If you tuned into Nintendo’s Indie World stream yesterday, you’ll little doubt have seen that the superb Hypnospace Outlaw is lastly beaming its method onto consoles in all its fake late 90s glory on August 27th. Its arrival on different platforms additionally brings with it a complete host of neat updates for these of us who’ve already loved it on PC, too, together with over 60 new pages to scroll by way of, two hours of further unique music, new HypnOS apps and games to play, and new customized HypnOS cursor themes.
But the most effective and possibly most unintentional new addition to Tendershoot’s Bestest Best internet sim adventure is that it’s lastly turned my Switch into the final word console. With its new mouse and keyboard assist, the Switch is lastly the moveable PC of my desires.
Look, I even made some GIFs to show it.
I’m so excited I would really explode.
Brilliantly, lead developer Jay Tholen didn’t even realise the Switch model (and certainly all of its console ports) had mouse and keyboard assist till yesterday, and it was actually Nintendo who suggested to publisher No More Robots that they need to embody it.
And it really works like a attraction! I can navigate its many Geocities-esque net pages with my mouse identical to I did on PC, and I also can use my keyboard to kind in search phrases and write notes with, too. In quick, it feels identical to the PC model did when it got here out final yr.
I ought to level out, after all, that solely Hypnospace Outlaw helps mouse and keyboard on Switch for the time being (to my information, no less than), as attempting to navigate the Switch’s residence menu with both a mouse or the arrow keys on my keyboard proved fruitless. Still, the seeds have clearly been planted right here, and I’m keen to wager my total assortment of digital hamsters and Chowder Man MP3s that it’s solely a matter of time earlier than different games comply with go well with.
If you, too, wish to strive Hypnospace Outlaw in your Switch along with your mouse and keyboard, all that you must do is plug them into the dock and away you go. While the game itself doesn’t come out formally till August 27th, there’s a free demo you possibly can obtain proper now if you wish to give it a go.
As Tholen places it in his fairly snazzy new console trailer beneath, now we have most undoubtedly entered into “the dawn of a new era of computing”.
Disclosure: Xalavier Nelson Jr. typically writes for us, and is likely one of the devs of Hypnospace Outlaw.
