Like but with Nintendo characters. That was always the shorthand for but it’s really only half the story. While the original game stuck close to the format established by Firaxis in battle, that still leaves the question of what you do in between. For Firaxis, this took the form of the base building and research queues of the Geoscape strategy layer, itself adapted from the blueprints laid out by Julian Gollop and co in the ’90s games. This has always been the weakest part of 2012 reimagining design, in truth, but
