Star Fox review

I recently finished reading Keza MacDonald’s excellent Super Nintendo, a largely celebratory book about the company that “helped the world have fun”, which nevertheless sounds a note of understandable caution at its conclusion. The author is concerned – and it’s a concern I share – that Nintendo has been playing things too safe of late, that its release slate (with the odd exception ) has become alarmingly conservative. It’s time, surely, for the next Splatoon , and by that I don’t mean Raiders . As hardware goes , Switch 2 is no big swing, and so far its software has generally followed suit; Super Nintendo rightly laments the loss of the “freewheeling creativity” of the Iwata era in particular. “Nintendo knows well the power of nostalgia,” MacDonald writes. “But unless it continues to create new ideas alongside honouring its legacy, Nintendo won’t be able to keep its cherished position in popular culture.” Read more