[Kit] -Drumroll, please... The Touryst!
[cheery synth music] [Krysta] -Oh! -I love chunky peanut butter!
-That's what I'm saying. -How did you know?
[Krysta] -He needs the Nintendo Minute “drop the beat.”
The Nintendo Minute drop the beat.
[Krysta in slow motion] -Drop the beat.
[Nintendo Minute jingle]
[cheery synth music] [Krysta] -Hi guys, welcome back to Nintendo Minute.
[Krysta] -Today, we are doing another eShop swap,
[Krysta] -it's hard to say that.
a very fun summer twist. -Yes. -It is summer.
Um, you know, we both like summer things. -The twist is summer.
-Especially you. The twist is that it's a seasonal thing.
Um, but we found a couple of games that have, like,
a nice summer vibe for each other to play.
-Now it's been about six months since we did one of these videos,
and we have to do it a little bit different this time, because before,
I actually took your Nintendo Switch,
[Kit] -off into a dark corner and, uh,
[Krysta] -I'd trust you-- -I got, got you the surprise game.
We can't do that this time. Which is too bad. -I know. Last time,
I think I was, I was blindfolded, when I, when the game
was revealed to me, so I can, I can do that right now.
Tell me what this great game you've picked for me is? -All right.
The game that I have chosen for you is,
drumroll please...
-The Touryst. -Oh!
[cheery synth music]
[Kit] -I know. [chuckles]
-Your game is called, drumroll, drumroll, drumroll. Ready?
A Short Hike. -Ooh!
[cheery synth music]
[Kit] -I know that game just came out, and that was in the, uh,
Indie World Showcase. -Yeah. Those are games-- -So these are games
that we do not have yet. So we are going to, on our own,
get our Nintendo Switch and download them,
and we're gonna come back in a little bit and talk about, uh, what we thought of these games.
[music ends] [clock ticking]
[cheery synth music] And we're back. Yes. -We're back.
We played. -Yeah.
Now, it's been a couple hours. Um, in the case of, uh, A Short Hike,
[Kit] -I actually finished the game in that amount of time. [Krysta] -Yes.
[music ends]
[Krysta] -Yeah, the title is representative of the length of the game.
[Kit] -Yes. [laughter] Short as in brief.
[cheery synth music] -When I played it, I was, like, very pleasantly surprised
because it is a very, like, you know, short little game. [music ends]
[Krysta] -It's very simple in the way it's structured.
[Krysta]
[chuckles] [Krysta] -um, named Claire and you're just, like, on this, uh,
[peaceful strings music]
[Krysta]-and she just tells you, "Hey, you should climb to the top of this mountain."
[Krysta] -But along the way, you kind of meet some interesting people
[Krysta] -and you get to do some fun little quests along the way,
[Krysta] -but it's very charming and it's like very, you know,
[Krysta] -definitely has that summer feeling for sure. But what did you think of it?
[Kit] -Yeah. So this is a game that I had heard of, um, going into it,
[cheery synth music] but I had the wrong impression about it entirely.
-Oh. -I thought this was more of the, you know,
kinda walk around and take in some story and it'll kinda, you know,
take you through it. But there's, like, a lot of, like, mechanics to this game.
[relaxing orchestral music]
[Kit] -There's a lot of, um, abilities that you get as you're able to climb further.
[Krysta] -Yup. [Kit] -So it kind of had, like, and there's also
[Kit] -all this aspect of collection where you can go fishing or dig things up.
[Kit] -It kind of felt like, oh, there's some parts
[cheery synth music] of Breath of the Wild that I'm telling here,
-Mm-hmm. -that I'm feeling here. Some parts of Animal Crossing,
-Animal Crossing, yeah. -that I'm feeling here.
I need to sit with this game a little bit more because obviously,
I've just played it now. I feel like this game might be
on my “game of the year” list to some degree. Um, [Krysta] -[gasp]
I loved this game. Yeah. -Wow. That's a, that's a very, um, that's a high compliment.
-Right. -Ah, it's August, and already making
a “game of the year” shortlist. That's amazing. So, yeah, -Yeah. Now.
-I really liked it as well. -Even though I only played this game for a couple hours,
I already have a pro-tip that I wanna share.
-Oh, please. -Which is, um, when you're playing in handheld mode,
there's kind of two graphical options you can choose from.
One looks like this chunky, like, Nintendo DS look, and one is more smooth.
