Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection review for Nintendo Switch 2
Posted on 3 weeks ago by Ellie Lutes in Reviews, Switch 2 | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release date: March 13, 2026
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
For many years, Monster Hunter has been about slaying towering creatures and using their parts to slay even more massive behemoths. The Monster Hunter Stories series flips that idea on its head, instead letting players befriend, raise, and fight alongside those same creatures. Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection continues that tradition, offering a new perspective on the world and culture that makes the series’ universe so compelling – but is the world just as thrilling when the goal isn’t to slay monsters, but to bond with them?
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds announced for Nintendo Switch 2
Posted on 3 weeks ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch 2 | 0 comments
Maxmium Entertainment and Merge Games are working together to put Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Nintendo Switch 2, they’ve just announced. A release is planned for Spring 2026.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a survival open-world adventure title on a tiny scale. Players can experience multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world with weapon and armor crafting, taming and creature riding, encampment building, and more.
Learn more about the game with the following details:
Sin: Reloaded announced for Nintendo Switch, return of the 1998 shooter
Posted on 3 weeks ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop | 0 comments
Atari and Digital Eclipse today unveiled Sin: Reloaded, which is in the works for Nintendo Switch. It’ll be available later this year.
Sin: Reloaded marks the return of the 1998 first-person shooter from Ritual Entertainment. This new edition features enhanced remastered visuals, modernized control schemes, and includes the Wages of Sin extra mission pack.
Here’s a bunch of additional information:
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WarioWare director Goro Abe has retired from Nintendo
Posted on 3 weeks ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
Today, Goro Abe announced his retirement from Nintendo, which took place at the end of February. That news was shared on his personal X account.
Abe first joined the company in 1999 and worked on Wario Land 4 as a programmer. Later on, he worked almost exclusively on the WarioWare series. He has served as director / chief director on various entries in the series.
Donkey Kong Bananza’s Emerald Rush is one of Nintendo’s best and most underrated DLCs
Posted on 4 weeks ago by Ethan Gnau in Features, Switch 2 | 0 comments
In this day and age, there are plenty of controversies surrounding video games – and it feels like there’s a new Nintendo-adjacent controversy every other day. To be fair, though, many of those controversies are valid – some recent ones that come to mind are Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition’s poor upscaling on Nintendo Switch 2 and the sky-high prices for amiibo.
One Nintendo controversy that wasn’t justified in my opinion, however, was Donkey Kong Bananza’s DLC. When I reviewed Emerald Rush a few months ago, I had played the new mode for somewhere around 15 hours and wasn’t quite hooked. Nearly six months later, however, and that’s changed – I find myself going back to Donkey Kong Bananza every month or so to play the new in-game events. Super Mario Odyssey had a somewhat similar system with Luigi’s Balloon World, but that doesn’t compare to Emerald Rush at all – I remember a ton of balloons in Luigi’s Balloon World being placed out-of-bounds, so the mode wound up more like a showcase of game knowledge (including technical strategies and especially glitches). Emerald Rush, however, is where the bulk of Donkey Kong Bananza’s challenge lies. And it’s a very rare case of a 3D platformer that’s kept me coming back six months later without replaying the story from the beginning.
Nintendo’s recent Metascores aren’t a big deal – here’s why
Posted on 4 weeks ago by Ethan Gnau in Features, Switch 2 | 0 comments
I’ve been having a very unproductive debate with myself lately: are video games getting worse, or are we all just getting older? When I was a kid, every video game was awesome. Super Mario Galaxy was awesome. Super Smash Bros. Brawl was awesome. Wipeout on the Wii was awesome too, even though objectively it’s not even in the same category of quality. Prior to Pokemon Pokopia’s strong reception, Nintendo has been met with some criticism on social media for releasing several games in a row that didn’t get an 80 or higher on Metacritic. It was 79 for Kirby Air Riders, 78 for Metroid Prime 4, 78 for Pokemon Legends: Z-A, 79 for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, and 77 for Mario Tennis Fever. Of course, though, Metascores aren’t everything – it’s actually pretty difficult to give a game an objective numbered ranking, and I’m saying that as someone who reviews a good number of games.
So today, we’re not only talking about the four games in question, but of review scores, Metascores, and opinions of video games in general. Are Nintendo’s newest four titles actually undercooked, or do we lose a sense of wonder, enjoyment, and appreciation as we get older? Probably mostly the latter, if we’re being honest, but let’s discuss anyway.
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[Let’s Talk] March 2026 Indie World Showcase reactions
Posted on 4 weeks ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Let's Talk, Switch, Switch 2 | 0 comments
It’s been a few months since the last Indie World Showcase, but a new presentation just took place this week. Nintendo teamed up with a few smaller developers to show off some future games for Switch 2 and Switch.
Since there have been so many of them at this point, fans pretty much know what to expect from Indie Worlds. There are some cool announcements, but nothing earth shattering – they’re not intended to be Nintendo Directs. That said, we were treated to some noteworthy games on Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch.
The closer was Blue Prince, a game that’s very much welcome on Nintendo platforms after its strong debut last year. That was far from the only interesting title though – we also heard about Minishoot’ Adventures, Blighted, Denshattack, Heave Ho 2, The Midnight Walk, Toem 2, and more. Find the full recap here.
What were your favorite games from the March 2026 Indie World Showcase? Did you pick up any of the shadowdrops? Let us know in the comments.
The most surprising mispronounced Pokemon names
Posted on 4 weeks ago by Ethan Gnau in Features, General Nintendo | 0 comments
Today, we’re going over a list that includes more commonly-mispronounced Pokemon names. Some of them are particularly surprising!
During the 2025 Pokemon World Championships event, the official Pokemon Twitter account put out some commonly-mispronounced Pokemon names. And it makes sense why people pronounce some of them wrong: the games don’t have any voice acting, so for the most part players don’t hear the names of creatures spoken out loud unless someone brings them up in conversation. Even then, it’s very easy to accidentally pronounce them wrong or put emphasis on the wrong syllable.
Tales of Berseria Remastered review for Nintendo Switch
Posted on 1 month ago by Richard Ford in Reviews, Switch | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release date: February 26, 2026
Developer: Bandai Namco
Publisher: Bandai Namco
My experience with Bandai Namco’s storied Tales of franchise amounts ultimately to my time playing Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Vesperia, two games I loved playing dearly a few years back due to several of their characters appearing in the Nintendo 3DS Project X Zone series of games and piquing my interest in learning about their original stories. After Namco’s recent remasters of the above mentioned Tales titles, I was excited to branch out and play some titles in the series I had yet to experience; Tales of Berseria was one of them. The slightly different style of JRPG gameplay and more intense storytelling appealed to me, and having the main protagonist be a female character was a cool switch-up to what I’d experienced previously and was curious how that would impact the way the story was presented. While the storytelling of Tales of Berseria is unquestionably the highlight of the game, this specific version perhaps has not done enough to justify a brand-new release with a ‘remaster’ title.
Arc System Works announces Damon and Baby for Nintendo Switch [update: demo]
Posted on 1 month ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
November 11: Arc System Works is making Damon and Baby for Nintendo Switch, the company has announced. A release is planned for early 2026.
According to Arc System Works, Damon and Baby is a new take on shooting action and in-depth exploration.
Here’s some additional information:
