{"id":127200,"date":"2022-08-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-135790"},"modified":"2022-08-11T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:00:00","slug":"hand-drawn-metroidvania-islets-asks-the-question-what-if-hollow-knight-was-about-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/11\/hand-drawn-metroidvania-islets-asks-the-question-what-if-hollow-knight-was-about-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand-Drawn Metroidvania &#8216;Islets&#8217; Asks The Question: What If Hollow Knight Was About Cats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/75320cb2efa65\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/75320cb2efa65\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"N1Ip6tjoSGk\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kyle Thompson, the solo developer behind the gorgeous, weird, and gorgeously weird metroidvania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/sheepo\">Sheepo<\/a>, is back with a brand-new game for the Nintendo Switch, PC, and consoles called <strong>Islets<\/strong>, another hand-drawn metroidvania that had us at &#8220;what if Hollow Knight, but cats&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll play as Iko, a tiny, brave mouse who uses his rickety old plane to explore islands in the sky, separated from the land long ago after some long-forgotten calamity, hoping to try to find a way to restore the world. Thompson bills the game as &#8220;wholesome&#8221;, thanks to its themes of making connections with others and rebuilding the world anew.<\/p>\n<p>A cavalcade of bosses will be there to stop you, though, and you&#8217;ll need to find and master unique abilities to fight them off. Normal metroidvania stuff \u2014 not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that, mind you \u2014 but look how pretty it is!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Islets14\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a253371e1281c\/islets14.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjUwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a253371e1281c\/islets14.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Islets14\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Ss 6d16e943d5816067d16635f6894aaad559f20fcc.600x338\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f43d7524898a5\/ss-6d16e943d5816067d16635f6894aaad559f20fcc-600x338.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjUwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f43d7524898a5\/ss-6d16e943d5816067d16635f6894aaad559f20fcc-600x338.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Ss 6d16e943d5816067d16635f6894aaad559f20fcc.600x338\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Screenshot 2022 08 10 13.47.18\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/597e42da0fcd9\/screenshot-2022-08-10-13-47-18.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/597e42da0fcd9\/screenshot-2022-08-10-13-47-18.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot 2022 08 10 13.47.18\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>You won&#8217;t have long to wait until you can get your little mitts on this one, as Islets comes out on Switch, PC, and all the current and last-gen Xboxes on August 24th, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Kyle Thompson, the solo developer behind the gorgeous, weird, and gorgeously weird metroidvania Sheepo, is back with a brand-new game for the Nintendo Switch, PC, and consoles called Islets, another hand-drawn metroidvania that had us at &#8220;what if Hollow Knight, but cats&#8221;. 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