Sorry Tears of the Kingdom, the real Switch game of the year just came out: a $5 standalone game where you play by sticking your Joy-Con into a real roll of toilet paper.
Give me toilet paper! just released on the Switch eShop (opens in a new tab) worldwide for $5, or your regional equivalent. Basically, it’s a platform game where you send a roll of toilet paper through a maze filled with rotating saws, trapdoors, spikes, lasers, and other obstacles. In the end, you’re trying to give that toilet paper to some unfortunate businessman who desperately needs it.
The trick Give me toilet paper! is that you control that rolling by sticking your Joy-Con in real toilet paper. You then take the large sheet of cardboard that each player prepared and use it to roll up the paper to move the counterpart around in-game. You just need to put some fabric in there to keep the Joy-Con stable. All of the game’s trailers seem to be in Japanese, but I think this demo video transcends language barriers.
Sure, a game about desperately needing toilet paper might trigger bad memories of living at the start of a pandemic, but that’s a new concept. I want to publicly thank GSK and Twitter (opens in a new tab) for spotlighting a game that I’m still not sure is built on genius or madness.
Developer Takahiro Miyazawa is a lonely indie developer who’s released a handful of Switch puzzle games before this one, not to mention a whole library of games with crazy control schemes (opens in a new tab). If we launch a whole new genre of toilet paper games, I expect Miyazawa’s influence will spread throughout the gaming industry.
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