{"id":9058,"date":"2022-10-25T19:47:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/guide-best-licensed-games-on-nintendo-switch\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T19:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:47:51","slug":"guide-best-licensed-games-on-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/guide-best-licensed-games-on-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide: Best Licensed Games On Nintendo Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Got a licence for that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just recently we saw the anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mummy_demastered\">The Mummy Demastered<\/a>, an example of a great game based on the most mediocre of movies. Historically, licensed games \u2014 usually movie tie-ins \u2014 haven&#8217;t enjoyed the best of reputations due to them often being rush jobs thrown together on a shoestring by an under-resourced developer crunching their socks off to make the movie&#8217;s release date and, presumably, capitalise on some cross-media marketing synergy and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/goldeneye_007\">GoldenEye 007<\/a> that arrived spectacularly late (21 months after the movie!) and proved that a quality game can stand on its own two feet, but despite a general improvement in quality when it comes to licensed games on consoles, there&#8217;s still a stigma around them. <em>Licensed games are bad<\/em> is the prevailing mindset, even if &#8216;average&#8217; would be a more appropriate adjective.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/best-licensed-games-on-nintendo-switch\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Guide: Best Licensed Games On Nintendo Switch<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a licence for that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just recently we saw the anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mummy_demastered\">The Mummy Demastered<\/a>, an example of a great game based on the most mediocre of movies. Historically, licensed games \u2014 usually movie tie-ins \u2014 haven&#8217;t enjoyed the best of reputations due to them often being rush jobs thrown together on a shoestring by an under-resourced developer crunching their socks off to make the movie&#8217;s release date and, presumably, capitalise on some cross-media marketing synergy and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/goldeneye_007\">GoldenEye 007<\/a> that arrived spectacularly late (21 months after the movie!) and proved that a quality game can stand on its own two feet, but despite a general improvement in quality when it comes to licensed games on consoles, there&#8217;s still a stigma around them. <em>Licensed games are bad<\/em> is the prevailing mindset, even if &#8216;average&#8217; would be a more appropriate adjective.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/best-licensed-games-on-nintendo-switch\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}