{"id":122109,"date":"2020-12-15T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/alba_a_wildlife_adventure_from_the_team_who_made_monument_valley_swoops_onto_switch_next_year"},"modified":"2020-12-15T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:30:00","slug":"alba-a-wildlife-adventure-from-the-team-who-made-monument-valley-swoops-onto-switch-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/15\/alba-a-wildlife-adventure-from-the-team-who-made-monument-valley-swoops-onto-switch-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, From The Team Who Made Monument Valley, Swoops Onto Switch Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dc37884f00574\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dc37884f00574\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dc37884f00574\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>BAFTA-winning studio Ustwo Games might be best known for their gorgeous, mobile-friendly offerings \u2014 from the Escher-tastic <strong>Monument Valley<\/strong> to their latest release, <strong>Assemble With Care<\/strong> \u2014 but now they&#8217;re making their way to the Nintendo Switch for the first time with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/alba_a_wildlife_adventure\"><strong>Alba: A Wildlife Adventure<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alba is a departure from the normal fare of Ustwo, but a welcome one, drawing inspiration from summer holidays, childhood memories, and the pre-pandemic days when going to the beach wasn&#8217;t semi-illegal. Exploring a sunny, yet polluted island (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/super_mario_sunshine\"><strong>Super Mario Sunshine<\/strong><\/a> flashbacks, anyone?), the titular Alba is a young girl on a quest to rescue dolphins from fishing nets, fix broken bridges, and scrub some mysterious goo off a squirrel. It&#8217;s the environmentally-friendly summer hols we never had, probably because we were too busy playing N64 in our bedrooms with the curtains drawn instead.<\/p>\n<p>Good news for those of you who feel bad playing a game about saving the environment without actually, you know, <em>saving the environment<\/em>: Ustwo Games plans to plant a tree for every copy of <strong>Alba<\/strong> you buy! (Buy one, get one tree?)<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Games can make a real difference. For every download of Alba on all platforms we&#8217;re planting one tree. The company planted 100k to start, but I&#8217;ll personally contribute a tree for every retweet this gets (up to 2k) Please spread the word! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eco?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eco<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gamedev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gamedev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b7Z1iuODQ4\">https:\/\/t.co\/b7Z1iuODQ4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7lZ4idGD2r\">pic.twitter.com\/7lZ4idGD2r<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Danny Gray (@Dan_Gray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dan_Gray\/status\/1338882305952247808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Alba: A Wildlife Adventure will be out in Spring 2021, which means it&#8217;ll probably arrive during all the pants weather we usually get. No price yet, but the Steam version is \u00a310.79 right now (which includes a 20% launch discount) and \u00a313 when it&#8217;s not on sale. 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