The 8 3DS games that deserve a Nintendo Switch 2 remaster

We’ve seen plentifulness of Wii U ports for the Nintendo Switch truthful possibly it’s clip for immoderate classical 3DS games to marque the leap to the Switch and its successor.

While astir of the Wii U’s archetypal enactment exclusives person agelong since been ported to Nintendo Switch (with astir apt the last 1 – Xenoblade Chronicles X – arriving successful a mates of months), the aforesaid can’t beryllium said for the Nintendo 3DS.

The shutdown of the 3DS eShop successful 2023 means its integer room is present inaccessible and tracking down carnal copies isn’t ever easy. It’s a shame since determination are immoderate fantastic 3DS games inactive worthy playing, that would payment from a modern remaster, either for the Nintendo Switch oregon the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2.

It’s not arsenic if determination isn’t precedent. Nintendo has already brought Miitopia and Luigi’s Mansion 2 to Switch, and it’s been rumoured Kirby: Planet Robobot volition travel suit soon. So, here’s our privation database of 3DS games that could payment from a 2nd beingness connected Switch.

Kid Icarus: Uprising

The astir evident crippled that comes to caput erstwhile putting this database unneurotic is 2012’s Kid Icarus: Uprising, an astatine the clip modern reinvention of the agelong dormant bid helmed by Super Smash Bros. manager Masahiro Sakurai.

It was thing similar the archetypal 2D platformers and alternatively a premix of an on-rails and 3rd idiosyncratic shooter. That mightiness dependable a small constricted but Kid Icarus: Uprising proved to beryllium acold much engaging and diagnostic affluent than expected.

The biggest happening holding it backmost was its awkward power scheme, which had you utilizing the stylus and touchscreen similar a mouse. Even Nintendo recognised the problem, since the crippled came packaged with a 3DS basal to assistance players debar manus cramp.

A reworked Switch larboard would marque the crippled acold much accessible, particularly if it came to Switch 2 and could marque usage of the caller Joy-Cons that tin relation similar a machine mouse.

Metroid: Samus Returns

The Switch whitethorn already person Metroid Dread and the Metroid Prime remaster, but you cognize what’s amended than having 2 of the champion Metroid games ever made connected Switch? Having 3 of the champion Metroid games ever made connected Switch.

Metroid: Samus Returns launched during a clip erstwhile determination hadn’t been a accepted Metroid crippled successful 7 years, and that was the thoroughly unpopular Other M. This 2017 remake, of Metroid 2 connected the Game Boy, took Samus backmost to her 2D roots and reemphasised wherefore the bid became arsenic beloved arsenic it is.

Although Metroid Prime 4 (and astir apt remasters of 2 and 3) are connected the mode there’s been nary motion of a follow-up to Metroid Dread, truthful a remaster of Samus Returns, which was by the aforesaid developer, would beryllium a bully mode to support the 2D broadside of the bid live and springiness the crippled a graphical upgrade.

Fire Emblem Awakening

Fire Emblem fans are inactive waiting connected that long-rumoured remake of Fire Emblem: Genealogy Of The Holy War (aka Fire Emblem 4), but we wouldn’t beryllium shocked if a Switch remaster of Fire Emblem Awakening was being considered too.

This is the crippled that saved the bid aft all, and that’s not hyperbole. Fire Emblem Awakening was developer Intelligent Systems’ 1 past changeable astatine income success, and it achieved each that and more. If it had failed past the bid astir apt ne'er would person been heard from again.

A marque caller Fire Emblem astir apt isn’t precise precocious connected Nintendo’s to-do database astatine the infinitesimal truthful a remaster of Awakening, and its follow-up Fates, would marque a batch of sense.

Nintendogs + Cats

A portion of america is amazed Nintendo ne'er did much with Nintendogs. The archetypal Nintendo DS crippled was the 2nd best-selling DS crippled ever astatine 23.96 cardinal units sold, though possibly it’s due to the fact that its 3DS sequel – Nintendogs + Cats – didn’t bash arsenic powerfully that the bid was seemingly abandoned.

There was chatter of a revival for mobile phones successful 2023, but with Nintendo’s involvement successful mobile gaming waning implicit time the lone existent accidental for a instrumentality present is connected the Switch oregon Switch 2.

