 The eShop. You know it, you love it. There's over 10,000 games slammed onto the Nintendo Switch. So, you know, it's kinda hard to find the good ones. Well, actually it's easy if you watch my videos where I find the good ones and then tell you about them. Like I'm doing today, I found 10 more great games. There's something for everyone. This is gonna be a really fun video. It's also episode 29, which means this will be 290 eShop games I have reviewed in this series alone on my channel. Insane. Next episode will obviously be episode 30 and 300 games, so I'm gonna have to do something special. It gives me chills just thinking about it. If you've been watching this series or just joining me on this Switch journey from the start, thank you. If you find a game you liked today or you just enjoyed the video, please like, leave a comment down below and subscribe. Okay, let's do it again. Let's kick off the list blistering heart with Anomutatium. Ano, Ano, Ano, Mutate, Mutate, Muh, Muh, Muh, AM. I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's probably my favorite one in the video. This game completely blew me away with the quality of its visual presentation and detailed world building. It's an action adventure game with RPG elements set in a rich, dark and bizarre cyberpunk world based on the concept of 2D meets 3D. But it's a much more fleshed out art style than the recent Square Enix games. I was hooked right from the start when you're thrown into these completely animated cutscenes and then straight into the vibrant and gritty city that this game takes place in. I can't help but see the obvious comparisons to this game and Cyberpunk 2077, except I actually like this game. Your apartment looks very similar. Even the entire apartment complex, there's cops investigating a crime scene at your neighbor's door. Even the save menu and skill trees look very similar. The setting feels the same vibe-wise, but there are some obvious huge differences here. The combat, for example, takes place on a 2D plane and it's a hack and slash beat em up style. It feels great to play, switching between swords, guns, combos and grenades. The story is paced really well with both main story and side missions, featuring a lot of investigating and exploration. They managed to cram a decent amount into this concise 10 to 12 hour adventure. But as much as I enjoyed the story, I was constantly floored by the design of the game and the details, both little and huge. I mean, just look at even the title screen for the game. So cool. How do you not want to play that? I've got to go play it right now. Ah, yeah, gotcha. You thought you were watching a YouTube video, but I'm here to hack your internet. Actually, no, I'm not. It's my day off. I don't hack in October. 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If you click the link down below I'll go to expressvpn.com forward slash beat em ups. Look, I didn't hack you this time, but next time, if you don't do that, I'm gonna get ya. Henry, did you put sugar in this? You know I don't drink sugar anymore. I can't believe that in my channel's lifetime. I started my channel nine years ago. It's almost 10 years old. I get to review a new Monkey Island game. I don't think you understand what this means to me. Monkey Island was the original game series that got me into gaming, that got me into point and clicks. It's why in all of these eShop videos I make I try and sneak a point and click onto the list because I just love them so much because of this series. But this, this is the real swashbucklin deal, the one of a kind original point and click Monkey Island. Return to Monkey Island came out of nowhere and it's a fantastic return to the series but the same creator Ron Gilbert and featuring the original cast of voice actors. This Monkey Island is a return to its original point and click form with traditional challenging puzzles and even a hard motive you wanna kick up the brain teasers another notch. I'll admit that initially I wasn't sold on the art style but it really grew on me quickly while playing. It has a 90s and 2000s cartoon vibe and I love the way the camera throws to the character's faces or actions during the story which beats to highlight the ridiculous, gross and hilarious moments. Also, I wasn't expecting this game to wrap up the story of Monkey Island so nicely in a neat little boat. This game acts like a sequel to Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2 essentially turning these games into a trilogy. I just hope that it doesn't spell the end of Monkey Island because I definitely want more of this please. I don't wanna ruin too much of the game, just go play it for yourself. Okay, so on my podcast, the Nintendo podcast, links below, listen today, we reviewed a bunch of indie devs and publishers and game creators about their games coming soon and one of the people we interviewed was Celia from Yacht Club Games talking about their upcoming game Shovel Knight Dig and guess what, it released and I love it and I'm not biased. It's actually really good. I mean it's Shovel Knight of course it is. So this game is the Shovel Knight you know and you love but if Shovel Knight was a roguelike and also if you dug down rather than scroll left to right. Funny enough though the game is still listed as side scrolling and I think we should really make an exception here and create a new genre. You know like down scrolling maybe because it's