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Verlet Swing Arrives On Switch In A Fortnight With A Bucketful Of Weird

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<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>
<p>Coming from Flamebait Games, it’s described as ‘an eccentric world where weird stuff happens’. 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 – colliding with any piece of the dreamscape means instant death.</p>
<p>The game’s been available on PC for a while, but beyond these surreal pics and the trailer above from last year, there’s not a lot to go on. Intriguing!</p>
<p>On <a href="https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/verlet-swing-switch/">Nintendo’s website</a> the key features are as follows:</p>
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<p>– 100 levels of fast-paced swinging action<br />– Increasingly surreal levels to swing through<br />– Progressively difficult gameplay. Only the best of swingers will reach the final levels!<br />– Test your swinging skills with leaderboards and Challenges mode</p>
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<p>We’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’ time. It’ll cost you $14.99 to dive into this dream / nightmare of flying fish, pizza and Polybius, and perhaps it’ll satisfy the Spider-Man fantasies we’ve been having since the PS4 game came out.</p>
<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>
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