Developer Arika Publisher Nintendo Format Switch Release Out now
Arika has been working with Nintendo for two decades now, but even the Shinagawa-based studio must have been surprised when it got the call to make a new entry in its genteel scuba-diving series. It has, after all, been 17 years since the Wii original and 14 since follow-up Adventures Of The Deep.
Perhaps, though, its resurrection is about more than just a trawl through the archives, the delay to Switch’s successor having left Nintendo – keeping its biggest guns in reserve for its arrival – with an empty release calendar to fill. An audience that looks back on their Wii