{"id":9510,"date":"2018-01-04T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/take_the_scares_with_you_as_nightmare_boy_hits_switch_this_month"},"modified":"2018-01-04T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T22:30:00","slug":"take-the-scares-with-you-as-nightmare-boy-hits-switch-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/04\/take-the-scares-with-you-as-nightmare-boy-hits-switch-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Take The Scares With You As Nightmare Boy Hits Switch This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/take_the_scares_with_you_as_nightmare_boy_hits_switch_this_month\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/take_the_scares_with_you_as_nightmare_boy_hits_switch_this_month\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo Switch continues to prove itself as the place to be in 2018 as The Vanir Project&#8217;s nightmarish platformer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/nightmare_boy\">Nightmare Boy<\/a><\/strong> gets a handheld release date. Best of all, you&#8217;ll be able to spook up a storm in less than a fortnite with the monster mash hitting the Switch eShop on 16th January.<\/p>\n<p>This Spanish-made indie takes that well-worn Metroidvania template (because, let&#8217;s be honest, you&#8217;re not a cool 2D platformer these days if you don&#8217;t have open-ended level design) and sprinkles in a horror-inspired nightmare setting, giant bosses and a consequence-based system that sees the gameworld drastically transformed by NPCs and their actions.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re in the mood for a scary romp in 2D, you&#8217;ll be able to download Nightmare Boy from 16th Jan with a \u00a38.99\/$8.99 price tag. Suitably spooked by this Spanish indie? Share your horror stories below&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Switch continues to prove itself as the place to be in 2018 as The Vanir Project&#8217;s nightmarish platformer Nightmare Boy gets a handheld release date. Best of all, you&#8217;ll be able to spook up a storm in less than a fortnite with the monster mash hitting the Switch eShop on 16th January. This Spanish-made [&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-9510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510","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=9510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}