Poll: What Did You Think Of The February 2023 Nintendo Direct?

My favorite was the Game Boy games!

It’s alright metroid, professor layton and gb & gba games finally coming to Switch we’re the highlight for me

This was a pretty Good Direct.
also Fantasy Life!
Edit:
Another Momotaro game. I still haven't gotten the last switch game yet, Konami.😭 But, I'm not at all shock about a new one coming this year. I owned Momotaro Dentetsu 7 (PS1) and Momotaro Dentetsu 11 (NGC). Both are pretty good games. If your into Party Games.

It was good. Too dependent on news about DLC, ports, and so on. For that reason, I didn't like it as much as the Direct last September.

I'm so happy Etrian Odyssey, Advance Wars, (hopefully good) Professor Layton, and Fantasy Life are getting their turn on Switch.

Some short phrases I like that I did not expect to hear today, or ever again, really: Ghost Trick. Samba De Amigo. Fantasy Life. We ❤️ Katamari. Etrian Odyssey. Professor Layton.

What a great Direct! I had goosebumps there were so many wonderful surprises!

Just okay. Nothing all that much for me. Prime Remastered is cool, but disappointing that they didn’t do all 3 games. TotK looks great but I’m not sure if there’s enough that makes it different from BOTW yet(or justifies that price hike). Pikmin was cute too. Definitely a lot better than September’s!

I’ll be honest, I was worried in the first half. There wasn’t much that appealed to me, but that quickly changed with the GB/GBA shadow drop, Metroid Prime shadow drop, and extended look at TotK. Overall, I thought it was good!

Pikmin 4 release date.

Why there is no article or option to pick the bayonetta origin game. Its looks awesone!

Really enjoyed it. Plenty of cool shadow drops like Prime Remaster(digitally), Gameboy/GBA NSO and some demos. Tears of the Kingdom was my favorite segment.

There were a handful of awesome announcements, but aside from that? Eh. Underwhelming if I’m being honest

I got the Etrian Odyssey Collection. I was happiest about this, as it is tied for my favorite series of all time.

I wish it had been based on the superior Untold remakes, but I'm still happy.

Metroid Prime Remaster is great, and Pikmin 4 with a release date was phenomenal. Oh, and FINALLY Advance Wars.

It was a good time, good games.

There was honestly way more for me in there than I was expecting. Besides most of the major first party announcements being right up my alley, getting the pair of Baten Kaitos remasters and a sequel to Fantasy Life was an awesome surprise.

honestly a shockingly weak direct. Katamari and GBA games were the only announcements that were exciting at all for me, almost everything else was just more info on stuff we already know about and re-releases of old games. feels like the switch is really winding down at this point

It was good Nintendo Direct in my opinion.
7 / 10.
Games that I have interest:
Samba de Amigo
New Fantasy Life
Fashion Dreamer
Kirby Return to Dreamland DX

Still need more deliberation with these games:
Deca Police
Advanced Wars
Pikmin 4

Baten Kaitos Collection. I’m done. Just give me that.

I think the best part was a lot of line items that were common complaints were taken care of until the next round. That being said I just wanted various DLC and Zelda CE info going in and that was met so I would have been happy either way but the rest...the rest was fantastic. Switch is likely going to be my largest game library ever at this point.

The Gameboy Advance and Gameboy titles really excited me. Happy to have those too.

Remasters galore! But awesome that Level 5 is back!

So much to love for so many it seemed. Very happy about the Octopath 2 demo as well as Metroid Prime , DecaPolice, Ghost Trick, Etrian Odyssey Origins and Dead Cells Castlevania dlc.

I havent enjoyed a Direct so much in ages. Pikmin and Samba de Amigo were my favorites, followed by totk and Prime 1.

NSO Expansion is looking to be a great multiplayer set of games. Mario Parties, Goldeneye, Mario Karts, a whole bunch of fun online games.

Layton is a big highlight for me. First actual Layton game since the 3DS, right? I only played the first two DS ones.

Absolutely adored it. Splatoon 3's DLC is looking insanely interesting, Metroid Prime Remastered is an incredible shadow-drop, Pikmin 4 looks like so much fun, Level 5 just resurrected themselves in front of our eyes, we FINALLY got GB/A on NSO and oh yeah there's this neat little title called GHOST TRICK: PHANTOM DETECTIVE NO I AM STILL NOT OVER THIS HOW IS THIS REAL.

So yeah I thought it was fantastic, 9/10

Really brilliant. One of the best they’ve had

It was a ok Direct. We got release dates on titles we knew about. GBA and GBC to NSO. DLC, demos And more remasters.

This was a direct you could tell that they are stalling for time. Cause if the rumor of TOTK being the last major title for switch bring true. They don't have much stuff left to show.

why is birdo DLC for Mario kart not an option for favorite announcement?

@Ryu_Niiyama Baten Kaitos fans rejoicing

I’m definitely in the minority here but I actually preferred the previous one. Yes, the dreaded farming-filled Direct, it actually had a lot more new first-party game announcements than this one. It’s like this time all we got were updates on games we already knew about, and Metroid Prime which isn’t a new game. Nevertheless there was still stuff I enjoyed, Katamari and Splatoon being major highlights.

I loved it, especially all the Level 5 stuff, three games coming Westwards, glad they are still alive!

Much more variety than September's Direct full of farming sims and JRPGs.

I still don't think the expansion pack is worth it with its broken online code and no commitment from Nintendo for a certain number of games each month. I've played the N64 games I wanted to in the first year and won't be paying $50 to rent the 3 GBA games I'm vaguely interested in.

