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What fun! Arcade Paradise is a wonderfully weird little pile of several minigames stacked on top of each other. But first, it’s a business simulator where you run a laundromat.
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The eShop has been updated with plenty of fresh new content! This week’s highlights include the audio delights of Tako no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival, the action-adventure of TUNIC, and the …
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Bear and Breakfast is a game that I’ve been keeping my eye on for quite some time. Its visual style and gameplay instantly connected with me when I saw the …
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In the short time Davide and I had together, we were able to talk about his development approach, what about working with Nintendo makes him happy, what we can look forward to in Sparks of Hope…including a couple surprises.
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If you played Trails of Cold Steel III and IV, The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero does a great job of filling in some of those story gaps. If you’ve never played a Legend of Heroes game, it’s a great place for JRPG fans to start.
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As if spiders aren’t scary enough, this game gives them guns and lightsabers! 

SipderHeck is an ultra-fast-paced brawler where you fight it out as a spider, against spiders, in physics-based …
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Sometimes it’s nice to know what you’re getting. After Wave: Downfall makes its identity clear in the opening sentence of its Nintendo product page. It’s “an arcade shooter where the …
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I’ve played a lot of different RPGs during my forty-plus years of gaming. I’m a massive fan of the genre and thought I’d seen it all. That was until I …
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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition—the remastered version of Westwood Studios’ original 1997 adventure game—arrived on the Switch back in June. This review is of a recently updated version that patched some reported bugs and issues. Sadly, it didn’t patch enough.
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter is an interactive visual novel for the Nintendo Switch. Coupled with simple RPG elements and set in World War II, it tells the tale of …
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Welcome to another episode of The Pure Nintendo Podcast! This week we begin with an update on our amiibo collections. We both have new additions to show off, and it …
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Koopa Kast 122 – Nintendo Direct 09.13.2022 Recap

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The time has come to reveal the latest releases to hit the Nintendo Switch eShop! This week’s highlights includes the latest annual basketball outing with NBA 2K23. Take to the …
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It’s amazing how detrimental a few bad choices can be. An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs has genuinely great comedy and a delightfully zany soundtrack and sound effects. …
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MADiSON is a first-person horror game full of jump scares. MADiSON reminded me a lot of ‘Outlast’ but had some interesting things that separated it, mostly that you are walking …
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Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct featured the first glimpse of Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key. Switch players will have to wait until February 24, 2023, to play this final chapter in Ryza’s story arc, but KOEI TECMO America and GUST studios have now provided additional details to hold us over.
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Square Enix featured so heavily in today’s Nintendo Direct that they may as well have had one all to themselves. Through new game reveals, updates on some previous announced projects, demo releases and surprises, they highlighted something for company fans young and old.
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Today’s Nintendo Direct gave Switch owners a lot to look forward to, and amongst the more exciting announcements is that KOEI TECMO is finally bringing Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse to western audiences in remastered form.
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