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The 30 Best Games on Nintendo Switch Online
Nintendo Switch 2 owners can now play a handful GameCube games.
It’s difficult to generate an original take on what has long been a consensus Greatest Game Ever, but let me put it this way: Everything society has come to love about Mario — the ersatz haunted houses, Bowser’s rebrand as an insecure fop, the very existence of Yoshi — got its start in World. The game’s fundamental premise — explore a gigantic, nonlinear, initially overwhelming map that slowly becomes more traversable due to an array of power-ups and good old-fashioned muscle memory — has been co-opted by everything from Hollow Knight to Batman: Arkham Asylum. You take your Game Boy Color everywhere you go, snaring the deformed, low-res facsimiles of all your favorite fantasy beasts, imagining a day when Nintendo finally brings the Pokédex compendium to life with the vibrant, 3-D technology revolutionizing the 1990s.
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