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Nintendo Switch First-Party Review Revisits

Flip Wars

by Syrenne McNulty - February 6, 2025, 2:55 pm EST

If Nintendo releases a digital game in the forest and a tree fell and killed it, did it really live?

Alright so this is one where Syrenne gets to go solo. Flip Wars is certainly a video game. It did come out on Nintendo Switch and yes - Nintendo did publish it in the west. That did happen. It originally came out in August 2017 and our review from Daan Koopman said "Flip Wars has the heart of a good multiplayer game, but it lacks a full feature set." With that in mind, it makes sense only Syrenne is showing up for this review revisit.


4 out of 10

Syrenne McNulty: Flip Wars is an incredibly mediocre downloadable game to the point where I genuinely have no idea what Nintendo saw in this.

I couldn't even picture them publishing this on Wii U, let alone on Nintendo Switch. As a launch game, it's a completely fine question mark. You just run around and flip tiles. It feels like a Mario Party mini-game, but they sell it to you for real money as a standalone product. Also the netplay isn't good when you can even find other players, but really you can't find other players. I remember seeing the early footage and assuming there had to be something interesting here for Nintendo to have picked it up, so I downloaded it from the Japanese eShop when it came out there first and I was so thoroughly underwhelmed that I uninstalled the game and put it out of my mind.

Talkback

EnnerFebruary 17, 2025

The true hot takes here!

I recall former GameSpot reviews edition Pete Brown reviewing the game as a 7 on GameSpot (the expected fanaticism reaction followed).

I've finished the main game within a year of it's release. Try as I might, I think this game is worse than I will admit to myself. I've bought all the Xenoblade releases and expansions since then, but only managed to finish Future Connected. I think playing XB2 with a somewhat completionist mind set burnt me out from the series.

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