Gaming🎮 Switch players simply don't understand why Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is missing this crucial feature

[Royal_Lizard]

Do you actually kinda dislike your friends? Well, the bad news is that the freshly released Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition doesn't facilitate the destruction of these bonds via a heated battle to claim the best time for the first level of Super Mario Bros quite as easily as it could, and as a lot of players were expecting.

Since the game is based around speedrunning parts of different classic NES games via a whole bunch of challenges, leaderboards that catalogue the times folks are recording — so that you can drive yourself mad trying to outdo some dude named Tim who's so good at Kirby's Adventure you're 99% convinced he's cheating — seem like they'd naturally be a pretty huge part of the experience. However, it seems like that's not the case.

Now, before we wander into the complaints from people who probably listen to the DK rap on a daily basis (as one should, it's a cultural touchstone), let's get one thing straight. Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition does have a leaderboard. However, it just looks to be a weekly world ranking one.

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