Megabyte Punch was yanked from the Switch eShop due to a ratings issue, Nintendo did contact the developer about the removal

Just yesterday, we shared a message from Team Reptile about Megabyte Punch. The game had been removed from the Switch eShop in Europe and Australia, but Team Reptile had no idea why. Today the team has announced that the game was pulled due to a ratings issue. Furthermore, while Team Reptile originally believed that Nintendo didn't contact them about the removal, today they state that there was indeed a notification. Check out the full statement below.

It appears the reason why the game was suddenly made unavailable has become clear.

May 14th the IARC rating of the game was updated with a different age rating for RAR (Russia) and USK (Germany). "We have reviewed the product and determined that the game contains violence that wasn't disclosed. Your ratings have been updated
accordingly." IARC. The game was originally rated with the IARC system on October 8th 2019 with a positive rating for all ages.

We respect Nintendo's policy, but the fact that we, as a self publishing developer, have zero possibility to appeal the decision of
a third party to change the rating with these immediate and crucial effects is very worrying. We certainly do not agree with the decision that Megabyte Punch is a violent game that needs a rating of 12+. On top of that we question the decision to pull off the game from all stores within Europe and Australia and not only the countries affected by this updated rating.

We do have to rectify that upon further investigation we found that Nintendo in fact sent a message regarding the removal of the game from the eShop. Due to some very unfortunate timing the message crossed exactly with a different message about the upcoming patch.

We have submitted a patch that should solve the issue and we do our best to get this through the system as soon as possible so the game will be available to everybody again.