My Nintendo Gold Points to be discontinued March 25
Posted on 2 weeks ago by Dawn in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
Nintendo have announced that beginning from March 25 this year, users will no longer earn My Nintendo Gold Points.
Gold Points are awarded based on 5% of the amount you pay when purchasing eligible digital content, and can be used to purchase downloadable software and DLC on the eShop. No reason for this discontinuation has been offered, but Nintendo have provided an FAQ, which you can read below:
Completing the National Pokedex in 2025 is almost impossible – the toughest Pokemon to catch
Posted on 2 weeks ago by Ethan in Features, Switch | 0 comments
We’ve been in the late era of the original Nintendo Switch’s life span for a good while now, which means it’s as good a time as any to work on a Pokedex. At the time of writing, there are a whopping 1,025 existing Pokemon, and the only way to hoard ’em all at once is to put them in Pokemon Home. To be clear, I’d finished my “Living Dex” a long while ago – but to fill the time between Nintendo’s official releases, I decided to redo my entire Living Dex – but with every Pokemon caught in a standard Poke Ball and with my OT (which means traded Pokemon don’t count towards it). If you don’t know this already, a Living Dex is when you have every single Pokemon in the game stored in your boxes. That means the entire evolutionary line, and in my case, every gender difference and form difference for each Pokemon as well.
Working on a Living Dex in 2025 made me realize how absurdly difficult it is to complete this task in 2025. Having completed all of the main series Pokemon games, this was much easier for me than for someone just starting a Living Dex project. But today, I’ll explain what the toughest Pokemon to obtain for Living Dex purposes are and how to go about obtaining them in the easiest way. Surprisingly, there are also a lot of Pokemon that cannot legitimately be caught in a standard Poke Ball along with your OT. We’ll be going over those too.
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Why Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga still holds up as one of the best Mario RPGs
Posted on 2 weeks ago by Ethan in Features, GBA, Switch | 0 comments
With the recent release of Mario & Luigi: Brothership, it’s a better time than ever to get into the rest of the series. And with Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack, that’s rather easy. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the first game in the series, is available as part of the Game Boy Advance app. After completing Brothership, we gave the original Superstar Saga another shot (making for this writer’s fourth unique playthrough). Despite the fact that it has a remake available on Nintendo 3DS that released in 2017, this game holds up surprisingly well – and in a way it’s actually refreshing to play after going through Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Here’s why Superstar Saga is still worth your time today. We’ll be discussing a few story spoilers, so keep that in mind before you continue.
These important games are missing from Nintendo Switch Online
Posted on 3 weeks ago by Ethan in Features, Switch | 0 comments
Previously, we’ve gone over new retro catalogs that Nintendo should add to their Nintendo Switch Online service – including games from Nintendo DS as a hypothetical new addition. Today, however, we’re going over the platforms Nintendo Switch Online already has. It has quite a few, with NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo 64 all being included for some time now. That said, each platform is missing at least one notable game, and some are missing several. We’ll be looking at all five Nintendo Switch Online platforms (minus SEGA Genesis, which doesn’t receive much in terms of updates anyhow) and which important titles are missing in action.
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[Interview] Aspyr talks Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered
Posted on 3 weeks ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Interviews, Switch eShop | 0 comments
Ahead of the imminent launch of Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered, we caught up with Aspyr to chat a bit more about the package as part of an interview. Brand manager Matthew Ray was kind enough to answer some of our questions.
We’re just days away from a new round of Tomb Raider remasters with The Last Revelation, Chronicles, and The Angel of Darkness coming together in a new collection. This follows updated versions of the series’ first three games that launched on Nintendo Switch last year.
Here’s our full discussion:
[Let’s Talk] How big is your Nintendo Switch games collection?
Posted on 3 weeks ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Let's Talk, Switch | 0 comments
It’s crazy to think about just how many Nintendo Switch games are out there. Between Nintendo and others, system owners have thousands of possibilities to choose from. Not all of them are of the same quality, but there’s certainly a lot of variety.
As we head towards the end of Nintendo Switch’s lifecycle, we wanted to ask: how bis is your games collection? We don’t expect many (if any) of you to have specific numbers, but how about in general? Have you purchased more Switch titles than you did for previous Nintendo systems? Have you been more of a physical buyer or digital? Let us know in the comments.
The best sub-skills in Pokemon Sleep
Posted on 3 weeks ago by Dawn in Features, Mobile | 0 comments
Today, we’re going over which sub-skills are best for which Pokemon according to their Specialty in Pokemon Sleep and some of the things you should consider when assessing whether they’d be worth investing in, or better sent to the Professor for candy that you can invest in better ones.
In Pokemon Sleep, the Pokemon that you recruit have a variety of parameters to consider which can dramatically affect their productivity when you’re awake. Although their Main Skill is fixed by their species, their sub-skills, which they will learn at Level 10, 25, 50, 75, and 100, are randomly selected from a small pool of options, and can make a huge difference on how effective they are at their Specialty.
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Ravenswatch review for Nintendo Switch
Posted on 3 weeks ago by Dawn in Reviews, Switch | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release date: January 23, 2025
Developer: Passtech Games
Publisher: Nacon
“Once upon a time” is an almost universally recognised phrase, beginning tales that many of us will have heard before, and will almost certainly follow a familiar pattern. There will be a hero, a villain, and in the end the former will defeat the latter, and the tale will have a happy ending. In modern interpretations of these classic tales at least, it’s rare that you’ll find one that doesn’t have a happy ending, unless it has been deliberately contrived for the sake of provoking shock in the audience, which it typically fails to do, being so exaggerated as to feel more cliche than original. Ravenswatch, the second game to be developed by Passtech Games, is an extremely rare example of this inversion of fairy tales done right, with some solid roguelike gameplay to back it up.
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Hello Kitty Island Adventure review for Nintendo Switch
Posted on 4 weeks ago by Dawn in Reviews, Switch | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release date: January 30, 2025
Developer: Sunblink
Publisher: Sunblink
What exactly makes a “cozy game” these days? In many cases it seems to be a bit of a misnomer: for every one that transports you into a relaxed world with a gameplay loop that you can take at your own pace, you’ll find two more that will thrust you into a hellscape of seasonal crops, timed events, and needy NPCs that all require more time management and organizational skills than your actual life does. Hello Kitty Island Adventure is thankfully not one of these latter titles, but it hasn’t quite escaped unscathed from its time trapped on Apple Arcade, and this holds it back from being the experience that it feels like it should be on Nintendo Switch.
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Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos review for Nintendo Switch
Posted on 1 month ago by Dawn in Reviews, Switch | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release date: January 28, 2025
Developer: Compile Heart
Publisher: Idea Factory
Pick up any JRPG and the chances are good that one of the first enemies you’ll encounter on your adventure will be some kind of slime. The gelatinous mass of vaguely sentient ooze has been an unspoken staple of the genre since its foundation, but it is still often little more than a stepping stone on our heroes’ journey to greatness. The Neptunia series variation of this creature is the Dogoo, and it has usually served much the same role as an early game encounter that you quickly forget about. Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos puts the questionably adorable canine-based blobs in a more active role, and unfortunately the result is about what you would expect if you ran over a small blob with a motorcycle.