Also the Splatoon 3 DLC doesn't seem to offer anything playable.

I've never played a Metroid Prime game so may try that depending on reviews and Zelda looks great.

Something for everyone but I wasn't blown away.

It was good, but kind of confirms suspicions around new hardware.

Brilliant! Metroid Prime, Pikmin 4 release date, Advance Wars release date and a good look at TOTK. Just those made my year!!

I was happy to see Level 5 back with releases for the West.

I bought the eBaseball game. A lot of fun and very cheap.

There wasn't like a LOT I will be getting, but the stuff that I do want is top-tier. There were some other cool reveals too though.

We can only pick one favorite? That's a toughie...This Direct is easily a top 10 contender for me.

I think that was the best Direct I've ever seen. I lost my mind so many times throughout it

Well, shadow drop of Metroid Prime remaster was my long shot hope, and it happened, so I'm giddy. And got to play a bit already and it's better than I'd hoped (I would have been happy with texture and resolution upgrade).

MP1R is my favorite announcement. Gb games coming is a close second. That rpg cop game looked slick too.

It was like the US for me, good west coast Pikmin 4, good east coast Zelda TotK, the rest was a flyover country of DLC, remakes, games that looked like mobile games (yes I know the Lite is mobile) and not much else for me.

Did remind me Disney Speedstorm was in last February's ND w/ a summer release date, didn't even show up in this ND. Makes me wonder if it will skip Switch for Sony & MS consoles? 🤷‍♂️

It was excellent.
Already preordered Zelda CE through EB here in Australia so I'm good.
Hoping for a CE of Prime but I'll just settle for it being released physically in any way.
Can't wait.

I feel like this direct appeals more to people who are nostalgic about games of the past. For me personally I was a bit disappointed by the lack of new announcements. I want a new big AAA Mario game on par with Odyssey and also new sequels to stuff like Star Fox, Donkey Kong, etc. Pikmin 4 and Katamari were the highlights.

Elevator Guy:
"That's gotta be some Direct."
Dr. Peter Venkman:
"Bite your head off, man."

It was great! Cool detective games, some good ports and DLC, Zelda footage, the return of Level-5, and LAYTON 7!!!

It was fine. Definitely miles better than the September one. Highlight by far for me was the Game Boy stuff ...without any price increase either (for now)! Very happy for those who've waited for Metroid Prime, though ...That one was certainly long overdue.

Oh yeah ...No new Mario games at all, let alone a new platformer ...again. That sucked.

Besides that ...I think I'm just growing out of it, to be honest. Getting older and more bitter with the awful real world times we live in. Nothing seems to excite me that much anymore.

It was great. Loved every second of it.

That was a good direct. A lot of surprises, Metroid Prime, GB/C & GBA, Fantasy Life, Layton and Baten Kaitos being the bigger ones for me. Much better than the farm sim direct.
And damn, my boy Rex really filled out.
And I’ll definitely have to pick up FE: Engage, now that dommy mommy Camilla has arrived.

What a great direct. 10/10. It’s interesting and I’m curious if the older generation like myself enjoyed this direct versus the one in September or not. Or maybe it’s just a preference on types of games. Anyways cheers to all.

Started great with Pikmin 4, then boring with too much weeb stuff, then amazing with GB/GBA, Prime Remastered and TotK.

Metroid Prime on the go? Yes please!

There honestly wasn't a lot for me personally, but that was a great direct. Nintendo had both quantity and quality of games in a wide variety of genres. The only downside is a lack of big AAA games with the exception of Zelda of course. Not surprising for February though — you save the big guns for the end of the year.

I'll go with 9/10.

It was pretty crap to be honest. Outside what was already known, Pikmin 4, Zelda, OT II, Advance Wars, which all looked superb, there was nothing to get excited about…except Metroid, and Ghost Trick, and maybe Baten Kaitos. But these are all ports. Nothing new that looked good.

I was prepared to get a DS Ghost Trick but a Switch version is very welcome. Phendrana Drifts in bed, with the headphones on and proper normal controls…here, we go! Can’t wait.

Glad Pikmin is coming over the summer instead of fall…advance wars, .professor Layton and bayonetta are cool. Not sure about some of the other stuff.

@Dragonite89 We finally get GBA games on the console that looks like a giant GBA!

Decapolice and the tease for Xeno 3’s story DLC were the highlights for me. It was also neat seeing a release date for Rain Code! Not a bad Direct all in all.

Also holy crap Metroid Remaster oh my god.

It was ok but very padded out with rubbish. Once the GB stuff was announced it got much better but it was a slow first half.

It was good. Relied too much on ports in my opinion but I’ll happily buy Pikmin 4 this July, so I can’t complain.

@Fizza
Yeah. This thing had METROID: PRIME REMASTERED, but GHOST TRICK was my pick of the Direct. Seriously, this is off of my "Games I want, but will never get re-released" list.

6/10

Like I predicted 2023 will be mostly ports, dlc and remasters with a few good AA titles. Somehow that Zelda trailer actually left me rather underwhelmed...not even sure how it's possible but it definitely took some wind out my hype sails.

Nintendo needs new hardware.

Great direct; there were really good surprise announcements, elaborations on upcoming dlc and a bunch of release date announcements.
Pretty much what you'd want in a direct, if it's stuff you're interested in then the score naturally increases.
But for me, I rate this direct an 8/10.

