1990s Critics Review StarTropics, Shadow of the Ninja & Journey to Silius (Nintendo Switch Online)
119The game you’re looking at right now is StarTropics, and not only is it one of the many games on the Nintendo Switch Online service, but it’s one of the many games that I have not covered on the Nintendo Switch Online Review Crew. That’s because it was released a year or two before I started the series, making it one of the many Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES games to be completely glossed over. That is, until now. This summer, we’re going to go back in time and cover all of the missing games, starting with Journey to Silius, the aforementioned StarTropics and Shadow of the Ninja. These three games were added to Nintendo’s online service years ago, but the question still remains: Are any of them worth playing? To answer that question, I decided to flip through the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly, Video Games & Computer Entertainment, GamePro and more classic magazines to see what the critics said back when these games first came out. So, go and grab your trusty yo-yo, because this is going to be a very polarizing episode of Nintendo Switch Online Review Crew.
0:00 – Introduction
1:17 – Commercial: Toys R Us (U.S.)
1:49 – Shadow of the Ninja (NES)
4:59 – Journey to Silius (NES)
7:30 – Commercial: Nintendo Power (U.S.)
8:03 – StarTropics (NES)
10:47 – Commercial: StarTropics (U.S.)
11:19 – Question of the Day
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