Author: Game Infliction

Feature: Nintendo Life’s Alternative Awards 2025

Best ‘squirrel with a gun’ game, most ‘Huh?’ Nintendo moment, and more!

Hello, well met stranger, and welcome to Jurassic Park! Nintendo Life’s Alternative Awards 2025!

It’s been…well…it’s been a year in which we have all existed, that’s for sure, and as a result games happened. Loads of them, in fact. Of course, and as is tradition at this time of year (it’s Christmas, mate, wake up), you’ve got your usual shoe-ins for Game of the Year, your fancy writing awards, nice acting, and good gameplay nods. All that stuff and nonsense for people who do everything right all the time.

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Feature: But The Future Can Change – Chrono Trigger And Learning To Love The World

The Corridors of Time.

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors from 2025. This article was originally published in March. Enjoy!

Note: If you haven’t played Chrono Trigger to completion…what are you playing at? If you’re sensitive to spoilers, come back when you’re done as we discuss end-game details below…

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Review: Stray Children (Switch) – A Surreal, Captivating, Undertale-Inspired RPG

Don’t talk to strangers.

Stray Children launched on the Japanese eShop on 26th December 2024. We weren’t able to review it back in October when it arrived in the West, but we’ve now managed to catch up with Onion Games’ latest…

Your dad’s missing and some weird “uncle” is at the door, claiming to know you. Stray Children just chucks you straight into things with barely a title screen – but perhaps that sort of stylistic confidence is unsurprising coming from people behind Moon: Remix RPG Adventure. Yoshihiro Kimura and Onion Games have delivered a compact, auteur-driven project, heading off on adventures into emotional storytelling rather than into sophisticated mechanics. And it uncovers some impressive treasures on its quest.

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Feature: I Play This One Particular SNES Game Every Xmas As A Personal Tradition

Please help me.

It was the Christmas of 1992. Mr Blobby was the funniest thing on television (according to your parents), and Whitney Houston had been tricked into singing a love song about everyone’s favourite sentient cardigan, Kevin Costner (I feel like I’m having a war flashback now).

And me? Well, I was having a great time despite all of this, actually. Because Santa had done me a massive solid.

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The RPS Selection Box: Ollie’s bonus games of the year 2025

It was an interesting Advent Calendar this year, from my perspective. My top four games – Arc Raiders, Silksong, Clair Obscur, and Hades 2 – were all highly ranked. And then none of my remaining games made the cut. I guess I should have strategically placed these games higher up for a better chance of making the cut. Bit of gaming the system, you know?

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Editorial: Happy Holidays From Everyone At Nintendo Life

So here it is…

And here we are once more! It’s Yule! Navidad! Xmas! Chrimbo! Rudolphtide! Grinchtingle! Erm… Richard Curtistime? Hmm. Merry Christmas, everyone.

It’s been a big year for Nintendo fans and the wider gaming industry, with new hardware, a load of new games, even more new versions of old games, plus plenty of challenges, with life’s regular ups and downs accompanied by many more on a global scale.

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