{"id":67160,"date":"2018-12-06T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/nicalis_crossover_puzzle-fighter_crystal_crisis_will_now_launch_on_switch_in_april_2019"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T12:30:00","slug":"nicalis-crossover-puzzle-fighter-crystal-crisis-will-now-launch-on-switch-in-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/06\/nicalis-crossover-puzzle-fighter-crystal-crisis-will-now-launch-on-switch-in-april-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicalis&#8217; Crossover Puzzle-Fighter Crystal Crisis Will Now Launch On Switch In April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df05777ab9187\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/df05777ab9187\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/nicalis_crossover_puzzle-fighter_crystal_crisis_will_now_launch_on_switch_in_april_2019\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WNIx7LRmUtQ?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Previously expected to arrive in &#8220;fall 2018&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/crystal_crisis\"><strong>Crystal Crisis<\/strong><\/a> now has a new Switch release date of 23rd April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve missed the news on this one, Crystal Crisis is a colour-matching combat game featuring fan favourite characters from the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/cave_story\"><strong>Cave Story<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/binding_of_isaac_afterbirthplus\"><strong>The Binding of Isaac<\/strong><\/a>, and <strong>Tezuka Productions<\/strong> (although &#8220;many other surprise entrants&#8221; have also been teased). The game is presented as a traditional fighting game, but instead of pressing buttons to kick and punch, competitors arrange falling crystals into matching colours to clear them from the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so will inflict attacks on your opponents, and those opponents will be made up of a star-studded cast of 19 different playable characters from the games mentioned above and more. You can see some of these stars in the game&#8217;s opening cinematic below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aKqxBwqOlwI?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Have you been looking forward to this one? Will you be grabbing a copy when it arrives on Switch next year? Let us know with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WNIx7LRmUtQ?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Previously expected to arrive in &#8220;fall 2018&#8221;, Crystal Crisis now has a new Switch release date of 23rd April 2019. If you&#8217;ve missed the news on this one, Crystal Crisis is a colour-matching combat game featuring fan favourite characters from the likes of Cave Story, The Binding of Isaac, and Tezuka Productions (although [&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-67160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67160","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=67160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}