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I’ve admittedly not been blown away by any video game offerings from the major AAA studios for a while now. Games have become so expensive to produce that the

Bryan Finch·June 2, 2022
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The latest entry in the Wii Sports series, Nintendo Switch Sports, has finally landed in our hands and I’ve been able to spend a ton of time with it over the

Jaxson Tapp·May 4, 2022
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Let’s not waste time - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is a testament to video games as both art and a storytelling medium.

Ricky Berg·April 5, 2022
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If you’re remotely familiar with my taste in games or our coverage here at Nintendo Wire you’ll know that Kirby floats high above the rest as a personal

Ricky Berg·April 5, 2022
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Few games these days still have to make “the great 3D leap” -- transitioning into a whole new plane of view with camera work and controls. While discussion of

Amelia Fruzzetti·March 22, 2022
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The Persona series is in the midst of its 25th anniversary year, and while many fans are clamoring for the chance to play Persona 5 on Switch, Atlus has

Ricky Berg·March 17, 2022
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It’s been awhile since I’ve played a strategy game that wasn’t part of the Fire Emblem franchise, so it’s safe to say that Square Enix’s announcement of

Jaxson Tapp·March 16, 2022
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Final Fantasy is a franchise well-suited to spin-offs, so it's no surprise that it received the kart racer Chocobo Racing way back in 1999 for the

Tom Brown·March 3, 2022
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To take a franchise like Pokémon and make it feel new again likely felt impossible. Efforts like Colosseum gave it a try before having those concepts drop

Ricky Berg·February 28, 2022
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“Style over substance” is a common turn of phrase across multiple fields of criticism, punchy and powerful in how it can immediately declare a work to be

Amelia Fruzzetti·January 31, 2022
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When it comes to wacky sports action, we are well past the genre’s prime. Gone are the days of over-the-top games like NBA Jam, SSX, and Blitz 2000. It seems

Bryan Finch·January 21, 2022
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Art is a word that evades easy definition. Whether it be as simple as “a drawing” or as complex as “a piece of media that deeply affects the spirit” or a

Amelia Fruzzetti·December 27, 2021
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