Category: Nintendo

Mailbox: eShop Closures, Comedy, The Physical Future – Nintendo Life Letters

Issue #14 – July 2024.

Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. As football fever grips England with headlines such as National Team In Not-Crap Shocker top the tabloids (probably), it’s time to relax a little and sit back with our monthly letters page.

Got something you want to get off your chest? We’re ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings.

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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel – Kirby’s Pinball Land

Pinbrawl.

Welcome, one and all, to this week’s edition of Box Art Brawl! Wait, are we… poets??

Last time, we pitted two covers for the NES’ Urban Champion against each other and after a weekend of voting, it was North America that came up with the win. The classic pixel art cover took 59% of the vote, while Europe and Japan’s colourful alternative was left with the remaining 41%.

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Guide: Every Game In The Switch eShop ‘Recollection Collection’ Sale (North America)

Sale wraps up this weekend.

This is your friendly reminder that the North American ‘Recollection Collection’ eShop sale ends this Sunday (14th July) at 11:59pm PT, so this is your last chance to save on all the wonderful games listed below.

Nintendo of America has unveiled its latest batch of discounts, with the ‘Recollection Collection‘ sale bringing up to 80% off select titles with a certain throwback feeling.

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Soapbox: Metroid’s Mother Brain And The Rewind Dilemma

Mother pain.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Nile deliberates whether or not the time has come to push the (rewind) button…

Last month, Nintendo announced it was adding Metroid: Zero Mission to the Nintendo Switch Online service. For me, that was the impetus for crossing off a major to-do on my backlog: completing all the 2D Metroid games. With Zero Mission, a 2004 Game Boy Advance remake of the 1986 original, being the canonical first entry in the series, it’s a perfect starting point.

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (13th July)

Unbullievabull!

Can you believe we’re basically in the middle of July already? Madness… Well anyway, days of the year be damned, it’s time to play some games.

It’s been a relatively quiet one this week, arguably boosted by the strange and ominous ‘Emio’ trailer posted by Nintendo, indicating that the company may be dipping its toes back into the world of horror gaming…

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Random: Nintendo Interviews Splatoon’s “Great Big Three” Idol Groups

Feat. Squid Sisters, Off the Hook and Deep Cut.

Alongside this weekend’s Splatoon 3 ‘Summer Nights’ Splatfest, Nintendo has released a special new interview featuring all of the past and present groups and idols featured throughout the series. This includes ‘Deep Cut’, the ‘Off the Hook’ crew from Splatoon 2, and the ‘Squid Sisters’ from the first Splatoon game.

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Trails Series Main Story “About 80-90%” Complete, According To Nihon Falcom

“You won’t see a 30th or 40th anniversary”.

Certain series never stop, but it seems the Trails games (which are now 20 years old) are getting to the point of completion.

Speaking to GameSpot recently, the Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo (who is also one of the key devs behind Trails) mentioned how the main story is now “about 80-90% complete” and while there could be “another arc”, whatever happens next wouldn’t continue much longer and don’t expect to see a “30th or 40th anniversary”. Here’s the full exchange:

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