Coincidence or not, it seems that all the racing games have agreed to coincide at this start of 2022, and Nintendo Switch was not going to be less: at the end of March the extra circuits of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will arrive. Can’t you wait that long? No problem: next Friday the classic F-Zero X de N64 will be added to Expansion Pack de Nintendo Switch Online.
Originally released in July 1998, F-Zero X takes the intense anti-gravity racing of the Brain of the Beast into the third dimension, elevating both the thrill and the sense of speed in the process through 30 futuristic circuits designed to be traversed at lightning speed. Cementing a fast-paced type of driving that, like all the games on Nintendo’s mythical 64-bit console, It is enjoyed more and better with four controls.
The exact date: March 11th. In a matter of days. In fact, the announcement and the arrival almost instant from F-Zero X to Switch comes as a double whammy as the previously announced titles for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pass are (and still are) Pokémon Snap, Mario Golf and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. And having a great new N64 game every month of 2022 (we kicked off with Banjo-Kazooie in January and Zelda: Majora’s Mask was added in February) is something I we are more than willing to get used to it.
What’s more, like all N64 classics released through the Nintendo Switch subscription, F-Zero X will be available at no additional cost and exclusively to those players who own the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, which enables a very interesting new feature for the classic for the first time: online multiplayer for up to four players. All a detail.
Extra speed and fun for the five years of Nintendo Switch
The arrival of F-Zero X to Nintendo Switch will be an exceptional opportunity to recover a great game that, despite not shining with the same intensity as other N64 classics, deserved to be rescued. The Big N brought it back a couple of times for the Wii and Wii U Virtual Consoles, but the boost that this version’s online multiplayer will give it is an additional attraction that should not be overlooked.
Switch has started 2022 very strong, but your month of March is truly thunderous: with Triangle Strategy on the shelves, Kirby’s new great adventure appearing and with a demo in the eShop and the first batch of additional circuits for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe about to be served, it is very clear that the Nintendo console does not need the boost of its classics to stay on top of the wave. And yet We welcome F-Zero X with open arms.
As we always remember in iGamesNewsthe Nintendo Switch Online 12-month subscription along with the Expansion Pack that adds the N64 and Mega Drive classics is valued at 39,99 dollars. On the other hand, the annual family plan for up to 8 accounts to benefit from these contents costs 69,99 dollars.
We will see Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Nintendo’s pink hero? Well, in April we also found Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, Nintendo Switch Sports and the same basic problem as in March: so many great games to get your hands on on Nintendo Switch and so little time. But keep them coming!
