Update: Starts 11th Feb.
Update : Here we go! Splatoon 3’s chocolate-themed Splatfest is almost here.
It’s a pretty simple question this time around, but one that has the NL staff fiercely divided — “What’s your favourite chocolate?” As always, let us know what yours is by voting in the poll below, plus you can get more details on Splatfests from our guide.
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Ryota Aomi moves onto a “new journey”.
Dragon Quest series producer Ryota Aomi has announced that he has left Square Enix after working with the company for 13 years.
Sharing the news on Twitter (via Gematsu), the long-time producer — who first worked on Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors while he was working at Genius Sonority — joined Square Enix in 2009. He was the lead producer on the musou spin-offs Dragon Quest Heroes and its sequel, Dragon Quest Heroes II as lead producer, while also helping out on a number of mainline Dragon Quest titles. The Heroes duology has been rereleased as a package on Switch, but in Japan only.
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Game Boy has arrived & more N64 games are coming.
Nintendo yesterday bolstered its Switch Online + Expansion Pack service with some new retro libraries. Now, following on from this, it appears to have updated its official “overview trailer” for the service in its homeland of Japan. Within it, you can see footage of the Game Boy Advance library.
In addition to this, it’s also shown off some footage of the 2023 wave of N64 titles including games from the Mario Party and Pokémon Stadium series, as well as Excitebike 64. While there’s not much remaining in this original wave of N64 games, it seems they are at least on course for a release in the near future.
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Birdo could be just the start.
It’s not every day a new character is announced for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but yesterday was one of those rare cases with the return of Birdo. This pink racer originally debuted in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! on the GameCube.
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All the GBA games, ranked by you.
Nintendo’s announcement that a selection of Game Boy Advance titles is now on Switch means that subscribers to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack have instant access to a small but growing library of brilliant handheld games from yesteryear, including entries in some of Nintendo’s biggest series.
Are they all brilliant, though? Which GBA games on Nintendo Switch Online are the best? Well, with the help of you lovely Nintendo Life readers, we can answer that question for you.
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Horrible history.
“You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.”
Those are the opening sentences of the foundational 1976 text game Colossal Cave Adventure. Originally created by Will Crowther and extended by Don Woods, it ran on a mainframe computer hooked up to a teleprinter. The events of the game were communicated by literal printed text on actual dead-tree paper. Your mission is to find your way into a cave, find an assortment of treasures hidden deep inside – a gold nugget, an egg-sized emerald, that sort of thing – and return them to the brick building at the start.
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Looks gooood. Can confirm.
Metroid Prime Remastered, you say? Geez, that shadow-dropped, like, 20 hours ago, gramps.
Look, we’ve been busy, okay? Amongst documenting all the exciting news from the first Nintendo Direct of 2023, we Europeans had to squeeze in a few hours of shut-eye between then and now, too, so please forgive us for repeating a sentiment you’ve likely seen a lot on the internet already today — or one you’ve expressed yourself after experiencing the game firsthand — but Metroid Prime Remastered looks utterly lovely, doesn’t it!?
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Best physical deals + digital discounts!
Despite the many rumours we’ve had over the past few years surrounding potential Metroid Prime remasters, the official reveal of the game during Nintendo’s recent Direct presentation was still one of the standout moments of the show.
Metroid Prime Remastered is already available digitally, but there’s also a lovely physical copy headed our way very soon indeed. All the details you need on how to get your hands on it for the best price (including a discount on the digital version) can be found below.
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The best way to prepare for Tears of the Kingdom.
The February Nintendo Direct Showcase brought with it a closer look at The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and some of the bonuses that will be coming alongside its release on 12th May including a special amiibo and a Collector’s Edition copy of the physical game.
Nintendo is now adding to the hype surrounding the sequel’s release by lowering the eShop price of its predecessor, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, by a tasty 30%. This means that the smash-hit launch title is now available to download on its own for £41.99 / €48.99 / $39.99.
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An offer you don’t want to pass up!
As part of the Nintendo Direct celebrations today, Japanese developer and publisher Konami has a special introductory offer for the virtual baseball title, WBSC eBaseball Power Pros.
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