Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition?

Would hope NES Remix will venture over to the Switch as a Complete Collection. I enjoyed those games on the Wii U.

For SNES version of the World Championship, did a version exist back in the day? I don’t remember the SNES being involved in something similar with the NES, but this could easily slip by me since those events were never near my hometown.

Put NES Remix on Switch.

The problem with DLC or worse making this live service is that it would just get people complaining about the drop feed of NES games again.

NES Remix Switch should have been this.

7/10 is winning. We could all work for IGN!

I was a SNES Remix and an N64 Remix. I hadn't thought of a GB Remix but I want that now too, but they need to be more like the old NES Remix and less like the World Championships style they've gone for.

NINE ! man ive been having sm fun with this game, worrh every dollar. only ugly menus and lacking in online.
i would love to see a game boy entry or an n64 :3

I'll get the game someday. hopefully the physical copy will be on secondhand markets.

I really hope they make a SNES version. I’m enjoying this and would give it a 7 but it really does feel a bit repetitive after the two NES Remix games. The SNES was also really more of my childhood and I have so much nostalgia for it.

I'd probably give it like a 7.5. It's not going to blow anyone away but as a mid-price time killer it's very fun.

Would love a SNES one, though given how it's placing on the eShop charts and there only being 50,000 people in the first week's tournament I'm guessing it's not selling very well.

I also gave it a 7. By the end of this week I'll have gotten an S rank on every challenge and after that the online modes that take a full week to cycle really don't have much appeal at all. Fun small compilation, I love NES games, but it really doesn't seem like it'll have legs to be played much at all in the future.

If I brought a friend over and played them in it I'd just trounce them, not very fun for either person really.

It's enjoyable, but aside from a few QoL improvements, it's worse by every other metric when compared to the NES Remix games, and that's before we even get to the issue of price.

This has less content (and variety) than either of the NES Remix games, yet costs as much as both of those significantly better games combined. Oh, and two of the game's three modes are paywalled behind NSO, another issue that we didn't have to worry about prior to the Switch.

So, it's poor form from Nintendo. While I've enjoyed my time with World Championships so far, had it not been for the 8 player local split-screen multiplayer, I likely would have skipped this entirely.

Overall, I think a 5/10 is fair. Not a bad game on its own merits, but it compares rather unflatteringly to games that Nintendo themselves made over a decade ago, which is frankly pathetic, and I look forward to telling them as much should they send me a survey in the coming weeks.

competing against ghosts instead of live ppl is lame and no online leaderboard is insane.

8/10. I miss Wii U era Nintendo's generosity, more feature rich games, and lower prices. But I can't deny this game is a blast and I have no regrets buying it. Which is pretty much the whole Switch era.

You need an "all of the above" option in the second poll. 😆

Would be happy for free content updates(paid seems a bit of a push all things considered) for those that have bought it.
Hopefully it gets the sales as would love to see other consoles getting a version.

Enjoyed it more than expected so gave it an 8. However, the online competition component changing just once a week is limiting as you can quickly put in your efforts and then you just sit waiting

But it's a fun, blast of a package

It’s a great game that desperately needs more content. They could have had a whole new section with “new” challenges that made the game longer and didn’t focus just on speed running. It’s a super fun game but has so much more potential, especially with NES Remix existing.

13 games is a bit too few. I don't care what they would've had to pay to get the NES version of Tetris on there but it just feels wrong that it's not included...

Also how about Pro Wrestling, Ice Hockey, Punch-Out, Dr. Mario, Wario's Woods etc?

I am a little surprised that after NES Remix 1 and 2 on both Wii U/3DS they decided to do NES again instead of say SNES for example.

I haven't played it, so no score. But if y'all bribe me, I'll give it a score. For the reasonable price of $60 million dollars.

It's enjoyable but I would like NES Remix to come to switch. I never got the chance to play it

I've been loving my time with the game so far. I imagine that this next week, I'll mostly be looking for more. I actually really like how championship competition works now, it's fun to tighten up times without having to sit through match making or whatever. I do wish there were smaller, daily competitions in addition to the weekly World Championship. I put up some S ranked records in about fifteen minutes this morning, but it'll be a full week for results to get tabulated. I can only replay the first stage of Donkey Kong so many times, guys

Way too expensive for what it is.

4/10. If it were 20$ I’d say 6/10. And if it had another dozen games, 8/10. If it was snes, 9/10.