I thought it was pretty good. Breath of the Wild TOTK and the Metroid Prime Remaster were the highlights for me. But I'm glad we got a release date on Sea of Stars. Which is a game I'm looking forward to after hearing it from the Indie Showcase.

As of writing 33% of those surveyed were most excited for Metroid Prime. This is a great sign for a series that holds such a special place in my heart.

So goddamn happy to see a new Fantasy Life comin our way!!

It was good, way better than the last one. Some pretty good variety even if the first half of the year might still be somewhat quiet for me. I didn't get Donkey Kong or Kid Icarus but it's disappointing that there's a lack of new Mario games in particular. Even so, anything Metroid along with unexpected NSO news and so many shadow drops make this one solid Direct!

@Anti-Matter Wow. I thought I was the only one interested in Fashion Dreamer and Decca Police.

I found it to be rather meh.

DLC, Ports, and remasters galore. The two most hype announcements are opportunities to play decades-old games.

Aside from Zelda and Pikmin (a franchise I don't care about), nothing new is on the horizon.

My vote went to Fashion Dreamer. It was a pretty good direct. Pretty much every release interested me even when I don't have the game (such as Splatoon 3 and XC3) or its only DLC (like Engage).

Most hyped for Pikmin 4, Fashion Dreamer, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, GBA games, Metroid Prime Remastered, New Professor Layton, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Still thinking about:
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
DecaPolice
Fire Emblem Expansion Pass
Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster
New Fantasy Life
Bayonetta Origins

So pretty much everything...

@Dark-Luigi Same here. What are your favourites or are you like me and wanted pretty much everything?

I'm not getting them right away when they're available physically, but Metroid Prime Remastered and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe will be in my collection by April.

Yes, I can see everyone pointing fingers at me for being part of the problem of buying remasters of games I already have (Mario Kart 8, Miitopia, Super Mario 3D World, LEGO City Undercover, New Super Mario Bros. U, Super Mario 3D All-Stars).

The GB and GBA games are also a nice addition.

My favorite was the Etrian Odyssey Origins collection. However, I can't vote for it on that list?

Also, if it isn't released physically I'm not interested.

#physicalmedia4life

Second favorite announcement was Layton.

I wasn't too excited since most of the games were ones we knew were coming even if we didn't always have dates. My most excited was NSO but it makes me sad GBA is trapped in expansion pack even though it was predictable. Overall I liked it less than most Directs, but apparently I'm in a minority judging by the poll. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood. 🧐

My full real-time reaction:

• pikmin 4 underwhelming trailer but no plot context so I give it benefit of doubt.
• dlc — don't have
• Just Dance lite but monkeys?
• mobile looking fashion game
• dead cells dlc — we already knew but I'll grab it. Kind of wish there was a dead cells 2 rather than infinite dlc at this point
• tron? ok.
• ghost trick kinda cute
• more detective puzzles?
• Bayonetta origins — so pretty. I want. I hope 2 character thing has good controls.
• dlc - don't have Splatoon but more power for fans. The teaser for wave 2 looked neat.
• More Disney. platforming looks fun but old-school disney characters give me nightmares
• Yet more DLC of a game I don't own.
• Harmony. nice art. ooh, Celeste composer music. I'm interested.
• Octopath II - demo as expected; I'll try it, but I need to finish first game.
• katamari? uh.... confused
• sea of stars — finally! still looks good. grabbing that demo.
• omega strikers. meh
• Etrian odyssey - never played. could be interesting but unsure. Nice art mostly.
• advance wars — it's actually coming?? I don't actually want it, but happy to see it exists.
• Kirby - I mean, I was already going to buy it. but nice. And nice there is a demo, though I may just wait to buy.
• NSO omg gameboy for real. tetris!!! and super mario land 2! those 2 already make me happy. ooh, color options. GBA!!!!! and some good starting games! wait, GBA is only expansion pack? ug, not surprised, but now I have to decide if I finally want expansion pack.
• metroid prime, that's fun.
• raincode — could be good. more detective/ghost related things.
• baten kaitos — never heard of this. ehh, cards.
• fantasy life - cute but idunno. I'll wait for reviews
• something about steam sumthin sumthin?
• More DLC. ooh, Birdo, cute.
• sizzle reel - blanc still looks cute. we know all these games are coming
• Zelda — some less than impressive graphics mixed in there. Switch 2 when? 😝

I thought the direct was great. My favorite stuff:

• Pikmin 4 gameplay reveal and release date
• Disney Illusion Island
• Advance Wars release date
• GB/GBA games
• Kirby Demo and extra content
• Metroid Prime Remastered
• Professor Layton
• Mario Kart’s Yoshi’s Island track looked sweet
• Zelda looked great but… that $70 price tag

@SNES64DD Layton, Ghost Trick, and (despite needing more info on it), ToTK.

GHOOOOOST TRIIIIICK

There's a disturbing lack of Etrian Odyssey in that list. Only wish they brought the Untold versions or even the Nexus and 5 games instead.

It was great to see the big and expected Nintendo releases - and kudos to Metroid fans. But for me, Level 5 seem to be back with a bang - Layton all the way!

Sea of Stars has a big ass gap between the demo and game releasing.

The first half was a bit dry aside from Pikmin and Advance Wars. The second half was amazing. GB and GBA NSO, Metroid Prime Remastered, Kirby, Professor Layton, Mario Kart Wave 4, Zelda. I was losing my mind.

