{"id":94267,"date":"2019-05-29T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/verlet_swing_arrives_on_switch_in_a_fortnight_with_a_bucketful_of_weird"},"modified":"2019-05-29T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:30:00","slug":"verlet-swing-arrives-on-switch-in-a-fortnight-with-a-bucketful-of-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/verlet-swing-arrives-on-switch-in-a-fortnight-with-a-bucketful-of-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Verlet Swing Arrives On Switch In A Fortnight With A Bucketful Of Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/022cfa99974e9\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/022cfa99974e9\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=URv4qHFp0Zw?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>Well this is an odd one. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/verlet_swing\">Verlet Swing<\/a><\/strong> is coming to Switch in two weeks and appears to be a first-person fusion of <strong>Spider-Man<\/strong> and Salvador Dali. Sure, why not?<\/p>\n<p>Coming from Flamebait Games, it&#8217;s described as &#8216;an eccentric world where weird stuff happens&#8217;. It appears that you use a grappling hook to swing around surrealist environments filled with statues, marine life and floating foodstuffs. You swing around 100 levels carefully navigating the bizarre gauntlet &#8211; colliding with any piece of the dreamscape means instant death.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s been available on PC for a while, but beyond these surreal pics and the trailer above from last year, there&#8217;s not a lot to go on. Intriguing!<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/games\/detail\/verlet-swing-switch\/\">Nintendo&#8217;s website<\/a> the key features are as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; 100 levels of fast-paced swinging action<br \/>&#8211; Increasingly surreal levels to swing through<br \/>&#8211; Progressively difficult gameplay. Only the best of swingers will reach the final levels!<br \/>&#8211; Test your swinging skills with leaderboards and Challenges mode<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Switch VerletSwing 01\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bad8a57144da1\/switch-verletswing-01.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bad8a57144da1\/switch-verletswing-01.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Switch VerletSwing 01\"><\/a><a title=\"Switch VerletSwing 02\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/afa6432243ce6\/switch-verletswing-02.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/afa6432243ce6\/switch-verletswing-02.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Switch VerletSwing 02\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Switch VerletSwing 03\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e508551da6bad\/switch-verletswing-03.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e508551da6bad\/switch-verletswing-03.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Switch VerletSwing 03\"><\/a><a title=\"Switch VerletSwing 04\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/24c2c39196d37\/switch-verletswing-04.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/24c2c39196d37\/switch-verletswing-04.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Switch VerletSwing 04\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;re still trying to to work out if this one is trying too hard, or not trying hard enough. That said, the Steam version has got a Very Positive rating at the time of writing, so it might be worth investigating this oddity when it launches in two weeks&#8217; time. It&#8217;ll cost you $14.99 to dive into this dream \/ nightmare of flying fish, pizza and Polybius, and perhaps it&#8217;ll satisfy the Spider-Man fantasies we&#8217;ve been having since the PS4 game came out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Does this interest you or does it look like someone went to a Dali exhibition and got a bit carried away with themselves? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=URv4qHFp0Zw?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Well this is an odd one. Verlet Swing is coming to Switch in two weeks and appears to be a first-person fusion of Spider-Man and Salvador Dali. Sure, why not? Coming from Flamebait Games, it&#8217;s described as &#8216;an eccentric world where weird stuff happens&#8217;. 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