Review by Matt S. Nintendo and Koei Tecmo are on to a good thing as partners. After years of successfully bringing the Musou (Warriors) framework to various anime licensed tie-ins, Koei got the chance to work on one of Nintendo’s most sacred properties, producing Hyrule Warriors. That game delivered in…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. As a big-time fan of Koei Tecmo’s Warriors (Musou) series, I’ve been looking forward to Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity ever since it was announced. Now, it’s a few short weeks away, and I’ve been playing it ahead of time to get my review ready. Here…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Overnight (for we Australians) Nintendo published their last Mini Direct for the year, and it was a celebration of everything that made the Switch great. Both the western and Japanese Directs are worth watching (there are some different games in each), so watch them both below.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Pikmin 3 Deluxe doesn’t do much over and above what it did on the Wii U, where it was initially released (and, indeed, was one of the early-era games by Nintendo on that console). To be entirely honest I’m actually going to plagiarise my own review…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Fire Emblem got a slow start in the western world. It seems hard to believe given how much weight Nintendo puts on it now, but it wasn’t until the Game Boy Advance that we got our first localised Fire Emblem title. There were all these other…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Is there any game more exciting on the horizon than Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity? I didn’t think so. Nintendo has been dropping trailers regularly in the lead up to its release on November 20 (just one month away!), and this newest one looks like good…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Nintendo has developed a habit of this, dropping trailers and information for its most anticipated games out of nowhere. Everyone is looking forward to Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity right now, and this new trailer will certainly whet appetites even further. This one is a narrative…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. With preview embargo lifted on Pikmin 3 Deluxe for the Nintendo Switch, I take the opportunity to have a chat about the game. I don’t often get to talk Pikmin, but here’s why I find it to be a delight and a breath of fresh air…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. People often forget that the genesis of Super Smash Bros. was as a modest, local multiplayer, fun-over-competition brawler. Given how bloated and meta the series has become it is easy to forget that, but on the Nintendo 64, Super Smash Bros. had a tiny few characters…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Kirby Fighters 2 is an excellent little fighting game that has oodles and oodles of charm going for it. Something else going for it is that it captures the local multiplayer magic of the early-era Smash Bros. that I do think has been lost a little…
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