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Freddy Spaghetti has so much promise, but multiple glitches ruin the fun. While we’re promised that “No pastas were harmed in the making of this game,” I have my doubts.

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Rhythm Fighter is a bit of a hybrid of a few genres. Part 2D side-scrolling beat ‘em up, part roguelike, and lastly, maybe most surprisingly, part rhythm game. It’s certainly …
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A love letter to the earliest generation of gaming, Ping Redux is soaked in its hyper retro influences. Everything from the music, to the design style, to the gameplay itself …
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Ready for the weekend? The Nintendo eShop is ripe with fresh games ready for downloading. This week’s highlights includes the techno platformer Cyber Shadow and the assassination antics of HITMAN …
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Join us on a heralding adventure filled with magic and mayhem! The title says it all, “The Unexpected Quest.” Our heroes are unexpectedly shipwrecked and must fight their way through …
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One feature that’s sorely missing from the Nintendo Switch (and which will hopefully be addressed in the mythical Switch Pro) is wireless audio. Playing a portable system with wired headphones just seems so…DS, I guess. And it’s a problem EPOS is addressing now with their GTW 270 Hybrid wireless earbuds.
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In Kingdom Tales 2, you are a young man on a journey to prove you’re worthy of being considered a suitor to the princess. The flavor in this installment leans to a more Nordic/Viking vibe, but is that enough of a difference to make it a worthy follow-up?
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Drawn to Life: Two Realms is a puzzle, platformer game where you play as the Creator. You create a Hero, who’s a robot, to help the people around town. It …
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It’s got to be hard to create new ‘old’ games. I’ve seen many games out there that claim to be classic but fall flat on that promise. There’s much more …
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It’s time for Pure Nintendo readers to weigh in on the best of 2020. Please check our list of 20 nominees, carefully narrowed down by our staff, and cast your vote.
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2021 has begun, and we can’t think of a better way to get up some momentum than with a game giveaway. Courtesy of Firesprite Games, Pure Nintendo is giving away three copies of the sci-fi survival horror game, The Persistence.
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We’ve been waiting for Cris Tales for quite some time. (I first learned about it in a demo at E3 2019, if that’s any indication). We’re getting pretty close to release now, and Modus Games has just announced a Cris Tales Collector’s Edition that will make waiting even harder.
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Kingdom Tales is another in a long line of resource management sims from Ocean Media. It’s also the first of two Kingdom Tales titles available for Nintendo Switch. This repetition is not necessarily a bad thing, however, so let’s get to some details.
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World War 1 was a devastating time in global history with some spectacular battles in the sky. So it only makes sense that a game about these aerial assaults would …
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Grab your deck; it’s time to take another dungeon dive with DungeonTop. This game is easily recognized as a computerized, deck-building version of a classic, turn-based D&D game. I do like the whole D&D genre for a bit of escapist fun, so let’s get right to the game, shall we?
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Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom looks promising but winds up being very bland. It’s tolerable at best, checking most of the right boxes but never moving beyond subpar territory.

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Door Kickers is an action-strategy game for the Nintendo Switch. You control a S.W.A.T. team working its way through missions to take down the bad guys and rescue hostages. It’s …
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As the weekend approaches, it’s time to check out the latest offerings on the Nintendo eShop. This week’s highlight is Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, complete with all previously released …
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