Category: Nintendo

When you Switch upon a star.

On 16th October 2023, Disney celebrated its 100-year anniversary, and in the handful of decades since video games have existed in the home, there have been hundreds of adaptations of animated Disney classics or totally original tales to come to consoles. Some have genuinely captured the magic of the mouse and co., while others have simply cashed in on one of the hottest family-friendly licences on the planet.

But what of gaming’s most family-friendly console? Does Switch have Disney games? Of course it does, but what’s the best Disney game on Switch? Here we’ve rounded up every Disney game on Switch (including the freshly-released Gargoyles Remastered), ranked from worst to best by Nintendo Life readers.

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Cry me a river.

FuRyu has made a name for itself in recent years of being a publisher that does a great job of churning out RPGs that you’ll certainly like, but probably not love. Games like Monark, Caligula Effect, and Crystar have all offered players some decent yet flawed experiences, and now the company has brought us yet another entry in this long line called Crymachina. Though it seems to take some cues from Crystar, Crymachina is a brand-new IP set in the far future that sees you fighting a seemingly endless horde of creepy robots with a bunch of depressed girls. It’s ridiculous, it’s fun, and it’s not great, but it may still be worth your time.

The narrative places you in the role of Leben, a girl who promptly dies of a mysterious illness in the first 10 seconds after cursing at the world and all the people who live in it. She is then resuscitated 2000 years in the future by a mysterious AI named Enoa, who has brought back a couple of other high school girls, too. Enoa explains that humans went extinct due to a world war over dwindling resources, but a team of scientists launched a spaceship called Eden just before the end in the hopes that one day humanity might rise again.

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All Flower Coins, Wonder Flowers and Wonder Seeds located.

Hello, and welcome to our Super Mario Bros. Wonder Walkthrough guides!

Here we’ll be guiding you through every level in the game and showing you where to find All Flower Coins, All Wonder Flowers, and All Wonder Seeds. We’ll also be providing All Secret Area locations (You can’t hide from us Captain Toad!) as well as taking a look at All Badge Locations.

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One of 2023’s biggest releases has arrived.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is already out in some parts of the world now, and it’s been received incredibly well by critics so far with a current score of 93 on aggregate websites like Metacritic.

In our own review, we said it was “the best 2D Mario game since Super Mario World” on the Super Nintendo. It serves up an endlessly inventive and impressive platforming adventuring that has us utterly hooked.

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Wave 1 available now.

Nintendo is going all out with the launch of Super Mario Bros. Wonder and as part of this, it’s added a new batch of icons to its ‘Missions and Rewards’ scheme for the Switch Online service.

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Train of thought.

When a mystery story has been told millions of times before, how can it still be a mystery? This is the challenge faced by anyone adapting Agatha Christie’s phenomenally widely-read 1934 novel, Murder on the Orient Express. And just in case anyone missed out on the book, decades of film adaptations have also solved the case again and again. This is the challenge taken on by Microids Studio Lyon, as the team packs our bags and stows us away on the legendary locomotive, playing the role of celebrated detective Hercule Poirot.

Murder on the Orient Express, like the novel, begins in Istanbul, in the grand Tokatlian Hotel. Several of the story’s ensemble cast are introduced in quick succession. Details are kept light and the player is tested on a few key facts about each character to reinforce the basics of who’s who. Since the complex relationships and interactions of figures from different backgrounds are a hallmark of Christie’s mysteries, it’s essential the characters are internalised. Microids, having opted for rote drilling of name, nationality, occupation, and age, have not found the most elegant solution, but it will at least be effective for newcomers while keeping things moving for those already familiar. The game trades the 1930s setting of the novel for the modern day, and with 2023 being the 140th anniversary of the Orient Express itself, there is a perfect excuse for Poirot and his crew of soon-to-be suspects to be stepping aboard.

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A Shane-tatoriship..?

Publisher GameMill Entertainment has announced that The Walking Dead: Destinies will launch digitally on the Nintendo Switch eShop on November 17th, 2023, with a physical edition following in December 2023. A brand new trailer has been released which you can now view on YouTube, but just be aware that it’s age-restricted, so make sure you’re signed in (and over 18, of course).

Based on the first four seasons of the AMC TV series, Destinies will take place across iconic locations from the Walking Dead universe, including Atlanta, the Greene family farm, the prison, and Woodbury. Players will need to make key decisions throughout the game to change the course of the franchise’s history. Will you sentence protagonist Rick Grimes to an early death? It’s entirely up to you.

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Yep, that’s nice.

Tech company Ayaneo is pumping out more hardware iterations than we can possibly keep up with, but its latest effort is of particular interest thanks to its remarkable resemblance to Nintendo’s own DS line.

Yes, the Ayaneo Flip DS is on its way (thanks, The Verge) and boasts a 7-inch 120Hz display screen with an additional screen housed in that classic clamshell design popularised by the Nintendo DS. A second iteration has also been announced called the Ayaneo Flip KB, only this one sports a rather finicky keyboard in place of the second screen.

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The team is already working on the next patch.

Wargroove 2 arrived on the Switch last month and if you haven’t already heard, it’s rather excellent. Here on Nintendo Life, we scored the sequel a 9 out of 10 – calling it a brilliant take on the tactics genre.

Now, in an update, developer Robotality and publisher Chucklefish have released an update for the Switch version of the game based on the “initial feedback” they’ve received. There are also bigger update plans for the game’s multiplayer and other modes in the future.

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Get them while you can.

If you got hold of Sonic Superstars earlier this week on the Nintendo Switch, here’s your reminder that there’s also some free DLC you redeem.

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