The most interesting game they showed was Morsels. I loved the psychedelic look of it and the aesthetic. Unfortunately nothing else interested me, but the rest looked cool! Ending the Partner direct on Yakuza was the best choice they made.
That Direct was really solid. The time between Echoes of Wisdom and the end of November is insanely packed for Switch. Will need to make decisions about what to get day 1 and what to get later on.
The biggest highlight for me was the Castlevania collection, it's really nice that the DS games were saved.
@Grumblevolcano kind of dull for me but regarding castlevania, same for me. Definitely the highlight. I intend to get castlevania Friday and play through at least the first game before echoes. Might even grab plucky squire before then too.
Castlevania DS Collection was my #1 remake/remaster wish, and SF Alpha 3 + SNK vs Capcom 2 were also high up there. So yeah, I'm super satisfied right now, but I have to assume most people aren't.
Okay so... I'm trying to figure out Nintendo's schedule here. We have one January game announced, and two floating titles (Z-A, based on the TCG coming 2nd half, and Prime 4) and that's it for 2025. It's unlikely we'll get any further OG Switch titles announced until February... so are we getting a Switch 2 reveal soon? Will they just stop releasing OG Switch software monthly in 2025?
I can't rule out a September / October reveal into March release again for this system, with the lack of a February game made up for by multiple titles releasing in March. I'd thought it was unlikely but recent events feel like that's where we're going.
@link3710 The fact that they compressed every side-game and event into 3 directs at the end up August really points to making room for a Switch 2 announcement soon. It also points to the next games direct (whenever it is) being pretty first party focused, presumably with both Switch 2 and Switch 1 stuff.
September-October reveal with a April-June release and a Sept-January direct featuring some more games is feeling likely.
That said, it wouldn't shock me if we get another random 2024 game dropped outside of a direct like we did with Emio.
@Novamii Well given Nintendo's bizarre use of numbers (Pikmin 4 was clearly a reboot of the series), I highly doubt anything from Prime 2/3 will matter for 4 in the slightest.
I will say the indie show was probably the best one in a while simply by focusing on games that stand out and are interesting to me and I remember after its over. But part of that is it relied a lot more on established games, because as I think I've said last time, unless a game really stands out its hard to pay attention to the 500th cool indie game you'll likely not hear a lot from after this unless its particularly special looking.
Best example of this is that sequels to two favorite indie games of mine released practically back to back recently, and it feels like most people did not notice despite being sequels to fairly beloved games whose past games were reliably released on Nintendo platforms.
Yeah, now that I look at it, this Direct didn’t really have any games in it leaked. The only ones that I think were hinted at appearing was Worms: Armageddon and Epic Mickey, though no “leaker” ever leaked or spread rumors of it appearing, cuz Worms was hinted at existing via an ESRB rating and Epic Mickey was hinted at by the developers or publisher. It is nice that the contents didn’t spill out, I pretty much have found myself sorta disliking leaks now, mostly from their intention.
The indie showcase was definitely the better of the two. The only problem with the indie stuff on the Switch is that there's so much content already I don't know how many of these stand out. Already interested in Plucky Squire and Morsels looked nice but I can't see myself remembering any of the others let alone picking them up..... although Pizza Tower does scratch that Wario Land itch so there's that
I think the biggest surprise for me in the Direct was Tetris. Not because it existing was a surprised but more that I wasn't at all aware that NES Tetris wasn't on NSO yet. Which probably says more about how often I open up the NES NSO app (i.e. pretty much never) than it does about anything else. I play NES on one of those Chinese portable emulators, and NES Tetris is one of the first ROMs you throw on those devices
Speaking of NSO, where are the reasons for me to resub to NSO? I know it was a partner direct not a general direct but still, there hasn't been much along those lines throw our way for a while. And if September is the month for Switch 2 then we're running out of time before the great October renewal flood. At this part I'm half expecting them to just shadow drop Pokemon on NSO or something as a standalone thing
@skywake For me, the only reason I renew is because I play online games and need it. I don't use any of the benefits- so the "new old game library games" don't really influence me resubbing or not.
"It is fate. Many have tried, yet none have ever managed to escape it's flow."
@skywake it’s pretty much to play online games. I think the legacy games are a nice addition, and I did put a decent amount of time into the games and I loved the Expansion Pack (at least the last time I used it, which was maybe a year or two ago) but I think online is the main reason you sub to NSO. I just have the standard one for now. I do like seeing games get added to NSO (especially seeing Rare games go multiplatform) but the games in the Expansion Pack library currently don’t interest me, also since some of them I already have on the Xbox via Rare Replay, plus the N64 versions are technically worse in terms of controls and performance. If they add DKR and DK64 maybe I’ll consider getting it but eh.
@VoidofLight@Pastellioli
For the base subscription you're both right, to a degree. But for the Expansion especially they need to offer more and they do have a history of adding stuff to both regular NSO and the expansion. Around this time of year especially
2019 - The initial release, whole load of SNES/NES titles out of the block
2020 - Super Mario Bros 35
2021 - NSO+ (which included Mario Kart 8 DLC which has now finished)
2022 - Not much in the specific point where it matters so it was a bit of an outlier. However there was a further trickle of N64 content through the year and early 2023 did bring GB/GBA plus Goldeneye
2023 - F-Zero 99
This year? The GB MegaMan games? Perfect Dark perhaps. But other than the core features there hasn't been a lot in terms of "this is good value". And certainly not a lot of forward looking stuff, especially now that the Mario Kart DLC run has finished
Again, I think Pokemon would be a good bone to throw. Certainly there are higher value things they could do and with Switch 2 happening there are certainly things that could be attached to Switch 2. And I'm sure there will be. But right now, a couple of months before the auto-renewals hit, it's hard to see what that is
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