Issue #5 – October 2023.
Welcome back for another round of correspondence from the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It’s October, and the heady aroma of freshly released Mario is in the air. *long sniff* Lovely! Do you smell it? It’s peaty. Bit wet. Dungy, even. Like a… an elephant?
Enough of that. It’s time for our monthly letters page feature. Got something you want to get off your chest? We’re ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings.
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Shake it off, shake it off, woo-ooo-OOO!
Welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl, folks!
Naturally, before we see who we’ve got entering the ring this week, let’s see how things went down last time, shall we? Professor Layton and the Unwound Future was our pick of the week and we had three variations battle it out to claim victory.
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But he “won’t comment” on Switch successor rumours.
Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser has reiterated in the same interview with Inverse how Nintendo Accounts would carry over to a new generation of hardware.
While he “can’t comment” and “won’t comment” on rumours about a “Switch successor”, Bowser did essentially reconfirm Nintendo Accounts will be utilised going forward to ease the transition process, mentioning how the goal is to “minimize the dip you typically see in the last year of one cycle and the beginning of another”. Here’s exactly what he had to say:
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Includes some “slight delays”.
Back in August, it was revealed the free-to-play title Disney Dreamlight Valley would be receiving a physical release on all platforms including the Nintendo Switch.
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Check it out today.
Sea of Stars got off to a fantastic start in August with sales of the title greatly exceeding first-year sales projections. Now, to follow up on this success, developer Sabotage has released an update across all platforms including the Switch.
The latest patch comes with a bunch of fixes and adjustments. Here’s the full rundown (via Sea of Stars social media):
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Harvest Dew.
If the ‘Uncanny Valley’ is the term for something being almost-human-but-not-quite, then Harvest Moon: Winds of Anthos is in the Uncanny Stardew Valley. It’s so close to being a really good farming sim game, but doesn’t quite manage to hit the mark. However, for the first time in the turbulent and confusing history of Natsume’s Harvest Moon games, it’s actually… fun.
The story is the same old, same old: the Harvest Goddess disappears after some catastrophic geographical event, and it’s up to us to restore her and the world through the power of farming. The twist here is that a volcano erupted, and Ms. Goddess decided to build a bunch of walls around all the villages, thus both protecting them and isolating them in one fell swoop. You’ll have to dismantle the walls, befriend the Sprites living inside them, and revitalise the towns within, mostly by completing various fetch quests. The story doesn’t make a lot of sense — everyone is very chill about getting separated from their families for a decade — but it’s good enough to get started with.
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The voices behind the fun.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder sees the voice actor Kevin Afghani step into the role of Mario and Luigi for the first time ever, but who else is involved in this new entry? If you have been wondering, you’ve come to the right place.
Now that the game has been out for a few days, the full English voice cast has been revealed – with some of the talent even making an announcement about it on social media. There’s a mix of new and returning VAs. Below is the full round-up, starting off once again with the voice of Mario and Luigi:
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The top 50 GBC games, as ranked by you.
It’s the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Game Boy Color, so we’re republishing this list of the Top 50 GBC games ever — several of which are playable on Switch. Enjoy!
It was 1996 in Japan and 1998 in North America (and a year later in Europe) when the ageing Game Boy got an unexpected shot in the arm thanks to a little game named Pokémon. Nintendo’s granddaddy of handheld gaming suddenly had a new lease on life, but in the West the release of the game was followed just weeks later by the arrival of a new console — the Game Boy Color — and it was on that wonderful system that many of us caught our very first Pocket Monster.
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Download it today!
If you’ve been wanting to play Suika Game (Watermelon Game) on your Nintendo Switch but aren’t really interested in signing up for a Japanese Nintendo account, you’re in luck. In a surprise update, the game has now been released in multiple other regions.
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“We’re looking forward to that partnership continuing”.
If you were curious to know if there was any bad blood between Nintendo and Microsoft after certain Xbox email leaks, apparently not.
In a new interview with Inverse, Nintendo of America’s president Doug Bowser insists the creator of Mario maintains a “great relationship with Microsoft” and its gaming division Xbox. He goes on to mention how this has been proven time and time again throughout the Switch generation with games like Minecraft and even the addition of Banjo Kazooie in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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