Nintendo is ending the first month of 2025 with three deep cuts in the Super Famicom library, and one of them is extra special.
Sutte Hakkun was developed by Nintendo’s R&D1 Team alongside indieszero, all the way back in 1997. It’s a puzzle platformer game with really strange mechanics, and what is possibly Nintendo’s strangest character, Hakkun.
Hakkun looks like a cross between a platypus and a hummingbird, and is also completely transparent. Hakkun can use its beak to sip liquids colored red, yellow, and blue. It uses that ability to put those colors into blocks, so they can move either up and down, side by side, or diagonally. He can also sip those blocks to move them around.
If you can get your head around this wacky concept, you can then puzzle your brain even further with a series of levels where Hakkun uses these abilities to reach and grab rainbow shards. Nintendo managed to normalize a plumber flying in a raccoon suit, and a pink marshmallow that swallows things whole, but this one might have been too hard a sell for everyone outside Japan in 1997.
Sadly, that may have been part of the reason Nintendo never released this game outside Japan until now. This isn’t a very long game, but it’s been a longtime oddity and obscurity, and now you can just download it on your Switch to check it out.
Coming alongside it is the SNES version of Fatal Fury 2. Now, you may feel that this port is unnecessary, because Hamster ported the arcade version of the game to the Switch as a standalone title for cheap. But it is at least historically important, and so some older fans might like to relive the experience of this port in particular.
Fatal Fury 2 was the second game release on the Neo Geo MVS in their 100-Mega Shock series, showing more personality and exciting new gameplay to rival Street Fighter 2 in the arcades. While the SNES only had a fraction of the Neo Geo’s power, SNK made a very good port with some smart choices. It looks and sounds like the arcade original, even if the audio is muffled and it has just a little more loading time between matches. Unlike their port of the first Fatal Fury to the SNES, this game has controls as responsive as they are on the arcades. It’s a fine version of the game if you don’t want to spring extra for the standalone version.
Finally, Super Ninja Boy is another strange little game with at least one gimmick worth trying out. It’s an action RPG where your random enemy encounters turn into small beat-em-up encounters. Unfortunately, because it was made in the 1990s, you run into too many enemies and have no way of avoiding them.
But Culture Brain’s interesting gimmick is that Super Ninja Boy lets a second player drop in at anytime. So if you have a friend or a relative who wants to play with you, and is willing to try something weird and old, this is the game you’re looking for.
You can watch the Switch Online trailer for these games below.
