I don’t envy anyone tasked with making a new Metroid game in 2021. Reviving a series that’s so fiercely beloved comes with a heavy burden of expectations that often contradict: to recapture everything that we loved about those classics 20 years ago, but also to carry the series forward into …
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 …
No More Heroes III is the kind of wildly creative adventure you don’t experience often in today’s gaming landscape. And yet, it’s exactly what you should expect from a studio whose relatively long motto begins with “Punk’s not dead.” Unlike the traditional action game, No More Heroes III features considerable …
Upon its release in 2011, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was met with a polarising reaction from audiences due to the title’s heavy emphasis on motion controls and uneven pacing. Now, the game has been given a second chance in the form of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, …
Golf has long been a staple of the Mushroom Kingdom’s sporting adventures. Since Mario’s (somewhat dubious) inclusion in the Golf for NES, iterations of Mario Golf have appeared on most Nintendo platforms, putting a comical, arcade-style twist on the age-old game while still keeping its depth intact. Mario Golf: Super …
In 1999, Pokemon Snap made quite the splash. It was a huge departure from the RPGs that came before it, at a time when Pokemon hadn’t really branched out into different genre territories. It was also an interesting twist on the rail shooter genre—though mechanically similar to games like Star …
In 1988, Nintendo released Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir upon the Famicom Disk System. Though the lack of global release meant it’s long been an obscurity outside its home country, it made quite the splash in Japan. For one thing, it gave Yoshio Sakamoto—best known for his work on …
Today, Nintendo announced Game Builder Garage, a no-coding-required game development tool that’s making its way to Nintendo Switch on June 11. Game Builder Garage lets you program your own games by connecting colourful creatures called Nodon, each of which represents some different object, function, or programming logic. In one example …
Famicom Detective Club is not something I would ever have expected to see on Nintendo Switch. A pair of relatively obscure adventure ’80s Famicom adventure games that never saw a worldwide release doesn’t exactly seem like it’d be a high priority for the remake treatment. But here we are, and …
This morning, Nintendo held its latest Indie World Showcase, unveiling a swathe of indie games making their way to Switch in the next year or so. In true Nintendo Direct fashion, it was a no-nonsense show focused on reveal after reveal, without much faffing around in between. There were plenty …
