Nintendo Switch Online NES games for March 2019 revealed



Last month saw the addition of Super Mario Bros. 2 and Kirby's Adventure to Nintendo's Switch Online NES lineup. This time around, for March 2019, Nintendo has revealed that Kid Icarus and StarTropics will be the new games for the month, with both being playable starting on March 13th. Kid Icarus is an action platformer, and the first game in the eponymous series, which originally released in 1986. StarTropics is a top down adventure game, which has players explore various island villages in an attempt to rescue the player character's uncle from aliens. Both games will be available to anyone with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.
 

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Uh, not trying to be mean but that doesn't make much sense.

Yes, it does make much sense to me. NES online ? For what ? Nonsense. There are many games like NES mini, emulators such as retroarch, nes emulator, etc. Priceless. I don't care about the piracy. It is out there. If those doesn't existed then this is what I am looking for then. Now, no thanks. Many of those things are out there. I would save my money, thought. Indeed.
 
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Yes, it does make much sense to me. NES online ? For what ? Nonsense. There are many games like NES mini, emulators such as retroarch, nes emulator, etc. Priceless. I don't care about the piracy. It is out there. If those doesn't existed then this is what I am looking for then. Now, no thanks. Many of those things are out there. I would save my money, thought. Indeed.

Agreed, in fact I would probably be more inclined to pay for this if they launched an Snes Online app instead of NES games that I can't play more than five minutes without getting bored. You know what, I'm just going to play NES on Nestopia/RetroArch, at least you won't be forced to use a hideous persistent border.
 

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Agreed, in fact I would probably be more inclined to pay for this if they launched an Snes Online app instead of NES games that I can't play more than five minutes without getting bored. You know what, I'm just going to play NES on Nestopia/RetroArch, at least you won't be forced to use a hideous persistent border.

Thank you~!!!

Me too! :P
 
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So I tried StarTropics and I'm a bit unsure about this. :blink:

The game seems similar to Legend of Zelda (which I strongly dislike) One part of gameplay is like a rpg, in the overworld, you visit various places, talk to people and move to the next dungeon. Inside the dungeon, it's like playing legend of zelda. You pick up weapons you can use to defeat enemies with and there is lots of jumping around. :blink:

Some things I don't like about how it plays, is the poor control over the character. Its not as tight as I would want. You can jump across other platforms, but that's the only way to jump while moving. If you aren't trying to jump across something, then you just jump straight up, also you can jump into the water by accident. Walking is bothersome, the character doesn't move the instant I push a direction. He turns around in place, and sometimes I have to hold it longer just to make him actually move before changing directions. It's soo stiff especially when you are fighting enemies and seem unfair with ones that move on a angle which is hard to hit because of movement and not being able to hit on an angle.

There's stuff I don't quite understand like the points, what does it do, give me an extra life? What are the stars for? I don't know. I wonder why it's not possible to view the manual for these games directly from the switch app. Especially if these games are obscure or many people playing for the first time, the virtual console games has manuals. I got up to the second chapter where I had to rescue a dolphin, and I lost so many times. The boss is a octopus that shoots balls at me... might as well be octorok from zelda. It doesn't seem to stop and when it does, it swims close to me and then back away in a instant. I have to constantly jump around to avoid it, and can't reach it. The first part before this was easier. What a weird spike in challenge. :wtf:
 

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