Astral Chain

Astral Chain is the strangest thing Nintendo has published on Switch, a PlatinumGames detective-action hybrid where you control your character and a tethered Legion creature in the same button press. I'm not usually a character-action player, my combat instincts come from years of Call of Duty campaigns rather than combo strings. It punished me. Repeatedly, and fairly. The dual-control combat takes real hours to click, longer than anything else on this list asks of a newcomer. Once it clicks, juggling enemies between agent and Legion feels like nothing else on Switch. It's an outlier here, edgier and more demanding than Nintendo's usual output, worth a look if the rest of this list feels too familiar.