Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers will be getting another Nintendo 64 game next week when Pokemon Puzzle League becomes the latest title to be added to the library. However, the game won’t be appearing in Japan where NSO members will get Custom Robo and Custom Robo V2 instead.
Pokemon Puzzle League arrives in Nintendo Switch Online next week
Pokemon Puzzle League will be added to the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack next Friday, July 15. Ash is selected to be one of the challengers in the Puzzle League Tournament where trainers take on each other in a standard match-3 puzzle game, although there’s also a 3D mode where matches happen on a cylinder that rotates. The Pokemon game will become the 17th N64 game to be included in the Expansion Pack, joining games like the recently-released Pokemon Snap, although no mainline Pokemon games are available through either the base Nintendo Switch Online service or the Expansion Pack at the moment. If the rumored Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulators are indeed coming to Nintendo Switch, there’s a chance for some of the games to join the service in the future.
Japanese gamers will not be getting Pokemon Puzzle League, which was never released in the region. Those players will get Custom Robo and Custom Robo V2 as an alternative, which are the final two games to be released from the batch of titles revealed during Nintendo Switch Online’s announcement. Some players are calling for Panel de Pon to also be released, a Japan-exclusive title that inspired the gameplay found in Pokemon Puzzle League, but no announcements have been made so far.
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