So, how are you liking 2024 so far? We hope you’ve had a good start to the year and are ready for a fresh batch of letters from your Nintendo Life mailbox.
After the holiday break at Christmas, we have slowed down a bit with correspondence this month. Don’t worry, we get it — who wants to write letters during the holidays when there are so many delicious video games to tuck into?
Got something you want to get off your chest? We’re ready and waiting to read your thoughts on the game. Each month we will feature a Star Letter, the writer of which will receive a monthly subscription to our ad-free Supporter scheme. Check the application guidelines at the bottom of this page.
Let’s look at the letters on the doormat, shall we? Invoice, invoice, catalogue, leaflet for double glazing, invoice…
Ah, here we are.
Nintendo Life Mailbox – January 2023
“well mixed” (***STAR LETTER***)
With the overall lackluster variety in genres and genre mash-ups at this year’s Game Awards, I’ve been thinking about how some genres have the potential for good mash-ups and are rarely explored (like Rhythm x Side-Scroller), so I’m curious as to which ones are underutilized genre-wise. mixes that you think would work really well together?
DiamondCore
In his interview with Kit and Kryst, Alan had an idea for a rhythmic American football game that I think has potential.
Or how about a roguelike dating/cooking game called Through the Stomach, where you have to charm your way into your partner’s affections with your culinary skills? Serving up a great meal gives you extra table time to flash your wit via an Insult Sword Fighting-style flirting minigame. You progress through the years, Venba-style, and the tone of the minigame changes, with memories, trials and tribulations in relationships, new people at the table, new topics and finally, finally, an empty table.
This probably already exists on itching. – Ed.
“very punk rock way”
As a gamer fascinated by retro stuff, especially the Gameboy, I’ve noticed more and more developers making new stuff for old consoles – some ports even making the headlines here at Nintendo Life! Since it’s probably a revival of the old consoles, in a very punk rock way, will there ever be a place for reviews of these new games here – and, if so, could this lead to even more people making new stuff for the old consoles ?
Daniel Ruy Pereira
The growth of homegrown and boutique publishing that allows new games to come out for 20, 30, 40 year old systems is pretty amazing and I’d love to cover them all with reviews, just like I’d love to review every Change Game.
The problem, as always, is resources. A feature here, a news post there is totally doable (and our friends at our sister site Extension of time they’ve done a great job highlighting homebrew recently), but even if these games are also coming to Switch, it’s a very niche audience buying brand new NES/GB titles in 2024. Reviewing them inevitably means sacrificing something else.
We’re constantly gauging reader interest and weighing where to spend our points, trying to find a balance and boost cool projects regardless of scale, and embracing the ‘Nintendo life’ to the fullest. However, if you are especially into cool projects with a retro flavor, you should definitely go Extension of time
Okay, that’s quite enough of the brown nose Hookshot brass tip. Next letter…
Oh.
Then, with a bonus bag!
Bonus letters
“Dear Alana,
I need your complete, comprehensive and in-depth recaps along with the level list, with the ranking of the Legend of Heroes series, not only counting the Trails games, but also the Dragon Slayer and Gagharv games. AND YS VS TRACKS IN THE SKY.Because it’s not 1000 words, that’s okay“- imadeaaccount
Sorry, wait until they’re on PC-88 and PSP? What is that? – Alan
“Ow’s my accent, mate? Better pants, innit? Oi, wot? Naur, I’m not just throwing random words at Barbie! This is ‘oo me talking, the Yankee way!” – CaleBoi25
You know, you can’t just write any old rubbish and go into the bonus section. – Ed.
Thanks to everyone who chimed in, regardless of whether you were listed above or not.
Got something you’d like to get off your chest? A burning question you need an answer to? A fix you can’t keep? Then follow the instructions below and we look forward to reviewing your letters.
Nintendo Life Mailbox login tips and guidelines
- Letters, not essays, please – Keep in mind that your letter can appear on the site, and 1000 words that live on Legend of heroes series and looking for Alana for her personal order is unlikely to work. Short and sweet is the order of the day. (If you’re looking for a general guide, 100-200 words would be enough for most topics.)
- Don’t go crazy with multiple correspondences – Ideally, only one letter a month, please!
- Don’t be discouraged if your letter doesn’t appear in the monthly article – We expect a considerable inbox, and we will be able to highlight only a few of them each month. So, if your letter is not selected for the article, don’t be discouraged!
How to send a letter to the Nintendo Life mailbox
- Go to Nintendo Life’s Contact page and select the topic “Letters from readers” from the drop-down menu (this is already done for you in the link above). Type your name, email, and a nicely formatted letter in the appropriate box, hit send, and boom — you’re done!
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