When Nintendo introduced that Recreation Boy Advance video games would seem on the Nintendo Change On-line Enlargement Pack service, I felt a tinge of pleasure in my soul. Not as a result of I like Recreation Boy Advance video games, although that’s definitely true. Fairly, as a result of I may by no means wrangle collectively the peripherals and folks wanted to make lots of the system’s distinctive multiplayer experiences work. So after I noticed this morning that Kirby & The Superb Mirror can be coming to Nintendo’s subscription service subsequent week, I couldn’t assist however smile.

For the uninitiated, Kirby & The Superb Mirror is a novel curiosity of a recreation. On one hand, it’s as a lot a Kirby platformer as any. It has all of the copy talents and cute characters you would ask for. However as a substitute of the normal level-by-level construction, it veers in the direction of a Metroidvania format. Possibly these days that’s an overdone idea, however for 2004, that was fairly superior! And furthermore, it has full four-player co-op. I may by no means arrange a multiplayer run by this recreation again within the day, however when this replace launches subsequent week, I’d lastly have that probability.

Extra multiplayer Recreation Boy Advance video games, please!

As a lot as I like seeing robust single-player video games like Fireplace Emblem hit the Change On-line service, I actually hope we see extra multiplayer video games like Kirby & The Superb Mirror. These experiences are so exhausting to protect today, so being able to set them up so simply brings a ton of worth to Change On-line as a service. I do know that, technically, you would already play Mario Bros. or Mario Kart Tremendous Circuit up to now. However co-op video games? Now that’s my jam.

There are such a lot of gems to unearth on this technique that might be nice suits for Change On-line. Shining Soul 1 and 2 have been hack-and-slash RPGs constructed round multiplayer co-op. Sonic Advance 3 was experimenting with multiplayer virtually 20 years earlier than Sega would revisit the idea with Sonic Superstars. After which there’s The Legend of Zelda: 4 Swords, which… I imply, it’s The Legend of Zelda: 4 Swords.

Did I take this information story simply as an excuse to speak about multiplayer Recreation Boy Advance video games? Possibly. That is only a second in gaming historical past that I simply thought was gone for thus a few years, so I’m completely happy to see it once more.

Regardless, Kirby & The Superb Mirror is a superb addition for many who sprung for the Enlargement Pack add-on. Subscribers can expertise this recreation on September 29.