Category: Nintendo

RNG my bell.

It takes a lot to make a game about giant robot battles feel dull, but somehow Front Mission 2: Remake manages it. While it improves on some of the shortcomings of Front Mission 1st: Remake, the combat system isn’t fun enough to fully salvage this tactical RPG. While it might be worthwhile for strategy fans eager to test out G-Craft’s 1997 PlayStation game that never got released outside of Japan, we can’t see Front Mission 2: Remake offering much to anyone else.

It’s a shame that the actual combat in Front Mission 2: Remake is so frustrating because the story is much improved over the previous entry. You control a group of soldiers who find themselves on the losing side of a coup and are trying to flee the nation of Alordesh. Warfare in this setting takes place almost exclusively in Wanzers, which are highly customisable mechs of varying levels of effectiveness depending on how you outfit them.

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Keep an eye out for the special London buses.

Nintendo UK has launched a new competition to mark the release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and this one is all about spotting some special Mario-themed buses around London.

Revealed in a tweet yesterday, NUK announced that there is a Mario Wonder prize pack (consisting of a t-shirt, pin pack diorama, Talking Flower figure and more) available for the winner and all that you need to do is take a picture of one of the special Mario buses that are currently touring around London and post it to Twitter with the relevant hashtag. There is a bus for Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad and Yoshi, so you would use #MarioBus, #LuigiBus, #PeachBus etc. depending on which one you are lucky enough to see.

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It’s looking super.

Sonic’s new 2D adventure, Sonic Superstars, is finally here. The game has released on multiple platforms today, so the choice of where to play is all yours — what a treat! Some of you may already be tucking into the blue blur’s latest (and we can’t say that we blame you), but if you have been waiting to see how the console versions stack up against each other, then gosh, do we have the video for you.

The good folks over on the YouTube channel GameXplain have put together a graphics comparison for the Switch and the PS5 so you can check out the visual discrepancies between the two. The video provides both a wipe and side-by-side comparison, so you can really get a feel for how the game runs (heh heh) on both consoles.

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Get ready for the Splatoween Splatfest.

Nintendo has announced it will be releasing a new patch for Splatoon 3 this week, bumping the game up to Version 5.1.0.

It will include new data related to the Splatoween Splatfest and tweaks to multiplayer. At the very end of the patch notes, Nintendo also mentions how it will be releasing the “next patch” for Splatoon 3 around the middle of November to add in the Deep Cut amiibo data.

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But you need to be “close-by” others to use it.

Pokémon GO developer Niantic has announced and released Party Play, a brand new multiplayer feature that allows you to team up with your friends — as long as they’re close by.

The feature is live now in Pokémon GO and enables you and up to three friends to party up and play together. Teaming up with friends makes raids much easier, as you have access to a Party power gauge which, when full, doubles the power of your next attack.

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Seattle creatures.

Eager to compare Critterpedias, Caitlin Johnson recently headed down to Seattle Aquarium to check out its new Nintendo collaboration…

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I ain’t afraid of no ghost.

After being announced for Switch earlier this year, publisher and developer Illfonic has now revealed the Switch eShop page for Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed – Ecto Edition which confirms that the creepy co-op ghost-hunter will be heading our way later this week on 19th October.

The game originally launched on PlayStation, Xbox and PC last year, and will see you playing as either Ghostbuster or, well, Ghost, in a series of ‘hide and seek’-style games. It’s a 4-vs-1 set-up where a group of Proton Pack-wielding protagonists team up to catch an illusive ghoul — think of the Luigi’s Mansion minigame in Nintendo Land and you won’t be a million miles away.

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Hello there.

Minecraft Live saw a number of exciting announcements for Mojang’s blocky world. There was update news, live performances, the reveal of the game’s next mob, but perhaps the most exciting addition came in the shape of a new DLC package from a galaxy far, far away….

The Star Wars: Path of the Jedi DLC will be bringing some Clone Wars action to Minecraft on 7th November. This one will see you playing training to become a Jedi Knight, embarking on missions with some familiar faces (Master Yoda, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you know the drill) and taking on monsters and Sith Lords alike.

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Burning rubber.

Hot Wheels, man. We remember those. In the ’90s almost every Saturday morning ad break featured a Hot Wheels commercial braying out superlative adjectives over thrashy rock solos. Invariably, two pearly-toothed, spiky-haired kids would grin as their miniature cars jostled for pole position, giving each other a thumbs-up after a totally tubular crash. All we ever wanted was a simple orange loop — because the loop was the coolest gravity-defying thing ever — but we never got one because the Super Nintendo was a life priority. We did manage to try one once, though, and pinged that car down the straight at full speed, ripping up the lip, only for it to soar off and go clattering across the ground. While you can still spectacularly succumb to gravity in Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged, if you blast the accelerator for all its worth you’ll coast that loop through an elating 360 degrees.

Here, the world of collectible racing cars has been virtually recreated in a splendidly inventive fashion. What’s striking about Unleashed 2 is the creativity that’s been put into its various modes, featuring clever ideas that don’t just lean on existing tropes, but dig into the fascinating meta of miniature racing within giant, real-world environments.

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It’s official!

Update :

The community votes have now been counted and the Armadillo is officially the next mob joining Minecraft. Here’s a bit more information about it:

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