{"id":61162,"date":"2025-08-12T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61162\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:04:10","slug":"this-super-punch-out-style-game-is-on-the-way-to-switch-heres-a-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61162\/","title":{"rendered":"This Super Punch-Out!! Style Game Is On The Way To Switch, Here’s A Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Update [Tue 12th Aug 2025, 6:55am]: Following this title’s announcement in March, according to a listing on the eShop, B<\/a>aki Hanma: Blood Arena<\/a> is bringing the fight to Switch next month on 11th September 2025, for $29.99 (or your regional equivalent). It’s got an estimated file size of 2.1 GB.<\/p>\n

Along with this is the official Nintendo page description and a gameplay preview (above):<\/p>\n

Step into the shoes of Baki Hanma in this action-packed 2D anime fighting game.<\/p>\n

Enter the brutal world of Baki Hanma: Blood Arena, a thrilling 2D action game inspired by the anime phenomenon Baki.<\/p>\n

With gameplay reminiscent of classic fighting titles, this game blends precision, timing, and shonen-style flair to deliver a high-energy combat experience.<\/p>\n

You can find out a bit more about this game in our original story below:<\/p>\n

Original Story: [Thu 6th Mar, 2025 02:30 GMT]:<\/p>\n

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The manga series Baki the Grappler will be getting a Super Punch-Out!!<\/a> style 2D action game for Switch this September.<\/p>\n

This particular entry, officially known as B<\/a>aki Hanma: Blood Arena<\/a>, is based on the Netflix anime and is published by Purple Play and developed by Purple Tree, who also worked on the Punch-Out!!<\/a> style game Thunder Ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a bit about what you can expect:<\/p>\n

“Enter the brutal world of Baki Hanma: Blood Arena, a thrilling 2D action game inspired by the Netflix anime phenomenon Baki. With gameplay reminiscent of the classic Super Punch-Out!!, this game blends precision, timing, and shonen-style flair to deliver a high-energy combat experience.<\/p>\n

“Are you ready to step into the arena and claim your place as the strongest? Only the most skilled and determined will conquer the Blood Arena.”<\/p>\n

In terms of key features, there are “12 unique opponents”, five locations to fight across, special attacks to unleash, an original soundtrack with a custom score, and an “epic final showdown”. You can see the game in action in the announcement trailer.<\/p>\n

\"Baki\"\/<\/a>Image: via Gematsu<\/p>\n

Would you be interested in a game like this on Switch? Tell us in the comments.<\/p>\n

[source gematsu.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tRelated Games<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube830k Update [Tue 12th Aug 2025, 6:55am]: Following this title’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,32922,392,137,1106,86,56,54,55,377],"class_list":["post-61162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-manga","tag-netflix","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-switch-eshop","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}