Hoshi wo Miru Hito, a Famicom JRPG that has never been officially released outside Japan before, is getting an international Switch release courtesy of City Connection. It’s due out in northern summer / southern winter 2020, with a planned price of USD $9.99. Hoshi wo Miru Hito (which roughly translates …
Later this year, Nintendo will release the Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System, a “mini replica of Nintendo’s original home console.” This mini NES is a little microconsole loaded up with 30 NES classics, dressed up like a Nintendo Entertainment System. I guess it’s a neat idea as a way of …
Spoiler warning: This whole article is about a major spoiler for Dragon Quest III. As if the title didn’t give that away. Fake endings aren’t exactly a rarity in video games, or any narrative for medium. This is particularly true of RPGs, where “surprise! here’s the real final boss” is such a worn-out trope …
There’s something special about going back and experiencing old games with fresh eyes. I’m not talking about revisiting childhood staples, though that is great too, but playing games for the first time that are 10, 20, even 30 years old. Some games buckle under the weight of their age, others hardly …
