I’ve got to be honest. When Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition was announced, my response was sort of… a shrug. The package, as originally announced, didn’t speak to me very much at all. I’m the right age, the right target audience. I’m the sort of person who watches speedrunning marathons. But… I dunno. It just felt cheap, to my cynical mind.
Not including the full game ROMs was a red flag to me. The fact that the missions shown when first announced were so simple as to be trivial… I just did not get it at all. But then I played it. Dear reader, I am a convert.
There are caveats to all this, of course. Chief of which is one simple fact: I think this is an absolutely killer same-room, same-screen multiplayer experience. That is where this game shines – and I think it offers a £25 alternative to Mario Party for those who might not get a full-priced game’s worth of play out of one of those board game-alike minigame collections.
