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Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

Nintendo
Jul 18, 2024 - Nintendo Switch
Fair

OpenCritic Rating

72

Top Critic Average

54%

Critics Recommend

IGN
7 / 10
Metro GameCentral
7 / 10
GameSpot
7 / 10
Destructoid
6.5 / 10
Hobby Consolas
80 / 100
TheSixthAxis
9 / 10
IGN Italy
8 / 10
God is a Geek
9 / 10
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Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition – Survival Mode & Legend Challenge – Nintendo Switch

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Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition — Deluxe Set — Nintendo Switch

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Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition — Announcement Trailer — Nintendo Switch


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Critic Reviews for Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

Like NES Remix and WarioWare before it, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition offers a good way to revisit challenging moments from a selection of classic NES games.

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Metro GameCentral

GameCentral
7 / 10
Metro GameCentral

A tribute to the timelessness of some of Nintendo's earliest classics and while the whole package is rather thin it's impressive how entertaining it still manages to be.

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Nintendo World Championships is a fun introduction to competitive speedrunning with tons of nostalgia, even if its customization tools could be more robust.

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It feels like it would fit better as an additional mode to some sort of NES Remix compilation. And that’s ignoring the fact that NES Remix 2 already had a mode based on the Nintendo World Championships. Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition is a celebration of the classic console; it’s just one that lacks excitement and is too exclusive for its own good.

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Nintendo World Championships NES Edition is a tribute to the great classics that marked a generation and a fun and refreshing experience to enjoy 13 iconic works under a new approach. By bringing the speedrun mode to a wider audience, Nintendo once again demonstrates its great development skills.

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TheSixthAxis

Steve C
9 / 10
TheSixthAxis

All in all, Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition is a fantastic way to discover or reminisce over the titles that formed the basis for many of the franchises that still dominate gaming today. The compulsion to get better and better is perhaps the purest distillation of video gaming available and the more competitive modes offer a challenge for a long time to come. Any Nintendo fan (or gaming fan in general) should pick this up and take on the clock. I look forward to seeing you all on the World Championship leaderboards!

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If you loved NES Remix, you will also appreciate Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, which, in addition to several new challenges, offers a small essay on game design. Otherwise, the package is a bit pricey (€29.99, to which you have to add the cost of a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to enjoy all the features), and not all "remixed games" have aged well in the same way.

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Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition offers a pleasingly brisk and enjoyable format that makes it the unexpected party game hit of the Summer.

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