Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube785 thousand One of the biggest surprises in Nintendo’s storied history happened in June 2021 when Metroid Dread was finally unveiled for the Switch. By that point, the game had passed into legend, with many fans admitting that it simply didn’t exist. One of the most significant catalysts for fan ...
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s look at the box designs themselves. Europe / North America Picture: Tradewest / Mobygames Anyone else serious about Arnie and Carl Weathers Predator vibrations from the front and center position of the biceps here? Not? Then just us. The European and North ...
Image: Nintendo Life Welcome once again to Recovery teamwhere the Nintendo Life staff gathers for a mission to explore an old classic, with veterans leading new recruits into the unknown. We last reviewed Rareware’s Donkey Kong Country on the SNES. For today’s mission, we’ll be looking at WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, or Minigame Mania! as ...
Jim Norman, staff writer Yes, for me this weekend will be all about Brotherhood. I’ve only scratched the surface so far, but I really like what I’m seeing! It hasn’t reached the heights of the Superstar Saga for me yet, but I’ll keep going as long as I have this stupid big grin on my ...
Image: Rare Earlier this week, Nintendo rolled out a surprise update to the “mature” N64 app Switch Online, adding Shadow Man and Turok 2. Other than this, some fixes seem to have been applied to Perfect Dark Version 1.2.0 mature N64 applications. As pointed out ‘Graslu00’ on social networksprevious problems with the “blur effect” are ...
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life The N64 Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack library is home to a few weird little bugs that keep us on our toes while playing some of the cartridge classics. Last week we noticed a strange speed issue in the recently added Banjo-Tooie, and now we have another one, ...
Image: Nintendo Life Hey everyone, welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we get into this week’s fight, let’s take a look at how things turned out last time. We took a look at Balloon Fight for the NES, a true Jousto-inspired classic from legendary developers like Satoru Iwata and Yoshio Sakamoto. This ...
Image: Nintendo Rare’s beautiful sequel to the Banjo-Tooie platformer has arrived in the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack N64 library today, and we’re relishing the opportunity to once again bring our best bear and bird buds on the road. Overall, this NSO build seems great, but as we left the game sitting idly on ...
Banjo-Kazooie was the game that revolutionized platforming on the N64: Rare’s quirky humor, creative level design, and sublime controls made it the pinnacle of platforming on Nintendo’s console. Fans of the original will probably remember the game developers’ generous promises about the sequel, Banjo-Tooie, including the ability to swap items with the original Banjo (hence ...
Image: Nintendo Just a few weeks ago, Nintendo announced that they would be hosting a new Switch Online Playtest program. As part of that, attendees were told not to “discuss or reveal” anything about it, and almost immediately information about what to expect leaked online. Now, in an update, the playtest has gone live and ...
