There are scads of exciting features fare toNintendo Switch 2 , but what ’s the one thing I ’m most aroused about?Nintendo GameCube games are coming to Switch Online . I know it ’s the nostalgia talking , but I ca n’t assist it . The Nintendo GameCube was my first material puerility console table and I have a mountain of warm remembering tied to it as a result . I ca n’t wait to jump back into games likeF - Zero GXandSoulcalibur 2 , two defining game of my puerility , the first luck I get .
My love for the GameCube is n’t just about the good retentivity , though . To this day , I still believe that the GameCube feature perhaps thebest exclusive video game lineupof any console . It ’s not a deep catalogue , but it featured some of Nintendo ’s most experimental swings as well as some oddball third - political party exclusives that have rarely been ported to other platforms since . With the Switch Online rising slope , there ’s now a great chance for Nintendo to play some of those great secret plan back from the tomb , just as it ’s already doing with game like Fire Emblem : track of Radiance . These are the eight games that I hope to see add in the service ’s first class ( assuming that recently remastered games likeMetroid Primeare out of the equality ) .
Super Smash Bros. Melee
If I had to reckon , there is no video game I ’ve put more collective hour into thanSuper Smash Bros. Melee . The fight biz was the centerpiece of my protagonist grouping in mellow schoolhouse , as almost every social gathering included some kind ofMeleebreak . The brawler was so fine - tuned at the time that it ’s still a preferred episode for the Smash Bros. private-enterprise scene who swear by techniques like wavedashing . Even if today ’s histrion will likely find it dated next toSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate , prospicient - time fans deserve to have the classic preserved and readily available . discombobulate in some on-line manoeuvre and Nintendo could make Switch Online a must - have Robert William Service on that biz alone .
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Mario Kart 8 Deluxeis probably the best game in its series by now , but my balloting would still go toDouble Dash!!The GameCube installment purport to shake upMario Kart 64‘s winning formula by put in clever cobalt - op play that the series has never travel along - up on . Two participant tantalize in a kart together , with one drive and the other master detail . Those histrion can switch position at any time , and there ’s practiced ground to do so as each character can their own special detail . That hook give Double Dash a great creative bound , as there was a hint of strategy in picking the well duo for the job . This is another game that could really do good from online bid , as well as Switch 2’snew GameChat feature article .
Animal Crossing
Out of every game on this leaning , Animal Crossingis the one that I fear is least potential to murder Switch Online . That may vocalize surprising when you see some of the deep cuts I ’ve included below . Why would n’t Nintendo rerelease the first entry in what has now become its most successful series ? It ’s not like the original Animal Crossing replacesNew Horizonsor anything , since it ’s a more deprive down secret plan . The big hurdle , though , is also it ’s best lineament : its playable NES games . Animal Crossing would rent musician collect game console and put them in their house , giving them access to cult classic likeClu Clu Landanytime . The gimmick eats into Switch Online ’s whole deal and probably create some license nightmares , but I hope Nintendo can reckon it out . For my money , the GameCube version ofAnimal Crossingstill might be the series ’ salutary mo thanks to its solitary atmosphere and penetrating liquid body substance .
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
One of the best horror game of all clock time — if notthebest — is still imprisoned on the GameCube to this day . unceasing Darkness : saneness ’s Requiemwas the console ’s strangest sole , giving Nintendo an M - place repugnance game that ’s unlike anything I ’ve run since . The story traces a family ’s bloodline across propagation , as cardinal people weave in and out of a century ’ long engagement involving fleshy God . What it ’s most jazz for , though , is it ’s signature sanity system , which would mess up with players by pretending to close down their GameCube or lop their character ’s head off at random . It ’s a terrific psychological experience that ’s never been ported to another system of rules since . I hope Nintendo can somehow redress that wrong with Switch 2 .
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Metal Gear Solid is n’t a series that ’s often associate with Nintendo , but it was for a brief moment in the GameCube geological era . Konami created an single remaking of the PS1 ’s Metal Gear Solid for the console , which featured a few Nintendo Easter eggs for good measure . It ’s a great version of the original plot too , one that fasten up its controls by adding quality of life features fromMetal Gear Solid 2 : Logos of Liberty . Twin Snakes was n’t included in Konami ’s recentMetal Gear Solid Master Collection , so this is as good a moment as any to preserve a highlight minute for the series — particularly believe thatMetal Gear Solid Deltais correctly around the turning point .
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
The GameCube was likely the last Nintendo system to feature a unfeignedly neat generation of Mario variation games . Super Mario StrikersandMario Power Tenniswere multiplayer highlights in the 2000s , but the expert of the bunch wasMario Golf : Toadstool Tour . It ’s not that it had some prominent gimmick likeMario Golf : Super Rush . It was only an airtight version of the Mario Golf chemical formula filled with bright colour , memorable courses , and a great character roll . The only thing that would make it better in 2025 is online play , and that ’s on the dot what the Switch 2 could give it .
Skies of Arcadia: Legends
if Nintendo is really going to do right with Switch Online , it needs to get third - party hits for the service . I ’d know to see Capcom classic likeViewtiful JoeandKiller7join the roster . But there ’s one game that Nintendo needs to take hold of if it ’s going to complete its library . That plot isSkies of Arcadia : fable . The definitive Sega RPG first unblock on the Dreamcast but by and by got an expanded variant on GameCube that ’s a unequivocal edition of sorts . It ’s a phenomenal dangerous undertaking , telling the tale of a bunch of sky pirate ship oppose a militant empire . It has tremendous ship battles , a whole Moby Dick side plot , and one of the best soundtracks you ’ll chance in an RPG . If it does n’t make its way to Switch Online then Sega better have a remaster in the kit and boodle .
Odama
One of the last games to come to GameCube , Odamais a very weird one . It ’s a warfare secret plan that turn the field of battle into a pinball control board . That was already a unknown conception for the fourth dimension , but what madeOdamaall the more unique is that it supported the GameCube Microphone . player could skin specific bid to their troops , making it a very ahead of its time experiment in vocalisation control . It was n’t particularly well - take in at the time , but Switch 2 is the perfect moment to give it a second fortune . The console table feature a built - in microphone , which is ideal forOdama . Sure , we want all the bounteous hits that everyone knows and eff on Switch 2 , but I want to see eldritch game likeCubivore : Survival of the Fittestjust as much as those games .
Star Fox Adventures
The GameCube really see Nintendo cut loose with its franchises in a way that often paid off . The most dissentious example of that , though , wasStar Fox Adventures . Rather than make another shoot - em - up in the vein ofStarFox 64 , Nintendo tried to ferment Fox McCloud into the next Link in a 3D risky venture secret plan about fight dinosaurs . It was a completely random unexpended - turn that rubbed a mountain of fan the wrong way at the time . Even so , it did review amazingly well at the time and find some supporters who liked seeing what felt like a more mature adventure secret plan like Zelda . I ’d love to give it a action replay myself and remember which side of that debate I come down on .
Doshin the Giant
One thing that I love about Switch Online is that it occasionally gives player access to very rare games . If that holds true with the GameCube , I hope that intend thatDoshin the Giantmakes a comeback . If you ’ve never heard that name before , it ’s for good reason . The god - simulator about an tremendous yellow creature was never released in the west . It only came to the Nintendo 64 , via its 64DD elaboration , in 1999 and got a GameCube rise in 2002 . The latter did make it ’s way to Europe , but it never reached North America . As a nearly lose part of Nintendo story , Doshin the Giantdeserves its Switch Online spot as much as any other game . Who knows ? Maybe it ’ll earn a Modern craze following and inspires Nintendo to bring the serial back .
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