Baten Kaitos Baten Kaitos. Baten Kaitos! Baten Kaitos!! Baten Kaitos!!! Did I mention BATEN KAITOS!!! LOL and like many kind disappointed it wasn't Metroid Prime Trilogy but mmaayy get the Remaster but imo it doesn't really look improved.

Ok byebye Nintendo. See you when you release a new console. Worst Direct ever.

Are we so used to lame Directs now that people actually thought this was good? It needed a big new 1st party announcement, period.

And the more I see from TotK, the more I fear this is going to be a chore. It still looks like BotW DLC and I didn’t wait all this time for some lame knockoff.

Solid: metroid, Zelda (just started minish cap for the first time), professor Layton. I hope there was something for everyone

#1 GB & GBA added to NSO today (let's go Gargoyle's Quest!)
#2 Metroid Prime Remastered (looks great!), but Nintendo apparently forgot that there's a trilogy...
#3 Release dates for Advance Wars & Dead Cells Castlevania
Honorable Mention: New Disney game (Mickey's Rayman Origins?), new Professor Layton, Mario Kart wave 4, new Link amiibo

And enough with the LoZ:TotK teases, let's just play the thing already!

Don't know if it was in the direct. But honestly the only real exciting thing for me was the Sea of stars release date and demo. Outside of Pikmin 4.

I really enjoyed it. Sure, I mean, we knew about most of the big hitters here, but it’s great to get some release dates and the shadow drops/demos were very gracious offerings. Looking forward to Pikmin 4. If not for Hogwarts Legacy just releasing, I’d have jumped on Metroid Prime’s remaster today.

Perhaps I’ve hit a point this year where there’s too many great games that I’d like to play? That’s how I felt. How am I going to budget my time to get to so many fantastic titles. Seriously, I’d like about 10-12 of the games announced Can’t wait for Katamari. Hope I can get that one in a physical format. I’ve complained about ports in the past, but I feel like we were a bit off the beaten path with many of these and that’s a wonderful thing. Gives me hope I may yet see that Chibi Robo port I’ve been dreaming of.

Metroid prime remastered was looking amazing I want more better graphics for this Zelda game still it have time. The graphics are not great from Zelda. Metroid prime remastered was the best one. I was in shock to see Metroid prime.

I mean, we got GB/GBC/GBA Nintendo Switch Online+Expansion Pack, and Metroid Prime Remastered, in the same day...

So, to quote Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "I am singularly impressed."

I thought it was a solid Direct. They really had a little in there for everyone. I’m a little puzzled at only one Metroid Prime game. I thought we were getting all three, but the first one is so good.

Layton was a nice surprise. I wasn’t expecting Ghost Trick. GB and GBA were nice. Better late than never. DLC was predicted, but nothing really wrong with that. Pikmin is t really my thing, but others like it so I’m happy for them.

I was a little surprised I guess we didn’t get a big tease for the second half of the year. Nothing from Nintendo after July at this point. They aren’t at E3 so it makes me wonder what they are up to.

Metroid Prime Remastered was great. Pikmin 4 and Tears of the Kingdom both look awesome. Switch Online was a big upgrade.

I think the days of "impossible" 3rd party Switch ports is over. Didn't see any here. I think the tech gap is too great now with the new generation.

Finally! for me, the long-awaited addition of GBC & GBA games on NSO is happening!

Also, Metroid Prime Remastered announcement & soon release, I get my physical copy once it's out!

I honestly didn’t like it.

I’m happy for the community to get an updated Metroid - looks great with really nice performance.

After growing up with a GB - you would need to pay me money to play those games again.

Pikman looks cool.

Zelda just a Botw clone and hope your weapon doesn’t break every 2 min.

Anyone else check out that Konami Power Pros Baseball game? What do you think? I was curious about the series (Pro Yakyuu Spirits) and they’re only charging $0.99 for it. It seems like a fully customizable game and it’s been pretty easy to pick up and play, though I hear the RPG elements are not in this version.

Pokémon red, blue, yellow, gold, silver, crystal, ruby, sapphire, emerald, leaf green and fire red on NSO one day. Pokémon day hype

So glad Fantasy Life is getting a proper Sequel. It was easily my favorite 3DS game and I'm super glad its getting represented. Plus Level 5 seems to be making a comeback which is great, hopefully we can get some Layton remasters on Switch. Also GB/GBA finally being added is great, hoping these and all the NSO games can go forward to the next console without having a full reset like Nintendo loves to do each gen.

Switch Online Gameboy = Wario Land 3 on Switch.
Peak gaming moment, everything else can pack up and go home.

Tons I want. And I'm sure there will be other multiplats announced elsewhere.
With Metroid Prime Remastered, Baten Kaitos, Tales of Symphonia and Advance Wars 1 + 2, it feels like we are back in a very nice era of gaming.
Lovely to see Level 5 being prolific.
Ace we are getting another Katamari game.
I think Ghost Trick was probably the game I least expected.
And there is a pooch in Pikmin 4! How adorable!
Yep, very good Direct.
(and Zelda just looks phenomenal doesn't it. They can charge what they want for that lol!)

@Hoshiko I am with you. I thought it was good but the only first party announcement this time was Metroid Prime Remastered, a port of an old game. Everything else like Zelda, Pikmin, Bayonetta Origins, Kirby had already been announced
It seems like they are winding down and prepping for the next system

Not gonna lie, seeing a new Fantasy Life made me emotional a little bit.

