{"id":611,"date":"2017-09-22T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/volgarr_the_viking_hacks_and_slashes_his_way_to_switch_and_wii_u_in_october"},"modified":"2017-09-22T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T11:30:00","slug":"volgarr-the-viking-hacks-and-slashes-his-way-to-switch-and-wii-u-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/volgarr-the-viking-hacks-and-slashes-his-way-to-switch-and-wii-u-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Volgarr The Viking Hacks And Slashes His Way To Switch And Wii U In October"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Wowzers. We reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2015\/08\/super-hard_platformer_volgarr_the_viking_set_to_pillage_wii_u_and_3ds_eshops\">super hard platformer\u00a0<strong>Volgarr The Viking<\/strong> coming to Wii U and 3DS eShop way back in 2015<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; time sure does fly! Anyway, the Wii U version is still happening, along with a Switch eShop version according to this recent tweet from Crazy Viking Studio:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Volgarr tentative release date on Nintendo Switch and Wii U is Oct. 5th if all goes well. PS4 &amp; Vita EU whenever Sony approves (soon?).<\/span>\u2014 Crazy Viking Studios (@CrazyVikingStud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrazyVikingStud\/status\/910665559359897600\">September 21, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A love letter to the tough-as-old-boots 2D action platformers of the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s, Volgarr takes a large helping of inspiration from the likes of\u00a0<strong>Rastan<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/megadrive\/ghouls_n_ghosts\">Ghouls &#8216;n Ghosts<\/a><\/strong>. We have to say we hope it all comes to pass as this looks like a whole heap of fun. We&#8217;ve no idea what has happened to the 3DS version, but we&#8217;ve asked the developer and once we know for sure we&#8217;ll update this post.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you plan to\u00a0flex your gaming muscles and step into the arena with Volgarr the Viking with a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Wowzers. We reported on super hard platformer\u00a0Volgarr The Viking coming to Wii U and 3DS eShop way back in 2015\u00a0&#8211; time sure does fly! Anyway, the Wii U version is still happening, along with a Switch eShop version according to this recent tweet from Crazy Viking Studio: Volgarr tentative release date on Nintendo [&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-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}