Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Weekly Challenges #2 Now Live

I wanted to like this game. But after playing for 2 hours or so, I’m afraid it’s just a novelty for me.

I have this still in the wrapping as I just have too much else to play but the more I see the less interested I become. I love classic Nintendo and grew up in it, but I’m not much of a speed runner. I did really like nes remix and the warioware games but this is not that unfortunately.

I'm getting the sense this game didn't sell very well given how last week's only had 50,000 participants and this week's seems to have stalled out at 30,000. Shame since I'm enjoying it and would like a follow-up.

@Lizuka It's charting well on the eshop in most regions.

I’m really enjoying this game. It’s perfect for short bursts of play in between longer sessions with other games.
While I have played these NES games before, the strength is that the speed run challenges make a new game out of an old / previous experience.
I’ve already completed each of the new challenges. I got an S grade on the DK and Zelda challenges.

@Nontendo_4DS I like the weekly challenges, too. I find them motivating (and they give you gold coins faster). This makes setting personal records meaningful.

I think the weekly challenges will have me returning to this game often. 😊

This game needs online leaderboards badly.

Every challenge should already have the rankings and ghost data that we saw from the 1st weekly challenge as an out of the box feature. There is no reason to have to wait 30 weeks to see how your times stack up against everybody else, and then another 30 weeks to see if you managed to make any improvement, as we get leaderboards partially dished out to us in small chunks.

Like the first poster, I gave up on this game after about 2 hours. I want to like it. I really do. But without leaderboards I have no benchmark for my times and nothing to strive for.

@Lizuka I was very surprised at the numbers too, I would have thought they would have been much higher - hopefully it survives long enough for people to enjoy it who currently are

Gonna have to practice for week 2, as I never played Kid Icarus much. I love the weekly challenges and think they will help the game's longevity, but I have to admit that NES Remix is just so much better. Hopefully Nintendo will notice the same thing.

The game needs realtime online leader boards and a real online mode.

When you boil it down, this is Nintendo’s version of achievements.

I LOVE this game!

I'm absolutely addicted to it already. I hope a SNES version is coming too.

I like the concept of this game but for the casual player, hard to justify the costs. I'm sure a hardcore community has already formed, with people competing for fractions of a second... LOL

Not my forte but I can respect it.

I managed to rank 363 out of 50,000 people at the Super Mario Bros 1……. 1-1 challenge.
🎮😊
Top 0.8%

All that Mario maker paid off lol 😂

Have a great day all 🌞

@Lizuka
"I'm getting the sense this game didn't sell very well given how last week's only had 50,000 participants and this week's seems to have stalled out at 30,000. Shame since I'm enjoying it and would like a follow-up."

At the time of writing, it's over 37 200 participants on Challenge 2 of 5 which has the most for now.
It's open for 5 more days, so I would not be surprised if it surpasses "Competition #1 World Championships" in number of players.

The "Competition #2 World Championships" as a whole has over 163 000 "Current Participants".
This number adds all the individual participant numbers of each of the 5 challenges - so it does not mean there are 163 000 people, as I would imagine many play several of the challenges.