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If you love great stories, I heartily recommend A Night in the Woods and also The Walking Dead.

Wondersong is a great game as well!

If Sega could give away the amazing Chu Chu Rocket for free with the Dreamcast, Nintendo could surely give this little thing away free of charge, as well!

That puzzle is easy. Solved it in 10 seconds flat!

Nah, I think I will keep using Fuze4 for making games on my Switch! It's awesome!

You should do one of these for Fuze4 and SmileBasic as well!

@NatiaAdamo Well you could put it that way if you want. Fuze is much more than a game though, it’s a whole programming environment enabling you to create your own games and share them. It also has an awesome and very helpful community as well as great tutorials to learn from if you are a newbie.

If you want to see examples of stuff made in Fuze, you could for instance check out the monthly Fuze game jams here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPC0FDpMfaXA2KTSBpxDFqO1jRwGVU5zG

It's the first game developed in Fuze4 on the console itself to be published on the eShop! Amazing stuff and a big congratulations to Scrubz for getting his game published!

The amazing thing is that anyone can who makes games in Fuze now has the opportunity to get their stuff published in this way. I'm very excited for this!

Not surprisingly, my most played game was Fuze4 with 734 hours, my second most was Genesis Noir with only ten hours, followed by Knights and Bikes with six hours.

Great! Now add Bluetooth support for keyboards, please!
Would be awesome for Fuze4 and SmileBasic!

Over the Alps is a great one, too!

This looks like a great tool to teach gaming concepts to children (and others), and the next stepping stone after this is to switch to powerful and easy-to-learn text-based programming with Fuze, which is also on the Switch!

Fuze has far less restrictions, editors for sprites and maps, and a great community. Check it out if you are interested!

If you own Fuze4, let me recommend that join in on our Weekly High Score challenges. This week we are playing this amazing puzzle game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4U733ZWVW0

Here is the challenge:
https://fuzearena.com/forum/topic/1704/weekly-high-score-challenge-40

This looks really cool!

I do however think that it is better to jump into actually writing code, and it is definitely something kids can pick up quickly too.

Luckily, there are two alternatives for that on the Switch: Fuze4 and SmileBasic. Both of them also lets people share and download other's creations.

I haven't looked at SmileBasic that much, but I know that Fuze4 has a great and very supportive community around, making it a good place to start out as a novice game maker.

Do Fuze Player next, please!
It’s recently been updated with lots of new games and more will come.

It’s really a steal at that price, too! Nothing more indie than people users creating their own games on the actual Switch!

That looks great!

I think I’ll stick to Fuze, thanks. RPG maker seems so restricting in comparison.

I love coding in Fuze. The language is very beginner friendly but also powerful. But best of all, the Fuze community is really nice and helpful. I really recommend checking it out!

This looks really nice. I am definitely interested... The soundtrack seems good too.

Loved this game on the iPhone. So great that Switch users get to experience it!

Looking at the katakana, it is actually called Diving Shot, and not Driving Shot.

” Might simply be too short for some people”

Thanks for not assuming everyone hates short games! Bite sized games are awesome and I will definitely be buying this.

Yeah, it makes little sense. What if every book review would end with “this was a great book, but I will give it a lower mark since the author should have written 600 pages instead of 200”?

Dear NintendoLife,
Can’t you please stop putting “short running time“ in the cons column? Many gamers today do not have infinite spare time and need to juggle time for family, kids, and other interests as well.

For me and many others “short running time” definitely goes into the joy column.

This looks great! Looking forward to it!

From their blog:
"Sayonara Wild Hearts is a soup made of pop-culture. It’s OutRun, the teddygirls sub-culture, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rez, cafe racers, WarioWare, Blümchen, the 1950s, modern dance, Akira, F-zero, Space Harrier, Sia, Gradius, the 1980s, Charli XCX, Sailor Moon, Ouendan, Tron, Rhythm Tengoku, Punch Out and a good portion of ourselves, strangeness and mysticism stuffed into a blender."

That's my jam, right there.

Anything coming from Simogo is by default my most anticipated game of 2019. This will be amazing...

So looking forward to A Case of Distrust. It looks awesome!

I loved playing Athena on the Commodore 64! The graphics were terrible for the time, but the game-play was nice.

I doubt I'll be picking this up, though...

I would love to see a proper release of Propeller Arena.

Panzer Dragoon Saga 2, please!

So... When is Towerfall coming to Switch?

15 hours? That seems too long. I don't get why developers can't deliver a tighter, more focused experience. With the amount of games coming out for the Switch, a 15 hour game is likely to end up in the started-but-never-managed-to-properly-finish pile.

10 hours or less should be the gold standard for these kinds of games.

Does anyone know if it is possible to play as a girl?

@Riff-the-Don
This is how you search for demos in the Japanese eShop:

1. Change the keyboard layout to 日本語 ローマ字入力.
2. Type taiken (it will come out as たいけん)
3. Choose the first alternative in the auto completion list; 体験. (demo is 体験版)
4. Search.

Looks great! I am all for atmospheric games. I just hope it is not too long.

Weird that so many people are complaining about the length of the game compared with the price...

For me it is the other way around, I will gladly pay more if I know the game is shorter, since that means I will likely get to finish it. Longer games, I tend to start them, and then stop (thinking I will eventually continue further on) when the the next shiny thing appears.

So happy to hear about the length of the game! It means it might actually be a game I play all the way to the finish!

I really wish more games kept the play times to under ten hours... I'll gladly pay more for shorter and more focused games, than bloated epics that I will buy, start, and then never finish.

Fingers crossed for Switch Fit!

How come you guys never made a forma.8 review?

Is it worth buying?

Ectoplaza and Rocket Fist for sure. I love local multi-player affairs!

The game looks great, and I cannot wait to play it.

My one concern though is that it is too long. RPG's are not really known for delivering tight and non-padded narratives. Fingers crossed for it being short(ish) and sweet instead of bloated, outstaying-its-welcome stuff...

Any word on whether PictoParty will have localized word lists? It seems like a fun game to play with the kids, but it would need to be in a language they can understand properly...

Cat Peach!
Cat Peach!
CAT PEACH!

Great article!

Great news! Bergsala actually delivers after years of disappointments...
Nintendo needs a new distribution company in Scandinavia. Someone that makes the effort, and at the very least gets a proper Club Nintendo running. Maybe even gets some advertising done? There should be Mario Kart advertisements all over the place by now to build the hype, but instead there is nothing.

@PvtOttobot
That makes no sense. Since roughly half the people playing and enjoying Mario Kart is female, Nintendo should aim for adding more female characters. If they have too few in old games, maybe it is time they design some new ones (preferable not the princess types)...

Clearly, there is no need for a 50/50 split, but more than 30% would be nice.

Nice to see Nintendo adding more female drivers to the game.
So now it is what? 9 out of 30? I guess it could be better, but still OK...

YouTube on 3DS sounds great, but I wish they could add a NetFlix app instead.

In Sweden the relays seem to be working fine. I pass two every day on the way to work, so I am guaranteed 4 streetpass hits every day. (One is the Central Station and one the main bus terminal here in Gothenburg.) I have also tried the big ferry (StenaLine) terminal across from where I work at that seems to work fine too... All three are powered by Cloud, and I never had to open the 3DS or accept any connections beforehand.