Nintendo Switch, October 2021: the best games of the month

Nintendo Switch, October 2021

Metroid Dread debuts on Nintendo Switch in October 2021 with a two-dimensional episode that puts us back in the armor of Samus Aran, grappling with an exciting adventure set after the events of Metroid Fusion. What threat will the crafty intergalactic bounty hunter face?

The list of the best games of the month also includes the rich collection of Mario Party Superstars minigames, the atmosphere and brilliant dialogue of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, the unmissable Legacy Edition of FIFA 22 and the cloud experience of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

FIFA 22

FIFA 22, Mbappé prepares to receive the ball Out October 1st

The new edition of the EA Sports football game has arrived: FIFA 22 opens the month of October and tries to involve us in an experience as usual fun and multifaceted, although on Nintendo Switch users will have to settle for now traditional Legacy Edition.

Struggling with the long and exciting Career mode or the inevitable challenges of FIFA Ultimate Team, we will be able to count on the presence of thousands of real players and official competitions such as the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Eur opa Conference League and the CONMEBOL Libertadores. The FIFA 22 review.

Metroid Dread, an image by Samus Aran Out October 8

Developed by MercurySteam, Metroid Dread finally carries Samus Aran's story forward after the events of Metroid Fusion, with a two-dimensional episode that aims to rework the classic mechanisms of the series but also to introduce original ideas to involve us in a new, exciting space adventure.

Sent to the planet ZDR in search of traces of Parasite X, Samus will have to defend herself from the attack of the robots sent before her in advance, controlled by a hostile will, as part of a campaign that will see her acquire new skills and use them to reach previously inaccessible areas, as is traditional for the metroidvania genre.

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, a look at the game's settings Out October 12

After the great success on PC and PlayStation, the extraordinary investigative RPG developed by ZA / UM also debuts on Nintendo Switch in October with Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, an even richer version and complete the game. Under the command of a detective suffering from amnesia, we will have the opportunity to build his personality in an original and multifaceted way throughout history.

Artistically inspired, Disco Elysium boasts an enormous amount of dialogue, the most of which are really brilliant, which offer an unparalleled degree of freedom and further enrich a very solid narrative system, full of original and sometimes crazy ideas that nevertheless work great, as we wrote in the review of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut.

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, the full team Out October 26

After Marvel's Avengers, Square Enix and Eidos Montreal try to take advantage of another major official license with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. These are not the Guardians of the Galaxy we saw in the cinema, of course, but a new version of these iconic heroes, once again grappling with missions with a ... galactic breath.

At the command of the shrewd Star- Lord we will have to use our skills in battle to defeat increasingly dangerous opponents, also taking advantage of the moves of our teammates, and avert a disaster potentially capable of destroying entire worlds. We'll also find ourselves making decisions that will change the course of events, just as befits a real adventure!

Mario Party Superstars

Mario Party Superstars, a ball-based minigame. neve Released October 29th

Mario Party Superstars aims to relaunch the classic formula of the Nintendo series, as part of a collection that includes as many as one hundred minigames to play with friends locally or online, featuring a system control that can exploit the peculiarities of the Joy-Con or the physical buttons to ensure compatibility even with Nintendo Switch Lite.

From Peach's Birthday Cake mode of the original Mario Party to the crazy atmosphere of the Space Station board , from the Wooded Forest to the Tropical Island of Yoshi, we will be able to count on a huge amount of content and have fun rediscovering the challenges that made the historic party game with Mario and his comrades famous. pagni.

Other games out October 2021

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, out October 7 Tetris Effect: Connected, out October 8 Crysis Remastered Trilogy, out October 15 The Good Life, out October 15 Nerf Legends, out October 19 Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water, out October 28 Hotel Transylvania: Adventures of Fear, out October

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