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Opinion: It's Not My GOTY, But This Nintendo Game Was A Standout 2024 Memory
- Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is a game released this year featuring condensed speedrunning challenges extracted from 13 iconic NES titles.
- The game offers a World Championship Mode that allows for ranking on a weekly leaderboard and a Survival Mode that pits players against other players' wrist times across three challenges to avoid elimination.
- It's the only game the author played this year that resulted in an involuntary shout of triumph when they conquered competitors in consecutive speedrunning challenges.
- The game helped the author discover the deep control scheme nuances of classic titles and even games they already knew well were revealed with the help of the Nintendo Power-inspired Classified Information sheets.
- The game’s competitive modes are perfect for focusing on specific challenges and helped push the author to consistently improve their personal best timings.
- The developers could add a new standalone challenge based on the actual 1990 Nintendo World Championships custom cartridge.
- NWC's snappy game feel and sound design hook players to improve their PB, and it’s an even better experience playing with an NES controller.
- The game may not have been the flashiest in 2024, but it remains a standout with plenty of untapped potential.
- It is an homage to the glory days of the NES and the 8-bit culture that surrounded it and a celebration of the timeless classics that still shape love for gaming.
- NWC is BY FAR, the most underrated game of the year, a master class on how smart presentation and design can elevate a novel premise to a can’t-miss weekly event.
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