It’s been a while!
Nintendo Switch Online is closing out March 2022 with a trio of retro games —Earthworm Jim 2on the Super Nintendo front,Mappy-LandandDig Dug IIon the NES side — plus a pair of SP versions for eternal SNES favoritesSuper Punch-Out!!andSuper Mario World.
With this Nintendo Switch Online drop, a lot ofEarthworm Jim 2takes are flying around, and it’s definitely not the same game I remember renting multiple times in the ’90s.
I really prefer the sequel — I find the first game to be needlessly frustrating to play more often than not, andEarthworm Jim 2to be a little more entertaining with (admittedly still stressful) levels like Lorenzen’s Soil and Puppy Love. The series felt “big” back in the day, and my childhood friend group evenwatched the cartoon, but it feelsveryof its era.
As forDug Dug II, the overhead view never clicked with me as much as the original game’s presentation — heck,Dig Dugis still one of my favorite high-score chasers to this day — but I want to give it more of a chance.Mappy-Landis much less of a known quantity in my household. I jumped in fresh and immediately died, which I dig. This is the sort of curiosity-driven punishment I’m looking for when I boot up the Switch Online NES app.
In both of these SP versions, you’re basically getting immediate access to a lot of content.
In the case ofSuper Mario World SP, that means starting with 99 lives in an opened-up overworld with theFall themeactive, whileSuper Punch-Out!! SPlets you face the fearsomeSpecial Circuitright off the bat without needing to grind out prior circuits.
Anything of interest here, or are you sticking withEarthBound? My recent playthrough fizzled out shortly after Mondo Mole, unfortunately. It still lives in my heart rent-free.