It feels weird to vote for a remaster, but I did: Metroid Prime. Is was rumoured, but I didn't expect it to release so soon. On the long run it might've been GB/GBA NSO since the Oracle games will launch on it... eventually.

Feels like a bit less of an overall whammer than the September Direct and the third party showcase before it (mainly due to the number of things already announced prior), but still a damn lot to dig into. Level 5 alone - the dev many have said their farewells to in the west despite Nintendo already having an extensive history of publishing their stuff here - rolled out a few head turners from Decapolice to the new Fantasy Life and Layton (the latter of which, for all we know, might even advance the series timeline again and bring us closer to or cover how Kat first came into the picture). And then there's Ghost Trick, Metroid Prime, We Love Katamari, a friggen Baten Kaitos pack which, combined with the .hack//GU revisited earlier, feels like a simultaneous increase in the likelihood of eventual Xenosaga ports... but even in their own right, that's two more JRPG classics I won't have to emulate on the laptop anymore!

Etrian Odyssey is every bit as welcome on Switch although it all appears to be classic versions (the first of which I even beat on NDS years ago), so it looks like I will ironically stick to the available "story modes" on 3DS - but the separate purchase options still ensure where I'll be playing EO3 in due time.👌 The new NSO libraries also have a couple items like Metroid 2 and Link's Awakening that I might find myself tempted to forfeit in favour of their remakes, but the overall addition is tasty news (especially the eventual Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade) even if it comes with the mixed feelings of seeing Nintendo further demote their impactful Gen 5 handheld from "New 3DSi" to a "filter". A bit overboard for the comparatively modest lifetime sales that you cut short with your own Advance, no?👹😆 Even the opportunity to put Game Boy into the general sub and Color into the expansion pack didn't tempt them.😏 But seriously, I didn't even expect more NSO apps until next gen, so still wow.

With all of this, other announcements like this year's XC3 treats and even a few Japanese Direct curveballs like Atelier Marie (pray it finally comes west THIS time), 2023 is even more packed now. Even Advance Wars is coming back from its rather awkward attempt at "reading the room" (better not release a war RPG that reportedly parodies Russia, but another war RPG can come out and let you mow down entire armies with a variably volatile guy named Dimitri😄). And Engage is even getting FEH's Veronica among others! Maybe I'll live to see Sharena and Reginn in the console domain as well.

All I wanted was Metroid prime and it just happened. Saw what you want about Nintendo being inscrutable - this is a fantastic shadow drop.

I mean, the sheer balls - fantastic

Best Direct in a long time for me. The only thing that would have made it better was a release date for the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters. I was really hoping they would be coming out today.

GB, GBA,Dead cell, samba the amigo,BAYO AND ZELDA (great but both already announced), the final date for advance wars ... but my personal best for this direct is METROID !!!

Amazing direct for me. Stand out, Metroid Prime Remastered. But SO many I am interested in.

Felt much better than September's farm direct; felt like much more variety of game were on show. That said, as pointed out, Nintendo themselves seem overly reliant on DLC rather than actual game announcements. It was third-parties like Level 5, Sega, Atlus etc that were doing the heavy lifting. We saw Wario Land and F-Zero in the direct, but only as old games coming to NSO; Nintendo have a gold-mine of IPs, but keep milking the same ones. I am unsure if they are slowing down on Switch releases, or if they are just overly playing it safe, but in that sense, definitely disappointing.

Amazing direct. Pikmin 4 finally got some gameplay footage, more and more info for Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, Game Boy systems FINALLY coming to NSO, and Fantasy Life i announced.

After how utterly disappointed I was with the direct last year in September, I needed this direct very badly.

Metroid Prime Remastered without a doubt! Also excited for the GameBoy and GBA games.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself until they slapped me so hard I lost feeling in my face

Etrian Odyssey 1-3 HD? REALLY? After what, SEVEN YEARS? I was so mad I just stopped watching there for like a few hours.

At this point I simply need a flat yes or no to the question of "are you actually working on a new bloody Etrian Odyssey game?" because it's getting silly. Radio silence for that many years, and then out of nowhere a HD collection of games where two out of three had already received updated versions? Absolutely terrible.

(I later returned to finish the direct and the ToTK trailer was dope but left me with many questions and zero answers).

My wife has been complaining about there being no Professor Layton games for Switch so seeing that there's one on the way is great. (His daughter doesn't count she says, "like father like child" didn't seem to be the case I guess.)

Being able to play GB/GBA games straight after the drop took the sting out of losing my ambassador 3DS… and the inclusion of Minish Cap plus eventually the Oracle games means I don’t have to buy a secondhand 3DS before the eshop closes. Plus getting to retry Fusion and Prime after abandoning Metroid years ago only to rekindle my interest with the excellent Dread… win, win.

Professor Layton literally stole the show

I feel like I should be happier but honestly Nintendo charging seventy dollars for Zelda is really bumming me out.

Too many JRPGs for my taste, but I was expecting that. Gameboy games are a welcome addition. Also we finally have a date for the next international cri- I mean, for Advance Wars.

You mean the Remaster Direct?
Sorry but too few new games and too many Remasters

Gameboy games was the single biggest highlight for me. They hold up so much better then N64 games and are more modern then all the classic SNES games. Looks great in handheld.

Switch has really become a best of everything console. So many remasters and remakes and HD collections. It quite insane tbh.

I’m not going for metroid prime this time. I just played it on GC for the 10th time last summer. And don’t think the update looked that great that it warrants a new purchase.

