Nintendo Releases – May 29, 2025 – Updates

Okay, so it’s like this weird déjà vu moment — you know? Switch 2 is hitting next week, and I don’t know why I’m all cynical, but part of me thinks they won’t make it. History has this habit of repeating, like when I had a staring contest with my cat and lost — again, why do I remember this stuff?

Flashback to February 23, 2017. New systems, tiny game lists. This time? The multipliers are giving me whiplash. North America has six times the games. Europe’s feeling ambitious, nearly ten times, while Japan? Well, I guess they broke the calculator over there. Love a good region lock, don’t you? Keeps things mysterious.

Anyway, anyway, before we get to the main event next week, let’s talk about the stuff hitting the shelves now. Fuga’s back with the third “Melodies of Steel.” It’s CyberConnect2 doing their thing—let’s just say, I’ve got a hunch there’s more to it than just keeping kids out of cannons. Playtonic’s dropping a cozy game. Feels like hot cocoa vibes, you know? Oh, and some Saturn throwbacks with shooters and fighters. Why are retro games so comforting? Like, you’re playing pixels, but it feels like home.

Oh snap! What did we overlook last week? “Wilmot Works It Out,” which makes me giggle for no good reason, and “Ryukyu,” this solitaire poker thing from ages ago. Yeah, brain, you’re storing random stuff, aren’t you?

North America gets the colorful lineup—let’s break this down. “Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3” priced at $39.99. Feels specific, right? “Cattle Country” is dropping on a Tuesday. “Shikhondo” sounds intense, like, maybe too intense for someone who still plays Tetris to destress. Oh, and don’t miss out on “Staffer Case,” a supernatural mystery adventure—sounds like the plot twist we all secretly crave after a soap opera binge.

Gonna speed walk through some of these: “Steam-Heart’s Saturn Tribute,” classic nostalgia bomb. There’s “Nice Day For Fishing,” which oddly reminds me of my uncle’s fishing tales every Thanksgiving. Loads of quirky stuff like “Pipistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo”—total mystery how they come up with these names.

Sales alert! “Risk of Rain 2” is down 75%. Seriously, I’m tempted, and I don’t need another game on my backlog.

Europe isn’t holding back either. “Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3” again, totally imaginable in an art gallery. “Cattle Country” is making waves mid-week. And “Pipistrello”—again with the names—also spark interest over there.

Skipping through Japan, where I can’t even pronounce half of these game titles without embarrassing myself, but they sound profound. “BYAKKO: Shijin Butai Enrenki,” like, I could be totally wrong, but it sounds noble, doesn’t it? Games are more than pixels, they’re like little cultural postcards.

This whole week feels like the video game version of a buffet, slightly overwhelming, and you can’t possibly eat it all but you’ll try anyway, won’t you? Until next week when the big show runs us over.