not side to side. It doesn't make any sense. When we asked Celia about how many areas and challenge screens may have been created for this game she suggested it was likely in the thousands and every time you play so you never know what you're gonna find is you dig and spelunk your way deeper and deeper. Loads of hidden areas and secrets, enemies and hazards around every corner and a fun Mega Man-esque boss battles at the end of each area and as you would expect in between each run you can upgrade yourself with new relics and accessories to make future digs that much easier which is good because I do find this game pretty hard at times and don't worry it's not one of those roguelites that will consume your life. This one's quite a bit shorter than others I have played in the genre but it's just fun. You know it's why I'm talking about it. Mini Motorways is both one of the most calming and stressful games I've ever played. This one actually wasn't even planned to be on the list but as I was scripting this video my YouTube manager messaged me and said hey I'm playing this game called Mini Motorways have you heard of it it's a ton of fun so I downloaded it and sure enough it was a ton of fun and I ended up playing it a lot so here it is. It's really frickin simple. You pick a part of the world you wanna play in then little car garages and big buildings start randomly popping up. You build the road to connect them and the cars will automatically start traveling to and from the buildings that matches its color. I know but it's fun. Let me get hot. But as more and more colors pop in the more cars you'll have on the roads you are creating. So it's a delicate balance between making sure all the cars are able to get to where they need to go without creating massive traffic jams and build ups that will end up resulting in game over if not enough cars can get to the buildings in time. I swear it's fun. I don't know if it doesn't look or sound fun it just is. The better you do the more roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, roundabouts, traffic lights and more you'll get access to to help ease up some of the congestion on the streets. It's addictive just trying to get the biggest working city possible. Aiming for high scores and keeping the run moving for as long as possible. The sounds of the game are so soothing from the cars shuffling down the roads to the placement of objects around the world. I know how it looks. It's just so cozy and fun. Give it a shot. So Tamtam is like Pokemon. No, like literally it is. This is Pokemon. Okay, glad we got that sorted. Next game. Oh, you want more? So Tamtam is a massively multiplayer creature collection adventure. At least they say it is. It's an MMO by definition but not an MMO in the sense of an MMO that you might be familiar with. MMO. All our games like Final Fantasy Online or World of Warcraft. No, in Tamtam you can see other players running around and going about their day questing, battling and collecting, sure. But they are sort of like dark soul ghosts into the game. You can interact with them though. You can send friend requests, battle or trade requests and you can even bring them into your game as Tamtam does support to play a co-op which is actually how I played the game with my buddy Scoot. We streamed us playing the game together. It was so much fun. The functionality of the co-op is pretty glitchy but it is stable and honestly pretty sick. You can progress through the campaign together even doing the side quest. When one of you starts a battle the other will join to help out. If you find a wild Tamtam both trainers get the chance to catch it. It's really cool and I wish Pokemon were gonna do something like this. They might, they do have multiplayer in the new Pokemon. It's just as I stand here we have no idea how that works yet. It would make a lot of sense since they always do release the games and a lot of people play releases alongside their siblings or partners. The game itself, whether you play with friends or alone is exactly like you would expect from a traditional 2D Pokemon game. Wake up in your mom's house go pick your first Tamtam from three starters battle your rivals, set out on a journey going town to town completing puzzles, collecting creatures and defeating gems or dojos in this case to progress the story of the game. It has all the flair that you love from Pokemon games too even including the rare chance to find a shiny Tamtam and evolving your favorites. So you might be wondering why would I play Tamtam if it is just Pokemon? Well, because they actually made Tamtam to be the Pokemon games they wish they had. It's tough. Like actually pretty hard. Slogs through dungeons or gym battles would take a lot of going back and healing up your Tamtams or actually having to use items effectively. All the battles are duo battles leading to a lot more strategy in how you play even including moves that boost each other's partner Tamtam's abilities or even hurts them if you have the wrong pairing. There is some controversy around Tamtam though as it was in an alpha beta state for a very long time and when it released it released full price but they snuck a little battle pass in there too that you can pay for and people weren't very happy about that understandably. But if you ignore all that and you just want to play a fun game Tamtam at its core is a good time. You all like farming Sims, right? I mean