Sometimes you just want to take it easy. Maybe you want to dive into a new genre with unfamiliar mechanics, or you’re just not ready to face the unforgiving, inscrutable games like Dark Souls, Hollow Knight and the like. If you are looking for simple games for Nintendo Switch — games that stay engaging and ...
In October 2021, developer Eidos-Montréal introduced the team behind it the essentially dead live service title Marvel’s Avengersstarted Guardians of the Galaxy. The single-player third-person shooter was excellent, offering great combat, likeable characters, solid puzzles, and beautiful environments. It received generally positive reviews across all aggregators Metacritic And OpenCriticand it exceeded all of our expectations ...
Picture: Square Enix Before there was one PlayStation 4 remake That blew the doors of his own canon, Final Fantasy VII lived on through various spin-offs that expanded the world of the classic role-playing game. One of them was Advent children, the 2005 CG film that followed the events of the original game. If you ...
New year, new games? Wow, it’s the weekend! God, it comes fast, doesn’t it? Before we take a look at what we’ll be playing over the next few days, let’s recap what’s been happening in the world of Nintendo this week. Admittedly, it’s not much, but we still had something to talk about. Read the ...
Image: Nintendo Life Back in the days when consoles had fewer bits than people had fingers, games could mostly get away with providing solid gameplay first and foremost. The game is still the main thing, of course, but today’s games often have to show other qualities, such as striking visuals, an interesting story and strong ...
Until recently I thought so Alan Wake 2 would be in second place here, while Tears of the Kingdom would remain my personal game of the year. However, I recently had a chance encounter with writer Cole Kronman (who wrote this great part At Xenogears and Tetsuya Takahashi’s games for us) helped me clarify my ...
Picture: Square Enix Every New thing I hear around Final Fantasy VII Rebirth makes the wait for the February 29, 2024 release even more difficult. And Square Enix has just opened the floodgates to another batch of new details, hints and anecdotes about the upcoming open-area RPG remake that have me excited even more fascinated. ...
Image: Nintendo Life / Square Enix Soapbox features allow our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random things they’ve been chewing on. Today, Alana talks about her favorite RPG from 2023, which everyone seems to have completely forgotten about… Eight passengers. Eight stories. The paths of these eight adventurers ...
2023 wasn’t just a successful year for quality video game releases — it was also a good year for video game music. At Nintendo Life, we usually give video game soundtracks a bit of praise in our overall lists, but this year we want to do things a little differently, because frankly, there’s too much ...
Felix Sanchez, video producer What’s on the menu this weekend? Well, aside from my grandma’s wonderful cooking, we have Pikmin 4 and Outer Wilds! Both are space-based, but very different games. Pikmin 4 really surprised me with how good the gameplay loop is, and all the music tracks are just sublime. And Outer Wilds surprised ...
