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A Switch 2 unique will embrace an odd and questionable use of the system’s GameShare characteristic, permitting as much as 4 gamers to share management of the identical character. Tokyo Scramble, a survival puzzle recreation about avoiding dinosaurs in an city setting, was introduced on the February Nintendo Direct Associate Showcase, and it launches subsequent week on February 11.
Printed by Binary Haze Interactive, Tokyo Scramble has gamers management Anne as she makes an attempt to outlive an underground labyrinth beneath Tokyo after catastrophe strikes. It is populated with lethal creatures referred to as Zino, that are actually simply dinosaurs. Gameplay footage reveals a third-person perspective with no fight, with the motion specializing in stealth and setting traps to incapacitate these stalking beasts.
However the gimmick showcased within the Direct is the choice to share controls with different gamers by GameShare. By means of wi-fi play, gamers can select to manage Anne’s motion, actions, and even the digital camera. Historically a characteristic reserved for multiplayer titles, incorporating GameShare for a single-player recreation is a extremely uncommon use case.
It is tough to think about why anybody would need to do that besides to expertise the sheer novelty and absurdity of the characteristic. It is like having 4 completely different individuals all having a hand on one controller, which might’t probably be something however chaos. It is virtually like a smaller-scale model of Twitch Performs Pokemon.
Tokyo Scramble comes from Binary Haze Interactive, which printed the darkish fantasy metroidvania Ender Magnolia: Bloom within the Mist in January. Preorders for the $30 title are actually dwell on the Nintendo eShop.
The February 2026 Associate Showcase offered glimpses of different third-party video games coming to Switch methods, with AAA choices together with Resident Evil Requiem, which runs remarkably on Switch 2, Remaining Fantasy VII Rebirth, and a number of other Bethesda-published video games.