Baten kaitos didn’t look too spectacular either but that was at least 15 years ago that I played that so I will probably get that

Some new interesting games also. Mainly Fantasy life and the new game from Don’t nod.

Probably one of my top 5 Directs of all time. I know it was a lot of remasters and ports, but just about all of them are games I'm super excited to play. Baten Kaitos is a series I've wanted to try for ages, so I'm super excited those are coming to Switch now! Those were easily my favorite part of the Direct, but there were plenty of fantastic announcements. I'm also really looking forward to the DLC for Xenoblade 3 and Splatoon 3.

Really boring. Only enjoyed Castlevania in Dead cells.

Felt a bit average to me, too heavy on dlc or games from 3ds era coming over that just didn't particularly interest me much.
Pikmin 4 opened very nicely but then I felt no excitement myself until metroid (which only being 1 deflated it slightly) and Gameboy.
Happy advance wars got a release date as did Zelda but felt nothing much new and big revealed and hung on likes of almost out kirby for too long..

Excellent. Lots of good stuff to play.

Kirby/Metroid/Gameboy games in Feb
MK8D Wave 4 in Spring
Advance Wars in April
Zelda in May
Samba De Amigo in Summer
Pikmin in July

Couple of Detective games and the Baten Kaitos ports go on the ‘possible’ list

Very strong for a late system Direct

It was good but filled with a lot of stuff I won't play. My favourite part was the Gameboy stuff. But I was a bit disappointed to see no main Pokemon. Glad it has Zelda though!

Wasn't a lot there that I'm interested in. Zelda trailer looked amazing but one thing I learnt from BoTW is that the game didn't feel anywhere as good to play as what the trailers made it look to be

I thought it was great: an unexpectedly strong mix of the old (GB and GBA), the remastered old (Metroid Prime, Ghost Trick, Etrian Odyssey, Advance Wars, etc.) and the new (Tears of the Kingdom, Prof Layton, Bayonetta Origins, etc.)

I have no idea what the "meh" folk want or expect in order to be enthused. I swear Nintendo could announce they're giving every Switch owner a million dollars and still some folk would be like, "Only ONE million? Huh, you'd think they could afford to be a bit more generous..."

@Beeeee-AHH-eer They wouldn't put Pokemon in the GB/C online, they'll sell you RBY/GSC separately (And announce that in a pokemon direct, of course)

A lot of old things and DLC in there, they're definitely buying time for the next console here...

A couple of things I wanted (Ghost Trick! Baten Kaitos! Might even get MP1, as it looks really good and only costs the same as 3DS games used to.) In my opinion, it had to much of a focus on already announced games and post release content for stuff.
That said, at this point most of my most wanted list are ports of things from the last couple of generations, so if we get a good Partner Showcase sometime around summer, I'll be happy for the rest of the year.

Amazing direct, who needs E3.

This was my favourite direct in a long time, lots of great announcements. I was most excited by the return of Professor Layton.

The Splatoon 3 DLC and the Gameboy family being added to NSO were the highlights for me.

The earlier part of the direct was a flop but then suddenly they started rapid firing interesting stuff almost back to back Advance Wars finally out of limbo, Prime Remaster (that actually looks like effort was put in), Remasters for both Baten Kaitos games, great stuff.

But the show stealer for me was the Etrian Odyssey Trilogy, being able to play these games on the big screen has been a dream of mine. EO3 in particular is such a top tier dungeon crawler. And looking at some of the japanese trailers the automapping actually fills in the walls now too which is such a great thing, depite always been touted as the big series feature, I never was too big on the map making, it was cute, sure, for a little while but for such a long game it gets very tedious.

In short great direct this was. Funny how every exciting announcement in the direct is just a rerelease though.

Etrian Odyssey was my highlight, followed by there being a Sea of Stars demo. Was also very nice to see Metroid Prime and Tears of the Kingdom.

Pretty good. As others said the start was nothing too special but the second half was great. Not many surprises really but good that some interesting rumours were confirmed. Would like to have seen that the Etrian games were the 3DS remakey types, something (anything) Donkey Kong based and some indication that the other two Metroud Prime games will receive similar treatment (would be odd having just 1 and 4 on the system).

For me it was poor. Anything that was good about it was ports of old and very old games. And even though I haven't played any of them so they're new to me, it's not what I was looking for in a Direct.
I'm sure other people enjoyed it though, there was plenty of content. Just nothing much that interested me personally apart from Zelda which we already know about.

Mind blowing. Great new titles, long requested old ones, plenty of DLC for existing games. And all of it was pretty soon as well! I've got sick of other console makers shows with games that are half a decade away. This was such a great Direct, only issue is I'm struggling to wait for the physical Metroid Prime, wish it was out already on a cart!

I thought it was great! Afterwards I immediately downloaded the Game Boy apps and played through Kirby's Dream Land and a few of the Mario Advance 4 e-Reader levels. Then I hopped on Fire Emblem and played the Hector map.

I'm disappointed that there wasn't some kind of statement about the Switch's successor.

It was a decent direct, but the lack of 1st party announcements was the biggest announcement. I would be shocked now if we didn't get at least a successor announcement by the end of the year

I've been following Nintendo's presentations since E3 2004 and for me this was the best one they've ever done. It would have been a masterpiece if it ended on a surprise trailer for Metroid Prime 4, but still, it all felt very catered to my interests.

