Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Marvelous Europe has launched a brand new trailer for Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, this time looking in depth at the different seasons you’ll be enjoying as you embark on your new life on the farm. You’ll be starting your journey in Forgotten Valley (uh… what happened to ‘Forget-Me-Not?) in Spring, getting to grips with all the gameplay mechanics as you acquaint yourself with the local residents. Summer will see your farm and relationships flourish, Autumn is when you’ll enjoy the plentiful bounties of your hard work, and Winter will be a time…
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Tetris premieres on Apple TV+ on March 31, 2023.Using every trick in the book, including stretching the limits of what can be called a “true story,” Tetris manages to make international video game rights negotiations seem interesting. This convoluted film deals with Cold War paranoia on the verge of Mikhail Gorbachev’s resignation by telling the insanely tangled story of how Tetris game cartridges reached worldwide customers. It’s a litigation drama masquerading as a flashy political thriller in which companies like Bullet-Proof Software and Nintendo find themselves in a treacherous bidding war that writer Noah Pink and director Jon S. Baird…
The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book Game is the third title in a series from publisher Ravensburger, the previous two entries featuring The Wizard of Oz and The Princess Bride. These are all unique tabletop games where unfolding storybooks are used as the foundation to retell iconic narratives from film and literature. While the previous two releases have been entertaining and effective, The Lord of the Rings Adventure Book pushes the format strongly forward with a sense of maturity and accomplishment. This is a wonderful combination of charm and lightweight gameplay that finds its groove when played across a…
With an intriguing set up, Vasilis Katsoupis’ Inside features a captivating performance by Willem Dafoe as an art thief trapped in a billionaire’s penthouse. However, its unfocused use of space, plot, and theme render it mostly dull until it eventually peters out instead of offering any kind of discernible ending, let alone a cathartic one. Whatever it hopes to say about the meaning of art and materialism it says in scattered spurts which rarely add up to a satisfying whole. It approaches its one-location survival story much the same way, leading to similar results. Set in a New York skyrise,…
Lucky Hank is now streaming on AMC+It’s a bit ironic that Bob Odenkirk is bringing his post-Better Call Saul star power to playing a man grappling with his irrelevance as William Henry Devereaux Junior in Lucky Hank, a limited series adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo’s 1997 novel Straight Man. After leading one of the most acclaimed shows of the past decade, Lucky Hank feels like a pleasant palate cleanser for Odenkirk, a witty if inconsistent takedown of academia that is easy to watch and lets Odenkirk shine amidst a strong ensemble cast.The pilot episode demonstrates that creators Paul…
If you’re a PlayStation console player that wants a little taste of a traditional keyboard and mouse setup for gaming, the Hori TAC Mechanical Keypad might be of interest to you. It’s a compact keypad that features 22 customizable backlit keys attached to an adjustable palm rest that lets you utilize keyboard controls in supported games. However, its form factor takes some time to get used to, and its premium price is hard to justify with the abundance of small form factor keyboards that work just as well, if not better, in most cases.Hori TAC Mechanical Keypad – PhotosHori TAC…
Shadow and Bone season 2 is now on Netflix.The first season of Shadow and Bone pulled off a near-impossible task: it successfully combined two separate stories and sets of characters (from the novels Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows) into one cohesive series of episodes. With the second season, the writers had to do it again with an even larger cast to play with, this time pullIng from several of Leigh Bardugo’s books, including the companion series The Lives of Saints. Several of the stories and characters have been scattered, tweaked, and expanded within the season but, somehow, remain…
I’m not exactly sure why a developer best known for quiet, choice-filled games that border on interactive movies is so interested in turning them into arcade-style rail shooters, but Supermassive Games is taking another crack at exactly that – this time with the help of the new PlayStation VR2 headset. Like Until Dawn: Rush of Blood before it, The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR focuses less on storytelling and more on action to mixed results. While it’s fun to blast through ghouls and bats in my path, this spinoff is plagued by many of the same issues as its predecessor, including…
In light of the high-quality remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 3 released in 2019 and 2020, it felt like a safe bet that Capcom would do an equally admirable job of rebuilding Resident Evil 4. Even so, when I hit the start button on this 2023 remake of the legendary 2005 action-horror game I wasn’t prepared for how forcefully it would knock my knees out from under me and suplex me headfirst into 16 hours of sustained tension and exhilaration. This fully revitalised campaign dramatically one-ups the original in almost every conceivable way. Its Spanish countryside setting is substantially…
“Even Stronger” is the perfect tagline for WWE 2K23. Last year’s reinvention laid a solid foundation, and every aspect of it has been refined for the better this year. Combat is flexible without becoming burdensome, and the MyRise campaign mode focuses on telling more focused stories without compromising its open-ended gameplay. MyGM is more user friendly and lets you invite a larger number friends to get in on the action, too. Even the 2K Showcase, which has maybe the most glaring inconsistencies of all the modes, subverts expectations in creative ways. The pickings are slim for full sim-style pro-grappling alternatives,…