Well this is an odd one. Verlet Swing is coming to Switch in two weeks and appears to be a first-person fusion of Spider-Man and Salvador Dali. Sure, why not?
Coming from Flamebait Games, it's described as 'an eccentric world where weird stuff happens'. It appears that you use a grappling hook to swing around surrealist environments filled with statues, marine life and floating foodstuffs. You swing around 100 levels carefully navigating the bizarre gauntlet - colliding with any piece of the dreamscape means instant death.
The game's been available on PC for a while, but beyond these surreal pics and the trailer above from last year, there's not a lot to go on. Intriguing!
On Nintendo's website the key features are as follows:
- 100 levels of fast-paced swinging action
- Increasingly surreal levels to swing through
- Progressively difficult gameplay. Only the best of swingers will reach the final levels!
- Test your swinging skills with leaderboards and Challenges mode
We're still trying to to work out if this one is trying too hard, or not trying hard enough. That said, the Steam version has got a Very Positive rating at the time of writing, so it might be worth investigating this oddity when it launches in two weeks' time. It'll cost you $14.99 to dive into this dream / nightmare of flying fish, pizza and Polybius, and perhaps it'll satisfy the Spider-Man fantasies we've been having since the PS4 game came out.
Does this interest you or does it look like someone went to a Dali exhibition and got a bit carried away with themselves? Share your thoughts below.
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I remember Vinesauce streaming this game as part of a feature called "Twitch n Itch". Might check it out.
This trailer is seriously making me question if I've already taken my meds today...
A textbook example of "what the heck did I just watch?"
Meh, not enough fantasy for me. Looks like something I'd read from a chart. Watch out for those dolphins, they're promiscuous critters.
I am very intrigued
This made me semi-motion sick just watching the trailer... Will be passing on this. Digging the Polybius shoutout in the video though.
I want this to get a Labo VR update!! ; )
A E S T H E T I C ?
Don't know if it's worth 15 dollars tho. Hollow Knight is also 15 dollars, which is bad enough...It should be 30$.
My negga, did I see Polybius?
Sign me up. This looks insane.
@Kal_ I would have gladly paid a full sixty for Hollow Knight.
Don't mind if I do!
Love me a bit of vaporwave.
This is so vaporware I can’t even!
After being disappointed by No Thing, I’ll think hard begore biting on this one.
I read at first as "Verlet Swing Arrives on Switch in Fortnite..."
“Build your own levels”. Outta the way Mario, I gotta build my free associative nightmarescape.
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