Category: Nintendo

“Even if you’ve tried it before”.

If you’ve been wanting to give the Switch Online service another shot, but don’t necessarily want to fork out the monthly sub for it, Nintendo is now offering Switch users a free 7-day trial.

This allows you to “retry the benefits” of this membership service, even if you’ve tried it out in the past. This will give you access to the base tier which comes packed with the NES, Super Nintendo and Game Boy libraries. As noted by Nintendo, this allows you to access more than “100+ classics”.

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Another “rebootless” update has gone live.

Following a system firmware update in June (bumping the Switch up to Version 18.1.0), Nintendo has now rolled out another “rebootless” update.

This has been detailed by dataminer ‘OatmealDome’ on social media, who once again mentions how these updates “do not require the console to be restarted and often contain minor changes”. This latest build has (you guessed it) updated the “bad words list”. We won’t go into specific details but it appears to block a “censor-evading way” to write a certain word in Japanese.

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Cleanin’ up?

Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD is out now, offering fans of the original a new way to experience the game with cleaner visuals, better controls, and strong use of the Switch’s motion controls and HD rumble.

The wonderful PJ O’Reilly took the game for a spin for our official review and came away feeling pretty impressed, awarding it a score of 8/10 and praising it as “the best way to play the game as of 2024”. Now, we want to hear from you fine people. What did you think of Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD?

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“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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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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Hop in!

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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Another Anime Expo 2024 leak…

It seems another game localisation announcement may have been accidentally revealed ahead of Anime Expo 2024.

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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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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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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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