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by Donald Theriault - May 25, 2021, 10:00 am EDT 8 Nintendo’s second child of the Portopia Serial Murder Case is a short but sweet affair. The Famicom Detective Club games really shouldn’t need a Machete order, but it has to be reminded up front: The Missing Heir is the first in release order, while The Girl Who Stands Behind is the first game in-universe. With that bit of chronological confusion dealt with, The Girl Who Stands Behind is a fine adventure experience that is also a bit of...

Oh no, did I leave the heir at that rest stop!? A few years ago while looking into things relating to Smash characters that didn’t make the cut, I came across the name Ayumi Tachibana and her series Famicom Detective Club. She was originally considered for a spot on Super Smash Bros. Melee’s roster, but was ultimately cut because the team rightfully didn’t believe she had enough recognition to warrant her inclusion. From that point on I found myself incredibly curious with the Famicom Det...

With a game like Famicon Detective Club, you expect to feel like a detective. The clue is in the name, right? This remake, following 30 years after its original 1980s Japan-exclusive debut, is more about stumbling across the right answer than making you feel anywhere near like an investigator.

May 25, 2021 at 6:45AM PDT When you think of a private detective, you might see a tough guy in a felt fedora, cigarette perched above his chiseled jaw, puffing moodily in an office chair with the blinds drawn. If Nintendo has anything to say about it, though, next time you picture a gumshoe it will be a skinny, teenage boy who cant remember his own name. Thats because the publisher has resurrected both Famicom Detective Club outings: The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind. This pair of...

Miitopia, Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind, and Chess Knights: Shinobi are in the review spotlight today. We’ve also got summaries of all of the new releases, including Atlus’s Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster. Finally, sales! You know them, you love them, we’ve got them. Let’s get down to business! Reviews & Mini-Views Miitopia ($49.99) Miitopia has a lot of appeal to it. It’s a streamlined RPG that you can cast all of your friends, family, and whoever ...

Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (May 22nd) © Nintendo Whats that sound? Well, if you listen very closely you can just about hear the E3 hype train approaching in the far distance. Ready to jump aboard? Its time to unwind a little and discuss our weekend gaming plans. Members of the Nintendo Life team have done just that below, so feel free to give our entries a read and then join in with your own via our comment section. Enjoy! Thomas Whitehead, deputy editor I recently finis...

Share Mass Effect 2 is the best of the lot. Mass Effect 3 was controversial but mostly because it quite cleverly upended expectations about how a space opera should end. And now the Legendary Edition updates all three games for todays tech and standards. Refined gunplay, better graphics, smoother all round. There are so many remastered games nowadays that its easy to be suspicious: are they just an attempt to get new cash for the same old material? But with Mass Effect — even with some creaky...

The Missing Heir gives you a chance to experience a key point in visual novel history.

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Calculator, the self-explanatory game that became a meme on Twitter, is now one of the highest-rated Nintendo Switch games on Metacritic, according to its users. The game sits at a user score of 9.1, beating out critically acclaimed releases such as Hades, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and Super Mario Oddysey. Calculator becomes a top-rated Nintendo Switch game on Metacritic Calculator’s existence was widely mocked when it was released last week, with the $10 scientific c...

Famicom Detective Club games. There’s a little bit of news about Mario Golf: Super Rush, summaries of the surprisingly excellent batch of new releases today, and the latest lists of incoming and expiring sales as usual. Let’s get right to it! News We’re getting close to the June 25th release date of Mario Golf: Super Rush, and Nintendo has started offering up more details on the game. A new trailer for the game was posted on Nintendo’s YouTube channel that goes over many of the game�...