For just shy of 20 years, WarioWare has been down the delightfully absurd corner of Nintendo’s repertoire with frantic medleys of bizarre “microgames”: bite-sized minigames, each lasting only a couple of seconds, played in rapid succession to hilarious outcomes. WarioWare: Get It Together continues that legacy, but with a big …
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, the first game in the Fire Emblem series, is finally getting an English release—30 years on from its launch in 1990 for Famicom. The classic tactical JRPG is coming to Nintendo Switch on December 4, and will be available for purchase …
I honestly think the RPG spinoffs are the Mario franchise at its best. Games like Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi have long used the more dialogue-heavy format of the genre to dial the series’ humour up to another level, while creatively blending platform and RPG elements. …
I joked on Twitter recently that Fire Emblem is basically Adventure Time‘s “now kiss” moment—it may be a tactical RPG first and foremost, but for a lot of people, much of the appeal lies in the characters, their relationships, and the chance to play matchmaker. It seems Nintendo and Intelligent …
Update 28 April 2017: Even almost two years since posting it, this article still seems to get a lot of traffic. Since then, the English version of Fire Emblem Fates has come out, and it improves on some stuff, but also falls flat in other ways. I just want to clarify that all …
