Tag: Best Games
As ranked by you lovely people
The Nintendo GameCube is eighteen years old today! In honour of reaching this prestigious milestone (which now enables it to enter pubs and watch a whole range of naughty movies in the UK), we asked Nintendo Life readers to score their favourite GameCube games. The results have now been assembled into the list of 50...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Party Games
Maximum fun, minimum fuss
So, you're having a party - possibly on a rooftop - dancing to the music and all that jazz, but there's suddenly a lull. Fear not because we've got just the thing to get the party started again! Nintendo Switch has a whole host of crowd-pleasing co-op and competitive party games, whether you're hosting a birthday party for...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch FPS Games
The finest First-Person Shooters on Switch
Nintendo Switch's bulging catalogue of games covers almost every genre imaginable, and the First-Person Shooter is no exception. Despite hosting some classics on its platforms (GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark helped define the FPS on consoles, and the Metroid Prime series fused the exploration of the 2D...
Feature Best Zelda Games Of All Time
Now updated with Cadence of Hyrule!
What are the best Zelda games? Ranking The Legend of Zelda series is one heck of an undertaking. Bar a couple of exceptions, each entry is pretty much a classic at this point, with even the 'lesser' ones still being rather good video games. Many remain fixed as the best games on the consoles that parented them, so...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Metroidvania Games
Or 'Castloid', if you prefer
The word 'Metroidvania' might rub some gamers the wrong way, but it's a useful catch-all term to describe a very specific type of game experience. Combining elements from both the Metroid and late '90s Castlevania series, this broad platforming genre has you using an ever-growing skill set to open up new paths across an...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Online Multiplayer Games
The best online games available for Switch right now
Nintendo Switch is the perfect console for local multiplayer - simply crack off those Joy-Con and start having fun with whoever happens to be in the room with you. However, the console has built up a solid portfolio of online multiplayer games since launch, too, and we've picked out a handful - in...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Fighting Games
The best fighters on Switch
It's ironic that one of the most violent video game genres is also one which has pulled millions of people together; ever since the early days of Fatal Fury and Street Fighter II, the humble 'fighting game' genre has created (and arguably ended) countless friendships. This style of game that is perfect for social...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Horror Games
Pack a spare pair of underpants
Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night? Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic? Have you or your family ever seen a spook, spectre or ghost? If the answer is "no"... you obviously haven't been playing any of the excellent horror games available on Nintendo Switch. There's...
Feature Best Super Mario Games Of All Time
All the mainline Marios ranked
What's the best Mario game ever? Where do you even begin to rank them? Let's face it, any of the games in the top 10 could justifiably take the top spot. All of them could easily be somebody's 'best game of all time', and there'll always be someone who believes the series peaked with The Lost Levels, which is an...
Feature Best Pokémon Games Of All Time
Which one comes out on top?
What are the best Pokémon games? Ranking such awesome games proved a lot more difficult than we first anticipated, given how most of them ended up being crowned as the best games of their particular generation. As demanded by a task of this magnitude, we deliberated for many hours here at Nintendo Life Towers. We then...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Couch Co-Op Games
Teamwork makes the dream work
While there's a great many different types of gaming experiences available on Switch, the chances are that couch co-op games were a big part of the reason you bought Nintendo's hybrid console. After all, Nintendo is the bonafide master of local co-op games, and the Switch is tailor-made for those experiences thanks to...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch RPGs
Our round-up of the best RPGs on Switch
In the two-and-a-half years since launch, Nintendo Switch has collected a huge number of quality titles across almost every category, and the RPG genre is certainly no exception. The following is a selection of the console's essential role-playing games - in no particular order - which will evolve over time as...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Games
As voted by you lovely people
In a little over two years Switch has amassed a huge amount of software - more than any Nintendo fan dared to dream after the slim pickings of the Wii U generation. Of course, this abundance of riches leaves us in something of a pickle - too much software, not enough time to play it all. In fairness, it's a very nice...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch 3D Platformers
Workin' the Z-axis
Ah, the 3D platformer. Ever since Super Mario 64 landed and showed everyone just how good three-dimensional platforming could be, there have been developers hoping to capture just a smidgen of that game’s magic. It was a tough act to follow, even for the plumber himself, but his latest outing on Switch has him at the very top of...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Strategy Games
The best RTS, 4X, strategy and tactics games on Switch
Strategy games by their very nature require deep thought and careful consideration, and many gamers these days simply don't have time to launch into epic campaigns in a single sitting. Planning a multi-turn offensive in a 4X game like Civilization or outfitting your party with optimal gear in a...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Shmups
Shoot 'em up, all of 'em
The humble shoot ‘em up has been a staple genre ever since the very beginning of video games when Spacewar! laid down the basic groundwork in 1962. No, that is not a typo; in the year that Marilyn Monroe died and The Beatles recorded their first single ‘Love Me Do’, some boffins at MIT were busy inventing video games...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch 2D Platformers
Jump around
With so many excellent platformers available on Switch, picking something out from the overwhelming selection can be hard. The platforming genre has a very strong pedigree on Nintendo systems going all the way back to the original Super Mario Bros. on NES. Over the years that followed other developers mastered the grammar laid down in...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Racing Games
Feel the requirement for rapidity!
While the Nintendo Switch may lack the raw processing grunt of the Xbox One and PS4, fans of the racing genre are still well served on the hybrid console, with a steadily growing catalogue of fantastic racers. It may lack the killer driving simulators from rival consoles, but there are plenty of arcade thrills and...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Exclusives
Games you can only play on Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch has become home to a great many games in a relatively short space of time. A great deal of them have appeared on other platforms, whether celebrated indie games or huge AAA releases getting a second wind on Nintendo's handheld hybrid. However, the console is also home to a clutch of...
Feature Best Nintendo 3DS Games
As voted by you
As dwindling software sales and a paucity of games on the horizon finally signals the end of Nintendo 3DS' long day in the sun (despite what Nintendo might claim), there's no better time to look back over the extraordinary catalogue of what may well be Nintendo's final handheld-only console. After a slow start, the portable went...
Feature Best Nintendo DS Games
As voted for by you
The 30th anniversary of the Game Boy's arrival on North American shores got us thinking about the unlikely upstart system that stole its portable crown and permanently ousted the mighty Game Boy brand from Nintendo's lineup. It's strange to think back to a time when the Nintendo DS - that odd-looking folding system - was...
As voted for by you
Back in April the Nintendo Game Boy turned 30 in Japan and to celebrate this amazing occasion we ran a series of related features over the course of a week. Today it's 30 years since the system's North American debut, so we're republishing this collection of the finest games on the console, as voted by Nintendo Life users. Enjoy!...
Feature Best Super Smash Bros. Games Of All Time
What's the ultimate Super Smash Bros.?
When Super Smash Bros. Ultimate arrived on Switch and brought with it every single fighter from the series' history, it sent us back through the older games. Just how do they rank against each other? Is this 'Ultimate' iteration really the last word in Smash? There's a strong argument for it, especially with...
Feature Best Mario Kart Games Of All Time
Burn rubber
Back when Nintendo announced the very first Mario Kart game in the early '90s, there were some in the industry who proclaimed it as a sign that the veteran firm had finally lost its marbles. Sure, Mario had appeared in other games, but his forte was 2D platformers – he had no place on the racing track, and Super Mario Kart was...
Feature Best Monster Hunter Games Of All Time
What's that coming over the hill?
What's the best Monster Hunter of all time? In a series where half of the titles have the word 'Ultimate' fixed on the end, it can be a difficult decision to make. We're not averse to difficult decisions though, so have taken it upon ourselves to rank every single Monster Hunter game (yes, even the non-Nintendo...
Feature Best Metroid Games Of All Time
Ranking Samus' adventures
What's the Best Metroid Game of all time? Well, we're about to tell you just that with our list of all Metroid games ranked from worst to best. As is the case with these lists, we've checked our review scores for every single Metroid title and then used your user scores to help narrow down and finesse it. We then put all...
Feature Best Nintendo 3DS RPGs
A quest for the best
As the 3DS's sixth year in the world draws to a close, we can already look back on its impressively varied library with wonder; along with plenty of standout platformers, life sims, rhythm games, and puzzlers, it's also carved out a particular niche by delivering an almost non-stop barrage of first class RPGs. Responsible for...
