridges along the way.
Nicalis president Tyrone Rodriguez shares his thoughts on maintaining a positive attitude in face of the coming apocalypse:
The key themes are survival and the basic human need for friendship. But The End Is Nigh is also a parable about persistence, facing adversity and maintaining a positive attitude in unbelievably stressful situations. You get a rush of pride and delirious satisfaction every time you clear a screen.
Thankfully for the faint-hearted, there is no life counter in The End Is Nigh; you’re free to try and fail as many times as it takes to conquer each challenge. Ash’s plight is accented by the game’s dramatic soundtrack, a collection of classical music themes arranged by the fan-favorite game music composition team known as Ridiculon.
As with all Nicalis boxed games there will be a few fun bonus items included. The initial print run of retail copies will include the Game Card along with a full-colour instruction booklet and a squishy Ash toy made of sticky silicone. Double yum!
Do you plan to pick this up to enjoy on Christmas day with a cup of eggnog?
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"there's no life counter", ya know, until there is. You people thought Super Meat Boy was hard hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha RIP your thumbs and sanity.
@QwertyQwerty I think it's better than Super Meat Boy, just think people should know what they're getting into. If you love a challenge that's fair but absolutely brutal, no better game this year. If you can't beat SMB though, stay far, far away.
So another 30€ Nicalis game I will leave. No matter how interested I could be in playing these games, there's no way I'll spend 30€ for a digital release. Yes, I couldn't care less about plastic stuff
I'll be pre-ordering this game when I pick up Axiom Verge and Azure Striker Gunvolt next week.
@SuperCharlie78 It's the same price as on Steam for digital for this one (whatever the $15USD equivalent is). Confirmed by Edmund.
I initially read the title as Nicalis end is nigh and thought they were going broke.
Probably a sign I should get some sleep.
Wouldn't mind a Demo to try it out
This is super-tempting, especially with the pre-order physical goodies. Probably too hard a game for me, but I do like Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy even though I can't get very far in them.
@tsdenizen should be 15€ then. Oh if it's the case I will get it, no less. I was sure based on previous releases from Nicalis, for example Ittle Dew 2. Meanwhile the digital price of Lumo (which has a retail version but it's not from Nicalis) went from 30€ to 20€, I checked a few minutes ago in the eShop page of the game.
@SuperCharlie78 Ittle Dew 2+ has extra content not in the Steam version, about 75% more actually, so it's not really a mark up. They've done it on somethings, but really only Cave Story+ (which I completely agree should've been $15 digital) and maybe Tiny Barbarian DX (which had the Steam price go up with the Switch version and coincided with the game more than doubling in length, and is in my opinion worth the cost). Lumo's not sticking out to me right now, but it's nice they're dropping the price.
Excellent news. I played the hell out of SMB and I intend to do the same here.
Day one, i love SMB so this is a no brainer for me.
Looks (and apparently plays) almost like a reskinned Super Meat Boy. I'm into it, but since it's published by Nicalis it's probably not coming to retail in Europe and still sell for 29,99€. :/
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