I loved the original NES Remix. Even though several of the included games were, er, not of the best quality (Pinball, Clu-Clu Land, Urban Champion, Golf), the package was fun and the challenges were great. Getting Remix 2 was always going to happen. And it happened! And all was good. The selection of titles this time round seems much better. That’s not surprising as Nintendo have picked some later NES titles for this sequel – Metroid, Super Mario Bros 2 …
Super Mario Bros 2 appeared on the Wii U Virtual Console months ago. I think it may have been one of the 30p games from a year ago. Either way, I’ve not played it since it came out, although I had reached level 5. Spurred on by playing NES Remix 2 recently, of which Super Mario Bros 2 is a part, I thought I’d best finish up the full game properly, and so did. It was much easier than I …
SteamWorld Dig (3DS 03/01/2014) 3D Streets of Rage (3DS 04/01/2014) The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS 29/01/2014) Titan Souls (Web 31/01/2014) NES Remix (Wii U 09/02/2014) Super Mario Bros Deluxe (3DS 15/02/2014) Duck Tales (Wii U 21/02/2014) Bit.Trip Presents… Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien (Wii U 23/02/2014) Pokémon Rumble U (Wii U 23/02/2014) Retro City Rampage (360 25/02/2014) StreetPass Quest II (3DS 26/02/2014) Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (3DS 02/03/2014) Last Window: The Secret …
I’ll say now that I don’t have all 600 (I presume) stars. I also don’t have all of all the stars for the Remix I, II and Bonus Modes. I definitely don’t have all the Three Rainbow Gold Stars for everything either. However, I consider the game completed and everything left is “extra content”. No, that’s not a cop-out either. I have managed to 3-star all of all the individual game challenges, netting me a gold frame around each title …
I turned my Wii U on to play Super Mario 3D World Woohoo Meeeoow (as it’s called on the title screen) but loaded this instead. Some of the challenges are getting sillyhard now. I mainly did Super Mario Bros ones, and one of them involves beating all the bosses, another that required you to beat all the bosses with a fireflower (which is actually much more difficult), and another that I’m stuck on where you have to collect all the …
Well this was a lovely surprise from Nintendo. No idea it was coming at all, and then suddenly at the end of last week’s Nintendo Direct, Iwata went all Apple and said “Take a look at this…” and “It’s available now!”. There used to be a game called Game Centre Challenge, which had longer-than-Wario-Ware but still short challenges based on retro games. Except those retro games didn’t actually exist – they were fake retro styled titles. This is real, with real …
Three down, three to go. Well, NES Mega Man games, anyway. They just announced the SNES Mega Man 7 is in the pipeline for the Wii U Virtual Console, so it won’t be over so soon. Mega Man 3 adds some new stuff to the series. The main thing, which had me stumped in a room until I realised, was you can now slide. This lets you squeeze under stuff, and is useful for avoiding certain attacks. The vaguely named …
In my unprompted quest to clear some of my backlog (see Wonderful 101 and NES Remix), this was cued up next on the list. Previously on Duck Tales, Woo-oo[ref]Or should that be, aha, “Duck Tales, Wii U”? Hilarious.[/ref], I’d completed the first and second levels, and then… stopped playing. As has happened before, many times, with many games. Stay focussed! It’s not a very long game, so I thought I’d get it wrapped up. And I did. Turns out it …
Nintendo lovingly gave lots of 3DS owners a free copy of this GBC game (on the 3DS Virtual Console) for Valentine’s Day. Ah, bless them. Seems that all that play on NES Remix recently has really paid off, as a I stormed through SMB Deluxe without losing a single life. OK, yes – I used the 1-2 to 4-1 and 4-2 to 8-1 warps, but I’ve never managed to do World 8 this easily. And that’s with the GBC version’s …
