Nintendo 64 has always been the ugly duckling of Nintendo consoles. Unjustly so. It is a console with some titles that defined how 3D video games would be made, with authentic classics from the company, but also with excellent third-party games. It may not have the endless catalog of the first PlayStation or the incredible catalog of cult classics to discover from Sega Saturn, but it is a great console to be vindicated. As demonstrated by Nintendo with the announcement of its two new games for Nintendo Switch Online.
Nintendo has confirmed that the next two games coming to the service are two of the most acclaimed games from Akklaim’s catalog. Because Shadow Man and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil are coming to the service.
Shadow Man is the adaptation of a comic of the same name, from Valiant Comics, that puts us in the shoes of a man who lives between the world of the living and the dead and has to use this peculiarity to maintain peace between both realms. This becomes necessary when a group of serial killers, led by Jack the Ripper, are trying to break the separation between both worlds. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, on the other hand, is the sequel to Turok that improves practically everything from the original, where, in a first-person shooter, we will have to face dinosaurs and aliens in a wild environment in the only possible way: with shotguns.
Both games are an excellent showcase of the diversity of the Nintendo 64’s game catalog, which was far from being the exclusively family-friendly console that is sometimes portrayed. That said, it’s a peculiar selection of titles when both can currently be played in remastered versions by Nightdive Studios that are not only tremendously faithful to the original but also improve them in many aspects. This should not prevent us, in any case, from enjoying their original versions for what they are.
That’s why, whether it’s nostalgia or because they pique your interest, you can play these two Nintendo 64 titles right now on your Switch. As long as you have an active Nintendo Switch online subscription and, even more importantly, the spirit to defeat the dangerous threats they represent.
