Nintendo and DLC

Nintendo has definitely been a little behind in many ways in regards to what most people consider to be the contemporary gaming landscape, and they continue to do things their own way which has its ups and downs. One thing that they have stayed far away from for the most part is DLC and this weekend was the launch of probably Nintendo's first big DLC, the New Luigi U DLC. Before this Nintendo has done a few things here and there, notably New Super Mario Bros 2 and the coin rush DLC packs and more recently Fire Emblem and a steady stream of new map packs.

Having gotten bits here and there of Nintendo's offerings they have been for the most part ok. The pricing I have found to be a little on the high end for what you get, but to be fair some of the coin rush levels and Fire Emblem maps I have gone back to multiple times so for a couple bucks it hasn't been that bad. As for the Luigi DLC it's pretty solid. All of the 80 some levels have been reimagined for use with Luigi who definitely handles different than Mario and some of them have been pretty difficult. There's only 100 seconds with which to do each level so it's going to take a while to get all of the star coins but all in all it's been solid.

I do like that Nintendo is offering up something in the way of content that will make people go back to Mario Bros U and while I think it should be $15 and not $20, it's still adding up to be quite the add on.

Let's see if they indeed do DLC dungeons in the next Zelda and see how that goes though...