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The Problems of Being the 2nd Player in New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons released last week, providing people a nice slice of life in the midst of this ongoing pandemic. However, after a few days of playing as the second player on the Switch, there’s a clear imbalance between the first…

Animal Crossing Reviewers Have Days Worth of Play

We all know Animal Crossing: New Horizons is coming this Friday. A lot of reviewers are listing they have hit serious play times already. A few popular reviewers in the gaming journalism world are reporting days worth of play ahead of the highly…

Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii) Impressions

It was my day off, so I decided to dig into a game that I bought during my trip to LVL UP: Donkey Kong Country Returns. I don’t think I’ve played a proper Donkey Kong Country before, and even if I did,…

La-Mulana 1+2 (Switch) Review

Looking at La-Mulana, the game seems as if it’s thirty-five years old. In actuality, the game released in 2005 to Japanese gamers who yearned for the Metroid-vania action of the SNES days. A successful Kickstarter delivered its sequel, and the two games still…

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Remaster Selling Well

Numbers from this past week’s sales of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX are in, and they look pretty high for this Game Boy Advance remaster. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game. To be honest, I thought this might hurt…

On Its 3rd Birthday, The Switch is in a Weird Spot

People are gearing up for the PS5 and Xbox Series X this holiday. As everyone looks to the future of console gaming, one can’t forget Nintendo’s highly successful home-handheld hybrid, the Switch. The Switch turns 3 today, and to be honest, a…

Nintendo, Please Stop with the Subscription Services

While Nintendo has brought a lot of new ideas to the field, it is also a company that’s been infamously behind on a lot of modern trends that almost every company has already adopted. Typically, the company is criticized for the state…

Nintendo Switch Airport Lounges Coming to U.S.

A huge complaint about Nintendo during the Wii U days, among many, many other things, was their marketing. We didn’t really see many ads for the console, and we essentially knew nothing about the product. Well, the Switch era is garnishing a…

Super Mario Strikers for Switch Needs to Happen

I think for a long time, I always saw the Mario sports titles as second-tier. Growing up, I’d always gravitate towards the Super Mario Sunshine and New Super Mario Bros. experiences over the other titles which simply featured Mario characters. Now, in my mid-twenties, I…

Ocarina of Time World Speedrun Records Get Smashed

AGDQ may be over, but the pursuit of speedruns never stops. Even in seemingly stagnant scenes, speedrunning is vibrant, and yesterday, a seemingly untouchable record was finally topped. Yesterday, the world record for the Nintendo 64 version of The Legend of Zelda:…