Keep your hands on the wheel, we will get through this. I know I don’t have the aux cable right now, but you need to keep it away from me at all costs. Why? Well, because Nintendo is launching a new Nintendo Music app, and you can use it to play an hour-long variation on the theme from the DS classic Nintendogs.
Yes, this is real. To be fair, considering the company behind Mario and a fair amount of legal action this year recently entered the alarm clock market with Alarmo, this is kind of a logical next step. Forget the Switch 2, Ninty will take over every other aspect of your life first.
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Once you download it to your smartphone – whether you have a IOS person or a Android person – Nintendo Music is basically just an app that lets you play a whole bunch of songs from Nintendo games, in a way that will be familiar if you’ve ever downloaded a music playing app before.
You’ll need a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to use it, but once you do, you’re free to play the range of playlists Nintendo has already put together for you around a variety of themes, putting your own playlists together to propose or embrace. mayhem just by randomly jumping from Mario level theme to Donkey Kong Country bop. You can even set each song (for example, the Nintendogs theme) to play for 15 minutes, 30 minutes or a full hour. The latter is what I’m going to do if you give me that help.
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How many other games have had their soundtracks added to the app so far? Well, Pikmin 4, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Splatoon 3, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Kirby Star Allies, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Metroid Prime, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade and Donkey Kong Country are the big players that Nintendo makes special mention of. There are some more obscure or retro inclusions, though, which you can see in the slideshow on this page (that’s where I noticed Nintendogs).
Which Nintendo banger will you play with the Nintendo Music app until your friends throw your phone out the window? Let us know below.