Category: Nintendo

Bionic calls.

Get your spiciest takes at the ready, because it’s time to dive into another edition of Box Art Brawl!

It was a special edition affair last time, as we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the SNES by matching up three boxes for the SNES Mini. There was one clear winner in our eyes, and you lovely lot agreed with us! The simplistic Japanese design comfortably walked away with the win, taking 48% of the vote and leaving Europe and North America with the remaining 26% and 25%, respectively.

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Includes some small but handy updates.

In case you missed it, this week Nintendo released a new update for its Switch mobile app, bumping it up to Version 3.2.0.

This latest update features some notable changes, including notifications displaying what software friends are playing, and the ability to send friend requests to players you’ve spoken to in GameChat sessions.

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Following a system update earlier this week.

Nintendo released a new firmware update for the Switch 2 earlier this week, and it’s now followed this up with more compatibility fixes for select Switch titles.

Apart from the update for NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition, several other titles have reportedly received compatibility fixes. Here’s the rundown via Nintendo Everything:

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Core, blimey!

Publisher Fireshine Games and developer Pugstorm dazzled us with the gorgeous survival sandbox game Core Keeper back in September last year, and today they have announced that more is on the way in the shape of a swanky new Switch 2 Edition.

Arriving on 28th January, you can expect this one to feature beefed-up graphical fidelity and frame rate (targeting 60fps), as well as a bunch of visual tweaks in the lighting, shadow, water quality and particle effect departments to keep things looking super sleek.

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You can also pay to upgrade to the Switch 2 version.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is just days out from launch, and in case you missed it, you can redeem the eShop version of this title with a Nintendo Switch Game Voucher. You could also grab this version with a voucher and then pay to upgrade to the Switch 2 Edition of the game.

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Myles MacKenzie reporting for duty.

Republic Commando, is that you?

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond marks a completely new story where the legendary bounty hunter Samus Aran is unexpectedly transported to the unknown planet Viewros. As you’ve probably already seen, she’s also joined by a team of Galactic Federation soldiers.

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Something for everyone.

Whether you’re a veteran of the series or just starting out, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond will have a difficult to match your skill.

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Posterizer.

We’re no strangers to a good old Takaya Imamura social media post here at Nintendo Life. Whether it’s his wishes for a Star Fox revitalisation or his dreams of future movie adaptations, the former Nintendo dev is always on hand to give us something to think about. But today, all that’s on our minds is how inadequate our Animal Crossing: New Horizons design capabilities are.

You see, in the past 24 hours, Imamura-san has shared a couple of pictures from his New Horizons pad, flexing the iconic movie posters that he has recreated in staggering detail via the in-game Custom Designs app. To start, there were just three. Now, there are seven. And, simply put, they put our best efforts to shame.

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Build a rocket, boy.

Little Rocket Lab is a sweet pixel art automation game from No More Robots and Teenage Astronauts. It arrived on Steam and Xbox last month, and we have been wondering when a Switch release would follow ever since. Well, it’s coming real soon. What’s more, there’s a Switch 2 Edition in tow.

Little Rocket Lab – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, and its Switch 1 counterpart, will be available on the eShop from 10th December for £15.99 / $19.99 (or as a free upgrade for those who make the jump between systems down the road), and it boasts some pretty slick performance on the new hardware. Alongside the promise of boosted resolution, Teenage Astronauts have also got things running at a sweet 120fps — so you know those conveyor belts are going to be looking smooth as anything.

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Silent partner.

For many years, it felt like Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time was the redheaded stepchild of the Mario & Luigi series. People criticised it for its more linear structure, overly long boss battles (at least in the US version), having to purchase items to use Bros. Attacks, and slightly cumbersome gameplay, among other areas.

Being released between the two most critically acclaimed games in the series certainly didn’t help. It even got skipped over for the remake treatment, unlike Superstar Saga (+ Bowser’s Minions) and Bowser’s Inside Story (+ Bowser Jr.’s Journey). Even if it may not reach the lofty heights of those two, I’d argue Partners in Time is still a fine game in its own right—and even more so two decades later, in light of subsequent entries.

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