Nintendo Switch: 10 Third-Party Franchises We Need To See

4. Fantasy Life

Fantasy Life
Level-5

Why Nintendo insists on continuing to withhold Animal Crossing games from their consoles is beyond me. And no, that trifling little party game on the Wii U doesn't count as an Animal Crossing game anymore than Metroid Prime: Federation Force does as Samus' long-awaited return.

Thankfully, the folks at developer Level-5 cooked up a suitable pinch-hitter a few years back: Fantasy Life. This isn't a review, so I'll give you the short version: Fantasy Life, released for 3DS in 2014, is basically Animal Crossing with a dollop of Zelda and a dash of the grind and customization you'd expect from an MMORPG, if you can believe it. It has online co-op, bosses to fight, dungeons to loot, houses to furnish and meals to cook. It is most definitely a grind but it's also quite a lot of fun, and a Switch-ready installment would be just lovely.

At the very least, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better application for the Switch's portability.

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A freelance games writer, you say? Typically battling his current RPG addiction and ceaseless perfectionism? A fan of horror but too big a sissy to play for more than a couple of hours? Spends far too much time on JRPGs and gets way too angry with card games? Well that doesn't sound anything like me.