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Jon Irwin

Jon Irwin

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Sat 24th, December 2016
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  • Super Mario 3D World Is The Closest To A Super Mario Bros. 2 Sequel We'll Ever Get

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    Soapbox Super Mario 3D World Is The Closest To A Super Mario Bros. 2 Sequel We'll Ever Get

    Sub-consciously influenced

    Soapbox features enable our individual writers to voice their own opinions on hot games, trends and topics — opinions that may not necessarily be the voice of the site. In this piece, Jon Irwin discusses how Nintendo seems reluctant to return to the mechanics of Super Mario Bros. 2... When Super Mario 3D World first...

    • Sun 7th Feb 2021
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  • The Nindie Christmas Celebration - Pocket Card Jockey

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    Feature The Nindie Christmas Celebration - Pocket Card Jockey

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    If there was ever a game to represent this most cruel, brilliant, and baffling of years, Pocket Card Jockey is it. Game Freak's most recent non-Pokémon venture makes little sense: You're a horseracing jockey, but really you're a Solitaire player... but really you're an animal husbandry novice. That this strange brew of strategy, quick...

    • Sat 24th Dec 2016
    • 3DS eShop
    • Features
    • Game Freak

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