The finest trad-style Switch RPGs available to humanity.
Updated with Suikoden 1 & 2 HD Remaster. Enjoy!
Nintendo Switch has amassed a huge number of quality titles across almost every category since launching back in 2017, but that may be more true with RPGs than any other genre.
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Hyaaah!
Hello chums, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl!
Last time, we looked at Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color, and the result was pretty definitive. The Western design won with 69% of the vote, with some of you noting that the Japanese variant didn’t even look like it belonged to the Pokémon franchise. User Kienda said “If someone showed me the Japanese case out of context, I wouldn’t even twig it was a Pokémon game”. Yep, fair comment!
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“Could we make it that they’re all baseball players in a baseball league?”.
Gail Tilden, former Nintendo of America’s marketing boss, recently spoke to The Video Game History Foundation’s Frank Cifaldi at the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, and one of the topics she touched upon was the small matter of launching Pokémon in the West.
As you’ll probably be aware, Pokémon—or Pocket Monsters, as it’s known in Japan—was already something of a phenomenon in its homeland before it reached North America and Europe, and it was Tilden’s job to repackage it for Western tastes.
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Not the same?
When Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 launched, I only had one thought on my mind: “This is awesome, but can we please get 3 + 4?”
I had dabbled with the first two entries back in the day, but it was only when Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 launched in 2001 that I properly got hooked on the series. It felt perfect, and despite classics like Metroid Prime and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker sitting higher on my ‘best GameCube’ list, there’s no other game I sunk more hours into than THPS 3.
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No luck Hunting them Monsters then?
The weekend has rolled around once more so it’s time for another edition of What Are You Playing!
After last week’s Poké-fest, it’s been a slightly quieter one in Nintendo land over recent days. The Game Boy NSO library was treated to a duo of new titles, Nintendo started slashing some prices ahead of MAR10 Day and we finally got the official announcement of the worst-kept secret in the biz, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4.
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“Thank you all for everything – you deserve nothing but the best”.
Hidden Variable, the LA-based developer of Skullgirls Mobile, has issued a statement revealing that the team is “no longer involved in the development of Skullgirls Mobile, 2nd Encore, or other Skullgirls IP-related efforts” since 21st January and has initiated legal proceedings against publisher Autumn Games.
Posted to social media platforms (thanks, Event Hubs), the statement says that the legal papers have been filed in LA and the team won’t be making further comment “until this dispute is resolved”.
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The future is bright(er).
If our hopes of some Monolith Soft Switch 2 goodness weren’t already high enough, today, they reached a new peak as we learned that the team has added a fresh cutscene director to its ranks with a pretty beefy portfolio to his name.
As brought to our attention by Stealth40K on BlueSky, the Nintendo-owned studio signed Daisuke Honda to its freelance staff late last year. One glance at the cutscene director’s LinkedIn page reveals names like Square Enix and NetEase games, having previously worked on the likes of Final Fantasy XVI, VII Remake, Kingdom Hearts III and Visions of Mana.
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It’s on with the King of the Kongs.
This review was originally published in June 2011. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of the game in the Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy library.
In 1994, Nintendo had a great idea; why not make a true sequel to the original Donkey Kong arcade game? The result is Donkey Kong for the Game Boy, also known as Donkey Kong ’94, which birthed the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series.
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Squid kid.
Although the Switch is soon to be replaced by its new and improved successor, Nintendo and other companies are still releasing all sorts of new content on the original hybrid system. This includes many different apps and next week some new Splatoon-themed content will be made available in Japan.
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Mario and Donkey Kong are here.
Nintendo has announced two more Game Boy titles to the Switch Online service and they’re available right now.
First up we have the 1994 title Donkey Kong and along with this is the 1995 puzzle game Mario Picross. You can see both games in action in the video above.
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