Aside from it already having a winning concept, of raising a virtual canine oregon cat, the Switch’s monolithic instal basal means determination are loads of young players who missed retired connected the archetypal and whose parents would beryllium much consenting to get them a fake favored than a existent one.

A remaster could adhd much modern online features and possibly a much gameified structure, since the ‘non-game’ stylings of the archetypal person present fallen retired of fashion.

Tomodachi Life

We admittedly didn’t deliberation excessively highly of 2014’s Tomodachi Life, but that’s precisely wherefore Nintendo’s peculiar beingness simulator could basal to spot a modern remaster.

It whitethorn beryllium harder to warrant erstwhile Animal Crossing already exists, but Tomodachi Life was enjoyably surreal successful however the Mii inhabitants would interact and it’s hard to wholly hatred a crippled that lets you constitute your ain songs for your curated set of Miis to sing. (Assuming the Switch 2 has Mii avatars.)

With immoderate much engaging activities, beryllium they offline oregon online, a remastered Tomodachi Life would not lone entreaty to established fans but perchance triumph implicit caller ones. At the precise least, a remaster could rectify the deficiency of same-sex romances successful the original.

Bravely Default

We’ve been focusing purely connected Nintendo’s ain games for this list, truthful let’s springiness immoderate attraction to a mates of 3rd enactment titles that person ne'er managed to flight the 3DS. For instance, Square Enix’s 2013 role-player Bravely Default.

With Final Fantasy anxious to permission its turn-based roots behind, Bravely Default feels much similar the ‘proper’ Final Fantasy that immoderate fans consciousness Final Fantasy 16 failed to be. It’s a fittingly brave rubric that successfully marries caller ideas with nostalgic throwbacks to the aboriginal days of Japanese role-players.

We weren’t arsenic impressed with the 2021 sequel, truthful we’d emotion to spot the archetypal made much wide available. It would admittedly necessitate a important overhaul if it came to Switch, since the archetypal made absorbing usage of the 3DS’s AR and StreetPass features. Although rumours suggest the Switch 2 whitethorn person its ain AR capabilities.

Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

This 1 astir feels plausible considering Capcom has gone to large lengths to bring the full Ace Attorney bid to modern platforms, adjacent the Japanese-only ones similar The Great Ace Attorney. Combined with Professor Layton’s ain comeback aboriginal this year, there’s arguably nary amended clip to revisit the 2014 crossover.

It’s presumption arsenic gaming’s champion crossover whitethorn person been usurped by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but it remains a cleanable operation of Layton benignant puzzle solving and Ace Attorney courtroom drama. It’s besides technically the archetypal Ace Attorney crippled to diagnostic a assemblage strategy and its DNA tin beryllium felt each implicit The Great Ace Attorney.

It helps that the communicative is arsenic gripping arsenic different Ace Attorney games, managing to stride a good enactment betwixt charmingly comedic to shockingly superior arsenic Layton and Phoenix woody with deadly magic and witch trials that suspend culprits implicit a pit of flames. With the re-releases attracting newer Ace Attorney fans, it’s transgression that determination isn’t an easier mode for them to acquisition specified a delightful crossover.

The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D

The imagination for astir Zelda fans is a afloat remake of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time for the Switch 2. If Nintendo has nary plans for specified a project, past an updated re-release of the 3DS remake mightiness beryllium the adjacent champion thing.

Aside from throwing a bony to each the radical who don’t attraction for the series’ unfastened satellite structure, arsenic seen successful Breath Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom, Ocarina Of Time is simply a classical good worthy experiencing today. The archetypal Nintendo 64 mentation is disposable arsenic portion of the Switch’s online subscription, but it evidently lacks the 3DS version’s ocular upgrades and prime of beingness touches.

The 3DS mentation is arguably the champion mode to play Ocarina Of Time, but it’s locked to a handheld Nintendo nary longer supports. Admittedly, it’s not particularly hard to way down a second-hand carnal copy, but sometimes you privation to acquisition a crippled connected your large TV alternatively than a smaller screen. Plus, there’s Majora’s Mask 3D too.

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