Just last September, Splatoon 3 celebrated its two-year anniversary in a spectacular sendoff with the Grand Festival. This celebration also marked the effective ending of the game, with new monthly Splatfest themes coming to a close. While the new content has slowed down, it hasn’t stopped entirely, as the seasonal…
For older Nintendo fans, Space World 2000 is one of the most pivotal moments in the company’s history. The event where Nintendo not only unveiled the GameCube to the public but showcased Super Mario 128 and some ridiculously high-quality 3D renders for a Legend of Zelda prototype, Space World 2000…
Across Nintendo’s vast reach, Mario has quite a few unique games under his belt. While most people tend to focus on the main series entries, there’s many games that fly under the radar for one reason or another. One such oft-forgotten title is Super Mario Run. This mobile-exclusive platformer doesn’t…
When I picked up Bugsnax for this review, I knew that it started life as an exclusive launch title for the PS5, but little else. I thought that Bugsnax was the name of the protagonist, and that it would be your standard quirky adventure game. Instead I was greeted to…
If you’re remotely familiar with my taste in games or our coverage here at Nintendo Wire you’ll know that Kirby floats high above the rest as a personal favorite. The pink puffball has endeared himself to plenty, and 2018’s Kirby Star Allies was one I eagerly awaited as soon as…
Let’s not waste time – 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is a testament to video games as both art and a storytelling medium. This was one of my favorites of 2020 and will likely be a favorite of 2022 all over again. If the idea of a multi-character science fiction narrative…
Ahh LEGO Star Wars, the OG of licensed LEGO games. When the original LEGO Star Wars dropped in 2005, its success ushered in an entire genre of licensed games that has had largely the same formula between plenty of the world’s most popular franchises. How fitting it is, then, that…
Few games these days still have to make “the great 3D leap” — transitioning into a whole new plane of view with camera work and controls. While discussion of the process is well-found amongst the game critic intelligentsia (“Sonic had a bit of a rough transition into 3D” is one…
The Persona series is in the midst of its 25th anniversary year, and while many fans are clamoring for the chance to play Persona 5 on Switch, Atlus has instead turned things back even further. Not to a “main” game, mind you, but instead to a – deep breath now…
It’s been awhile since I’ve played a strategy game that wasn’t part of the Fire Emblem franchise, so it’s safe to say that Square Enix’s announcement of Project Triangle Strategy last year left me incredibly intrigued. I liked what I saw in the very first demo they released, and I’ve…
Final Fantasy is a franchise well-suited to spin-offs, so it’s no surprise that it received the kart racer Chocobo Racing way back in 1999 for the PlayStation. Surprisingly, despite being a solid concept, that game was the only time it was attempted (unreleased 3DS games notwithstanding). Thankfully that’s changed with…
To take a franchise like Pokémon and make it feel new again likely felt impossible. Efforts like Colosseum gave it a try before having those concepts drop away, and while GO redefined what Pokémon is to many, it really hasn’t changed much for fans of the console games beyond the…
Kingdom Hearts is incredibly special to me. No other gaming franchise has connected with me the way it has, and there’s no other series I’ve been hoping would get the Switch port treatment more than it. I used to joke that all I needed on Switch was Kingdom Hearts, and…
“Style over substance” is a common turn of phrase across multiple fields of criticism, punchy and powerful in how it can immediately declare a work to be fluffy and vacuous beneath its flashy veneer. I don’t like the term much myself, mostly because its users tend to either use it…
When it comes to wacky sports action, we are well past the genre’s prime. Gone are the days of over-the-top games like NBA Jam, SSX, and Blitz 2000. It seems like big companies are only interested in making realistic sports titles tied to major sports franchises, but luckily smaller companies…
