Category: Nintendo

Remixing the Remix.

And just like that, Nintendo’s next major release of 2024 is right around the corner. Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition lands on Switch on 18th July (that’s tomorrow!) and the reviews are here to give us an idea of what to expect.

Before we dive into the round-up, let’s first provide a brief refresher of what we had to say about this one. We scored Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition a ‘Good’ 7/10 in our review. While we were left “fully entertained” by its bite-sized speedrunning challenges and whistle-stop tour of Nintendo’s history, we couldn’t help but see it as “a downgrade in many ways to NES Remix“. Check out our full thoughts below:

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Gerudo or Gerudon’t?

After decades of patiently explaining to elderly relatives, “No, Zelda is the princess”, 2024 is going to be the year that Grandma is finally right. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is boldly going where no mainline series entry has gone before by putting the titular princess in the driver’s seat. How shocking! How bold! How unlike anything that we Zelda fans have been calling for for years. Ahem.

The ‘Zelda is the hero’ reveal was only surprising because of how long it’s taken. Aside from the obvious protagonist confusion, the series has been crying out for the Hylian monarch to take a starring role. She shines as Sheik in Ocarina of Time (our apologies to those who have avoided that spoiler for the last 25 years), she edged into the spotlight in Spirit Tracks despite it very much still being Link’s adventure, and Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom really leaned into the cool magic shenanigans. Sounds a lot like a game-leading hero, if you ask us.

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Great discounts on 1.5TB, 1TB and more.

As you’ll likely be aware if you’ve been anywhere near our home page over the last two days, Amazon’s Prime Day sale is now well underway. There are some tempting deals on Switch OLED consoles and all sorts of accessories, but we’d argue that the event’s microSD card deals are the ones you really shouldn’t be missing.

For the remainder of today only, you can grab microSD cards of any size for fantastic prices – there are even great deals on the Sandisk 1.5TB microSD card, which should eradicate any Switch storage woes for good. These prices are about as good as it gets, making now an absolutely perfect opportunity to expand your Switch’s storage.

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Good on you, Sega.

Sega has announced that it has taken legal action against an individual committing consistent harassment against one of its employees (thanks, Automaton).

In a post on its Japanese corporate site, Sega explained that it had been in contact with the individual in question for some time, but after the harassment had not improved, the firm was forced to take legal action.

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The party starts this October.

At its recent Direct, Nintendo announced Super Mario Party Jamboree – a brand new Mario Party title coming to the Switch on 17th October 2024.

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Following a major update in May.

Nintendo has announced a new update for Splatoon 3, following its big 8.0.0 update in May. This new update will officially bump the third entry up to Version 8.1.0.

According to Nintendo’s support page it comes loaded with changes to player controls, changes to multiplayer, some “other” changes and also multiple bug fixes. It should be live soon.

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In the Summer skies, flying high!

Did you know the F-16 first took flight 50 years ago a few months back? It is currently enjoying its Block 70 revision in case you were fearing that air forces around the world are still flying half-century-old technology. Meanwhile, Ace Combat is turning 30 next year and, much like an airplane block revision, it evolves with every new entry. Sadly Nintendo owners might have missed this evolution entirely, with only a Game Boy Advance entry and two slightly different 3DS versions of an Ace Combat 2 remake successfully navigating to Nintendo skies. Sadly, the 3DS game carries in the West the title of Assault Horizon Legacy (+), which ended up confusing potential young nuggets to take the plunge since the home console Assault Horizon remains the most devise entry in the series, with developer Project Aces attempting to inject some Call of Duty-ism into the formula with disastrous results.

The pressure was on. The Xbox 360-exclusive Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation had raised the bar for the series (which was already extremely high after the PlayStation 2 trilogy), so Project Aces needed to ensure that the next numbered game in the series was their shiniest, slickest F-16 equivalent yet. In January 2019, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown launched on previous-generation consoles and soon after on PC to warm reviews. Five years later, this very same Unreal Engine-powered opus now lands on Nintendo Switch, which is something none of us at Nintendo Life ever expected to write. Surely, there has to be a catch… right?

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Now you know what Aonuma does.

If you’re anything like us, then chances are you already have a pretty good idea of what various game development roles entail. Sometimes, however, it can be good to get a bit of a refresher.

Take directors and producers, for example. It’s not entirely uncommon that the two roles get confused sometimes, particularly when individuals such as Eiji Aonuma and Yoshio Sakamoto are often regarded as the ‘faces’ of Zelda and Metroid, respectively.

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No, not Pokémon: Too Much Water.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire launched over two decades ago on the Game Boy Advance, but according to a couple of Pokémon fans, the third-gen titles may have been called something completely different during development.

As highlighted by farore.gba and wobb on social media (thanks, VGC), after looking through data files for the games, they stumbled across the Japanese titles ‘藍バージョン’ and ‘朱バージョン’ which, when translated, read as ‘Indigo Version’ and ‘Crimson Version’ (we should note here that the direct translation of the latter title through Google yields a different result for us – 朱 translates to ‘Vermillion’).

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Not about spilling coffee, sadly.

Although the Switch is home to an abundance of arcade-style racing games, the same can’t be said for more realistic fare.

This is most likely because the Switch’s hardware would struggle to handle the Gran Turismos and Forza Motorsports of this world, so developers tend to give Nintendo’s system a mess when making their own serious racers. Besides, let’s face it, on the odd occasion the Switch has received a port of a racing sim, the results usually leave something to be desired – case in point, the chonky visuals that were being churned out in the WRC games for years.

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