Category: Nintendo News

Three major Nintendo 3DS releases will soon be added to the Nintendo Selects range in North America, officially reducing their suggested retail price to a very welcoming $19.99.

That’s right, Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D and Star Fox 64 3D are all about to see major price cuts in the region, joining a whole host of other great games under the ‘Nintendo Selects’ banner. We’re sure many of you are familiar with these three titles already, but in case you need a little more info, Nintendo has provided the following blurbs (and we’ve added links to our reviews for each game, too):

Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS: In the Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS game, build, play and share your own side-scrolling Super Mario levels using a wide variety of tools. Want to make your cannons shoot coins or have Bowser fly? With the intuitive touch-screen controls of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, creating levels is easy and fun. Plus, you can take on 100 built-in courses as you tackle the Super Mario Challenge. Our review.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D: The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D game brings Link’s classic adventure to Nintendo 3DS. This remastered and enhanced version features a cast of memorable characters, unforgettable gameplay and a dark and mysterious story. With control of time itself, Link must save the world of Termina from destruction by helping citizens, battling bosses and solving challenging puzzles. Our review.

Star Fox 64 3D: Join ace pilot Fox McCloud in the Star Fox 64 3D game, an action-packed space shooter that puts you in the control of the classic Arwing ship as you blast, warp and barrel roll across space. Each mission in the game takes you through a different planet of the Lylat system as you face off against enemies, collect power-ups and fight powerful bosses on the way to the final battle against the evil Dr. Andross. Our review.

You’ll start to spot these games at their reduced rates in stores from 4th February, so if you’re looking to add to your 3DS game collection, we’d advise waiting until then and snapping up these great offers.

Are any of these games missing from your collection? Will you be picking any up next month? Let us know in the comments.

Publisher Versus Evil and indie developer Mild Beast Games have announced that their arena shooter game At Sundown: Shots in the Dark will be firing its way to Switch next week.

The game is a top-down, stealth-based arena shooter which pits up to four players against each other in online and local deathmatch games. Players are under the cover of complete darkness and can only see themselves – and be seen by their opponents – when they shoot, dash, or trigger a light source. The whole thing sounds like the most intense game of Laser tag we’ve ever seen.

It features plenty of options to keep players on their toes, including access to 17 weapons and power-ups, 18 maps, nine game modes, and team variations of those modes, too. The game actually won the BAFTA Ones to Watch award back in 2016.

Versus Evil General Manager, Steve Escalante, has said the following in a press release today:

“At Sundown: Shots in the Dark is a perfect fit for console and delivers the ultimate 4 player party setup. Mild Beast Games have created a hugely competitive and immensely fun title that will keep players coming back for more. The game’s forthcoming cross-platform console launch underlines our commitment to bringing out the best in our indie partners.”

The game arrives on Nintendo Switch, as well as PS4 and Xbox One, on 22nd January (ignore the old ‘2018’ mention in the trailer above).

Do you like the look of this one? Will you be downloading it next week? Let us know in the comments.

Nintendo and Kadokawa are set to release a brand new Xenoblade Chronicles 2 art book called ‘Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Official Artworks Alrest Record’.

The book will feature illustrations from the game’s main character designer Masatsugu Saito, four special illustrations by rare blade designer CHOCO, and contains art from both Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country. Characters, weapons, rare blades, titans, monsters, objects, and more will all appear.

It also includes lines from the game’s most memorable moments as part of a ‘story playback’ feature, and all of this content is wrapped up inside the gorgeous, 352-page book shown below. It’s A4 in size and is available in paperback.

While it’s by no means written in stone, a recent datamine suggests that we may soon be playing SNES games on our beloved Switch consoles via the wonder of Nintendo Switch Online.

