Who of thought Nintendo’s amiibo phenomenon a year later was gonna be their top selling products within that time span. The Super Smash Bros. figures alone drove fans and consumers crazy lining up at stores hours in advance and also constantly checking the Internet for availability because of how rare they were early on. While […]
Note: One thing I would like to do with this review is not liken Level 5’s Yo-kai Watch to Pokémon, as I feel that the game as a whole is very different than Nintendo’s RPG series. Other than the fact that you use creatures to battle others, Yo-kai Watch’s presentation, exploration and charm feels vastly […]
One of Nintendo’s E3 surprises this year was a whole new Zelda title for the 3DS, and it was more surprising that it was coming out this year. This time they went with the Four Swords style game, but unlike the GBA/GCN games, The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes is much more thought out […]
Ever since Yoshi Island: Super Mario World 2, Nintendo’s green dinosaur hasn’t had a good track record with his traditional starring appearances. Yoshi’s Story on the N64 was disappointing and also the game that made me get glasses. Yoshi’s Island DS and Yoshi’s New Island tried to bring back the good old days of the […]
Animal Crossing has proven to be a wildly successful franchise for Nintendo, more so when you realize there have been only four games. When it debuted on GameCube (or N64 in Japan), it has evolved the simulation genre with real-time gameplay based on the system’s clock, a colorful cast and a different take on how […]
Nope, there’s no Super Mario Galaxy 3, Super Mario 3D World 2 or even a second New Super Mario Bros. for Wii U this year. Instead we get something that is totally unique: Super Mario Maker. Super Mario Maker could perhaps be the last 2D Super Mario game we ever get. That is because the […]
LEGO Jurassic World is the first LEGO game I’ve played since messing around with The Indiana Jones LEGO game from years back. I was a huge fan of the first two LEGO Star Wars games, but got bored of the formula by the time the series jumped to Indiana Jones. Since then the series has […]
When people say Nintendo never makes any new properties, that they are only the Mario and Zelda guys, they sadly haven’t heard of Dillon’s Rolling Western, Sakura Samurai, Pushmo or any of the other cool new stuff that they have put on the eShop. It’s a bit understandable since they are smaller titles, but with […]
Let this intro be a disclaimer: Xenoblade Chronicles is one of my favorite games of all time since playing it on Wii three years ago. It brought a new scale to JRPGs not named Final Fantasy thanks to a Nintendo-sized budget and a veteran JRPG team willing to change the rules and adapt another culture’s […]
Nintendo’s Mario Party franchise has been one of those “wow they’re still going” type of franchises. It started back in 1999 for the Nintendo 64 and now they’re at the 10th entry for the Wii U. I wouldn’t say they were great games, but the first three iterations have that dorm room feeling Mario Kart […]
