Publisher Microids has announced that TiGames' jumping-and-punching Metroidvania F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch is coming to the Switch later this year! This announcement comes a few months after the game was rated for the console in Taiwan.
Called a Metroidvania that "punches above its weight" by our friends over at Push Square, F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch puts you in charge of a gritty war veteran bunny who gets wrapped up in conspiracies after he must find out why his friend was arrested.
With your bunny Rayton at the ready, you'll be able to swap between three different weapons and will encounter hordes of enemies in this combat-focused Metroidvania, where difficult platforming and beautiful dieselpunk visuals await. It'll be interesting to see how the visuals and performance translated to the less-powerful Switch, as the game is powered by Unreal Engine 4 and uses physical-based rendering to capture the feel of realistic movements in the world.
Microids has said that F.I.S.T. is due to launch in Q3 later this year. We'll let you know as soon as we have a more specific release date. In the meantime, check out the gameplay below and let us know your thoughts on the game!
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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I can’t recommend this enough. Game’s world is hard to forget, it sits with you after completion. Combat is engaging and varied, strong story and characters. Background visuals are sublime at times.
Basically if you love Dread, you need to play this 😎
Looks like Samus Returns on the 3DS. Love it.
Sweet, I've been hopeful for this one reaching the Switch.
I hope the Switch port lives up to the original release!
It's an Unreal Engine 4 game, I'm sure it can be done.
On the list. I love MVs
Is it just me, or is the animation when changing the horizontal movement really ugly / nonexistent?
It's unusual for a graphically polished game to have this problem.
Awesome news!
Why wasn't this in the Indie presentation, I wonder...?? What a terrible event.
Count me in, this game is supposed to be great.
Hopping onto Switch later this year - one frame at a time!
Wow-this looks good. Will have to add it to the wishlist!
Looks brilliant and with it being made by Microids, it will be quite probable that there will be a physical later on. So will wait for a bit
Ah this is great news. I just discovered this game around an hour ago on Push Square. Watched some gameplay trailers on YouTube and said to myself, I hope this comes to Switch. And here we are.
I had a good time with this one on PS4, nice to see it come to Switch.
Wow for once Peppy from Star Fox finally got his own game.
Oh my god. This looks cool as hell!!!!!
Also according to the Microids Website we can expect a physical version!!
A friend of mine played it on Steam and said it was great. I'm afraid about its performance on Switch, though.
I'm both excited and wary.
If the load times and performance are good, then this will be a launch purchase for me. Otherwise I'll wait for my Steam deck.
Was hoping this would get a Switch port when it came out on other platforms last year. Right up my alley.
Awesome news.
I was so close to buying this on my PS4 but I'm glad I waited.
I will wait a bit longer for a physical release since I have a huge Metroidvania backlog to get through anyway.
Game looks potentially interesting, but does 'Forged in Shadow Torch' mean anything? Or was it just randomly generated to fit the acronym F.I.S.T.
I’m excited for this on switch but as usual very concerned with performance. I love my switch but there is no getting around we are due for a boost.
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