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Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition
Released On: Jul 18, 2024
73
7.4
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 59 Critic Reviews
73
53% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
41% Mixed
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
3% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 59 Critic Reviews
73
53% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
41% Mixed
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
3% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
For just $25, Nintendo World Championship is an exhilarating new way to play a handful of classic games, but it does fall far behind the brilliance of Nintendo’s previous NES compilations. In its online component, it’s thrilling, but it’s not a must-have for anyone except the biggest fans of Nintendo’s history.
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is a game tailor-made for speedrunners, and played alone it risks losing its appeal in a short time. It's a creature made for a well-thought-out competitive ecosystem, which with online challenges could keep the interest of its select audience high for a long time, or at least until the arrival of an eventual SNES Edition. Perhaps not for everyone, but intriguing if the challenge doesn't scare you.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 User Ratings
7.4
59% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
34% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
7% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 User Ratings
7.4
59% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
34% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
7% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Perfect for nostalgia and for the fan base of NES Remix! Get ready to time attack to frame perfect your childhood memories
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Nintendo Switch
I think this game gets all the competitiveness from your soul, not in the same way as Smash Ultimate or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but it is indeed at the same level. Very addictive game! You will really enjoy it, specially if you were part of the NES Generation.
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Nintendo Switch
If you loved NES Remix, you will also appreciate Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, which, in addition to several new challenges, offers a small essay on game design. Otherwise, the package is a bit pricey (€29.99, to which you have to add the cost of a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to enjoy all the features), and not all “remixed games” have aged well in the same way.
As an approachable, bite-sized introduction to the world of speedrunning through the lens of some bonafide classics, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is a decent enough package. It lacks a little added flavour, but the way it gently teaches you to find those perfect lines, hidden quirks and cheesy hacks makes for some very rewarding moments, and it doubles as a surprisingly good party game.
It’s a great attempt from Nintendo to join leagues of gamers who keep their titles alive via speedrunning. There are moments that make you feel like Jimmy from The Wizard, with Fred Savage screaming at you to grab the warp whistle. I loved revisiting the golden days of the NES and doing it while collecting cool unlockables and trying my hand at beating great times. Beating a time and seeing an S-rank never gets old, but the life and enjoyment of this game depend on many moving parts and a passion for retro gaming, which might hold this back from being as brilliant as Nintendo would like it to be.
Nintendo World Championship Edition: NES Edition doesn't bring anything particularly special, but it's a good ride for lovers of classic NES games (made by Nintendo itself) who want the opportunity to play iconic beats, be it solo or with friends.
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is a release held together by sentiment and atmosphere, partly because that aspect of the game is so good and partly because the remainder of the game is so devoid of merit. Like NES Remix before it, it lives in a liminal space between viable gameplay ideas. If it were supposed to be a punishing speedrunning challenge, it would give players one try in the weekly championship and offer more long events. If it were a WarioWare-like fun time, it’d have a faster pace and a lot more variety. If it were a weekly Nintendo Switch Online diversion, it’d be a lower-commitment free download built around a real-time experience. And, well, it’s none of those.
If you have a short attention span, limited time or a vast reserve of nostalgia, this collection is right up your alley. So, I guess we now wait for the Nintendo World Championships: SNES Edition?
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Nintendo Switch
Pretty cool party game - add 1 point if you really like the NES games but deduct 1 point if you don't like them at all
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Nintendo Switch
A really disappointing experience. The obvious absence of the online leaderboards aside, there are other problems with this game. I think the challenges for the game, even though there are 150 of them, it still feels lacking. There are 100s of other challenges they could have easily thrown in for those games. The challenges themselves are also very revealing, as outside of the the Mario games and a few others, they do not control well, especially while using the joy-cons (a Pro Controller is a must). All the games are playable of course, but speed running and just playing them is very different. Games like Ice Climber, just feel bad when you are looking for speed and precision. A lot of the challenges they picked to be in the collection just do not flow well and just feel awkward.
The best part of the game is the presentation, the UI and everything around the game looks great and in theme. Competing in the weekly challenges is nice, but there should be another mode or two in the game to make it more complete. However, it is just $30, not $70, so the lack of features is more understandable. Even though, they could have just added something like this to the existing NES virtual console for NSO for free.
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Nintendo Switch
Fine for speedrunners, mediocre for others.
If you're looking for a fun mix of challenges to scratch a nostalgic itch, this is not it. Rather than being closer to the head-to-head original NWC, with a diverse set of games andchallenges, this new mix is purely time challenges.
Some challenges have unlisted stipulations, such as requiring smashing treasure pots in Kid Icarus without telling the player the need to avoid the contents of the treasure pots and punishes the user for doing so. Or, for the Adventure of Link, original limitations in design can cause hitches in a run whereas pausing too quickly to confirm leveling can prompt the Pause Menu too soon and not populate with content requiring to unpause and pause again.
Rewarded coins sometimes do not exceed the cost of unlocking challenges, such as buying Excitebike for 50 coins and beating a challenge with a top ranking like A++ or S leads to 30-40 coins making the success feel unrewarding.
The game as a whole is relatively shallow, limited modes and limited replayability due to the relative ease of the challenges.
Lastly, the lack of full game ROMs feels like a missed opportunity considering all the games are firsty-party and mere fractions of the cart size. Had they been unlockables for completing all challenges in a game it would've felt impactful and rewarding, instead you're greeted with another "Legendary" challenge.
The Deluxe Set may be worth it for nostalgia fans though.
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Nintendo Switch
Metacritic keeps eating my review, so I'll keep this short.
The Lost Levels challenges are as follows.
- Eat a mushroom in 1-1.
- Eat a poison mushroom in 1-1.
- Jump on a paratroopa in 1-1.
- Go up the staircase in 1-1.
- Clear 1-1.
- Clear 1-1 again but this time with Luigi.
- Clear 9-1? For some reason?
- Clear 8-2 with Luigi, for some reason.
That is all the challenges for Lost Levels. Every one. At best, this game is a fun novelty, but it is blander, easier and has less content than previous NES Remix games. Get one of those games on sale and skip this one.
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Nintendo Switch
Summary Test your speedrunning skills across more than 150 challenging moments from 13 classic NES™ games*! Compete against players around the world online**, challenge your friends on the couch***, or try to see how far you can push your personal bests. Do you have what it takes to be a champion? The tougher challenges may truly test your li...
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Jul 18, 2024
Developer:
- indieszero
Publisher: Nintendo
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