Category: Nintendo

City building, city digging.

Thunderful has announced a brand new game in the SteamWorld series — SteamWorld Build! And it’s yet another genre twist in the SteamWorld universe later this year on Switch! And it turns out it was teased last year in the company’s interim report under the code name “Coffee“.

Moving on from action, platforming, Metroidvania, and deck-building, SteamWorld Build is a city builder meets dungeon crawler. You need to build and maintain cities on the surface of the world all while mining for resources and fighting enemies underground. Thunderful says that it’s a cross between SimCity and Dungeon Keeper.

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Engaged or disengaged?

We’re sure a lot of you lovely readers have been engaging with a certain strategy RPG over the weekend. Yep, we’re talking about Fire Emblem Engage, which launched on Switch last Friday.

Okay, so this is a huge 40-50 hour game and we’re not expecting you all to have blasted through the entire thing over the past few days, but we do really want to know what you think about Alear’s adventure so far, which sees multiple Fire Emblem protagonists of past return in summonable ‘Emblem’ forms.

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“Power up complete”.

Whatever your view is on 2002’s Super Mario Sunshine, we reckon most would agree that the Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device – or “F.L.U.D.D.” for short – was an excellent addition to the franchise that made for some truly unique gameplay mechanics.

Since then, of course, Mario has been into space, trekked across a vast desert, strolled down the streets of New Donk City, and turned himself into a spring, a frog, a Tyrannosaurus rex, and more. Yet there’s still hope among Sunshine fans that perhaps F.L.U.D.D might make another appearance in a 3D Mario game. Until then, however, this mod from JustKant might be the closest we’ll get for quite some time (thanks, GoNintendo).

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*slap bass riff*.

In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”.

We don’t have (paper) pages on the internet, but we still love terrible jokes — so welcome to our semi-regular feature, Back Page. Today, with the Super Mario Bros. Movie looming in the not-too-far future, we pondered what it would be like if Mario had his own sitcom…

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“Coming soon to a streaming platform near you, ‘Mario’ is a show about nothing.”

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Ka-BOOM!

Hello folks, welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl!

In last week’s edition, we took a look at Castlevania II: Belmont’s Revenge for the Game Boy. We honestly thought this would be a closer fight, as both box art variants were pretty great, but what do we know? North America and Europe absolutely smashed it, roping in 74% of the overall vote. Well done!

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Alear-ning curve.

Fire Emblem Engage, Intelligent Systems’ latest tactical RPG extravaganza, has finally arrived on Switch and we reckon it’s a bit of a banger, with our recent review handing it an ‘Excellent’ 9/10 score.

As is tradition with this long-running franchise, the tactical action here is very much of the easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master variety, with multiple layers of options and tactics that can be employed in order to rout the corrupted armies that Alear and company face in their attempts to defeat the evil Lord Sombron.

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Costumes and music are up for grabs.

Nintendo’s latest game Fire Emblem Engage also supports amiibo functionality. If you are wondering what each amiibo does you might want to read on…

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Version 2.0.5 has landed.

Ark: Survival Evolved got a massive overhaul on the Nintendo Switch last year with the release of the ‘Ultimate Survivor Edition’.

In case you missed it, it improved visual quality and performance, reduced load times and added in a number of quality-of-life features including inventory management. Fast forward to 2023, and another patch (Version 2.0.5) has now been released.

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Made by skaters, for skaters.

Update : A listing for Sessions: Skate Sim has now appeared on the Switch eShop and Nintendo’s official website. It will apparently be arriving on 16th March 2023.

There’ll be two versions – the standard one for $49.99 USD (or your regional equivalent) and the Deluxe Edition for $59.99, and both can be pre-ordered now. The deluxe version will include extra levels and some other exclusive items. Here’s the official description:

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Our pick of impeccable pixels.

Of all the art styles in video games, none has a stronger chokehold on developers and players alike than the humble pixel. Whether it’s a fantastically detailed modern take on what is possible in pixels, or something made in homage to NES and SNES games of yore, pixel art can be found everywhere — in every genre of game, on every console (no matter how powerful), and in every generation of games, too.

Some may dismiss pixel art as an old-fashioned art style , but the games in this list show that pixel art can be up there with some of the most beautiful games on Switch. Just because something adheres to an evident grid doesn’t mean it can’t be utterly gorgeous — so let’s celebrate the best pixel art in games!

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