{"id":781,"date":"2025-05-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:09:58","slug":"feature-the-yoyo-was-special-finding-the-gba-magic-in-pipistrello-and-the-cursed-yoyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/feature-the-yoyo-was-special-finding-the-gba-magic-in-pipistrello-and-the-cursed-yoyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: &#8220;The Yoyo Was Special&#8221; &#8211; Finding The GBA Magic In &#039;Pipistrello And The Cursed Yoyo&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scoot over, Ness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had our eyes on this long-lost GBA-looking adventure ever since we first discovered it at Gamescom <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZionDood\/status\/1826268852617126059\">back in 2024<\/a>. The combat, movement, and visuals instantly reminded us of the handheld Zelda entries, but instead of a sword, the main protagonist uses a yoyo to dispatch foes and solve loads of puzzles. You&#8217;ve also got a spunky, blue bat protagonist that looks like they jumped straight out of the SNES era. What&#8217;s not to love here?!<\/p>\n<p>Pocket Trap&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pipistrello_and_the_cursed_yoyo\">Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo<\/a> comes to Switch this week, and to celebrate we linked up with the Game Director and Lead Programmer <strong>Henrique Lorenzi<\/strong> to ask some questions about his love for yoyos, Nintendo&#8217;s games, and Yoko Shimomura.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/the-yoyo-was-special-finding-the-gba-magic-in-pipistrello-and-the-cursed-yoyo\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scoot over, Ness. We&#8217;ve had our eyes on this long-lost GBA-looking adventure ever since we first discovered it at Gamescom back in 2024. The combat, movement, and visuals instantly reminded us of the handheld Zelda entries, but instead of a sword, the main protagonist uses a yoyo to dispatch foes and solve loads of puzzles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}