Image: Nintendo Life We all made it! 2022 is finally behind us, and 2023 is happily stretching into the beyond. This is going to be a year full of promise, a year of hope, a year of enough Nintendo releases (with any luck) to squeeze an almost literal cry out of our bank accounts. But ...
Now that we’re at the end of 2022, I’m taking some time to look back on the year and figure out what the theme was — and how we’ll remember this year in gaming when it’s long gone. If you look at the GOTY lists of many sites, you will see that it dominates all ...
Jim Norman, staff writer Could 2023 really be the year I played more new games and spent less time working through my backlog? Absolutely no way! This weekend I will be hosting a New Year’s party, so it will be light games. As far as I know, my friends have never played Wii U, so ...
Image: Nintendo Life Over the holidays we’re reposting some select features from the past 12 months. A mix of talking points, interviews, opinions and more NL staff and associates, you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, expertise, frivolity, retro nostalgia, and — of course — enthusiasm for all things Nintendo. Happy Holidays! It started with ...
Ollie Reynolds, staff writer It’s unlikely that I’ll be playing anything of major consequence over the Christmas period, but I did pick up recently Ghostwire: Tokyo on PS5, so I’ll probably jump into that whenever possible. It’s also almost guaranteed that the family will be participating in some Jackbox Party Pack festivities at some point; ...
Alana Hagues, staff writer Chained Echoes will be my game of choice for the coming weeks – I’ve only been here for a few hours, but it is really good. The action is fast-paced, and the combat has just enough twists to keep the otherwise old-fashioned turn-based combat system fresh. Honestly, nothing feels cozier and ...
#1 – Reintroduce Pixel Art Visuals Image: Capcom We personally really like the way Mega Man 11 looked: it’s clean, colorful and bold. But we’d be lying if we said we didn’t miss the “classic” aesthetic of the older Mega Man games that Mega Man 9 and 10 went with. There’s something instantly charming about ...
