Part 4 of 4.
As June continues to find its flow, welcome back to our efforts to highlight some formidable games all releasing on the Nintendo Switch this month. Having already covered the likes of Bright Lights of Svetlov, Marble It Up! Ultra, Die After Sunset, and Neko Journey, it is time to showcase our final selection of four games releasing this August:
[Guide] 16 Games Releasing on Nintendo Switch | August 2023 (Part 3)
GINSHA (August 24, 2023)
Publisher: PolarityFlow,
Genre: Platformer, Action, Adventure, Role-Playing
No. of Players: 1 (Single System)
File Size: 253 MB
Price: $17.80
GINSHA is a unique atmospheric pixelart Action Adventure Platformer with special Gravity Shield and Dash mechanics. It combines a versatile Platformer Core with RPG, Souls and Crafting Elements to an Anomaly among Metroidvania games. Explore huge interconnected planets, filled with secrets, loot, obstacles, different enemy types and epic bossfights. Level up, equip and customize your Clone, craft companion drones and enjoy ever evolving possibilities as you proceed to save your species.
Explore 6 different planets and find your own path to save your species. Every decision matters and affects your surroundings and karma for new possibilities and endings. Make new friends or foes along your way, find epic gear and unlock new shortcuts.
Choose from a wide variety of weapon types and combine skills, dash and gravity shield abilities to master GINSHA’s fast paced combat system. Defend yourself against the overwhelming enemy forces and fight on ground, in the air, underwater and in space in hundreds of challenging environments.
Choose to be good or evil in GINSHA’s unique Alien Couple Story and dive into an epic journey, driven by rewarded Exploration. Play as two Alien lifeforms “Gin” and “Gon” and unveil the mystery of our dying planet in a far future.
Meet and interact with unknown lifeforms, learn new languages, make new friends or foes. Your decisions matter and will have a huge impact on the future of your species. Find hidden areas within hidden areas, easter eggs and 80s sci-fi legends…
Your clone is equipped with a Scanner that allows you to scan everything you’ll find on your journey. Collected data will be stored in an in-game wiki and can be used to unlock upgrades, create advanced gear and to build & simulate your own Worlds once you’ve gained access to the betaverse.
Features:
- Farm management — you own a great ranch, but it needs to be cleaned up. Set up a cozy barn for your animals, upgrade warehouses, and get daily bonuses.
- Fully customizable versatile Platformer Core
- Unique Directional Gravity Shield Mechanics
- Huge Open World full of Secrets and Easter eggs
- Fast Paced Combat with Free Aim or Aim Assist
- RPG Mechanics, Quests and Inventory System
- Be good or evil – Dialogue & Karma System
- Companion Drones, Crafting & Survival Elements
- A wide variety of Weapon Types, tools, items and gadgets
- Unique Alien Couple vs Symbiont Story
- Scan & Rebuild Mechanics with InGame Wiki
- Driven by Rewarded Exploration and infinite Replayability
Norn9: Last Era (August 31, 2023)
Publisher: Aksys Games
Genre: Adventure, Other
No. of Players: 1 (Single System)
File Size: 9.4 GB
Price: $49.99
Twelve espers with superhuman powers brought together on a floating ship by a mysterious multinational entity known only as The World…
Their story together may have ended, but their own are just beginning.
Past, present, and future converge in Norn9: Last Era’s three different story modes, including explorations of the characters’ pasts before their lives together on the ship, retellings of the events of Norn9: Var Commons from new perspectives, and tales taking place after the events of the first game.
Taito Milestones 2 (August 31, 2023)
Publisher: ININ Games
Genre: Arcade, Action, Adventure, Fighting
No. of Players: 1 – 2 (Single System)
File Size: 835 MB
Price: $39.99
10 entertaining classics from Taito’s history featuring various genres and themes such as:
- Kiki Kaikai, 1986, Shoot ‘em up. Mischievous yōkai have captured the seven gods of fortune. Courageous shrine maiden Sayo-chan must free them!
- The NewZealand Story, 1988, Platform. Traverse the colorful maze-like levels as Tiki while dodging enemies left, right, up and down to hopefully rescue his Kiwi friends!
- Darius II, 1989, Shoot ‘em up. Hundreds of years after the events of Darius humanity once again clashes with the Belsar empire. Zip through the solar system and fight!
- Metal Black, 1991, Shoot ‘em up. Conquer the alien race from Nemesis. Collect their Newalone molecules to use against them and overcome their onslaught!
- Gun Frontier 1990, Shoot ‘em up. Strap yourself into the seat of your revolver-shaped fighter plane and blast the alien space pirates out of the sky. Liberate the people of the space colony Gloria!
- Also included: Ben Bero Beh, Solitary Fighter, The Legend of Kage, Liquid Kids and Dinorex.
OU (August 31, 2023)
Publisher: G-MODE
Genre: Adventure
No. of Players: 1 (Single System)
File Size: 1.3 GB
Price: $19.99
The place is U-chronia, a hazy world that lives in hazy memories of the distant past.
OU, a young boy, wakes up in a dried up riverbed without any memories of his own.
He meets Zarry, an opossum with a flaming tail, who guides him on a journey to find out his story.
The Saudage Specter, who haunts the boy; Gemini, who looks just like him; The Weeping Woman “La Llorona”, who leads him to tragedy. All of them are there to change the Story and how it will end.
A pen-drawn world reminiscent of the illustrations in children’s literature, accompanied by guitar music ripe with nostalgia for an old hometown.
This is the background where the Story, a story meant for someone, unfolds.
Just like a Michael Ende book, “OU” disguises itself as something else—an adventure game—to meet and interact with reality.
OU is also a challenge—a challenge to games as a whole.
All details regarding the games above were true at the time we sourced them directly from Nintendo’s own website. If there are any changes between now and each game’s eventual release, we apologize in advance and we hope you have enjoyed the selected titles so far. For even more games, we hope you come back next month for the next instalment.
