Developer Tribute Games has announced that its acrobatic, intergalactic pirate adventure Flinthook will be coming to Nintendo Switch next week on March 9th.Flinthook is a roguelike action platformer - with a wonderfully chunky, pseudo-retro art style - which casts you as the lovable spacefaring scallywag, Captain Flinthook. The jury still seems to be out on whether he's an actual ghost pirate or just has a sheet on his head.
Broadly speaking, your goal is navigate and plunder an increasingly elaborate array of space galleons - procedurally generated dungeons consisting of smallish, arena-like stages. To aid in your pillaging, you're armed with a plasma gun and a hookshot, enabling you to latch onto notches around a stage in order to zip about with reckless, adventurous abandon.
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