Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

Peak direct

The NSO announcements were what I hoped for and they showed up! Those were the highlight for me. With them releasing a Mature 17+ version of the N64 app, I think that gives other titles like Conker a chance to show up. Though I was hoping they got the rights to Diddy Kong Racing…

I did wish they announced a roadmap or release schedule alongside the games dropping on there today, since I can recall them having one when the N64 service was announced back in 2021. It would be more exciting to know what titles are to follow in the upcoming months, though from what I have seen in the release schedule, the next game is likely to drop either next month or two months later. I’m thinking the latter more since that’s the release schedule they have adopted recently.

That was pretty good.

Standout games:

Mario & Luigi Brothership
Zelda Echoes of Wisdom
Metroid Prime 4

One of the greatest directs of all time, absolutely zero question.

Wow, way more here than I expected! I found 4 games I wanted. Mario and Luigi is a dream come true. I thought the series was dead. The new Zelda was totally unexpected, but looks cool. Mario Party was a highlight since they're FINALLY making a new game in the classic style, and of course Prime 4 was the star of the show! I've been waiting 7 years, and it looks better than I imagined! Fantastic direct!

I thought that was very good for a Direct this late in the Switch's life!

A new Zelda...quite literally this time
Metroid Prime 4 Beyond looks beautiful!
And Super Mario Party Jamboree looks really promising

HOLY HOLY AHHHHHH SHEEP
THAT WAS SUCHC A GOOD DIRECT LIFE IN PRIME 4 NEW ZELDA MARIO AND LUIGI COOL LOOKING MARIO PARTYY AG EBJ8:’nekosoksnsnsim im sobbing chat

This was a great direct, I'm genuinely pleasantly surprised. Metroid Prime 4, Zelda, Mario & Luigi are some real heavy-hitters, and Mario Party, Ace Attorney Investigations, and Phantom Brave 2 are also highlights for me.

Also, the fact that I can finally play Four Swords multiplayer for the first time is really exciting.

As an rpg fan, that was 10/10.

As an MvC 2 fan, that was 10/10.

Only the Funko game was "ick", the rest was good to great.

Probably best direct for me ever, no lie.

They had me right away at the return to Mario and Luigi. Those games freaking rock.

And the Zelda, DK HD, Prime 4, even Mario Party looks awesome and will be the first in a looooong time that I’ll get right away.

Just so awesome. Bravo!

I did better than I expected. I guess 2D Zelda remake was a bit under what we got and that being there basically rules out any chance of the GC Zelda remakes this year. Also ruled out a lot of the other stuff I guessed I think. If you have a game as compelling as that you don't need to grab a remaster from the bottom drawer. Also instead of DK on NSO we got Perfect Dark which, and I know it's cheating to say this after the fact, but I was going to put "Rare games on NSO" but decided to take a risk being more specific. So I wasn't THAT far off

I also did consider Mario & Luigi when scouring IPs they might revive but I honestly thought it was dead and never coming back. So that was a nice surprise. Still a bit annoyed that Wario Land is still nowhere to be seen. I'll keep predicting it until it happens

But DCKR HD? Bang on. Switch Sports 2/DLC? I guess technically but I think my prediction here, if I'm honest, expected more. Reviving basketball but I'm not upset by. Prime 4? Honestly shocked that it did happen but also not really? Certainly not shocked it's 2025

Honestly the game that surprised me the most was Stray. I just.... didn't think that would happen. Certainly not before Switch 2. Of course there's no real reason why it can't I just don't picture that game being on Switch. So that was a surprise. And there were also a few other random games in there that looked pretty solid

So yeah, top tier Direct that one

@Magician I also didn’t think the Funko game looked interesting. I don’t know, I sort of don’t like the way Funkos look sometimes and they look stiff. I think a lot of the characters don’t fit in the Funko art style and sometimes look unrecognizable. The only one I recognized was the Freddy Fazbear Funko that appeared for a few seconds.

The Direct was fine.
I didn't react very excited, just normal reaction.
However, there are some games that I will consider them on PS5 instead, the 3rd party games.

Very solid Direct for this late in the system's lifespan.

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond looks absolutely incredible! Can't wait for that to release.

Was not expecting a new 2D Zelda, let alone one where you play as Zelda! 2D Zelda is definitely the best route for that idea, and the gameplay looks interesting. Excited for that.

Oh, and finally we're getting Ace Attorney Investigations 2 in the west. It took sooo long I didn't think they'd ever do it. Looking forward to the collection!

My only complaint with this Direct is that the headlines parts were very RPG heavy, which after a while kinda just blurs together. I like it when we get more variety from the 3rd party ports. Dragon Quest HD-2D looks sublime though!

On a side note, unless I decide to pick up LM2 I'll have about 3 months to finish Paper Mario and work on my backlog.

Very solid all around! Nothing 3rd party really appealed to me but the 1st party showing carried hard with 5 new games, only 1 of which a remake!! I'll definitely be picking up Mario Party, Zelda, and Metroid.

Wait, Shigeru Miyamoto didn't even appeared on Direct to tell about new Super Mario movie.

Great Direct.
Biggest surprise for me was the Marvel vs Capcom Collection.
Used to be a huge fan of MvC2. Can't wait to play it again.

So Metroid Prime 4 will finally release 18 years after Metroid Prime 3.

For me personally this was an amazing direct. Nintendo was smart to swing with the genres that are closely associated with them (platformers and rpgs), however this fighting game fan is still flying over the MVC announcement. At this point the switch feels like a legal emulation box. They don't have everything but they have many of gaming's highlights from the past 40 years.

I'm pretty much sold or interested in all the JRPGs (not to mention the stuff from the last direct that isn't out yet) but DQ 1-3 and SaGa 2 are gonna be soooooooo good. Zelda?! ZELDA! My jaw dropped in shock. So nostalgia wise, LTTP era (so that includes LTTP/LA/LBW) is my favorite Zelda era (objectively its the Wild era though) and I love that the new LA artstyle (which imo is an evolution of LBW's artstyle) is being used. As I had hoped, if they made a Zelda game with Zelda at the helm, she would NOT play like Link and I adore that this is a more cerebral game which that era was known for anyway (you could break some puzzles with certain items and thinking outside the box). I just hope there will be an amiibo. (or amiibo functionality, the Zelda series is one of the largest amiibo collections.) M+L RPG looks really good, I'm already sold on Lego Horizon but I think this new trailer was better than the first (first was too wacky), double dipping on Stray, Shire game actually looks nice but I need to see the character creator before I jump in (I didn't see any dark skinned characters, and that is a deal breaker if I can't make the character creator reflect my ethnicity), curious about Funko fusion but I expect it will be full of franchises that don't interest me, I enjoyed the first Fairy tail game so I will get the second (not sure if on switch though for performance), Last Defense Academy looks really interesting.

I counted 22 games that I will likely buy, so yeah next 12 months is gonna hurt.