-Yes. -If you're playing it docked,
[Kit] -you actually have four different options of how, [Krysta] -Oh.
[Kit] -how chunky or how smooth you want it to be.
And I, I spent a good amount of time, uh, on all of those.
-Oh. Do you like the chunkier or the smooth? -I like 'em chunky.
-Like peanut butter. -Yeah! Ch-- [chuckles]
I love chunky peanut butter! -That's what I'm saying. -How did you know?
-I feel, like, everyone should like chunky peanut butter,
but that's just my, [laughter]
that's my own, that's my own belief,
-Tangent. -maybe, tangent. It's delicious on some toast,
-on some toast with some, -Welcome to Peanut Butter Minute.
-on some toast with some bananas. It's just like this game,
delicious. -Crunchy Kit and smooth Krysta,
we're here to tell you all our peanut butter taste. -I wanna be crunchy too! No!
-Only one can be crunchy. No. -[sigh]
-All right. Next, The, The Touryst, -All right, onto The Touryst.
-which is spelled with a Y. -Spelled in a, I was just gonna say spell it with a Y.
-If you're searching on eShop, you need to know that. [laughter]
[Krysta] -Yes. Don't be deterred when you spell it the right way and you don't find the game.
[Kit] -Yes. [Krysta] -Spelled with a Y. Um, but this game,
[Krysta] -I was really surprised by how great it looked.
[Krysta] -And it definitely gives off that, like, tropical vacation vibe, like,
[Krysta] -right off the bat. Like, you, the first thing that happens,
[Krysta] -it's not a spoiler, you, um, basically just get to this island on this little boat.
[Krysta] -You're this cute little, like, blocky kinda character, and, uh,
[Krysta] -the person that drives you there on the boat just says, like,
[Krysta] -"Go explore." And doesn't give you, like, any instruction or any sort of,
[Krysta] -you know, complicated, like, tutorial or anything like that.
[Krysta] -You just get to this island and you start, like, kinda walking around,
[Krysta] -talking to people, exploring. There's, like, some mysterious things there.
[Krysta] -Um, and I just, yeah, I love how you can just kind of jump in really fast to this,
like, really cool environment.
-And this is a game where, you know, this has been out for a couple months now,
but I only came to it recently because I'm desperate for these summer games.
[chuckles]
[Kit] -"Well, what kind of a genre is this game in?" I don't know.
[Krysta] -Yeah. [Kit] -Because there's so many different things
[Kit] -that you're doing and there's so many different mechanics.
[Krysta] -That's true. [Kit] -You're sort of exploring the world, um,
[Kit] -there's a lot of mini-games that have their own unique mechanics to them
[Kit] -that are all really fun. [Krysta] -Yep. [Kit] -Um,
[Kit] -there's a lot of talking to different people, so it has that kind of aspect.
[Krysta] -There's an exploration kind of thing.
-personality this, this game has. You get to, -Mm-hmm.
[Kit] -one of these islands, and there's this, like, DJ,
[Kit] -who's having this kinda lame party, and he's like, "Hey, you gotta help me crank it up."
[Kit] -So you have to like, help him plug in his lights, and get his sound machines going.
[Krysta] -He needs the Nintendo Minute “drop the beat”.
Nintendo Minute drop the beat. [Krysta in slow motion] -Drop the beat.
[funky synth techno] ♪ -I love chunky peanut butter. I love chunky p-p-peanut butter♪
♪ -Oh! Oh? Drop the beat. ♪
♪ -Oh-ah! Oh-ah! Oh-ah! ♪
♪ [DJ K. Smooth] -Drop the beat. ♪♪
[cheery synth music] [laughter] -Look, if you need to
drop the beat, come to us. We will help you with that. -We will drop it,
-Yeah. -like you've never seen. [laughter]
-Does he have a pink Nintendo Minute DJ booth on the beach?
I don't think so. Um,
-So was this a success for me? -I think so, and you know, we've had--
-Really? -Yeah. -Wow.
-Really good success, well done. If you guys have tried either of these games,
let us know what you think, or if you guys have suggestions for--
-Other summer games.
[Krysta] -other summer games, yes.
I need to play these games now. -Tell us. We have like,
maybe three and a half more weeks of summer.
I know this is painful for you, but, um, tell us, tell us,
so we can, we can check those games out too.
Yeah. All right. We are going to wrap it up for today and remember:
-Nintendo Minute is never a minute. -We will see you next week.
Bye! -Bye!
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