half my comments seem to yell and scream at me any time I dare bring up that last direct being even a little bit mid because we want all the farming games we can, would? Bring them all on. That direct was for us. Well then I hope to dear God you're playing Ooblets because it hasn't finished loading yet. Kinda ruined my rant. It's just a dancing fish right now but I hope to God you're playing there's a hidden gem. It's a farming Sim meets Pokemon and it's fantastic. So if you haven't played this yet and you're crying that there's not enough farming Sims or that you want more, shut up and go back and play this one. It's actually so much more than a farming Sim though. It's really cool. There is seriously so much to do in Ooblets. It's overwhelming. And I probably can't cram it all into this short review. You start the game by moving to this new colorful and quirky town populated by interesting characters and just so many Ooblets. There are currently 45 different kinds but they all have core variants and on top of that you have a chance to find gleamies which looks so much better than the regular shiny variants in Pokemon games. They can be all kinds of multicolor rainbows and even have a gleaming trail as they follow you around. Before you even start setting out on your collecting adventure though you're given the keys to an old rundown farm. You repair your new house and begin planting, watering and harvesting crops as you live on a day to day cycle. In the town nearby you can find a crop store, a coffee shop, barber, science lab, dance battle hall and so much more. Later in the game you can even open your own shop in town to sell whatever you want. And that's a whole other aspect to the game. Around all of that you can grow relationships with the townsfolk, complete side missions and objectives, work on repairing and upgrading the town, travel to whole other areas and do missions and collect new Ooblets there. There's even an arcade town where you can play all different arcade games that were made exclusively for this game. I mean it, there's so much to do. Then with the Ooblets you find you can offer them different foods for the opportunity to dance battle them. These battles get pretty strategic as the game progresses. You use cards to gain points or steal points from the opponent. There are all different status effects to deal with and every Ooblet comes with their own special cards and ways of dance battling and you get even more cards when you level them up. If you win the battle the other Ooblet will fart out a seed and you can take that fart seed back to your farm and plant it and grow your very own new farty friend. These friends can either join your party and follow you around or live on the farm and help take care of the day to day. And did I mention you can dress them up on all kinds of hats, accessories and little cute outfits? Just so freaking adorable. I got Kim addicted to this game too and it's just so worth its price tag and then some. And again, I can't stress how much there is to do in the game. It's so good and definitely worth its price tag. Okay, so this list of 10 games has been a little wordy. I had a lot to say about the games I've talked about and say it, I did. So I'm gonna keep the next two short because I actually have already reviewed them. It was back in August, I talked about a bunch of games that I have played before and those games were Hold of the Lamb and Cursed to Golf. I love both of these a lot. And I always intended on re-reviewing them and putting them into one of my eShop videos because these eShop videos for me are kinda like canon lore to the eShop games that I really, truly love. This might be weird, but a personal seal of approval for an eShop game to wind up in one of these videos. So to not put these games in would feel like an injustice. So I went and watched my reviews to see what I can add to those now. And I think I did pretty good, actually. I think if you go back and watch that video, I'll link it down below. I'd really just be repeating myself. So they are on this list, but I've already reviewed them. But just in case you are really lazy, let me give you a quick rundown on them both. Hold of the Lamb was a smash cult hit. For an indie game to release and drop one million in units sold is almost unheard of. It's a rogue-like action adventure where you play as a cute possessed lamb running a cult by day and dungeon crusading by night. You manage your cult by gathering resources, building structures, worshipping with followers, performing rituals and sacrificing the ones who trusted you most to the gods above. I guess the demons below. It's crazy fun and it's already won several awards for excellence in music, art, gameplay, and I agree with all of that 100%. And then Cursed Golf is a golf game like you have never played while some of the concepts might still be pretty familiar. You are strike dead during a golf tournament and sent to golf purgatory. Here, you have to complete an 18-hole golf course in order to be resurrected, but you only get so many strokes on a hole and if you die, you have to go all the way back to the start. The next time you try to escape, everything will be different as there's over 70 pre-designed levels that randomly show up. And on top of that, you gotta deal with cursed holes, boss battles and specific obstacles depending on the biome you're playing in. In your favor though, you have three