Category: Nintendo

Feature: “A New Surprise On Every Page” – How Kids Helped Shape ‘The Plucky Squire’

“My son calls it ‘The Plucky Square’”.

“It’s a new adventure,” is what James Turner, co-director of the absolutely delightful The Plucky Squire, told us when we asked him what it was like to leave Game Freak and The Pokémon Company.

Before forming his own game studio, All Possible Futures, with Jonathan Biddle, Turner was most well-known for being an artist on the long-running monster-catching RPG series, even becoming lead art director on Pokémon Sword & Shield. But he has experience creating unique and charming games outside of Pokémon, directing 2012’s HarmoKnight and the Sega-published Tembo the Badass Elephant.

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Component Shortage No Longer An Issue For Switch Successor, Says Nintendo

Furukawa talks combating scalpers.

During Nintendo’s recent shareholder meeting, president Shuntaro Furukawa touched on a subject that will no doubt be playing on the minds of gamers worldwide as we move ever closer to the reveal of the Switch successor: scalpers.

Last year, Nintendo already expressed its interest in reducing the number of scalping incidents relating to new hardware by simply ensuring that the company “produce and ship in numbers that can meet customer demand”. At June’s shareholder meeting this year, Furukawa reiterated this desire but crucially indicated that the component shortage issue plaguing the gaming industry over the last few years is seemingly no longer affecting Nintendo.

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Sega’s Crazy Taxi Reboot Is Described As A ‘Massively Multiplayer Driving Game’

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Sega’s upcoming reboot of the Crazy Taxi franchise might still be a ways off, but thanks to a recruitment video and a smattering of job listings, we now have a slightly firmer idea of what the game will have in store for us.

As spotted by VGC, SEGA is describing the reboot as a ‘massively multiplayer driving game’ in online job listings, with the recently posted recruitment video expanding on this by stating that development is currently focused on adapting the classic Crazy Taxi gameplay into an online world with multiple players.

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Hands On: ‘Reggie: The Game’ Is A Promising, Gravity-Defying Platformer That Oozes Charm

Note: No relation to NoA’s ex-President.

Playing around with gravity in platformers isn’t anything new; Super Mario Galaxy is a prime example of the concept done right, but Limbo also performed a commendable job during the latter stages of its short campaign. Being able to manipulate gravity throughout an entire game, though? That’s a pretty new one (shush, Gravity Rush and VVVVVV fans), but if our hands-on time with the demo for Reggie: The Game is anything to go by, then we’re in for a treat when it eventually launches in 2025.

To use its full name, Reggie, His Cousin, Two Scientists and Most Likely the End of the World is a 2D platformer from Dutch developer Degoma in which you navigate stages by flipping the world’s gravity, effectively allowing you to zip to the ceiling and back down again, or even zig-zag in mid-air, bopping enemies on the head (or their backsides) as you go. It’s pretty similar to VVVVVV in some respects, but the ability to flip the gravity while mid-air and utilise physics to manipulate your momentum sets this one apart quite nicely.

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Poll: Box Art Brawl – DK: King Of Swing

B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

We are back, back, back with another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Before we swing into this week’s match-up, let’s take a look at what went down last time when we looked at two regional covers for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Despite a duo of swanky designs being on display, it was Europe and North America’s dark, moodier cover that walked away with the win, taking 65% of the vote and leaving Japan’s brighter take with 35%.

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Round Up: The Previews Are In For Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

Here are the first impressions.

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition will revive classic speedruns next month and before the game’s launch on the Switch, Nintendo has given multiple outlets a chance to go “hands on” with the title.

In case you missed our coverage here on Nintendo Life, we can confirm it’s a fun time and think it might even become a staple of Switch game night. You can see the game in action in our video above.

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House Of The Dead 2: Remake Gets Rated For Switch By The ESRB

A PEGI rating appeared earlier this month.

After a PEGI rating for House of the Dead 2: Remake was discovered earlier this month, it seems the game has now been rated for Switch by the ESRB.

It’s rated ‘M’ (mature 17+) and unsurprisingly contains blood, gore, and violence. Although there’s still no official announcement, these ratings suggest we might be getting an update about this in the near future. Along with this rating is a summary:

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Feature: 54 Switch Ports We’d Love To See Before The Generation’s Out

Infinite requests.

Since 2017, we’ve seen a huge number of ports come to Switch, many of which seemed like impossibilities beforehand. Surprises like Doom (2016), which turned up in the system’s launch year, and 2019’s Witcher 3 showed that while clever optimisation was required, Nintendo’s console could deliver perfectly playable and utterly absorbing portable versions of some of the biggest video games around.

As time wore on and Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen platforms launched, the Switch ports kept coming — the excellent Pentiment has been a particular highlight this year. We’ve got our fingers crossed for Ace Combat 7 and Stray, although recent disappointments such as the Batman Arkham Trilogy show that caution is warranted. The Switch is in its eighth year, and the tech within was hardly bleeding edge in 2017.

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Here’s A Closer Look At The ‘Echoes’ In The New Zelda Game For Switch

Nintendo: “There are lots of echoes to discover”.

Since the Nintendo Direct last week, the company’s social media pages have been in overdrive promoting all of the new and upcoming releases. As usual, these same pages have also been detailing some of the finer points of each games, and in the latest update Nintendo has shared a graphic of some of the items Zelda will make use of in her new outing Echoes of Wisdom.

In case you missed the original announcement, ‘echoes’ are imitations of things Zelda can find within the game environment. She is able to do this with the help of the ‘Tri Rod’ and her new mysterious fairy friend, Tri.

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