Chances are you’ll want to fiddle with a few races of Mario Kart 64 with a few friends, or run through some classic platformers for old time’s sake, probably getting an unvarnished reminder of how rudimentary early 3D games looked in the process. I’d expect that the majority of people either have rather hazy memories from the late 90s or really aren’t all that bothered by whatever minor quirks are now present in these games. That said, I’m of the opinion that this falls into the “good enough” category. As custodians of their own gaming legacy, Expansion Pack is far short of being some kind of Criterion Collection of N64 games.
There are better N64 emulators out there, both historically from Nintendo’s own N64 emulators that date back to the GameCube, and more broadly through fan-created emulators. You would expect Nintendo to provide some of the best emulated experiences for their games, but they’re not. Then you have other fundamental issues, like not being able to remap the buttons of an undoubtedly quirky N64 gamepad to the different options on the Switch, while newly introduced online multiplayer is also flawed, the experience brought down to the level of the worst participant’s connection. These are all widely documented by this point, and there’s a great breakdown of these flaws by Modern Vintage Gamer: Fog in Ocarina of Time is rendered incorrectly, you don’t have the 3D All-Stars improvements for Mario 64, the peculiarities of the N64 sprite rendering haven’t been properly replicated, there’s game-by-game input lag, and more. Within hours of the Expansion Pack’s launch people were taking to the internet to report flaws. The problem is… the N64 emulation simply isn’t up to the lofty standards that ardent fans of classic games demand. That sounds great, even with the caveat that you’ll have to pay more.
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By and large they got a pass for offering the base Nintendo Switch Online subscription at a much lower price than PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold, while offering a decent and growing selection of NES and SNES games, but now, with the introduction of N64 games, Mega Drive games and bundling in the Animal Crossing DLC, they want more money from you.
Nintendo has drawn the ire of gamers at large for their own steps into these realms, first with Nintendo Switch Online and the now with its new Expansion Pack.
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Whether it’s yet another film and TV streaming service, coffee sent to you through the post, gyms, smartphone apps, or pretty much each and every video games platform, they all want to take a recurring fee and hope to convince you not to cancel by the time the next payment is due. Everyone wants you to sign up for a subscription, these days.
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