Category: Nintendo

Every Power Rangers game, as ranked by you.

Go, Go Nintendo Lifers! It’s Morphin Time, folks, because we’re about to run through the very best Power Rangers games on Nintendo systems as ranked by you lovely lot.

If you grew up on any console from the SNES to the Switch, then the chances are that you will have stumbled across a Power Rangers game at some point. For a brief spell in the early 2000s, these games were churned out on a yearly basis, with fresh faces adorning the box art to correspond to whatever series happened to be out at the time.

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Issue #16 – September 2024.

Are we back? We’re back.

Yes, it’s time for another round of correspondents’ correspondence as we open up the Nintendo Life Mailbox.

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A duel of dual spirits.

Hello folks, we’re back once again for another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Before we get started, let’s take a look back at how things played out last week. We checked out the GameCube classic Pokémon Colosseum, originally released in Japan in 2003 before making its way West in 2004. All three covers were admittedly pretty similar, so the scores here were relatively even. In fact, things ended in a draw between North America and Europe, both of which scored 37% of the vote.

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Courtesy of Dark Horse.

Square Enix’s Bravely Default series is absolutely stunning to look at, so you might be pleased to hear the art book based on the Switch release is now on its way to the West.

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Bluetooth and Hall Effect sticks!

8BitDo’s latest mod kit will enable GameCube fans to transform their trusty wired pads into fancy wireless versions, complete with Hall Effect sticks and triggers.

For $26, the kit upgrades your GameCube pad so it can be used with the 8BitDo GC Retro Receiver, giving you a Bluetooth connection for wireless play.

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A classic, continued.

It’s fair to say that Gimmick! 2 was a sequel not on many people’s bingo cards before its surprise announcement in June 2024. Its 1992 predecessor, a retro gem and Sunsoft’s take on a mascot platformer, enjoys a cult reputation as one of the rarest games for the Famicom/NES owing to its limited release in Japan and, oddly enough, Sweden.

It certainly made an impression on Gothenburg-based Bitwave Games, the studio behind 2022’s Gimmick! Special Edition — a rerelease of the notoriously difficult original for modern consoles — and its unlikely sequel. Not only is the story behind the IP’s revival an interesting one, but we’re happy to report that Gimmick 2 lives up to and arguably outshines its 8-bit forbearer.

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You’re going to take ME for a ride?

It’s finally the weekend, and we’re ready to chill out with a spot of gaming. Before we get into our plans, however, let’s take a look at what happened in the world of Nintendo this week.

It was a big one for PlayStation news, weirdly, as we speculated on ‘Switch 2’ pricing after Sony revealed the £700 PS5 Pro. We also delved into Astro Bot (another non-tendo release) as we looked at the fan reaction to its Mario inspiration.

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Evidence of a new Remastered Collection has also been spotted.

The Atlus release Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance arrived on the Switch in June. and now in an update, the team has announced this enhanced JRPG release will be receiving some new content.

This free update, which will arrive at some point in the future will add six new demon navigators. They include Mara, Idun, Mossman, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Hell Biker and Cleopatra. Here’s the official announcement, along with some artwork:

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“It is now an unavoidable reality for us”.

It’s been another tough week in the video game industry with Microsoft announcing another round of layoffs at the Xbox division and staff resigning at Annapurna Interactive. Now, to unfortunately add to this, Penny’s Big Breakaway developer Evening Star has announced it’s had to let go of some of its team.

In a statement via social media, Evening Star CTO Hunter Bridges revealed the small-sized developer parted ways with six team members due to “volatile market conditions”. Here’s the full message:

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Shred it next month.

Despite being on our radar since its announcement last year, we have seen remarkably little of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed, the upcoming 3D platformer / brawler from developer A Heartful of Games and publisher Outright Games. That is until today! An all-new gameplay trailer has arrived to kick some shell and things are still looking pretty good.

Building on the first gameplay glimpse we got in July, today’s new footage starts to introduce us to the game’s story (as narrated by one April O’Neil). A bunch of baddie mutants are on the loose — in a Turtles game? What are the odds?? — and it’s up to the heroes in a half-shell to shut them down. We can see combat aplenty and some of the basic platforming challenges too, in what appears to be both single-player and co-op modes.

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