
Update [Thu 18th Jul, 2024 04:30 BST]:
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is now available on the Switch and following last week's reports about the involvement of indieszero, Nintendo Life can confirm this developer worked alongside Nintendo as one of the "authors of this software".
You can learn more about this latest first-party release in our full review. Nintendo has also rolled out a day one update which adds Survival Mode.
Original article [Thu 11th Jul, 2024 13:45 BST]:
Nintendo World Championships: NES Editon is just around the corner, scheduled to launch on the Switch on 18th July 2024.
Now, according to dataminer Yakumono over on social media, the developers of the game are none other than Nintendo itself and indieszero. If you're unfamiliar, the latter has collaborated with Nintendo on multiple projects, but perhaps most importantly assisted on the completion of NES Remix, NES Remix 2, and Ultimate NES Remix.
In other words, it's likely the best possible choice to assist on Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition.
The studio, founded in 1997, has also worked on the likes of Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain, Theatrhythm Final Bar Line, and Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre.
Nintendo is known to be quite secretive of its developers in recent years. The newly released Luigi's Mansion 2 HD was handled by Tantalus Media, while Princess Peach: Showtime! was developed by Good-Feel. Interestingly, however, we already know that Forever Entertainment is taking on porting duties for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, a title not due for release until 2025.
Are you surprised that indieszero is helping out on this game? Makes sense to us. Leave a comment with your thoughts down below.
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My favorite fun fact is IndiesZero did the Mario Party-e minigames.
They have not worked on any other Mario Party games before or since.
Which is a shame. The minigames are pretty good for the platform.
You can see the similarities... I would have still liked a NES Remix port to Switch.
I hope one day indieszero gets to make that Nintendo-themed Theatrhythm game they said they want to make
In my head, they are the same game.
Nice and even more so considering the other games they have worked on as mentioned by the article and some comments - by the way, yes please to a Nintendo-themed Theatrhythm!
Not surprised they are the developer, but don’t leave out their best games: Retro Game Challenge 1&2!
Making a game vastly inferior to past efforts is bananas. Nintendo can be so infuriatingly complacent when times are a little too good.
Then what a waste of creativity and a good team🙁🥺
There’s nothing creative about doing a bunch of time trials 😣
@_Figo_ : I love the idea of that... so long as we get a full game (or numerous instalments) rather than half a game supplemented with a ton of paid DLC like other games in the series (which ultimately put me off from ever sampling the series outside of demos).
Now please, make SNES Remix next! Make it happen!
So why didnt they just make a new NES remix instead of a few lazy speedruns?
@SillyG the only game I can kinda see what you mean with this complaint is the first Theatrhythm but Curtain Call and especially Final Bar Line offer more than enough content in their base versions so I don't see how they're "half a game" (seriously, Final Bar Line has 385 songs in the base version, how is that "half a game"?) and if the theoretical Nintendo Theatrhythm would offer similar amount of content then I wouldn't see a problem with that having a bunch of DLC packs
@_Figo_ : I was being a touch hyperbolic when I said "half a game", but I also implied that I'd rather have separate instalments (or perhaps a more expensive/expansive complete physical edition) over paid DLC that, collectively, too often end up costing about as much as another full priced game (and in some cases, even exceeding it).
Hang on whilst I check my Surprised-o-meter.
.. Oh, it says 0..
wow.... I liked the interface, slickness and diversity of the NES Remix games much more. They probably had less time for this game.
@acbarebear Or the long-anticipated SNES Remix.
To me the biggest disappointment is the lack of leaderboards. The whole point of speed running is to try to be the best in the world. To not have leaderboards for the individual challenges just means spending weeks trying to shave seconds of your best times to see if you can be the best in your household. And for singles this sucks. (granted for some of the challenges there will be thousands who share the record time but at least it sets a benchmark).
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