The games uncovered in this datamine are Super Mario Kart, Super Soccer, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Demon’s Crest, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, Stunt Race FX, Kirby’s Dream Course, Pop’n Twinbee, Star Fox, Contra III: The Alien Wars, Kirby Super Star, Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts, Kirby’s Dream Land 3, Super Metroid, Super Mario World, Pilotwings, F-ZERO, Star Fox 2, Super Punch-Out!!, The Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Super Mario All-Stars and Breath of Fire II. Not bad for starters.

That list reads like the usual suspects; most of those games have already been available elsewhere, and even Star Fox 2 – the only real shock on the list – was previously made available via the SNES Classic Edition.

Of course, whenever news like this breaks, the natural thing to ask is which games you’d personally like to see come to the service; those 22 titles are a solid start without a shadow of a doubt, but given the amazing library of the SNES, there are bound to be some essential picks that aren’t included – as was the case with the aforementioned SNES Classic Edition.

For example, why has Super Castlevania IV been left off the list? Where’s ActRaiser, one of the most unique early SNES releases? Why is there no love for Axelay, one of the best 16-bit shooters of all time? We also notice that other gems like Secret of Mana, EarthBound, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy III are conspicuous by their absence. And, as we’ve maintained from day one, any SNES game list that is missing the utterly sublime Super Tennis isn’t complete, if you ask us.

Assuming SNES games are on the way for Nintendo Switch Online – and assuming that Nintendo adopts the same approach of releasing three new games per month – there’s ample time to rectify these (and many more) omissions. But which games do you absolutely want to see on the service, without fail? Let us know by posting a comment below.

Abylight Studios has revealed that Cursed Castilla EX is headed to Nintendo Switch very soon indeed, with a release date now locked in for 24th January.

Yes, Don Ramiro is back, but this time on Switch. Loved by critics and fans alike when the game launched on 3DS in 2017, Cursed Castilla EX has you banishing zombies, demons and more in a monster-infested fortress, playing out like a spiritual successor to Capcom’s Ghosts ‘n Goblins. We actually gave the 3DS version an ‘excellent’ 9/10 in our review, saying the following:

“Cursed Castilla EX is a punishing but ultimately rewarding love letter to the classic action platformers of the coin-op industry’s golden years, and while its brutal nature may prove off-putting for some players, those who appreciate the ’80s and ’90s era of gaming will find plenty to enjoy here.”

This new Switch version brings the game’s classic arcade action back in style, running at 60fps (docked and handheld), and featuring four different endings alongside four different view modes. Here’s a quick feature list to give you a little more info:

– Explore Tolomera del Rey in depth through 8 game stages.
– Fight against more than 48 types of enemies and 19 final bosses.
– Brag about your combat skills with 16 unlockable achievements.
– Learn about all the myths featured in the game with the illustrated bestiary as well.

As noted above, Cursed Castilla EX arrives on Switch on 24th January, and will be priced at $13.99 / 13.99€. Any pre-orders made from 17th January until that release date will receive a 10% discount, so make sure to pick it up early if you definitely want to check it out.

Did you play this one on 3DS? Will you be giving it a go on Switch? Let us know in the comments below.

Yet another glitch has been discovered in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Switch, this time giving King K. Rool a much larger-than-usual crown to batter his opponents with.

As always with these glitches, you need to meet a very specific set of requirements to make it trigger. For this one, you’ll need to go into a match with just King K. Rool and Yoshi. Start off by throwing K. Rool’s crown away, before having Yoshi gobble him up to make a nice Kremling egg. If you get the timing just right, K. Rool won’t be able to catch his crown and, for some reason, it suddenly expands.

You can see it happen in the video below; Yoshi actually manages to give K. Rool a satisfying whack with it while both players stand around momentarily confused.

There’s a bit of a knack to it, though; this second video shows how it can be quite tricky to time things just right.

So, we’ve now seen the Isabelle and Villager game breaker, the infinite Waluigi glitch, an entire compilation video, the super-sized Pikmin glitch, and now this. We’d expect this K. Rool glitch, at the very least, to be patched out pretty soon – it’s unclear whether the crown’s hitbox also grows alongside the visual, but if it does, the competitive scene could get messy.

