N64 classic heads to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack

There are no two without three. Following a new trailer for the highly anticipated Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Purple and offering the first trailer for Super Mario Bros. The Movie, the Big N rounds out the day with a date and gameplay for the next classic from the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack: Pilotwings 64 will make the jump from N64 to Switch next October 13. Get ready for epic-scale crashes!

The sequel to Pilotwings of the Brain of the Beast shared the two bases that supported its reason for being: to offer a fun and original game proposal while giving the player a glimpse of the cutting-edge technology of the new Nintendo console. In the case of N64, a true display of the amazing 3D possibilities of the machine. Yes indeed, the premise could not be more absurd.

In essence, Pilotwings 64 it’s a luck of pilot academy very unorthodox. Instead of following the Flight Simulator formula, to obtain our license with any of the six colorful applicants we will have to overcome tests as crazy as fighting a huge robot piloting a gyrocopter or playing a human bullet. Now, there are also more traditional challenges that involve jumping through hoops a la Superman 64.

In fact, to be fair, Titus’s Man of Steel game came much later: Pilotwings 64

it was one of the very few N64 launch titles alongside Super Mario 64 in Japan and would later repeat that honor in the United States and the Old Continent. However, the saga did not go much further: in 2011 it premiered Pilotwings Resort And there it stayed.

A classic reborn from the mythical N64

The Nintendo Switch version includes all the improvements of the N64 classics, including much sharper visuals than the original. All in all, it’s one of those games that begs to be played with Nintendo’s classic 64-bit beast controller. The good news is that from time to time these appear in theto the official My Nintendo Store

. The not so good is that when they appear they are a seen and unseen.

As a final note, Pilotwings 64 Not Available on the eShop: Available on Switch only through a Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscription. by 39,99 dollars We will have a huge collection of NES, SNES, N64, Mega Drive games and the expansions for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Splatoon 2.

Maybe, Pilotwings 64 It may not be the most attractive game already announced for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, but it is unquestionably an essential piece of the Nintendo 64 legacy. It has not aged as well as other classics, but how can you deny its surreal proposal for an academy for pilots who learn by trial and error?