Reviewed and updated with Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, El Shaddai, Braid, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. To enjoy!
It used to be the case that if you missed out on a certain game, the only way to make up for it was to buy the original console and the original game. Then, thanks to services like Virtual Console, you can emulate those old games without having to own the old consoles, at much more affordable prices (usually) than you can find on used game sales.
Then came the era of remasters, with updated graphics, controls, and sometimes even new content, and it was pretty exciting to be able to play old games on new hardware. But the riskiest re-release of all is a remake, which involves taking a favorite game, completely retouching it, and hoping the end product isn’t an insult to the player’s precious memories. It’s a risk… but when it pays off, it pays off large.
A lot of the best covers and remasters can be found on the Nintendo Switch, although we don’t have any amazing ones Final Fantasy VII remake or a sexy PS5 remake Demon soulswe certainly have no shortage of fantastic, flashy games.
In fact, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorites, and while our criteria has gotten a little murky (Does the port count as a remaster? Does the “HD” in the title actually mean anything?), we think we’ve come up with a pretty solid list of the ones we like the most. like them.
And if you’re only looking for remakes/masters released by Nintendo, we’ve got you covered: