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Issue #‍320 | February 19, 2023 · Does Mario like Pizza?

Hello, Chris here with a few Nintendo reads for you to check out.

A much smaller than usual issue today as I'm currently away in Northern Italy for a long weekend celebrating my eighth (8!) wedding anniversary. As such, if this newsletter is missing any big breaking news from the past few days: please understand *bows* — this week's issue was written well in advance and scheduled.

Due to me writing this ahead of time, there's no round-up of upcoming games to share with you this week, but as ever, the excellent Switch Scores should have all the information you need for what is on the immediate horizon.

I'll be back with you for normal service next week, but until then I'm off to eat some proper pizza.

Cheers,
Chris ✌️

22 GameCube titles that deserve the Metroid Prime Remastered treatment — "Nintendo proves with Metroid Prime Remastered that the GameCube library is worth revisiting". This list features Viewtiful Joe and F-Zero GX on it — so it gets my approval.

Cameron Daxon // Goomba Stomp

19 Game Boy games we'd love to see on Nintendo Switch Online

Thomas Whitehead & Alana Hagues // Nintendo Life

Splatoon 3 Expansion Pass Wave 1 “Inkopolis” to release on February 28th

Amelia Fruzzetti // Nintendo Wire

Bayonetta 3 hits 1 million sales in under four months

Chris Kerr // Game Developer

Saudi Arabia has reportedly increased its stake in Nintendo again

Andy Robinson // VGC

REVIEW Tales of Symphonia Remastered — "as a remaster, this specific release fails to hit the mark". Here's another review, this time from SwitchUp on Youtube. Nintendo World Report say "there are enough problems with Tales of Symphonia Remastered that it feels generous calling it a remaster at all".

Orpheus Joshua // Noisy Pixel

REVIEW Theatrhythm Final Bar Line — "a testament to the power of a soundtrack, and it’s well worth the attention of any fan of Final Fantasy, music, or Final Fantasy music".

Sorrel Kerr-Jung // Destructoid

MarioGPT hints at a glorious AI-generated future where we will all play Nintendo forever

Devin Coldewey // Techcrunch

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Original Metroid Prime game devs call out Switch remaster's failure to credit.
Former Apple Arcade exclusive PixelJunk Scrappers is coming to Switch.
A Hollow Knight: Silksong playtester says it is "worth the wait".
Digital Foundry came away very impressed with the Metroid Prime remaster.
Sakurai talks about his DS puzzle game Meteos in his latest YouTube video.
A Nintendo Switch created in CSS? Here it is.

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