You might have multiple copies of your character to confuse you, play as one game’s character in another game’s level, play a Mario level like an endless runner, and that’s just a few of them! These are easily the best part of the game and, while just over sixty of the challenges being remixes is a lower percentage than would be ideal, there are enough to explore all the games in NES Remix 2. Remix challenges have the same general format as normal challenges, but they actually change the game. The other type of challenge is the highlight and namesake of the game.

While some challenges feel like tutorials or retreads of the most iconic parts of a game, there are also creative ones that use the mechanics in ways the original game never required and feel like a new experience. Aside from that, the normal challenges play exactly like the original game. Normal challenges place you in a specific part of a game and give you a quick objective or a series of quick objectives. Each challenge is ranked by time, giving you incentive to do it as quickly and as perfectly as possible. Twelve NES games, plus a few quick cameos, have been utilized to create over 150 bite-sized challenges. The premise of NES Remix 2 is identical to the first game. The quality of the base games naturally has a huge effect on the remixes and NES Remix 2 is a little shorter than the original but much sweeter.

Well, it certainly didn’t take long to get our wish just months after the original, NES Remix 2 has been released and it contains Nintendo’s best games for the NES. When Nintendo released the original NES Remix last December, the first thing I and many others thought - after our initial reaction of “Wow, they released a game the same day they announced it” - was that it would be awesome if they made one with better first-party NES games.

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