Tag: nintendo
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Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Switch) Review
1996’s Super Mario 64 was the first, and the last, 3D Mario game I completed before playing Super Mario Odyssey. 21 years separate these games but they are inexorably linked. I will never forget the first time I saw Mario 64 in motion on a Nintendo 64 kiosk at a major league baseball fan appreciation day. It was…
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Mario Odyssey Reviews Out, Game Available Tomorrow
The reviews are almost universally positive. Here is Dan Ryckert’s: Make no mistake about it, Super Mario Odyssey is a weird game. It’s wrapped around a concept featuring sentient hats, enemy possession, and Bowser making wedding preparations, but actually playing the game feels very familiar. Gone are the polarizing FLUDD from Super Mario Sunshine and…
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Animal Crossing Pocket Camp in Late November
Nintendo’s iOS and Android adventures continue late next month with Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. I love Animal Crossing in general, it’ll be interesting to see if Pocket Camp really gives us a good experience but it looks pretty limited and full of traditional mobile game shenanigans. There’s a shorter version of the above video at…
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Super NES Classic Edition Stuff
The Super NES Classic Edition is out for $80, Chris Scullion has a review of the Brit version which looks a little different externally and in the menu, but is functionally identical, to the US version: The only main problem I have with the SNES Mini is how important the Reset button on the console…
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Nintendo Promises More Stock of Classic Editions
Nintendo put out a press release announcing that they would both manufacture more NES Classic Editions this coming summer, 2018, as well as making more Super NES Classic Editions available at launch on September 29th than they had shipped of the NES CE all last year. It’s good that Nintendo are finally going to potentially thwart…