Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam went so very close to irritating me. As much as I enjoy the RPG spin-off series that makes unlikely good use of Nintendo’s two platforming superstars, I have become increasingly frustrated with the company’s persistence that Princess Peach should be a damsel in distress in…
Read MoreIt would be easy to dismiss the Style Boutique franchise as Nintendo’s attempt to reach out to the rarely tapped young girl demographic; to assume that it’s a cynical series designed more to be accessible and casual because, after all, girls don’t play real games, now do they? If there…
Read MoreSurely it was inevitable. Nintendo’s multiplayer-focused game about coating everything in ink is about to be inked itself…in a very different way, that is. Yes, Splatoon is getting its own manga adaptation in Japan. In fact, it’s actually getting two. The first, Honobono Ika 4-Koma, will be a four panel…
Read MoreXenoblade Chronicles on the Nintendo Wii (and, later, New Nintendo 3DS), is a sprawling game with ambition well beyond what anyone thought the console could handle. At the same time, despite the game’s openness, its love of sending players on fetch quests, and the near endless incentive to keep backtracking…
Read MoreLevel-5 has, for the longest time now, been hesitant to localise its Yo-Kai Watch franchise into western markets. One presumes that the underlying reason for that hesitancy is due to the intense cultural relevance the Yo-Kai games have to Japan, and the assumption that a great deal of the underlying…
Read MoreIt is really quite the tragedy. Even as Mario Golf has slowly worked its way to become Nintendo’s premier party sports game, Mario Tennis has lost a little bit more of its once overwhelming soul with each new edition. The Nintendo 64 Mario Tennis was one of the finest sports…
Read MoreAmiibo Festival is more proof of concept than a major release from Nintendo, so let’s get that out of the way from the outset; come into this expecting some kind of deep, lasting, rich experience and you’ll probably be disappointed. To its benefit it works really quite well, and carries…
Read MoreStella Glow is Imageepoch’s swan song. Heartbreaking as it is to see yet another set of capable creative minds disbanded, it’s the most apt tune the company could have composed to go out on. It’s a game that brings the company full circle; Imageepoch kicked off with the niche but…
Read MoreThe day is finally here: a new Nintendo Direct! This coverage reflects the information on the North American stream of the event, but there will be links to both the North American and European streams at the bottom. Today’s Nintendo Direct focused on what is coming out for the Wii…
Read MoreFans have been begging for a new Nintendo Direct, and Nintendo is poised to provide just that: they’ve announced a new Nintendo Direct will air at 10 p.m. GMT on November 12. That’s 2 p.m. EDT for our friends in North America, or 6 a.m. on November 13 EST for…
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