My highlights were Pikmin, Gameboy and GBA, Metroid, Zelda, Xenoblade, Splatoon and Fire Emblem.

gutted there was no news on puggsy remake maybe next time

New Layton game, Metroid Prime Remastered, new Level 5 games, Pikmin 4
I´m really looking foward to these. Harmony seems very very interesting to me.

negatives:

• too long spent on Pikmin, style sim, and Splatoon. Front half was super boring as I don't care about any of those
• GBA launch lineup is terrible. Not a single thing to play and GBA is my favorite handheld. Where are Golden Sun, Fire Emblem, Pokemon, F Zero, and Metroid? Super disappointing

Positives:

• I was super surprised and really enjoyed the direct after the first 10 minutes or so.
• demos for Octopath and Sea of Stars? yes!
• Metroid Prime!
• Baten Kraitos!
• Advance Wars! Finally!
• the future knowledge I can finally play Golden Sun on a modern platform? F'ing Finally!

Loving Metroid Prime Remastered, and the Game Boy games. I may even bite the bullet and do the online expansion so I can play the GBA games. But I'll wait to see what games are in the next wave, and as I have most of the ones they announced on my 3DS from the Ambassador program.

With the caveat that they all need to be physical releases, my definite purchase list from this Direct is Baten Kaitos, Etrian Odyssey, Octopath 2 (already ordered), Metroid Prime and Tears of the Kingdom.
That said, I couldn't help but feel a sense of disappointment. It's clear that sticking with this hardware spec is holding Nintendo back, but they seem determined, for better or worse, to ride Switch into the ground. Bizarrely, there's a large contingent of Nintendo "fans" who object to the idea of Nintendo moving on, even six years in, and when they are desperately in need of new hardware. Even their own games and developers are struggling within the confines of developing with hardware seemingly designed to serve displays that are 20 years out of date.
I've seen some commenters say that Metroid Prime doesn't look any different, but in a side-by-side comparison, that is certainly not true. The game looks much cleaner, with obviously new assets and geometry. It's clear that a lot of hard work has been done, and yet ... I can't help feeling a certain pain that this remaster comes now, after so much time has passed and targeting this hardware spec. We won't see an update of the title again soon if ever, and it could have been so much more. It doesn't take much imagination to envisage how much better it would have looked on PS5 or Series X level hardware. Sure, power isn't everything, but we're not living in 2005 anymore. Even if Nintendo doesn't want to move on, display technology has moved on without them, and I write this as someone who still has a PS2, Wii, Wii U, PS3 and Xbox 360 hooked up. Just a few months ago I was playing RE2 on Gamecube, so I don't have a problem with lower resolutions and graphical targets, but that's on older hardware. I'll still buy what you're selling, Nintendo, but come on. Please wake up. You need new hardware and sooner rather than later.

This was the best direct in a long time. It was PACKED

Loved the Direct.
Hard to chose. For sure zelda and metroid. But also seeing my favorite game returning, baten kaitos! I loved that game, dev gonna double dip with that one.

The only real ‘big’ new game announcement we got was a Layton game, am I right? Other than that remasters, dlc and release dates

That’s why Layton gets my vote. Love the original games and I hope we’ll get the same greatness again on Switch or its follow up console.

Also very happy suprised that we didn’t get ANY game for after july (except sea of stars maybe?), so that leaves the 2nd halve wide open for more suprises to come.

Absolutely loved it between all the surprises (Samba de Amigo, Fashion Dreamer even if it's not for me, Ghost Trick, a completely new Level 5 game in DECAPOLICE, We Love Katamari, Etrian Odyssey, GB/C and GBA on Switch Online, Metroid Prime 1, Baten Kaitos, Fantasy Life and especially Layton which is the one I voted for), Pikmin 4 getting a proper trailer and a relatively soon release date, Advance Wars finally getting released, the DLC updates (in particular Engage and Mario Kart for me) and last but not least a new Zelda trailer!

Honestly, the only thing that I consider bad is that I expected a bigger blowout for Zelda. Maybe I could nitpick more about x and y announcement but I thought it was great. The return of Level5 is appreciated too.

Although I'm sure that, despite not having few of them in this Direct, people are going to complain about "too many JRPGs". It almost looks like they write those comments before the Direct even airs.

Just metroid prime 1 as a remake feels cheap. They should have remade the whole trilogy to get me to buy it.
I'll just keep playing it on wii!
Rest was OK but nothing realy amazing.

That Zelda tears of the kingdom trailer was awful. I mean compare that to the 2016 Breath of the wild trailer. Weak and embarrassing.

This was a great presentation.

I thought this direct was really solid and while a lot of talking heads thought that Adv Wars would be the shadow drop, we get a wayyyy better shadow drop in the rumored but unannounced MP1R.....and we still get a coming soon date for Adv Wars. So much of what was shown is going to be purchases for me. I love Baten Kados and re-played the first one within the last 5yrs. Level 5 coming back in a big way and also good DLC announcements from N. Happy to see the FE DLC will include a story add-on eventually. The first 1/2 of 23 is looking epic with FE already released, Kirby coming, Adv Wars, MP1, Zelda, Pikmin 4 and then continued strong 3rd party support. Probably not as excited about GB/GBA as some (I'm a modder so I just have so many ways to play these oldies) but its nice for Switch to keep getting the legacy stuff. As for the rumors that Tears will be the last 'Major' release for Switch I am calling BS. Nintendo talked about nothing of their own in this direct for 2nd half of the year. Nintendo always does its best sales in the holiday season.....no way they are going to just waste the opportunity to push their major franchises to what will soon be a 120M unit audience. I expect we are going to see MP4 or a new Mario game by years end....put it down....2017 we got both Zelda and Mario and I think we will this year as well. Switch really has become the little system that could when you look at all the incredible content it has gotten beyond Nintendo's always excellent offerings.

