It's rated an impressive 4/10 NL user score (the lowest of all NSO nes games) .
I was curious if Switch had any other games with the word 'math' in the title and there are 11 - classics such as Snake of Maths! Cool Education Game and Math, BFF, and Notes. Sadly none of those 11 have enough user scores to see an average so we can't easily compare their quality to Donkey Kong Jr Math.
Edit: I've been playing Donkey Kong Jr Math for the last hour. I wish this game (or NSO in general) let you do random online match-ups. The single player is literally just math with slightly funky controls and it forces you to use a particular multiplication/division table format that not everyone learned. However the multiplayer is kind of fun and more challenging and involves actual thought and gameplay. If we could do multiplayer more easily, this game would be a solid 5/10. As is, I'm trying to decide between 4 and 5. Probably 4; although the game largely achieves what it was striving for, it was not striving for much and hasn't aged wonderfully.
@Grumblevolcano Helpful list! It makes me happy seeing Rare’s classics become playable on Nintendo hardware again. Looks like they are getting close to completing the list a bit.
@FishyS I'm impressed you lasted an hour! As you say, it's just maths questions but you have to walk and climb over to the numbers/symbols you want to input, which is pretty tedious.
I was also thinking it would be more fun in multiplayer though. In single player you can just take as long as you want to get to the target number (e.g. just keep adding numbers together until you get there), but in multiplayer you'd actually have to think of quick ways to make the sum and get to the numbers you want before your opponent does. However, testing the multiplayer would require me going up to someone and saying 'Let's play Donkey Kong Jr Math', which would probably be interpreted as the first stage of a mental breakdown.
I'm intrigued by 'Math, BFF and Notes'. Seems like an odd combination of topics to make a game about.
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I'm intrigued by 'Math, BFF and Notes'. Seems like an odd combination of topics to make a game about.
I just glanced at the description .. pretty sure it is a 'hot for teacher' type visual novel so I doubt it actually has much to do with math 😆
I was playing DK Jr Math fake multiplayer by just trying to be fast. Sometimes the fastest way to get to a number is platforming over pits instead of using the vines and sometimes you want to multiply so high that the number overflows the maximum and gets small again. So there is definitely some strategy there. Although I doubt I will ever boot up the game again 😅
Decided on tackling Mach Rider from today's NSO batch and, even though it was a game I've been looking forward to trying out for a good long while now, I was still pleasantly surprised at how much I ended up having with it. It definitely has high barrier-of-entry in terms of its gameplay/controls and motion sickness is definitely iffy in some of the later stages but man: this is easily one of the most mechanically deep NES games I've played in a long while. The different levels of gear shifts add a lot of on-the-fly strategy to the experience and trying to conserve ammo in order to get a higher overall score is fiendishly addictive. When the majority of NES titles I've played are just kind of OK, its always really refreshing to have one as tightly-designed as Mach Rider honestly.
Oh and I also tackled Baseball whilst I was it today as it had been on my backlog for ages and yep: it sure is a baseball game for the NES alright XD
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Nintendo loves the niche picks, don’t they? I think it’s a good thing because it gives forgotten IPs more exposure, like they’ve done with F Zero and now starfy
It's nice seeing another assist trophy get the game(s) they're in on Switch. Would be neat if Midna, Krystal, Black Knight or Phosphora is next (Phosphora seems the most likely of the bunch if any happen on the current Switch).
So I tried to take advantage of the Voucher extra gold points offer, I even went to the eshop from the Switch news page, and I have not been given the increased amount of points.
I purchased it before the 14th July, that's UK or German time (where Nintendo of Europe is based) when the deal is advertised as ending,
The real question should be with the Switch 2 reportedly having a mic will the Switch 2 expand to include games and systems that supported a microphone......
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Okay, so the extra points do get added later,
but it's very misleading to begin with, to the point where people might be put off purchasing the vouchers.
Bizarre.
Slightly off topic but I've been messing around with this little Anbernic device I got at the start of the year a bit more lately. Playing around with various emulators and such but also some of the ports of various games to this device where you can drag assets from the Linux builds of games and run them in a container. Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV, Shovel Knight, Undertale, Bit Trip Runner 2, Cave Story etc, etc but also Moonlight for streaming stuff from a TV
But this morning as I was scrolling through the list of ROMs and ports on this little device it got me thinking. This is pretty much the "Switch Micro" NSO centric device I was saying Nintendo should make. Obviously it's not perfect. Scaling of some games, particularly GBA, to a small 640x480 screen is sometimes a bit rough. Also N64 emulation and above isn't ideal, especially without analogue sticks. You also end up doing a lot of fiddling with the Steam Command line, writing images to SD cards, fiddling around with settings and scraping images. But ignoring all that.... it's not far off what I feel is almost "endgame" for such a device
Which makes me wonder where NSO is going to go in the next 5, 10 years. And how the landscape around emulation and portable devices is going to continue to change. I personally wouldn't be at all surprised if 5 years from now there's a device out there that's basically a Steam Deck micro of sorts. Maybe not the same level of raw power but full x86, cheap and DS Lite sized. With enough power to push past GC. And I wonder if when that device inevitably comes I'll even remotely care about GC on NSO
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