Fairies at the ready.
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim gets bossy…
Note. This article discusses certain elements of some Regional Phenomena boss battles, including tactics and screenshots. If you are still maintaining an internet blackout for the game, then we suggest tackling them before coming back to this article.
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Two years of tools.
The rather brilliant Game Builder Garage is two years old today. Created from Nintendo EPD 4, the team behind the Nintendo Labo, Game Builder Garage was designed to help budding developers get creative and learn how to create their own games.
Over the past two years, we’ve seen some sublime creations, many of which are inspired by Nintendo’s IPs, such as some unique Mario Party-style minigames and a brand-new Metroid fan game. We want to highlight some of our favourites — but also hear from you all and see your creations, if you have them to hand.
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June 2023 – Issue #1.
Hello there! Welcome to the first edition of the Nintendo Life Mailbox!
In this new monthly feature, we’ll be rifling through correspondences we receive via our Contact page (scroll to the bottom of this post for precise instructions) and highlighting some of the best on this here letters page. Each month we’ll also pick out a Star Letter and the sender will receive a month’s free subscription to our Supporter scheme.
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Go bananas.
Hello and welcome back to your weekly round of Box Art Brawl!
Before we leave the courtroom behind and move on somewhere a bit warmer, let’s take a look at last week’s results. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the original Ace Attorney game, stood in the BAB docks, but it was an easy win for North America, which took 53% of your votes. Japan wasn’t too far behind with 33%, while European nostalgia put the white-background box with 14% of the votes.
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Pre-order dates are coming soon.
If you’re going to catch ’em all, you might need a handy guide. VIZ Media has got you covered with its “newly revised” one covering a whopping 898 Pokémon.
This updated guide will be “fully illustrated” and is a “totally comprehensive” two-volume series covering everything you need to know about each Pokémon. It’s due out in Spring 2024, here’s a look:
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“We’re leaving that world to that world”.
Mortal Kombat 1 hasn’t revealed its entire roster just yet, but there’s one individual who definitely won’t be showing up: Cole Young. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, he was the protagonist of the recent Mortal Kombat movie reboot and was used as an introduction to this universe.
In a chat with ComicBook.com at Summer Game Fest, NetherRealm’s lead systems designer Derek Kirtzic made it clear this particular fighter would not be added to the new game’s universe: “We’re leaving that world to that world,” he said.
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Can this really hold up on Nintendo’s platform?
Against all odds, Mortal Kombat 11 turned out pretty well on the Nintendo Switch. Like many ports from the PS4 and Xbox One, there was always a concern that Netherrealm Studio’s cinematic fighter wouldn’t be able to cut it on Nintendo’s hybrid console. Still, with 60fps performance and all the content you could possibly want, it proved to be a more-than-competent option for Switch owners.
Its direct sequel and semi-reboot, Mortal Kombat 1, aims to crank everything up a couple of notches, boasting stunning visuals and an expanded combat system that lets you call in additional ‘Kameo’ fighters to assist you in battle. After the gameplay reveal at Summer Game Fest, we managed to go hands-on with Netherrealm’s latest effort for roughly 30 minutes and came away utterly gobsmacked. And, honestly? It makes us worried about the Switch version.
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Wait, you can fast travel??
Having been out for the best part of a month now, we think it’s fair to say that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is going to be one of those games where we never stop discovering new things.
In our playthroughs so far, these discoveries have had us grinning cheek to cheek on a pretty consistent basis, but that hasn’t stopped the smiles from being wiped from our faces as we stumble across some game-changing mechanic at the 100-hour mark.
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Vatar you going to do about it?
If you’re of a certain vintage you may just about remember being thoroughly impressed with the graphical prowess of Starbreeze Studios’ Enclave when it first released on the original Xbox all the way back in 2002.
Starbreeze was about to have a great big Vin Diesel-shaped success in the form of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay — a game we’d love to see on Switch — but, before that, the developer brought us this third-person action RPG that gave players both light and dark paths to walk in two story-based campaigns set in the world of Calenheim.
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Switchin’ it up.
Things just start to quieten down after the release of Tears of the Kingdom and then before you know it, BAM, you walk head first into summer showcase season.
This means that it has been a reasonably busy week at Nintendo Life. We broke down everything announced for the Switch in the Summer Game Fest Opening Showcase (which wasn’t all that many titles, but at least we got a first look at Sonic Superstars), dropped the totally tubular news that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge will be getting some new DLC, heard of a fresh batch of titles coming to Nintendo Switch Online, and had a surprise trailer for Pikmin 4.
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