I'm more personally familiar with SNES speedrunning as I (very) casually run Super Mario World and the DKC games, so I'd be down for a SNES sequel.

It’s a 10 for me, Bob.

This is a game that just is what it is, no frills attached and extremely upfront with its goals and gameplay.

It’s not for people who like NES games. It’s not for people who like speed running. It’s for people who like speedrunning NES games. Pretty simple and pretty addicting for those who are into it.

I’m just confused as to why there’s no friends leaderboards or the ability to share replays etc. I thought that was the whole point of the game. It’s a good game but lacks the main thing which gave it purpose. It’s like that episode of father ted where the dj has all these turntables but didn't bring any records.

6 - functionally it's fine, and I assume the online modes probably would be fun, not that I can truly say as I won't pay for NSO. But I don't get the same level of enjoyment as I did from NES Remix.

It's way too bare and sparse on the games. And for that price! xD

It's a great concept, I'm surprised at how much I've enjoyed it already, and I absolutely wouldn't call it carelessly made with things like the really great challenge names and manuals for the hardest challenge each game has to offer. But it's definitely a slight package, and I can't help but wish it was being executed with games that felt better to play. Hopefully we at least get a SNES edition, which would help the game break away from the shadow of NES Remix. Either way, it's the closest thing to both a new IP and small eShop release we've had in a while, and those have definitely been missed lately (as much as I commend Nintendo for delivering so many IP revivals in the Switch era instead), so I'm happy to own it.

get Banana Rumble instead it deserves it

The lack of leaderboards for individual challenges has just killed this game for me. I'd like to see at least best time, and then "You are ranked xxth overall". Plus the ability to download ghost data for the record time.

Would also like it if the championships were one real attempt per challenge only. That way players have to choose between the 1/20 time saving strategy or the conservative approach. You know - a real championship.

And speaking of which, if you do a decathlon or a heptathlon the winner is determined by the combined scores of each event. This was just a lazy 5 individual challenge rankings with no overall score or even winner.

I think the developers wanted to cash in on a market without understanding it.

For what next, go back to NES remix please. That was fun at least.

It would have been a 10 if they included the full games, otherwise it’s pretty average.

I absolutely love it

It's decent. But it's incredibly underbaked. No real online play, a pretty big lack of longer challenges, and some strange omissions on the game list. If it had. fully featured, proper online modes and a bit more content, maybe a 7 or 8. But it's a 6 to me.

They should have made this with continued DLC support, adding new challenges to keep it fresh. I guess if it does good enough they may do an SNES version.

Looks like it deserves a 4 or 5 for Nintendo Life standards

DLC is the safest bet for the future, as beefing the title up would address its biggest criticism. Add more games, more challenges to the ones already here, & more game modes. I’d really like something like the skyscraper mode from Warioware with random challenges thrown at you. And my long shot, blue sky wish would be to recreate the original championship with a marathon, points based run of Super Mario, Rad Racer, and Tetris.

I think there simply isn't enough content. What's there is really fun, but once you're done with the provided challenges, there's not much more to do.

I don't know if this is a controversial take, but I honestly believe the game should have just included fully playable NES games within it. Who cares that they're on NSO. I really feel like the package feels incomplete without being able to just play the games normally.

I'm enjoying it, but there feels like there is a lot of areas for expansion in the concept. It feels like half a product at the moment.

Making me have to play ice climbers means a 7 is as high as I can go on this one…

NES Remix DX Collection on Switch please.

NES Remix is better, because it mixed games. I love Nintendo World Championships NES Edition, don't get me wrong, but I loved the craziness of all the mash-ups in NES Remix. Hopefully if this performs well, Nintendo will give us more games like these.

I'd say a 7. I enjoy it but it could be more. It does not take long to get all the challenges done with at least A+. Going for the S rank on all is where most of the time will be spent.

I did not get it in the end.
I'm playing Ace Combat 7, Monkey Ball Banana Rumble and SMTVV as new switch game go, they're all fantastic games so I've got more than enough to do.

I am Patrick and I managed to rank 363 out of 50,000 in the Super Mario Bros 1…. 1-1 Challenge. It felt good. Top 0.8%
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I gave it a 5. It feels very low-effort on Nintendo's part. Honestly, this would have been perfect as a free game on NSO like Tetris 99. The fact that Japan got a set of working wireless Famicom controllers in their deluxe edition and we got a fake gold cartridge/stand is just salt in the wound.