Acrobatic space pirate roguelike Flinthook is coming to Switch next week
Swing commander.
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.