First of all, can I just say how excited I am for Octopath Traveler? Because I cannot think of a game I’m more excited about beyond that in this year. It’s coming next week (July 13th) and is a pixel-styled RPG from Square-Enix done in the style of Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy VI. It’s a loving tribute to both as I understand it, and I have missed out almost entirely on playing the demo. I keep telling myself that I will, but I have yet to do so. It’s going to be a huge deal and easily one of the games of the year. You can mark my words on that. There are so many cool games coming to the Switch, like MY HERO ONE’S JUSTICE, which is the fighter in the My Hero Academia/Boku no Hero Academia series. I need to catch up on Season 3, but it is going to be another absolute slammer this year.
There’s some other interesting stuff coming to the Switch over this summer, like Curve Digital’FuturLab’s Shoot ‘Em Up Hybrid, Velocity 2X as well as the wacky Manual Samuel. Velocity 2X follows a character that gets sucked into a black hole and must fight their way back to freedom, outrunning and outfighting her captors. Then… there’s Manual Samuel. This one follows a trust-fundee who makes a deal with Death following a fatal car accident. If he can get through a single day manually doing the most menial, instinctive of tasks, and it’s up to the player to guide him through that. They have to manually make him walk, blink, exhale, inhale and more, so he can simply get through a day. It will also feature a time attack mode, and which could provide even more insanity and frustration, a co-op mode! This should be equal parts challenging and fun at the same time. But what came out this week?