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Nintendo-style gaming, without Nintendo!
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Smoke39 Aug 17
Here Comes Niko!
Got some Animal Crossing vibes with you helping out quirky animal friends, but instead of plodding around town it's an easygoing collectathon platformer. One of my new favorites.
Quoting: Smoke39Here Comes Niko!
Got some Animal Crossing vibes with you helping out quirky animal friends, but instead of plodding around town it's an easygoing collectathon platformer. One of my new favorites.
It is great! I had a big smile plastered on my face during the entire playthrough. It is just cozy and friendly.
sourpuz Sep 6
This is an awesome post, Pengling, thanks a lot. I've already wishlisted several games! Some of them really remind me of my GameBoy back in ye olde days.
emphy Oct 18
Since we're talking nintendo-style gaming here, does anyone know of any x86 deck-alike that has roughly the same size as, and battery life of, the switch?

So far, the best I've seen is the ayaneo air 1s: right size with first-gen switch-like battery life. However, it could do with better linux support, not to mention that I'm hearing that ayaneo is not very good at support of any kind.

Last edited by emphy on 18 October 2024 at 12:36 pm UTC
Talon1024 about 6 hours ago
So, I saw a few people streaming F-Zero lately. Since that game was developed and published by Nintendo, it will most likely never leave the walled gardens of Nintendo consoles.

However, out of curiosity, I looked at the BallisticNG store page on Steam, and found this game, thanks to Steam's algorithm:

Aero GPX (Proton Platinum, Steam Deck Verified)

Reading through the reviews for BallisticNG, it looks like BallisticNG is more like WipEout.
wvstolzing about 2 hours ago
I'm not *exactly* sure if this is 'Nintendo-style', as it isn't really a variation on anything* from the old handheld consoles

... but it's possibly an even more authentic continuation of the spirit of fast paced platformers:

Downwell:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/360740/Downwell/

It's an amazing game; my most played contemporary game in the past couple of years. It's so well crafted; and I'm pretty sure it plays even better on a handheld (I've played only on desktop).

It's a tiny gamemaker game, that works flawlessly under proton.


* - though I've read mentions of this being an 'upside down Kid Icarus'; not having played Kid Icarus, I can't really confirm that.

Last edited by wvstolzing on 6 November 2024 at 1:47 am UTC
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