Today’s Nintendo Switch Partner Direct has revealed a new exclusive for Switch 2 — bizarre-looking dinosaur survival game Tokyo Scramble.
While a trailer shown during the Partner Direct focused on tension, and the fact that protagonist Anne has to rely on setting traps for survival, a subsequent video posted by Binary Haze takes a more light-hearted approach.
In a montage of scenes we see a dinosaur (officially here called a “Zino”) getting stuck going the wrong way up an escalator, as Anne makes a quip about its daily steps. Further clips show dinosaurs getting pelted with beach balls, repeatedly flattened and set on fire by various objects, electrocuted by a tripwire, rammed by a minecart and yanked off by a robot arm. Honestly, it’s enough to make you feel sorry for them.
As well as hairy velociraptors, other Zino species include one that looks like a vampire bat, and another hairy creature that looks a cross between a dragon and that thing from The Neverending Story.
“A life-or-death struggle begins deep below Tokyo, where clear thinking and split-second decisions could make all the difference,” reads an official blurb. “You play as Anne, a survivor who finds herself in a network of subterranean caverns overrun by Zino – mysterious creatures that resemble dinosaurs. Use stealth, strategy, quick thinking and unwavering determination to escape the prehistoric world alive.”
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the game is your ability to share control with up to three other players across Switch and Switch 2 consoles via GameShare. Here, control of Anne’s movement, actions, abilities and even the game’s camera can be portioned out to a group.
Tokyo Scramble launches exclusively for Switch 2 on February 11 via the Nintendo eShop. For much more, here’s everything announced in today’s Nintendo Partner Direct.
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