Have you tried any of these glitches out for yourself? Do you think many more will be discovered? Share your thoughts with us below.

If there’s one aspect of platforming games that we’d consider to be absolutely essential, it’s movement. Whether you’re jumping, running, walking, crouching, ground-pounding, or whatever else you can think of, you’re almost always engaging in some sort of movement when playing a platforming game, so what would happen if you forced yourself to attempt beating a game without one of these skills?

Well, YouTuber Ceave Gaming has decided to do just that in a recent video, continuing the channel’s trend of completing games in weird and wacky ways. To be precise, the game in question is none other than Super Mario Odyssey, and the challenge is hoping to find a way to complete the main game without walking – or indeed, touching the left Joy-Con at all.

To do this, an incredible number of tricks and flicks are used to catapult Mario around each Kingdom. Using Cappy throws, backflips, and even the clever use of camera functions, the video below documents the first half of this journey. In it, we see the first seven worlds be challenged (the rest are coming in a second video) and, while the challenge has unavoidable issues, we’re amazed by how well Ceave Gaming managed to do overall.

We don’t want to spoil things here in the text but, if you’ve watched it, we’re sure you’ll agree that the effort has been mightily impressive so far.

Have you ever tried to complete games in interesting ways? Do you feel inspired to do just that? Let us know in the comments.

PQube and Red Entertainment have today revealed the Switch release date for Our World is Ended, while simultaneously sharing details of a special day one edition with exclusive goodies.

The game will become available in Europe on 22nd March, with the North American release following just after on the 26th. Anyone who pre-orders the visual novel for themselves, or simply picks up a copy on day one, will receive a special edition that includes the following:

– An exclusive artbook with 100 pages featuring beautiful illustrations of the characters, environments, CGs and much more
– A quirky keyring of the perverted programmer Owari Sekai’s mascot
– The physical edition of the game

The game is said to feature “an engaging story with unique characters and iconic landmarks”, “outstanding” production values, and more than 40 hours of gameplay featuring a deep narrative and plentiful conversation options.

Are you looking forward to this one? Let us know if you’re planning on picking up a copy this March in the comments below.

One of the biggest selling points for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is arguably the “Everyone is Here!” statement. As you’ll likely know, the game features every single playable character that has ever been available in a Smash game – and also throws in a few new ones – but there’s one character which actually causes a little bit of a problem here.

That character is Charizard. In Smash Ultimate, Charizard appears as part of Pokémon Trainer, a character originally from Smash Bros. Brawl who can swap between the aforementioned fiery lizard, the ever-adorable Squirtle, and the super-cool grass-type Ivysaur. Technically, though, Charizard has also appeared as a separate standalone character in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (known by fans under the name ‘Smash 4’).

While we selfishly wait to hear what this means for the Super Smash Bros. amiibo collection (will Charizard technically be included twice?), the official Pokémon UK website has chimed in with a theory as to why this change may have taken place. The paragraphs below come from an article celebrating the franchise’s appearance in Ultimate, noting how Smash’s Charizard may have disobeyed the Pokémon Trainer for a while, just like Ash Ketchum’s did in the Pokémon anime.

The original Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 64 marked the first time that Pokémon made the jump from turn-based battles to real-time combat, with Pikachu and Jigglypuff as the debut Pokémon contenders. The series has come a long way since then, with a wide assortment of fighters from the Pokémon universe appearing in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

The returning Pokémon Trainer can send out Squirtle and Ivysaur, as well as Charizard, which is back at the Pokémon Trainer’s side after its previous standalone appearance. We’d like to believe that this Charizard merely decided to disobey its Trainer for a little while, much like Ash’s Charizard did in Pokémon the Series.

So there you have it, Charizard just went through its moody teenager phase for Smash 4, before realising the importance of its friends and family for Ultimate. We’ve all been there, buddy.