Guardians of the Galaxy Rated for Switch 2 in Taiwan

Taiwan's Digital Game Rating Committee has rated Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy for Switch 2, as first spotted by Gematsu. No announcement has come from Square Enix, Eidos Montreal, or Nintendo, but ratings board entries like this one don't tend to appear by accident. The listing names Koch Media (the former name for Plaion) as the publisher, with Korean company Krafton also appearing in the details, suggesting a regional publishing arrangement in Taiwan. A launch date is listed as "not approved", so timing is still unknown.

The original game launched on October 26, 2021 across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It did technically arrive on the original Switch, but only as a cloud version, which is the kind of release that barely counts. A native Switch 2 port would be a different proposition entirely, and frankly, it's the version this game always deserved to reach.

One of the Best Superhero Games Nobody Played

about Guardians of the Galaxy: it's genuinely excellent, and most people missed it. OpenCritic has it sitting at an 82 average with 86% of critics recommending it, which for a superhero game in 2021 was quietly one of the better scores of the year. The writing is sharp, the banter between the Guardians holds up across the entire runtime, and the combat, where you play as Star-Lord but call in the rest of the team for signature attacks, has a rhythm to it that most action games don't bother to develop. It's a proper single-player game with no live-service hooks, no battle pass, no cosmetic shop. Just a story, well told.

The reason it underperformed commercially has nothing to do with quality. Marvel's Avengers launched the year before and was a disaster, and the damage to consumer trust in Square Enix's Marvel output was real. Guardians got caught in that fallout. It sold poorly enough that a sequel was never confirmed, and the game has mostly faded from conversation in the years since.

That context makes this rating interesting beyond the port itself. Eidos Montreal is now under Embracer Group, which also owns Plaion (formerly Koch Media), so the publishing chain here makes sense structurally. If Embracer is putting the effort into a Switch 2 release, someone there still believes in the game's commercial potential. Credit where it's due: bringing it to a platform with a proper native build rather than letting it disappear entirely is the right call.

The real question is whether a Switch 2 port could do what the original release didn't: get this game in front of enough people to justify a sequel. Switch 2's third-party lineup is clearly being taken seriously, with titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Resident Evil Requiem already confirmed for the platform. Guardians fits that profile, a cinematic, story-driven action game that plays well in shorter sessions. It's a reasonable bet for a handheld audience.

Nothing is official until Square Enix, Eidos, or Nintendo says so. But Taiwan's ratings board has a reliable track record, and this is the same committee that surfaced the Devil May Cry 5 Switch 2 listing shortly before this one. If a shadow drop is coming, summer would be the logical window. And honestly, after four and a half years of this game being criminally overlooked, a second chance sounds about right.

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