And a whole 10 minutes, too!
The silence is over! The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is getting a focused gameplay trailer tomorrow, 28th March.
At 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST tomorrow (or 12am AET on 29th March), Nintendo is dropping a brand new video focused entirely on the highly anticipated sequel to Breath of the Wild. Series producer Eiji Aonuma will be on hand and “roughly 10 minutes of gameplay” will be shown.
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Producer Ryo Ishida reveals.
Last year’s Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series — a remastered compilation of two classic PlayStation and PS2 platformers — was actually developed for Switch first, producer Ryo Ishida has revealed.
In an interview in the newest issue of Lost In Cult (via Nintendo Everything), Ishida shares some brief insight into the development of the game, and that they were actually finished with the Switch version of it before it was even announced at the February 2022 Nintendo Direct.
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#31 – Trace and survive.
For the month before the 3DS and Wii U eShops close for new purchases on 27th March, each day we’re going to highlight a specific eShop game for one of those consoles and give a short pitch as to why we think it deserves your love and attention — before it’s too late. The chance to add these to your library will be gone for good soon and, for one reason or another, these eShop-exclusives are close to our hearts.
Today, Liam reflects on the earlier years of the 3DS eShop with escapeVektor…
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Hands-on impressions of the show’s Switch offerings.
PAX East 2023 is happening — right now, as you’re reading this! — and Nintendo Life is there sampling lots of juicy upcoming Switch releases.
The Boston event is running from Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th March 2023 and in this feature we’ll be recording our hands-on impressions of the various games, large and small, that we play while we’re running between appointments and roaming the expo hall.
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It was tricksy, precious. Very tricksy.
Lord of the Rings: Gollum has naturally garnered quite a bit of interest as its initial release date approaches on other platforms in May, with a planned Switch release later this year. Fans of LotR and J.R.R. Tolkien’s work have been eager to see how developer Daedalic Entertainment would craft a game based around such a beloved character, and lines to test the demo at PAX East were hours long by the weekend.
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“It’s only going to cause more headaches”.
There have been a lot of requests over the years for Nintendo to revive the GameCube hit Super Smash Bros. Melee, but according to former Nintendo employees Kit & Krysta, it probably won’t happen. In a recent episode of their podcast, the pair responded to a question asking about the possibility of Smash Bros. Melee in HD – completely ruling out the idea of it.
Krysta is confident “it’s absolutely 100% never gonna happen”, with Kit reiterating this – stating how Melee was a “Mother 3-level game” at Nintendo, where if it was mentioned, “you kind of tense up”. Apparently, the perception of Melee “inside Nintendo” and having to deal with it was considered to be a “nightmare”.
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Featuring Kirby, too.
Nintendo fans will want to keep an eye out for the free manga up for grabs on Comic Book Day this year.
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Harvest Moon is that you?
PAX East 2023 and our American-based senior video producer Zion Grassl has kept himself busy over the past few days now checking out the latest and greatest releases.
One, in particular, he got some time to sit down with the upcoming Marvelous / XSEED title Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life – a remake of the 2003 GameCube title Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. Not only did Zion get time to go hands on with the title, but he’s also been able to share his early thoughts with and impressions in the video above.
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Yes, Wii U had games that didn’t get Switch ports!
It’s the final countdown — the Wii U eShop is closing for new purchases on Monday, so we’re republishing this guide to highlight some gems you might want to consider snapping up. You’ve got this weekend to make sure you’ve bought anything you might want to play…
While many are rightly lamenting the upcoming death of the 3DS eShop, we feel like fewer gamers are pouring one out for the Wii U digital store. Maybe it’s just us, but we can’t let that stand, as the console actually had some darn good games — some of which are still exclusives to this day. Nintendo’s GamePad concept may not have paid off with the public, but it did give developers some fun ideas.
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