Category: Nintendo

Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Mario vs. Donkey Kong?

Mario vs. DK vs. you.

Last week, Mario and Donkey Kong’s decade-old dispute bubbled back to the surface in the appropriately titled Mario vs. Donkey Kong, a Switch remake of the identically titled GBA original from 2004.

NL’s stalwart PJ O’Reilly enjoyed his time with it, awarding it a ‘Good’ 7/10 in his review and highlighting the new co-op mode as a highlight in a game that lacks teeth: “If you’re a more seasoned player looking for platforming challenges, this game finds its strengths as an experience for younger gamers or as a co-op title. Taken as such, it absolutely earns a recommendation.”

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Random: Japan Is Getting Another Mother-Themed G-Shock Watch

Game celebrates 30th anniversary this year.

The cult hit EarthBound (Mother 2) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, so naturally, that means that Japan is getting another collaboration between Mother and watch manufacturer Casio.

Due for launch on 14 March, 2024 via a lottery purchase system, the ‘Mother Red’s GW-6900‘ follows a previous collaboration back in 2021. This time, however, the watch is red… Like, really red. You’ve got the Mother logo at the top of the display, while the word ‘Potential’ is nestled in at the bottom.

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Feature: “It Just Felt Right” – How Story Of Seasons & Piczle Cross Is The Perfect Union

“I am an unapologetic fan of the Story of Seasons series”.

What’s more relaxing than a farming sim? Many of us love to wind down with a few hours of tending crops, looking after cows, and taking in the seasons in a good ol’ Story of Seasons game. And for almost 30 years, this hugely popular series has been sowing the seeds and setting the standard for the genre.

So what if it were to do something entirely different? The farmhands have swapped their hoes for pens and taken up a spot of picross. Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons marks the first time Marvelous’ farming franchise has stepped out of the mulch and into a different genre. Can you get more relaxing than a farming-based puzzle game?

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Turok 3: Shadow Of Oblivion Remastered Receives A New Update

Fixes, improvements and much more.

Following its launch late last year, the first-person shooter Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remastered has received a new update.

If you haven’t already played the remaster, it’s certainly worth a look if you played the original game, just don’t expect multiplayer mode. Overall though, it’s fast and violent with an excellent blend of stage design and satisfying combat. You can learn more in our review:

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RPG Farming Adventure ‘Tales Of Seikyu’ Confirms Release On Switch Platforms

“Explore a vast Yōkai world with friends”.

If you’re looking for another fantasy farming adventure with RPG elements, the Kickstarter project Tales of Seikyu (not to be confused with Bandai Namco’s Tales Of series) is one to watch. At the end of last month, this new game reached its $200K stretch goal – locking in a release on all systems including “Switch platforms”.

While the game is currently coinfirmed for the Switch, developer ACE Entertainment is also open to a release on Nintendo’s rumoured follow up system.

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Guide: Best Tomb Raider Games, Ranked – Lara Croft On Switch And Nintendo Systems

As ranked by you.

Some people might understandably associate the Tomb Raider series, like WipeOut and Crash Bandicoot, with PlayStation. Lara Croft shot to prominence as the poster girl of gaming in the lad-mag era of the late-’90s and feels forever tied to the cultural gaming cornerstone that is Sony’s debut console.

However, Core Design’s original game launched for Sega Saturn and PC, too, and while Sony negotiated console exclusivity for the sequel, the series has appeared on practically every game platform made since the turn of the millennium, including Nintendo platforms. And with the release of Tomb Raider I-III Remastered on Switch, we’re finally able to enjoy Lara’s original adventures in their original form (almost).

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Back Page: The Best Cows On The Nintendo Switch

We would never steer you wrong.

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 pages on the internet, but we still love terrible jokes — so welcome to our semi-regular feature, Back Page. This one’s about cows.

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