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Indie games, with their smaller budgets and lower price tags, have the luxury of being able to do things that are unexpected, combining styles of play and elements that don’t necessarily make sense on paper...
When looking at an eShop full of puzzlers and story-based experiences it can be difficult to separate the merely average from the exceptional...
Ah, games with a cat theme... as an entire segment of the Switch audience perks up at the mere suggestion...
Visual novels and games of this sort, I'll admit, aren't my bag in general, so while I try to be fair when checking them out I can't ignore things I see as weaknesses...
One of my absolute favorite arcade titles back in the day, and one that continues to be a sort of bar to measure arcade-style twin-stick shooters against was Smash TV...
Getting right down to business the Switch has a ton of puzzle games, and while many of them fall into well-established categories there are also occasional black sheep that do something differently...
Having been a huge fan of the Picross series as well as a number of its competitors I've come to be pretty excited by titles in the space offering up a new take of some kind...
As the game's name implies this is an experience with a sort of philosophical bent...
As a big fan of shooters of all flavors the Switch has indeed been very good to me...
I apologize in advance for being a bit jaded with local multiplayer games on the system, partially because of their abundance but really more due to the lacking level of fun and quality many exhibit...
If you're into anime and visual novels that have a bit more going on under the surface than you'd first assume The Fox Awaits Me may be your jam...
When it comes to indie strategy games on the Switch there aren't too many to choose from, and for the most part they tend to be in the tactical turn-based combat direction in some way...
When it comes to strategy games there are crowds with pretty different tastes out there...
The good news is that once you get rolling this isn't a bad twin-stick shooting game on a budget, and can offer up some challenge to a degree...
Puzzle platformers are generally pretty common on the Switch, so it can take some effort to stand apart from the pack in some way...
This is one of those somewhat aggravating titles where you can see some potential, and for the right crowd it can be a positive experience, but there are just enough obstacles to enjoyment that it's tougher to recommend...
Never having witnessed the apparent previous disasters having been reported I can't comment in any way how this edition compares...
While mobile games being converted to console tend to get a bad rap there are sometimes exceptions to the rule...
Games that come over from the mobile space are always tricky to evaluate on the Switch, especially when they favor touchscreen heavily over traditional controls...
Having played (and loved) many roguelike twin-stick shooters on the Switch it always piques my attention when a developer brings something new to the table...