Roughly one year after Japan. After its initial release in Japan on 28 September, 2023, Ys X: Nordics will be heading to the Nintendo Switch in the West in Fall 2024, courtesy of NIS America. If it wasn’t obvious from the game’s title, this will be the tenth mainline game from the long-running Ys franchise,…
You’ll need a Philips head for this. You can’t move for retro-inspired games these days, to the extent that a developer saying “Hey, this looks like an old game!” has started to feel less like a selling point and more like a hop onto a crowded, pixelated bandwagon. If you’re after something that looks a…
Junior Jungle Japes. Ok, let’s see. The original Donkey Kong first released into arcades in 1981, where it became a smash hit that also happened to introduce us to two of Nintendo’s most enduring mascots in the form of a great big agitiated ape and some springy little plumber guy. The game, in this very…
The Ninjas were quick, but not quick enough. If yesterday’s Splatoon 3 news wasn’t enough to convince you that a full-fat February Nintendo Direct is probably off the cards, then perhaps this will be: it looks like another Princess Peach: Showtime! trailer is set to come our way today. This suspicion has not come from…
‘Rebel Transmute’ launches next month. Publisher Jandusoft has announced that Rebel Transmute will launch on the Nintendo Switch on 14 March, 2024. If you’re unfamiliar with the title, it’s a pixel art Metroidvania that takea a few cues from the likes of Metroid and Axiom Verge in which you explore a vast world filled with…
Also served as director on Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. We have just learned that Yoshitaka Murayama, creator of the Suikoden franchise and director/scenario writer on Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, has sadly passed away due to complications with an ongoing illness. The news comes via Rabbit & Bear Studios, the development team responsible for Hundred Heroes…
Any advance on the original? We are mere days away from the release of Mario vs. Donkey Kong on Switch (which arrives on 16th February, if you were wondering). After having a perfectly fun time with the puzzle platformer when we went hands-on with it earlier this month, we are excited to see what the…
“What’s here is generally very well done”. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered arrives on the Switch this week and the tech experts at Digital Foundry have already got a video up about the performance and frame rate across each system. In case you missed it, the Switch version of this remaster runs at a native 1080p…
A few other titles have also made use of it. During the Switch generation, Nintendo has sometimes developed the odd title on a different engine. We’ve seen Yoshi’s Crafted World and more recently Pikmin 4 utilise the Unreal Engine and now it appears the upcoming release Princess Peach: Showtime! might have also been created in…
What did the critics think? The legendary video game character Lara Croft returns today in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered. And if the title isn’t already enough of a hint, it’s a revamp of the first three games for modern audiences. You may have already seen our review here on Nintendo Life, but if you did…