different clubs to use and a whole deck of special cards that grant you single use abilities. It is a tough game. Like it is really hard. People have caught it the dark souls of golf games. So be prepared to sink a ton of time into this one. Also, I did talk to the creator of this game, Liam, on my podcast just like I did Celia. Actually, it was the same episode. So kind of cool that they ended up, both their games are in the same video here. I have a little family that we all are. All right, moving on. Hi, I'm an idiot. I'm in a different place now because I forgot to introduce what was happening next. So I'm filming this later. Shh. I used to back in the day have other YouTubers, friends and guests come into these episodes and take one of the games to review for me. I haven't done it in a while and I figured this video needed just a little bit more sex appeal. And my buddy Bob is very hairy and very handsome. He also happens to be my fellow podcast co-host and he loves Toonix. Ironic actually, I'm getting Bob to review the Zelda-like game but he loves the game. And it's on Switch now. So here is Bobby with his thoughts on Toonix for Nintendo Switch. Oh yeah, hey guys, it's me. It's the raw sex appeal. My favorite part about Toonix is that it works across a lot of different platforms. I got it on Steam because I wanted to try it on the Steam Deck and I didn't even want to buy it on Steam because it was out on Game Pass at the time but I was coaxed into it and I'm very happy I did because I could play it across my Steam Deck, across my PC and even on my Mac and it works beautifully on all those. Unfortunately, it looks a little mushy on the Switch and I'm not sure why. Is it really that graphically intensive? Does this game really need all those lighting effects? Anyway, yeah, Toonix is like an homage to older top-down Zelda games. Except this time it's a little isometric and you're a little fox guy. And I'd say there's more of a focus on combat here. Dodge rolling across boss battles and locking onto enemies and such. Listen, I don't want to compare it to Dark Souls but I'm going to compare it to Dark Souls. It can get pretty hard so I would say this is more of an adult Zelda-like. You can get the general vibe by looking at it. It's a beautiful game. It's definitely worth checking out. $30 is kind of a lot for something like this but I'd say it's worth it if you're going to get the whole experience. The Switch version, it's a little harder to recommend because it just doesn't look as good. But if that's all you can get it on, I'd say it's still worth checking out even if it is a little bit mushy. Just play an importable mode, it'll be 720p. Can I go now? Tiny Kin might have the word tiny in its name but it offers big amounts of fun and charm. The game is Pikmin meets Paper Mario as you catch hundreds of these cute Tiny Kin and use their unique abilities to bring Milo back to his home planet. You play as an outer world traveler who accidentally became trapped in a version of Earth that itself is trapped in the year 1991. And you're also trapped being shrunk down to ant size. Using the Tiny Kin you find to gather gigantic items and using them to hopefully return home. Each Tiny Kin gets its adorable animated cutscene when you first meet them which helps explain each of their abilities like lifting heavy things, exploding, forming ladders, making bridges, even harnessing the power of electricity. You use these abilities both as you would expect but also in very unexpected ways, often helping other characters around the world completing their weird requests or goals like starting a bubble bath party. The art style is so charming and it's truly a joy exploring the world and all of the environments they've built from the huge open areas to the nooks and crannies filled with little secrets and collectibles. The art design is fantastic. It's just a regular old house but they've managed to make every area feel new, different and exciting to traverse. There is so much fun packed in here. Even just skating around the world on a borrowed soap is an enjoyable mechanic all on its own and there's a lot of freedom here to explore at your own pace and tackle puzzles in any order you want to. It never feels too overwhelming. Rather just a joy to see what you're gonna discover next. This game is so clearly inspired by Pikmin but just adding in platforming and all of the charm of an early 2000s cartoon. I found this one by accident at the last second as I was writing the video and I can't believe I'd never heard or seen of the game before. Seen of the game? I'd never seen or heard of the game before. Oh, it's been a long video. I'm glad it's over. Speaking of, that's another 10 games worth buying. 209. What should I do for episode 30? Should I just make the video, I guess? I don't know. Is there anything special I could do for it? Let me know down below. I hope you found something today that you're looking forward to playing. Again, there was a little something for everyone. I hope you guys are doing good and enjoying the fall. We're getting close to Christmas and all the holiday videos start being made. Actually, we gotta get through Halloween first. Anyone notice my cool, creepy Halloween shirt? Pour it on purpose. If you do want to help me out in any way, hit the bell, Twitch, podcast, and just, yeah, my video is here. Bye. Oh, and check out the sponsor. That's very important too.