Welcome, every one, as we as soon as once more rifle by means of the Nintendo Life Mailbox.
Our month-to-month letters web page returns with a crop of correspondences from Nintendo Life readers masking all types of gaming-associated matters.
Got one thing you wish to get off your chest? We’re prepared and ready to examine your sport-associated ponderings. Each month we’ll spotlight a Star Letter, the author of which can obtain a month’s subscription to our advert-free Supporter scheme. Check out the submission pointers on the backside of this web page.
Let’s put the little flag down, open the door, and see what goodies the postman’s introduced us…
Nintendo Life Mailbox – February 2024
“Just a pachinko mascot” (***STAR LETTER***)
Oh how I lament!
Almost twenty years have handed,
Since he was final seen.International?
Not since 1998!
Memories held expensive.Relegated to
Just a pachinko mascot.
Come again, Goemon!Ebisumaru
A really positive ode,
To a sequence we love, misplaced.
Star letter for you. – Ed.
“shunning it”
Hi NL!
Wanted to briefly discuss one thing I’ve been serious about recently: I’ve had an entire 180 on my opinion on Fortnite as of late. After briefly making an attempt to sport and shunning it for years, and never pondering of it extremely, I gave it one other shot because of some encouragement by mates, and you recognize what? It’s fairly enjoyable! Have any of you on the group had the same dramatic change in opinion on a sport title?
NarwhalKing
I am unable to consider something I’ve completely 180’ed on. I’ve made it my mission to badger Ollie till he performs and enjoys Vampire Survivors, although. That’s one of the simplest ways to get individuals to 180, proper? Genial snark and relentless badgering?
Ollie himself says RE6. “Hated it at first, love it now.” – Ed.
“something sparked”
Do you run into lots of players who discovered their online game ardour once more with the Switch? I had actually misplaced a few of the hearth within the Wii era for all video gaming. My spouse actually needed to play Breath of the Wild, so we received a Switch and it was like one thing sparked again to life for me as nicely. Seven years in and I am unable to imagine how little I performed for that stretch earlier than it. I’m so comfortable for what this little machine introduced again to me!
Joshua S.
It’s Switch’s particular sauce, is not it — the best way it slots neatly into your way of life, whether or not you are a time-pressed dad or mum, a retiree, a schoolkid, a primary-timer, or a veteran who’s been out of the sport for some time. It makes it really easy to entry and play the great things, to stoke that keenness. As with something, it is pure for enthusiasm to ebb and stream by means of totally different durations of your life, however nice to listen to you are all fired up once more! – Ed.
“suck it up”
Hi NintendoLife,
I’ve more and more discovered myself questioning when video video games will turn out to be a ubiquitous sufficient medium for nearly everybody to take pleasure in some aspect of them? And then because the flipside, when will it turn out to be unattainable to correctly expertise and respect all genres as a person?
Everyone enjoys music, not many individuals genuinely take pleasure in all music. Same for movies, or books. I discover it tough to interact with all new Nintendo gaming releases, not to mention different builders/platforms. Mainly because of time, however equally some simply do not enchantment, even when I have been to win the lottery and transfer to a distant island (with good WiFi).
How do you as professionals handle this distinction? Just suck it up, as a result of it is a job, proper? Or do you attempt to preserve a employees which have natural curiosity spanning all genres?
Thanks,
Macarver
I feel that time of ubiquity arrived with smartphones within the Wii/DS period. Whether it is Candy Crush or Brain Training or Wii Sports or Wordle, discovering somebody who would not like a single online game is as uncommon as discovering somebody who dislikes all films or music.
And not partaking with all the things is okay. There’s means an excessive amount of to maintain up with anyhow! I perceive the impulse and I attempt to get a rounded overview of what’s on the market, however taking part in all the things is an impossibility. Having employees and contributors with various pursuits helps from a website perspective. Finding enthusiasm for Cutesy Roguelike Deckbuilder #437 could be powerful, however we’re fortuitously capable of deal with what pursuits us 99% of the time. Loads of nice stuff on the market. – Ed.
“massive push”
With SEGA and even Nintendo to an extent placing a large push on reviving lots of their legacy video games/sequence recently, I needed to ask what different firms you assume will do the identical and what franchises they could select to revive if that’s the case? I’m personally banking on Square Enix pulling what they did with Live A Live once more and bringing again a ton of their older NES/SNES period titles by way of HD-2D styled remakes (TERRANIGMA *PLEASE*)
Fizza
Goemon can be up there. It’s been too lengthy since we have had a Tactics Ogre or FF Tactics, and I’d welcome as many HD-2D remakes as they wish to put out. Generally, it is powerful to think about a sequence that hasn’t been tapped for nostalgia’s sake. Nobody’s clamouring for Decap Attack 2…however ought to they be? – Ed.
“hyper sexy”
Here’s my completely super thought for a Switch 2 Concept: In Docked mode you get your Zelda or Mario in hyper attractive 4K ps5-degree jaw droppingly gorgeous visuals. Undock the system and in handheld mode you get a retro demake of the identical sport. This means everyone wins, 2D and 3D Zelda in a single. What do you reckon?
YoshiTails
So each sport is like Dragon Quest XI on 3DS? Sounds superb! And very simple, inexpensive, sensible to implement, too. Devs are going to adore it.
As a one-off idea for a Zelda, although, that is positively an thrilling thought. Imagine in the event you had to change between modes to resolve puzzles in some way. It would get irritating if overused, however it’s received that shut-your-DS-to-stamp-the-different-display magic to it!
Yes, superb. Chop chop, Nintendo. Everyone else, you are off the hook. – Ed.
“during/after”
Dear the very best gaming web site (or actually finest web site of all time) ever,
I like wanting by means of the reader letters, so i believed i’ll give it a lil attempt! I’ve three questions lol:
1. How do you write superb articles so rapidly throughout/after Nintendo Directs??
2. What movie adaptation do you assume Nintendo will do after Zelda and Super Mario Bros Movie 2? Do you assume a Nintendo cinematic universe is feasible?
3. Lastly, do you assume a brand new animal crossing may come this yr?
Sincerely
octolingking
- Two secret weapons: An important group, and many espresso.
- Animal Crossing appears secure. And some type of NCU appears like an inevitability, although hopefully Nintendo is extra imaginative.
- This yr? Very unlikely, however I do not see us having to attend three years into the subsequent console’s lifecycle like we did with Switch. – Ed.
“for a project”
Dear Nintendo Life editor,
I like to learn your articles for the newest gaming information and matters. I might love in the event you would inform me a few of your favourite Wii U video games. (Yes I personal one) I’m part of Boyscouts and am writing to you for a challenge.
Thank you,
Chris Traggiai
(PS my favourite Wii U sport is Breath of the Wild or Nintendo Land)
Two nice picks! Congratulations on proudly owning a Wii U. It had so many good video games, most of which have fortunately come to Switch. Discounting these, I’ve very heat recollections of the unique Splatoon and Need for Speed Most Wanted U, however maybe my favorite (and I really feel a bit of unhealthy for recommending it as a result of it is not that can be purchased anymore) must be Affordable Space Adventures. An absolute gem. – Ed.
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