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Making games gets harder, longer, and more expensive every year, but nobody seems to have told Nintendo. The platform-holder has kept up a schedule of more-or-less monthly new exclusives all year, and it’s been a lineup of impressive breadth and quality.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
Three weeks have passed since the massive Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave<\/em>, and only two weeks are left until Nintendo Switch Sports Resort<\/em>. Time for the hands-on previews, then, and Polygon’s Mike McWhertor duly reports that Switch Sports Resort<\/em> is a perfectly chill compilation that channels WaveRace, Pilotwings, and even Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, as well as the mighty Wii Sports.<\/p>\n\n
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\n \t\t\tNintendo Switch Sports Resort plays like a near-perfect mix of Nintendo classics and Wii Sports’ greatest hits<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
New Switch 2 exclusive introduces skateboarding and thumb wrestling to the franchise<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n
We all know this is just the build-up, though. Just two weeks after Switch Sports Resort<\/em> comes The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/em>, a remake so consequential, of a game so revered, that it effectively has the status of a brand-new mainline Zelda game. I’ve heard a plausible but unverified rumor that this is how it’s being treated internally; that, rather than entrust the remake to an outside developer like Grezzo (which handled Ocarina of Time 3D<\/em> and the Link’s Awakening<\/em> remake), Nintendo made it <\/em>in-house.<\/p>\nThere’s certainly a sense of event about it, only added to by Nintendo’s bold decision to release the game in November. It’s the only publisher daring enough to bring a major new release to retail in the same month as Grand Theft Auto 6<\/em>. This heavyweight clash was noticed and spoofed by the staff writers at Saturday Night Live<\/em> last weekend, in a sketch that had Link and GTA 6<\/em>‘s Jason making their competing pitches: guns vs. fairies, sex vs. puzzles.<\/p>\n\n
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\n \t\t\tLink and GTA 6’s Jason get into a heated debate in a hilarious new SNL bit<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
SNL’s Weekend Update tackled the year’s biggest gaming debate: Should you play GTA 6 or the Ocarina of Time remake in November?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n
The sketch is silly and a bit cringe, but it’s not condescending to games (any more than SNL<\/em> is to any other object of its satire), and it’s fairly even-handed in its ridicule. Link is prissy, Jason is a dumb boor. Under the surface, Zelda and GTA may have more in common than you think (especially post-Breath of the Wild<\/em> Zelda), but it’s easy fun for SNL <\/em>to contrast their wildly divergent embodiments of video gaming clich\u00e9, knowing a general audience will get it. That makes them effective counterprogramming.<\/p>\nThe SNL<\/em> sketch posits GTA 6<\/em> vs Ocarina of Time<\/em> as a kind of Barbenheimer, a confluence of release dates that sets the stage for an amusing, all-in-good-fun culture clash. That’s probably overstating things \u2014 the two games’ release dates are actually two weeks apart, and Ocarina<\/em>, for all its cachet, is a production on a dramatically smaller scale that can’t hope to challenge GTA<\/em> in sales terms. Last month, I wrote about how Nintendo’s bravery is really just common sense, since the games appeal to very different markets outside core gaming fans.<\/p>\n\n
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\n \t\t\tNintendo doesn’t care about GTA 6<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
The video game industry declared November a no-go area, but Nintendo didn’t get the memo<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n
Yet there might be something to it, all the same. Link might be the butt of more of SNL<\/em>‘s jokes than Jason, but it’s Zelda, and Nintendo, that stands to gain from exposure like this. GTA 6<\/em> had been viewed as a monopoly of all of gaming this fall, but SNL<\/em> portrayed it a duopoly, a contest of equals. If this culture-clash event catches on in the public imagination, Ocarina of Time<\/em> could get sucked along in GTA 6<\/em>‘s slipstream to even wider awareness, and Nintendo’s gamble will have paid off.<\/p>\n\n eShop game of the week: Order of the Sinking Star Puzzle purists have a new holy grail: This extraordinary epic, which reworks and combines four separate variants on the theme of Sokoban (the classic block-pushing game) in a head-spinning map of conundrums that sprawls out in all directions. It’s a flawed but fascinating theoretical exercise in puzzle design.<\/p>\n\n
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\n \t\t\tThe ‘500-hour’ Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
The follow up to The Witness is dense, meticulously designed, and full of contradictions<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n
\n Nintendo Classics game of the week: F-Zero GX Jealous of players on other systems who can play Star Wars: Galactic Racer<\/em>? You can laugh them off as mere dilettantes in the world of blisteringly high-speed anti-grav racing if you load up this GameCube iteration of Nintendo’s series by Sega’s Super Monkey Ball<\/em> team. Goes harder than just about any racing game in history.<\/p>\n\n Nintendo Music track of the week: “Primordial Thicket” from Pikmin 4 Plucked from Nintendo’s fall playlist, here are some delightfully off-kilter atmospherics in the classic Pikmin style: a seemingly random sequence of twanging mouth harp, plonky percussion, chirping woodwinds, and chiming keyboard. Shouldn’t work, but it totally does. (You can find a playlist of all Switchboard’s Nintendo Music picks here.)<\/p>\n\n
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\n \t\t\tPikmin 4 owes its pristine loop to bedtime<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n
One of gaming\u2019s most satisfying rhythms is born of a simple timer<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n
\n This week’s most interesting releases Order of the Sinking Star<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n Oct. 8\n <\/li>\n \n Switch 2\n <\/li>\n \n Confounding, supposedly 500-hour puzzle epic led by Jonathan Blow\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nKingdom Hearts Collection [1-3]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n Oct. 8\n <\/li>\n \n Switch 2\n <\/li>\n \n Native, non-cloud versions of the entire Square Enix x Disney saga, available separately or in one mega-bundle\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nNeon Abyss 2<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n Oct. 8\n <\/li>\n \n Switch\n <\/li>\n \n Chaotic action roguelike with 4-player co-op\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n Oct. 9\n <\/li>\n \n Switch 2\n <\/li>\n \n Capcom’s ambitious, ornery RPG arrives on Switch 2 with its brand-new expansion\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nJust Dance: Decades of Hits<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n Oct. 13\n <\/li>\n \n Switch\n <\/li>\n \n Ubisoft’s indefatigable dance workout returns with a decades-themed journey through time\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n <\/p>\n
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