Category: Nintendo

Soapbox: After Restarting My Save File, I Finally ‘Get’ Hollow Knight

*sigh* Bapanada.

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 is finally seeing the Hollow light…

Last year, I decided to take a break from Tears of the Kingdom and pick up a fun-looking, rarely discussed indie which was subject to a tasty little eShop discount at the time. The game was called ‘Hollow Knight‘, or something like that, and I put a decent amount of time into it before getting stuck, putting my controller down and never thinking about it again.

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Poll: Box Art Brawl – Duel: Bravely Default

Fly high, fairy.

Hello folks, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl.

Before we get cracking, let’s see how things panned out last week, hm? We looked at Super Monkey Ball Adventure, one of several entries for the GameCube. As we’d expected, the busier, more vibrant box art from North America sealed the deal, winning a healthy 79% of the vote.

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Video: Digital Foundry Takes A Look At Zelda 64 Recompiled: Majora’s Mask

“A revolution in N64 native ports for PC”.

The Nintendo 64 emulation scene has come a long way and the latest recompilation project revolutionises native PC ports.

Our friends at Time Extension shared a post recently about N64Recomp – describing the tool as potentially transformative to the world of N64 emulation, as it streamlines the process of native ports and adds modern enhancements such as uncapped frame rates, ultrawide monitor support and even ray tracing.

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Toy Shooter Hypercharge: Unboxed Is Adding Cross-Platform Support

Switch will receive it at a later date.

The toy shooter HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed is arriving on Xbox next week, and ahead of this launch, developer Digital Cybercherries has revealed the game will be getting cross-platform support.

While this feature (allowing players to “join forces” across platforms) will roll out for Xbox and PC on 31st May 2024, it seems Switch players will have to wait a little longer with no ‘ETA’ just yet. Here’s what the developer had to say in response to a question about crossplay for Switch:

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Soapbox: Fire Emblem’s Future May Not Be In Turn-Based Combat

Fire Emblem’s fates.

How would you feel if the next mainline Fire Emblem game was exclusively a social sim?

While a change this drastic is almost certainly not in the cards, the identity crisis currently faced by Fire Emblem means that change must come. While Engage’s 1.61 million sales as of March 2023 is respectable for the franchise, it marks a return to 3DS-era numbers after whispers of blockbuster status when Three Houses sold nearly 3 million in its first fiscal year. The reason for this discrepancy is simple: Three Houses expanded the fanbase by shifting the focus away from its strategy elements, whereas Engage doubled down on its strategy roots.

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DOOM: The Dark Ages To Be Announced This June, According To New ‘Exclusive’

It will apparently be getting a “multiplatform release”.

The next entry in the first-person shooter series DOOM is reportedly set to be unveiled at Xbox’s games showcase this June.

According to Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson, this new entry will officially be titled ‘DOOM: The Dark Ages‘ (previously codenamed ‘Year Zero’) and is believed to be a “medieval inspired” game.

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Guide: Best Nintendo Switch Remakes And Remasters

Remake you feel my love.

Swept and updated with Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, El Shaddai, Braid, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Enjoy!

It used to be the case that, if you missed out on a particular game, your only way to catch up was to buy the original console and the original game. Then, thanks to services like the Virtual Console, you could emulate those old games without having to own any old consoles, for much more affordable prices (usually) than the ones you might find in secondhand sales.

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