F-Zero X stands out among Nintendo 64 titles for maintaining a fluid 60 frames per second even with 30 vehicles tearing around the track simultaneously. Nintendo made a deliberate trade-off, scaling back visual detail in order to preserve that sense of blistering speed and tight responsiveness. Keeping 30 racers active on the track at once…
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Things I Like: Keratos (Metroid Prime 4: Beyond)
Keratos is the major boss of the Ice Belt region in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Nintendo Switch 2. It is not my favorite boss fight in the game, but I still liked it, and it is definitely memorable for an early boss encounter. It becomes immediately clear from the start that Keratos is…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Video Game Extreme-G
During development, the game carried the working title “Ultimate Racer,” a name that reflected its futuristic superbike concept before Acclaim and Probe Entertainment landed on the sharper, more aggressive “Extreme-G.” The studio behind the game was Probe Entertainment, a British developer with credits spanning major franchises including Alien and Mortal Kombat. That background in high-intensity…
Things I Like: Fake Sylux 1 (Metroid Prime 4: Beyond)
Sylux, as a character, is technically the final boss of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, but the game doesn’t make that abundantly clear initially. So when this boss battle started at Volt Forge, I had no clue at first that this was not a legitimate battle against a character who was introduced long ago in Metroid…
Things I Like: Xelios (Metroid Prime 4: Beyond)
Xelios was the third boss of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Nintendo Switch 2, serving as the main guardian of Volt Forge. It was far from the worst boss in the game, but it could have been better. It doesn’t really have much personality to it, and it’s some kind of weird living thing…