Indie “Techno-pop punk” metroidvania title Cookie Cutter Overkill Edition will receive broad platform support with its release on the Nintendo Switch on March 27. The title initially launched on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on December 14, 2023. Gematsu shares that its developer Rogue Games indicated that the title’s new features in Cookie Cutter Overkill Edition would be made available for the existing editions but a confirmed date for these updates has not been given. 

Cookie Cutter Overkill Edition is set within a dystopian world with a power hunger ruler bent on unlocking the secrets of the universe. You assume the role of Cherry, a chainsaw wielding android determined to save her creator Shinji from the evil corporation: Infonet and who’ll destroy anything that gets in her way.

Pressed For Time interviewed lead developer of Cookie Cutter Overkill Edition Stefano Guglielmana and he had this to say about the work involved and time between editions “You know lot of the time people don’t understand. You told me that you recognize all of the artwork, but all of the time people got no idea and and a time lapse like nine months from release to release from switch and to do all of the fixes it looks like a lot of time but when you’re doing the [ __ ],  when you’re doing the work, when you’re doing the fixes it’s nothing it’s just grinding endlessly to fix stupid small things hundred of stupid small things and it takes a lot of time and it’s crazy it’s video games are crazy man every stupid little things it requires a lot of time to fix but I’m happy super happy.”

Cherry uses a chainsaw but features a mecha form within Cookie Cutter Overkill Edition. The game features 60 frames per second gameplay, fully voiced dialogue, a newly added completion gauge, new moves unique to Overkill Edition, new cinematics, and balancing tweaks.

Cookie Cutter Overkill Edition is a stylized and brutal metroidvania with a vibrant punk aesthetic. The game has been relatively well received and perhaps deserves some of the limelight on Nintendo’s portable handheld come this March.