I LOVE TRON

THEY'RE RELEASING A GAME

IT WAS A GOOD NINTENDO DIRECT

I saw a TotK trailer as a positive, although I don't like the price increase. After that I'm glad to hear the news on GBC and GBA games, that's great.

I think it was a good direct, not the most amazing direct ever, but still a good direct.

I loved it! They announced one interesting game after another and while I didn't like them all I certainly seen appeal for every title.

Pikmin 4 , prime remastered, new Gameboy/advance , some excellent looking games!

Left me pumped up for rest of year and super excited for what's next

This was a Direct that perfectly delivered for my expectations, which mainly focused on the present. Well almost. I hoped for a slight tease into the Switch successor by showing a good-loking Metroid Prime 4 teaser.

There's a possibility Nintendo is internally transitioning into their next generation, they're just not ready to announce it yet. That's likely why there weren't much new big announcements here. (some DID were surprising though...)
They're working on many, definitely. Even for the actual Switch, we could at least see a new game announced soon. But right now, we'll have to wait.

Anyway, next stop is the presentation for Pokémon Day

Good Direct but needs better stories around each title.

I can’t tell what wave 2 is for Splatoon DLC. Where is Pearl and Marina? I am waiting on this.

Advance Wars deserves more coverage, I hope. Unless it’s terrible.

I really wanted more gameplay from Zelda. I preordered.

The Gameboy stuff is ok, but it would be nice to know Nintendo’s plan here with the 3ds store closing next month. Is there a strategy? Currently it looks like throw out a random smattering of games every so often. I’m still interested because they showed Golden Sun.

Underwhelming. It was mostly old ports and dlc.

In hype order
Atelier Marie remake
Baten Kaitos 1+2 remaster
Xeno 3 expansion (mostly because it was expected in the direct!)

Holey moley donut cannoli, THAT WAS INCREDIBLE! Highlights:
KRtDD: always good to get some Kirby news, and it's nice that the epilogue is confirmed to exist. It looks better than I expected!
GB and GBA for NSO: was honestly not expecting this, so when they said that something NSO related was about to be announced, I was like "oh, so they are revealing the next set of N64 games. Thought they were going to save that until June." And then the Gameboy came on screen and I went ballistic.
Metroid Prime Remake: and then IMMEDIATELY AFTER the Metroid Prime Remaster of rumors is shadow dropped! Once I finish KRtDD, I have some hard choices to make...

Wow, games I've paid for many times are coming to a gameboy channel where I don't actually own the titles. I'm sorry but I wish we had the virtual console again. Please Nintendo give fans what they want.

I'm happy for other releases in the direct, especially Metroid, and I give you praise for all you do but please make retro games more special than this.

Peace!

@Fragglez Yeah instead of giving you access to all the virtual console titles you've already purchased, now you can pay a subscription for the next 20 years to play them... Not happy myself.

Metroid Remastered is a better game than I expected, that's nice. Great controls, great visuals. Disappointed 2 and 3 are missing, but at least it is $40.

Really I'm just disappointed about the lack of new hardware. The RTX 4000 series has been out for 6 months and would it really hurt Nintendo to take the cheapest RTX 4000 card, the RTX 4050, and make a cheap $300 home console out of it?

16GB RAM/500GB Storage/RTX 4050 (cheapest one available) plus 8 cheap ARM cores. Cheap and almost 40 times, YES FOURTY TIMES more TFLOPS than the Switch.

A cheap 13 TFLOP video card from 2023. 3 years after the PS5 launched. That's all I want. I want to play my Nintendo games on the weakest modern video card you can buy for a PC. Make a console out of it. Like the Wii U but with a good controller.

In this order:

Metroid Prime: I haven't played this game in fifteen years and have been aching to do so. I've already preordered and will pick it up at the earliest opportunity.

Zelda: Here's my rundown. Blood moon is reminiscent of BOTW, but also Majora's Mask? Did Zelda go into Link's arm a la Fi? Also, does Link just have the Sheikah slate inside him now? I have a great many more questions, and these are just the big ones. At the time of writing, 88 days are left. sigh Too damn long.

GBA games: I have recently fallen in love with the Zelda series, so Minish Cap, here I come! But wait: there's more! Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga may be the best Mario RPG (I'm allowing for Thousand Year Door to be superior not because I've played it but rather due to general consensus). Mario Kart Super Circuit is not one I've played but I did love MK7 so this should be fun like that.

Pikmin 4: Pikmin 3 is on my backlog and probably next in line to be purchased (I just bought Bayonetta 3, Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition, Nier: Automata, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, plus preordered Metroid Prime Remastered, so as can be imagined, there's a significant dent in my finances at the moment). Nonetheless, I've been eyeing the Pikmin series for a year or so now and think I'd like them.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 content: I am deliberately and willfully remaining ignorant of XC3 and its plot, characters, setting or anything related until after I finish Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I have always tried to do series in order and am somewhat peeved that, while admittedly a spinoff, I cannot play Xenoblade Chronicles X (which is by all accounts a great game) without first buying a Wii U (which sadly seems unlikely to change). So in a month or two when I finally do beat XC2, then I will allow myself to be excited about XC3 content.

I am really hoping for a future DLC or Expansion Pass for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

Absolute banger. I was surprised how good it was.