
Update [Tue 22nd Aug, 2023 16:55 BST]: GameMill Entertainment has confirmed that Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance does indeed launch on Switch and other consoles on 22nd September.
The date popped up on the Switch eShop just over a week ago, and now the publisher has confirmed that the date is, indeed, correct. The upcoming action-adventure game will let you relive the storyline of the Avatar: The Last Airbender show, and you can play in both single-player or co-op.
Here are some more details from the game's press release, along with some brand new screenshots:
Relive unforgettable moments from the Avatar series while navigating fun and challenging puzzles based on the four elements. Explore key locations across the four nations as you interact with iconic characters, complete side quests, upgrade your abilities, and defeat the adversaries from the Fire Nation. Made with family play in mind, journey solo or together in exciting two-player local and online co-op as nine different characters.
Key Features
- Embrace Your Destiny and experience Aang’s original adventure. Replay any of the 18 thrilling chapters whenever you choose to relive your favorite moments from the series.
- Explore the World of Avatar as you travel to the four corners of the elemental lands solo, or in local and online co-op, as nine different playable characters, including Aang, Toph, Sokka, and Katara.
- Master the Elements by completing complex puzzles utilizing bending and the unique abilities of water, earth, fire, and air.
- Restore Balance to the World by using your upgradable elemental abilities and a mix of bending-based combos to defeat the adversarial soldiers of the Fire Nation.
The game will cost £39.99 / $49.99 on Switch. For more details on the original release date rumour, check out our story below...
Original Article [Fri 11th Aug, 2023 17:30 BST]: GameMill Entertainment are busy right now, what with promoting Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2. The publisher is also due to launch Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance sometime this fall, and if a new eShop listing is to be believed, its release is pretty soon.
Browsing the Nintendo UK Switch eShop, we noticed a brand new game page for the upcoming action game — launching on Switch among other platforms. And on the page, there's a release date of 22nd September 2023 listed. Well, we didn't know that before, did we?
GameMill Entertainment hasn't confirmed anything yet, but the release date is listed on both the UK and North American eShop. Of course, that could change — and we'll wait for GameMill to confirm before we're 100% certain that date is correct.
For a quick refresher, here's what to expect from Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance:
Relive the epic adventure of the original Avatar: The Last Airbender series, as you play as Aang and his friends and master the elements, explore the most unique locations from the series, solve challenging environmental puzzles and experience the most heart touching moments of Aang’s story. Play the story solo or with a friend through the game’s unique two-player co-op mode. Embrace Your Destiny and experience Aang’s original adventure. Replay any of the 18 thrilling chapters whenever you choose to experience your favorite moments from the series.
Explore the World of Avatar and travel across the four nations through a 1-2 player co-op 18 chapter adventure.
Play as 9 iconic characters including Aang, Toph, Sokka, and Katara.
Unlock the Mysteries and navigate challenging puzzles using bending and the unique abilities of water, earth, fire and air; upgrade your abilities throughout the story to unleash the full potential of Avatar!
Are you looking forward to Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance on Switch? Let us know in the comments.
[source nintendo.co.uk]
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How is this news? When the game was announced and went up for preorder back in June, it showed a street date of 9/22.
@AlanaHagues What kind of game is this? Action-Adventure? RPG? Platformer? Beat Em' Up? I personally hope it's Action-Adventure like the trilogy on Wii, those were actually pretty good games!
Avatar The Last Airbender is my favorite Western animated show ever. I wish this game was of a higher quality for such a masterpiece.
@LilyGoMEOW Action-adventure, so I'm sure it'll be in the same vein as those Wii games hopefully, anyway!
@AlanaHagues seeing the trailer, you might be right on the money. Many Zelda-esque puzzle solving skills that also look like combat moves.
Maybe it will be something like Okami. Imagine a game a magnitude of Okami coming in 2023. It would be the force that would make the gaming industry cogs spinning again
Aang’s mouth looks… off… in that picture. Like, it’s too far off to the side or something.
I want this game to be good SO BADLY. I know some of the animations look rough, but the character models are on point and I think the overall art direction is quite good. Many of the environments look really pretty. The game was leaked one year ago and was rumored to come out last fall, so they've had plenty of time to polish it up. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 is looking so good that I'm going to put my faith in Game Mill to deliver a good Avatar game and not licensed shovelware.
18 chapters is a pretty sizeable amount; that means you'll be playing through like a third of the show--arguably more, considering a lot of the 60 episodes are two-parters. From the trailers we can see: Sozin's Comet, The Day of Black Sun, The Waterbending Master, The Winter Solstice, Crossroads of Destiny and potentially other Ba Sing Se episodes, The Runaway (bit of an odd choice, although I guess that's where you'll fight Combustion Man), Return to Omashu (pretty sure Aang is trying to open the sewer passage in one clip), The Firebending Masters (Aang is wearing his outfit from the second half of season 3 and is in some sort of ruins, so that has to be it), Kiyoshi Island, The Western Air Temple, The Boiling Rock, The Blind Bandit, The Boy in the Iceberg / The Avatar Returns, and The Drill (brief shot of Momo on Aang's shoulder with a rock wall behind them).
That's at least 14 episodes represented, and the variety is quite good. All the important ones you'd want to include, although The Runaway wouldn't have been my first choice. I hope we still get to see The Swamp, Jet, The Southern Air Temple, The Library, and The Desert. These are all must-haves, in my opinion.
I hope multiple episodes will be combined into a single "chapter," like if all three episodes that take place in the Northern Water Tribe are just one level, that would still leave 17 more episodes in different locations. If they do that, they could end up covering most of the show, save for filler episodes like Nightmares and Daydreams, The Ember Island Players, and The Great Divide.
It's also coming out much sooner than anticipated! Which is good because October and November are jam-packed. This will be the perfect game to play during the lull of September.
Edit: I just checked the eShop, and it has extra screenshots we haven't seen before. It might reveal another Air Temple level, although I can't say for certain.
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I was thinking the same thing
My mind is ready for this. A physical copy that is.
Im gonna grab this on switch and xbox, anyone wanna go penguin sledding with me?
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Still really hoping this game will be good.
Will you lovely people at NintendoLife be reviewing it? I'd like to read your take on this game.
@Yosher I recall Alex Olney mentioning in a video a long time ago that he was a big fan of the show. Would love to see him be the one to review it. I honestly don't really watch NL videos much since Jon left, but that would certainly get me to tune in. Just sayin'...
Who is your favourite Avatar characters?
Mine is Azula and Combustion Man (also known as Sparky Sparky Boom Man).
Would be nice if Nickelodeon would include Aang in TMNT Shredder's Revenge. After all Nickelodeon already had the rights to the TMNT property, why they aren't adding some of their own contents to game is anyone's guess.
This can't look any worse. We need to demand better.
Is probably going to be mildly garbage... GameMill isn't exactly known for good quality games, but I suppose is worth checking out. Hopefully is better than we expect it to be.
I feel for a franchise like Avatar, really feels like it deserves better. It is probably up there with Danny Phantom for series' that probably won't get super high quality video games.
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