Month: April 2018

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Top New Games Out This Month On Switch And PS4 — April

April is home to some very heavy hitters, and I don’t just mean the literal batting cages found in Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. This month also marks the return of Kratos in God of War and a new cardboard experiment with Nintendo Labo. The Switch is also getting two big ports: the superhero antics of South Park: The Fractured But Whole, and the anime fighter Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy.

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life — April 17

Available on: PS4

The next chapter in Kazuma Kiryu’s life sees him balancing a criminal past with raising a baby–the child of his own adopted daughter Haruka, who’s in a coma after a hit-and-run. Kiryu must investigate what happened, all the while throwing down in street fights and engaging in the series’ trademark minigames.

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God of War — April 20

Available on: PS4

Speaking of taking care of kids, Kratos has a son named Atreus. He’ll accompany the demigod as he battles the Norse pantheon in a new, much more open adventure. There are bigger areas to explore and optional bosses to take down as Kratos finds more outlets for this untamable rage.

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Nintendo Labo — April 20

Available on: Switch

Nintendo Labo is a unique concept: build peripherals called Toy-Cons from cardboard, then use them to play minigames. There are cardboard blueprints included, but the real hook is building any contraption you want, then programming it to work with the Joy-Cons using the Toy-Con Garage mode.

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South Park: The Fractured But Whole — April 24

Available on: Switch

On the not-so-kid-friendly side, the latest South Park adventure is coming to Switch this month. This sequel sees the residents of South Park dressing up as superheroes, and as the new kind in town, you can pick your own superpowers and choose a side.

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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy — April 26

Available on: Switch

The Switch is also getting a port of the popular anime fighting game starring everyone’s favorite ninja. This trilogy includes Ultimate Ninja Storm 1, 2, and 3, plus a bunch of previously DLC costumes and episodes. Note that not every single piece of DLC is included.

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Hyrule’s Funniest Home Videos — The Best Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Even a year later, it’s not uncommon to come across astonishing videos of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Nintendo created a game with an incredible series of interlinking systems that can result in all sorts of weird, fun, and wild stuff. And where there’s a world where hijinks can ensue, there must be silly and funny video recordings.

Rather than convince you that you can ride a Guardian or something of the sort again this year, we’ve instead gone a different route for April Fools’ Day. We present to you Hyrule’s Funniest Home Videos–a take on the long-running clip show, featuring some of our favorite moments from Breath of the Wild. We even have our own spin on the theme song–sorry in advance that it’ll be stuck in your head later.

You can watch the full video above. Be sure to share your own favorite Breath of the Wild moments with us as well. Sadly, many of the best may have been lost, as Nintendo didn’t enable Switch’s built-in video capture feature until late in 2017, and the Wii U version doesn’t offer that at all. Still, there’s been no shortage of cool and delightful stuff to come out of the game, as we think the video highlights.