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Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan Switch NSP Free Download We’ve seen some twee stuff here in the Nintendo Life zeppelin, but Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan may be the twee-est thing ever created by human hands. It’s so ruddy twee that it might as well have been coded by the Teletubbies, all crowded ‘round Po’s little belly computer trying to punch in line after line of Python, ultimately resulting in his painful death by bludgeoning. But that’s all irrelevant. The point is, Rainbow Billy is so twee that it makes Walter the Softy go “oof, this is a bit twee, isn’t it?”  ROMSLAB.COM BEST SWITCH GAMES

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Therefore, it needs to be a lot of fun to counterbalance the sugary-sweetness, lest one’s teeth deign to rot. Thankfully, it is quite a lot of fun, though there are some caveats.Essentially the gameplay is not entirely unlike Paper Mario or the recent (excellent) pretender, Bug Fables; with peppy, brightly-coloured 3D environments and well-drawn thick-lined 2D assets, it’s also very familiar but in an appealing way.

Here’s how it works:

You’ll choose from recruited friends and place them on the battlefield in designated lanes, assigning one of three colored shapes to each friend. Once these “battle lines” are formed, minigames begin based on the lead creature in a lane. Some involve a slot machine-esque game where rainbow stars must stop on a line, others require button presses in a certain sequence. Upon winning a minigame, the colors then travel to the “enemy,” filling in any corresponding blank shapes above their heads. Enemies will fight back, depleting Billy’s Morale meter, and an empty meter means a failed battle that must be restarted. Fill all the shapes in, however, and voila! A new friend is recruited. Shinsekai Into the Depths Switch NSP

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As the game progresses the confrontations get a little more involved, whether increasing the number of colors to fill in, adding more complicated minigames to complete, or adding unique parameters during a fight. One enemy, for example, worries about others being more “perfect” than they are, so any time you complete a minigame with no mistakes, they negate all of the colors immediately. The wrenches thrown into the battle system keep an already unique mechanic from growing stale, giving every instance its own spin and making the entire game better in the process.

Every one of these stories feels real

The creature being worried about how others view them actually speaks to a core tenet of the Rainbow Billy experience. Every single one of the 60 creatures that you’ll find is feeling some sort of anxiety, causing their loss of color. One rodent-esque creature doesn’t want others focusing on their giant front teeth. Another acknowledges that they snack too much, even if the snacks are healthy. A third is a champion boxer coming to terms with the end of their career and the need to pass the baton. Shovel Knight: King of Cards Switch NSP

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Every one of these stories feels real, rooted in real-world feelings that are absolutely relatable to most players. These new friends are telling tales of anxiety over identity, having trouble making friends, and being bullied, all very prevalent real-world issues. Granted you may not relate to all 60 of them, but there’s definitely one or two that will make you think, “huh, I’ve felt that before.” The game then follows up with talking through the issues, working on them, and once color is restored, acknowledging the character’s personal flaw and moving past it.

This idea isn’t limited to the battle system either

as each of the 60 characters can increase in power–and gain more colors to use in confrontations–by fulfilling their requests. Items found while traveling the world–ranging from a teddy bear to video games to art supplies–are requested by the creatures, and giving a creature the item they desire further explores the roots of their flaws. Their colors are already restored, sure, but they’re still working through what made them lose their colors in the first place. These sometimes use similar elements–a lot of these animals reference school-based trauma, for instance–but the situations they describe are very much based in the human experience. Sid Meier’s Civilization VI Switch NSP

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Take Alpharoar, one of the first friends you’ll meet. Alpharoar is super protective of his little brother Bark, so much so that he also got expelled from his school once for going overboard defending Bark from a bully and getting into a fight. Through his dialogue, he realizes that overdoing it could have gotten him separated from the family he’s trying to protect, thus leaving his sibling vulnerable to bullies in Alpharoar’s absence. He understands the need to tone things down, giving him more understanding of why what he was doing is wrong.

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