Your Nintendo Update
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Nintendo’s next console: Shareholders ask about backwards compatibility and more — This comes via a recent shareholder meeting – you can see the official Q&A transcript from Nintendo here , which always makes for interesting reading. Tom Ivan // VGC Everybody 1-2-Switch! offers silly multiplayer fun — when it works — This game is out now, but you may not have realised as Nintendo has been rather quiet about it. As Laura Kate Dale noted, it’s ” very polished, but completely devoid of personality “. Eurogamer called it a ‘ bizarre bargain bin party game ‘. Giovanni Colantonio // Digital Trends ▶ ‘Musical Main Characters’ in Tears of the Kingdom — This is a really thoughtful look at the intentionality behind how the music is layered in Tears of the Kingdom and how it comes to represent something akin to character development over the events seen in Breath of the Wild. Scruffy // YouTube The Pikmin 1+2 Switch remasters are understated gems Stefan L // TSA How the Switch became the console for nostalgic Nintendo fans Gus Brunetti // CBR ▶ Tears of the Kingdom is the most impressive game ever made — Bold claim! This is a 20-minute look at how Tears is ” revolutionary in its own right ” and how Link’s radical new abilities fundamentally change the game thanks to such open-ended, clever design. Cam Critiques // YouTube Why Sonic and Mario duelling it out in 2D again will be a spectacle Keith Stuart // The Guardian REVIEW Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life — ” I love what Marvelous have done with Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life. It’s the same game I enjoyed playing all those years ago but with a fresh coat of paint and meaningful quality-of-life updates “. Sam-James Gordon // RPG Fan REVIEW The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie — ” any RPG fan who hasn’t played a Trails game needs to find time to remedy that glaring oversight “. Jordan Rudek // Nintendo World Report REVIEW The Lara Croft Collection — ” it’s just a joy to have these ported to a modern platform “. Az Elias // Cubed 3 Nintendo Switch: The hybrid darling of gaming — How Nintendo’s breakthrough portable console rose from the ashes of its innovative, but unsuccessful predecessor. Patrick Morgan // Better By Design Gary Bowser: How a 1980s hacker became Nintendo’s nemesis decades later Ernesto Van der Sar // Torrent Freak “It’s like a dream” – Hamster President Satoshi Hamada on the success of Arcade Archives Damien McFerran // Time Extension ICYMI Nintendo’s Switch finds itself between a rock and hard place Chris Brandrick // overkill
All releases are digital, Europe & U.S. unless otherwise stated.
⭐️ = Ones to Watch · 📦 = Physical release · 🎮 = Demo available
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