Category: Nintendo

Tears of Completion.

Believe it or not The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has now been out for just over three whole months. In that time, many of us have spent 100+ hours exploring the multiple layers of Hyrule, taking on familiar faces and getting lost in the adventure of it all. It’s a sobering feeling, therefore, when you beat the game’s final boss and roll credits only for the newly unlocked completion percentage on your Purah Pad to remind you that you still have 70% of the game left to complete.

Such is the sheer size of Tears of the Kingdom, that pouring ~50 hours into the main story is hardly scratching the surface of the full experience on offer. It’s a big wide world out there, and a threat like Ganondorf is but a drop in the ocean of Shrines, Side Quests and *shivers* Korok seeds…

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Follow the clues to be in with a chance of winning.

GAME has today announced that its ‘Ultimate Pokémon Hunt’ will be offering the chance to win some limited-edition Pokémon prizes in six secret UK stores between 21st August and 2nd September.

The hunt will be coming to each store on one day only, so you are going to have to act fast if you want to be in with a chance of taking home a prize. As for what prizes are on offer, GAME has announced that those taking part have the chance to get their hands on the Pokemon Arceus V Star Ultra Premium Collection — a store exclusive — as well as Pokémon TCG Trainer Boxes, plushes, battle figures and more.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Think inside the box.

There’s a lot of cool Splatoon 3 merchandise out there from clothing to decorations, but the recently-released shoe boxes might be among the strangest that we’ve seen. Yes, it’s just a shoe box.

These cardboard boxes are currently exclusive to the Japanese My Nintendo Store and will set you back 880 yen (around £5 / $6) if you choose to pick one up. Modelled on the in-game boxes that you might have used to decorate your locker, the four new designs appear with the logos of different Splatsville gear/weapon brands including Tentatek, Zink and Inkline.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Issue #3 – August 2023.

Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. We’re deep into August, so let’s dig into our inbox and see what’s been spinning ’round those brainboxes of yours over the past month, shall we?

Got something you want to get off your chest? We’re ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month we’ll highlight a Star Letter, the writer of which will receive a month’s subscription to our ad-free Supporter scheme. Check out the submission guidelines at the bottom of this page for information on how to have your short, sharp correspondence drop on our digital doormat.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Gotta rank ’em all.

It’s time for another clash of cover art as we dive into this week’s edition of Box Art Brawl!

Last time things got NESsy, as we pitted three different cover designs for the original The Legend of Zelda against each other and oh boy was it a close one. The classic gold North American / European art just sealed the victory with 36% of the vote, while the Japanese Famicom and FDS releases followed closely behind on 33% and 31% respectively.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Celebrating 30 years.

Long before Nintendo and Illumination’s record-breaking Super Mario Bros. animated movie, there was the infamous live-action film starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, which has since gone on to become a cult hit.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

A reveal is scheduled for next month.

Back in July, Toree 3D developer Siactro made announced plans for a new project, with a reveal scheduled to take place soon.

Now, in an update on social media, it’s been announced an “early demo” of this next game will be making an appearance at SAGE Expo on 1st September. Based on the silhouette featured in the video below, it appears Toree is making a return:

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Hell Wing.

M2’s garage doors are open for business again, continuing to pay homage, and in fastidious attention to detail, to the shoot ’em ups of yesteryear. Zero Fire, a portmanteau of collected titles Zero Wing (1989) and Hellfire (1989) represents Toaplan during the height of its glorious arcade tenure.

Although released just four months apart, Hellfire is chronologically the first in this collection, a side-on horizontal scrolling shoot ’em up that was borne from the instruction to make a game like Konami’s Gradius. Hellfire was the company’s first horizontal foray, and its production was particularly problematic. Director Tatsuya Uemura cited it as being “extremely difficult to make” in an interview for the Toaplan Shooting Chronicle, a music collection, and that it was memorable only for the struggle he and his team experienced during its manufacture.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Sea of low-quality.

It’s difficult now to remember a time when the Switch eShop wasn’t rammed with low-cost, low-quality games making it laborious to find the great new releases amongst all the dross. What began as an immaculately clean, functional store back in 2017 quickly ballooned and before long Nintendo was inundated with software submissions vying for visibility on a crowded digital marketplace. Inevitably, these included titles from less-than-scrupulous developers and publishers looking to make a quick buck.

In recent months, the number of quick-and-dirty ‘clone’ games seems to have exploded, though. The Last Hope – Dead Zone Survival is a notable example which is no longer on the eShop after it caught the attention of Sony’s copyright lawyers. That was an open-close case, perhaps, but the underhand tactics being employed by select publishers make a handful of PC-based bullshots look like quaint, small-fry false advertising.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, eat your heart out.

If you had a Nintendo 64 growing up, we bet you had Mario Kart 64. This was many people’s first Mario Kart game, and the rest is history.

Of course, you can play it on the Switch thanks to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. Alongside Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart: Super Circuit (both on NSO too) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, that’s four different Mario Kart games on one system.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com