Sports Story looks to take the promise of the first game and feed it a plethora of performance-enhancing drugs. It all made for an engaging experience that was incredibly easy to recommend irrespective of one’s passion for RPGs, their interest in golf, or whatever skepticism may be initially felt at the prospect of marrying two utterly disparate concepts. Sports Story’s quirky predecessor, Golf Story-which I reviewed in my debut article for SwitchRPG-offered a fairly in-depth simulation of the sport from which it took its name but behind a distinct guise that blended witty dialogue, RPG mechanics, and beautiful 16-bit pixel art. The Gameplay Sneak Peek Trailer that Nintendo revealed at E3 back in June looks promising as well, and this is definitely one that many among our staff will be keeping their eyes out for over the next year.įirst announced back in 2019, this Nintendo Switch-exclusive from indie studio Sidebar Games was originally scheduled for a mid-2020 launch before the team’s ambitious plans to branch out from the sport of golf, previewed in the Delay Trailer that they posted on their Twitter account, led to its indefinite postponement. Regardless, not much information about Sparks of Hope is yet known, though we can confidently say that composer Grant Kirkhope ( Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64) will be returning to score it. Our own Ben declared the ‘oddball mashup… to be one of the better tactical / strategy RPGs on the Switch,’ while Evan Bee wrote that ‘ Mario + Rabbids is just a plain, good time.’ I’ve never come into contact with Kingdom Battle myself, although now that I’m noticing it to have never received a proper SwitchRPG review, I’m beginning to reconsider… A sequel to 2017’s breakout hit, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, an early Switch success story which has since moved a staggering 7.5 million units, Sparks of Hope looks to expand upon the mechanics that made the first game such a critical darling: Kingdom Battle currently sits at an 85% on Metacritic among over 100 reviewers.
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With a release window set only for sometime in 2022, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is the second collaborative effort between Ubisoft and Nintendo that sees the latter’s historied franchise join ranks with a horde of demonic rabbits, the Rabbids first appearing as villains in Ubisoft’s Rayman series before claiming the spotlight for themselves.
Without further adieu, let’s get into it. There is only one game listed below that has not been officially confirmed but I would bet my third pair of drifting Joy-Cons that it will be on the Switch at launch. As you’ll notice, two games that traditionally fall outside of the RPG moniker earned spots in the final Top Ten list you can surmise for yourself the two to which I refer.Įvery game should also be scheduled to debut on the Nintendo Switch (again, duh), or be all but certain to eventually receive a Switch release. Aside from RPGs, obviously, games with ‘RPG elements’ were allowed to make the cut. Everyone was asked to limit their lists to the types of titles that could potentially appear on SwitchRPG. Within hours I had 11 lists on-hand (you all rock!) and just over forty games to assess. I thought it would be fun to press our little collective of game writers and podcast hosts on their most anticipated upcoming releases in 2021 and beyond, with one major difference from the article that was published at the start of this year (before I joined the team): each staff member was invited to submit their own Top Ten list, and then, ranking the games accordingly per a point-system (1st place receiving 10 points, 10th earning 1 point), I would combine all of the lists to form The Ultimate SwitchRPG Top Ten.™
While the Nintendo Switch’s fourth quarter may lack anything on the magnitude of a Breath of the Wild 2, Metroid Prime 4, or Bayonetta 3-which I’m sure we’ll see at some point in our lifetimes-there remain a ton of games for RPG fans to be excited about in the days ahead. It’s hard for me to believe that we’re only weeks away from the onslaught of holiday heavy hitters which publishers typically begin to trickle out in the months of September and October.
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