{"id":132201,"date":"2023-03-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-146004"},"modified":"2023-03-03T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:00:00","slug":"youll-need-to-stick-your-joy-con-in-a-toilet-roll-to-play-this-weird-new-switch-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/03\/youll-need-to-stick-your-joy-con-in-a-toilet-roll-to-play-this-weird-new-switch-game\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll Need To Stick Your Joy-Con In A Toilet Roll To Play This Weird New Switch Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c8ef6df5c101a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c8ef6df5c101a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Give me toilet paper! 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c8ef6df5c101a\/give-me-toilet-paper-1.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\/c8ef6df5c101a\/give-me-toilet-paper-1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Give me toilet paper! 1\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Takahiro Miyazawa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There have been some strange uses for Switch Joy-Cons over the past six years of the console&#8217;s existence. We&#8217;ve strapped them to our legs to kick footballs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_switch_sports\">Nintendo Switch Sports<\/a>, held them vertically to milk virtual cows in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/1-2-switch\">1-2 Switch<\/a> and let&#8217;s not forget the discovery that they can be used as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/01\/random-you-can-use-your-switch-joy-cons-as-a-replacement-wii-sensor-bar\">stand-in Wii remote sensor<\/a>. But no game has come up with quite as weird a use for them as the recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/give_me_toilet_paper\">Give me toilet paper!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead of waving the remote around or holding it at a funny angle, this new title from publisher Takahiro Miyazawa requires you to pop a Joy-Con inside of a roll of toilet paper and roll it around to control the movements of a <em>virtual<\/em> toilet tissue on screen.<\/p>\n<p>Give me toilet paper! will have you navigating a series of trap doors, lasers and baddie toilet rolls (yes, you read that right, these ones have got nasty red spikes on them \u2014 ouch) to help deliver the much-needed package to a man, well, <em>in need<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If it sounds weird, that&#8217;s because it is. You can check out a little more info about the game and some screenshots from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.uk\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-download-software\/Give-me-toilet-paper--2353558.html#Overview\">eShop page<\/a> below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is an action game in which you prepare toilet paper with a Joy-Con\u2122 in it and roll it around on a board.<\/p>\n<p>There is a toilet paper in the game that is linked to your toilet paper.<\/p>\n<p>If you roll your toilet paper left and right, the toilet paper in the game will also roll left and right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh my God! There&#8217;s no toilet paper!&#8221; Let&#8217;s help a man in big trouble!<\/p>\n<p>You are the ordinary toilet paper in every house, but you can roll at will.<\/p>\n<p>And now there is a man in need of toilet paper!<\/p>\n<p>You start from the ceiling of the toilet and go your way to the man.<\/p>\n<p>But all sorts of traps await you along the way!<\/p>\n<p>Help the man by avoiding or taking advantage of them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: Takahiro Miyazawa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>The visuals look pretty rudimentary, we&#8217;ll admit, but this <em>is<\/em> a game where you drop a toilet roll through a dangerous maze so there is no use going in expecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">Breath of the Wild<\/a> now, is there?<\/p>\n<p>Give me toilet paper! is now available to download from the Switch eShop for the cheap price of <strong>\u00a33.60 \/ 4,00\u20ac \/ $5.00<\/strong>. Is this GOTY material? Probably not. But it&#8217;s a small price to pay for an evening of weird entertainment, we guess.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be popping your Joy-Con in a toilet roll soon? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Takahiro Miyazawa There have been some strange uses for Switch Joy-Cons over the past six years of the console&#8217;s existence. We&#8217;ve strapped them to our legs to kick footballs in Nintendo Switch Sports, held them vertically to milk virtual cows in 1-2 Switch and let&#8217;s not forget the discovery that they can be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}