Welcome back to Mario Mondays! Today I’m going to be as positive about the future of Nintendo as I possibly can be and give my top 5 reasons to be excited about Nintendo for the first half of 2014.
5) Nintendo’s first real forays into free-to-play gaming. Free-to-play games have had a real stigma with regard to how exploitative their business models have been (*cough* EA *cough*), but I am not really surprised that Nintendo has started offering free-to-play titles. What Nintendo is surprising people with, however, is the game Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball, coming out in April. It’s essentially one of the biggest surprises ever in that you actually can haggle down the price that you would normally pay through interesting means. Plus, I had heard about this (because it’s been out in Japan for awhile) and I didn’t think Nintendo was going to offer it here. Shows what I know, I guess.
4) Nintendo in ‘Panic Mode’ actually brings great games to the party. There are so many great games coming that I am going to be really interested in playing that I don’t think I have any time (or the money really) for any of it. Maybe we’ll actually get the Game Center CX games localized properly by Nintendo and have them over here in proper form with the Japanese audio, finally. Same with the Famicom and Super Famicom Fire Emblem games.
3) The 3DS is still going super strong. With games like Steel Diver Sub Wars (which is out now), the aforementioned Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball, Mario Golf World Tour, Kirby Triple Deluxe, Pokemon Battle Trozei, Yoshi’s New Island, the new Professor Layton game, Inazuma Eleven (which is FINALLY out Stateside), and more, the 3DS is becoming more and more and more of a great value. And that’s not including all of the great games that are already out for it like Fire Emblem Awakening, Pokemon X & Y, and Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and that’s just scratching the surface.
2) Nintendo’s first-party retail Wii U titles. There are still going to be slight gaps, especially the month of March, which seems to have very few games announced for that month, and the Nintendo Downloads may or may not be kinda sparse during March. Who knows. However, with the sheer strength of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (out this Friday and probably just difficult enough to get gamers who wish to tackle it through the month of March no problem), Mario Kart 8, and what’s coming out later this year, including the new Smash Bros., it’s going to be a great time to be a Nintendo gamer, no question.
1) NES Remix 2. The first NES Remix on the Wii U was wonderful fun (the episode of Game Center CX that focused on the first NES Remix was proof positive of that), but there were several games I frankly don’t want to see or play ever again after playing the challenges here. Namely, Clu Clu Land and Ice Climber. Thankfully, this time there are way better challenges, way better games to work with, and depending on how the challenges work, some dark horses that will become hidden masterpieces of the latter NES library. If this game does well, I think we’ll get SNES Remix next.
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