Developer Tribute Games has announced that its acrobatic, intergalactic pirate adventure Flinthook will be coming to Nintendo Switch next week on March 9th.
Flinthook is a roguelike action platformer – with a wonderfully chunky, pseudo-retro art style – which casts you as the lovable spacefaring scallywag, Captain Flinthook. The jury still seems to be out on whether he’s an actual ghost pirate or just has a sheet on his head.
Broadly speaking, your goal is navigate and plunder an increasingly elaborate array of space galleons – procedurally generated dungeons consisting of smallish, arena-like stages. To aid in your pillaging, you’re armed with a plasma gun and a hookshot, enabling you to latch onto notches around a stage in order to zip about with reckless, adventurous abandon.
Once you’ve successfully whizzed and blasted your way through each enemy packed, trapped-strewn dungeon, and liberated of all their treasures, it’s back to base with your hard-earned spoils, ready to start all over again.
Flinthook is one of those games that keeps on giving; there’s slo-mo action, card pack collecting, fancy perks, even combos to learn – not to mention Daily Challenges and leaderboards for those that want to flex their spacefaring acrobatic prowess.
Christian Donlan enjoyed Flinthook immensely when he took a look last summer, even going as far as to say that its piratical action “may be better than The Goonies”. Sacrilege or a sound conclusion? Switch owners will be able to decide for themselves come March 9th.
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