The Nintendo Switch Online catalog continues to grow. Being able to play classic Nintendo games is one of the main selling points of this service, but for many people, they already have the essential games from their first consoles. However, for many others, this is where things get interesting. What titles will they choose when they have to make a less obvious selection? And the answer is excellent games and interesting rarities.
This time, Nintendo Switch Online has received three Super Nintendo games. But far from being the typical titles that everyone has played, or at least knows, this time they are three more particular games. Because Super R-Type, Amazing Hebereke, and Wrecking Crew 98 are coming.
Super R-Type is a shooter game by Irem that is a partial port of R-Type II. Taking four stages from that game and adding three new ones, the result is a very different and much more difficult game. Partly due to the absence of save points, partly due to slowdowns when there were many sprites on screen. Now, without any of these issues as it doesn’t run on original hardware, the result is an excellent game that is an extraordinary successor to the first two R-Type games.
Amazing Hebereke is a game that would never leave Japan, until now. Part of the Hebereke! series, whose first title has recently received a sequel called Ufouria: The Saga 2, this is a unique fighting game with characters from the franchise. In 2D, it has important similarities with Super Smash Bros, as the goal is to defeat our opponents by throwing them off the stage. Not the best fighting game from Sunsoft, which is Waku Waku 7, but a very fun game to play in multiplayer.
Finally, Wrecking Crew 98 is another exclusive from Japan that is coming to the West for the first time. A puzzle action game, with a clear competitive tone, where we have to align three or more blocks to throw them at our opponent. With Mario characters as the main attraction, it is an extraordinary curiosity. Like all these games that Nintendo has introduced, right now, in Switch Online.
