Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Review

Nintendo’s always finding new ways to reintroduce people to the NES library. Whether it’s putting them out on the Game Boy Advance, including them as bonuses in Animal Crossing, available for download on the Wii and Wii U, or available with the Nintendo Switch Online service, there’s almost always a way to play Super Mario Bros. on a Nintendo console. But those are always straight ports of the old games. They did do the NES Remix series on 3DS and Wii U, which changed things up a bit, but otherwise, it’s been the same thing. This year, Nintendo released Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, bringing with it a new way to experience these games.

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Games That Only I Like

Do you have any games that you love that you don’t think you could convince other people are any good at all? I have some. I guess this is kind of like a guilty pleasure, except that I don’t feel guilty about it at all. They’re just games that I think are good that I doubt people would agree with me about. I’m honestly not sure if this is something a lot of people experience or just kind of a “me” thing. The title of this post is kind of an exaggeration, but I had to make it something snappy. Anyway, here’s some games.

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What I Want From The Next Animal Crossing

I have played Animal Crossing: New Horizons every day since the day it came out. I’ve slowed down a lot since the early days, mostly just saying hi to all my neighbors and digging up all my fossils and little things like that lately. With the successor to the Nintendo Switch coming some time next year, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to see in the next Animal Crossing game. So here’s a few things I’d like to see.

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Pokemon TCG Pocket First Impressions

I don’t normally play a whole lot of mobile games, but I did grow up playing the Pokemon trading card game. So when a new Pokemon mobile game based on the trading card game became available, I thought it would be fun to give it a look. Will this be like most mobile games I play and I only stick with it for about a week, or will this be like Fire Emblem Heroes, where I’m still playing every day?

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Random Game Wednesdays: Final Fantasy VIII (PlayStation)

Any time I get an RPG for Random Game Wednesdays, I feel a little bit of dread. I typically only play about half an hour of a game before writing about it for these posts, and that’s not a lot of time to get a good feel for them. Thankfully, I’m pretty familiar with Final Fantasy VIII. It’s actually always been one of my favorites in the series, however it’s also a game that came out when I was in middle school. Considering how much criticism the game gets, it’s definitely possible that my love for it is mostly nostalgia. But hey, let’s take a look at the beginning of Final Fantasy VIII and see what I think about it.

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What I Want From The Switch 2

We all know the successor to the Nintendo Switch is coming in the near future. We don’t know exactly when, we don’t know how much it’ll cost, we don’t even know what it’s called, but we know it’s coming. I thought it would be fun to write what I want to see from the console. Might not be the most exciting list of features you’ve ever seen, but here’s what I’m hoping for.

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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Review

Ever since Zelda went 3D on the Nintendo 64, traditional 2D Zelda games became relegated to handheld systems. With the release of the Nintendo Switch and the discontinuation of dedicated handheld Nintendo consoles, the future of 2D Zelda games was in question. Would it make sense to put out a 2D game on a system that had Breath of the Wild on it? We got a little bit of hope in 2019 with a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, but it would take all the way until this year when we’d finally get a brand new entry. Was the wait worth it, and is there a place for 2D Zelda games in 2024?

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