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Castlevania has 26 main series games, on top of spin-offs, collections, and crossovers we did not include for our sanity. Here's the list of mainland Castlevania Games in Order of Release Date.
Review: Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir Reopens a Cold Case Thirty-three years! That’s how long the Famicom Detective Club games have been around, and also how long they have been totally inaccessible to Western audiences. A Nintendo franchise with two (and a half) entries, a remake and ten re-releases? Unreleased outside Japan? Yeah, for three decades. That all changes now. Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir, the first game in the franchise, joins its prequel in a worldwide release on Nintendo Switch. How does it hold up all these years later? Is it an effective remake? And...
Review: Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind is a Real Ghost Trick As years go by, the concept of game preservation becomes more critical. After all, we have old games that might become increasingly obscure due to the limited number in existence and the threat of digital storefronts shutting down. But we also have to consider the games that could be lost to time because they were niche enough to appear only in one region. Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind is a situation in which Nintendo and Mages saved such a game. Granted, it doesn’t get a full quality of l...
Preview: Digging Deeper Into Famicom Detective Club and Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind both release on Nintendo Switch in a few weeks. Want to know what to expect from these two mystery adventures? Siliconera’s Jenni Lada and Graham Russell are on the case. Graham Russell: So Jenni, we’ve both been playing these new Famicom Detective Club games! Neither of us have finished these stories — they’re not short, and we’ll have our reviews in a couple of weeks for our full assessment — but we know a lot about these games from their first few chapters! And we’d li...
What’s often forgotten is all the effort poured into the company's home hardware while this was going on; expanding their capabilities, designing new storage mediums, creating specialised services and releasing exclusive titles that capitalised on the raw power and fresh opportunities lurking within the base console’s shiny new attachment. It was all very impressive with only one slight drawback — most of these accessories never left Japan. Still, that’s never stopped Nintendo Life, has it? Join us now for a brief tour of Nintendo's home console add-on hardware, courtesy of the comp...