Nintendo just released four games on their Nintendo Switch Online Super Nintendo app. Let’s have a look at them!
Here’s what I thought of each:
Super Nintendo Entertainment System App
| Game | Genre | # of Players | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battletoads Double Dragon | Arcade Brawler | 1-2 Co-Op (Local / Online) | B- |
tl;drThis crossover seems really forced, and it mostly plays like a Battletoads game with Double Dragon characters shoehorned in, but it’s a good Battletoads game, albeit a little creaky at the seams and a bit repetitive. Not a classic of the genre, but a game fans of the genre should check out. | |||
| Cosmogang The Puzzle | Falling Block Puzzle | 1-2 Competitive (Local / Online) | C |
tl;drThis Puzzle game is basically Pac Attack without the Pac-Man characters. Unfortunately, the difficulty ramps up way too quickly, making this worse than its more well-known substitute. | |||
| Jaleco Rally Big Run | Racing | 1 | C- |
tl;drThis faux 3D Racing game has choppy visuals and does little to set itself apart from earlier entries in the genre, apart from the upgrade system. Not a horrible game, but it hasn’t aged well. | |||
| Kunio-Kun no Dodgeball da yo Zen’in Shugo! | Racing | 1-2 Competitive (Local / Online) | D- |
tl;drThis game (the title translates to Kunio-Kun’s Dodgeball and Protect Everyone at Night!) is the successor to the NES “classic”, Super Dodge Ball, but this game has all of that game’s issues, plus no localized text in this version, which for a non-Japanese speaker means you’ll struggle to even get past the menus and get into a game. Really questionable choice for a Japanese-only port on Nintendo Switch Online, here. | |||
This is an odd assortment of games, including three games that were previously Japan-only releases.
Of the four games, I think the clear winner is the one here that actually was released in the West, Battletoads Double Dragon. It’s a nonsensical pairing (why is an interstellar evil space queen bothering herself with a local Earth street gang, again?), and the Double Dragon stuff really feels slapped in here, but despite how absurd this game’s premise is, it’s a decent Arcade Brawler, if somewhat rough around the edges.
As for the other three, Cosmogang is basically Pac Attack with no Pac-Man characters and overly-steep difficulty progression, Jaleco Rally Run is a mediocre faux 3D Racing game, and Kunio-Kun I’m Not Saying That Whole Title is a sequel to Super Dodge Ball that does little to fix the original game’s issues and adds on the challenge of trying to navigate through untranslated Japanese menus.
So… yeah, a mixed bunch. But Battletoads Double Dragon is okay!
tl;dr – The SNES, and app gets four games this month, including three that were previously only released in Japan. Out of all of them, the one game that was released in the West, Battletoads Double Dragon, is the best of the bunch, though not without its flaws.
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