Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

Exactly. And knowing The Pokemon Company, I don't see this Pokemon Day being a grand, joyous day for us all to rejoice. I'm sure they'll find some way to screw it up. At least New Pokemon Snap is only a couple months away.

Shin Megami Tensei treats me right where Pokemon didn't lmao

@TheFrenchiestFry I'm super excited to give that series a go!

@TheFrenchiestFry That's me with Persona and Cyber Sleuth. I still like older pokemon games, but I don't really care for the modern pokemon titles. I hope if we do get Sinnoh Remakes at all this year, they're actually good.. however I doubt it, knowing Gamefreak.

@VoidofLight Persona is basically modern Pokemon done right at this point

It has things that definitely seperate it like the whole social sim angle but it has deeper stories, actually well written characters that aren't one note or paper thin in terms of characterization outside of "being the best" or "taking over the world" and its battle system doesn't get stale whatsoever. It feels like it's more strategic and actually requires you to think

@TheFrenchiestFry I mean, if SMT V hits Persona 5's quality, that'll probably be a better inheritor of the modern Pokemon title... But yeah. I mean, SMT/Persona is the predecessor of Pokemon when it comes to monster collecting, not a surprise it outdoes it I suppose.

@link3710 what modern Pokémon game are you refering regarding SMT V?Pokémon Black e White?

@link3710 Honestly there are still a good chunk of Atlus games I think still outclass Persona 5 in a lot of ways. It's my least favorite of the modern Persona games but I think it stings a little more for me considering I had to wait through like 3 delays across 4 years and still thought that while it's a great game, it's far from my favorite Persona title

Hell I think SMT IV and Catherine are better honestly

@TheFrenchiestFry Honestly, I agree with you on Persona 5. The story’s good, but it didn’t leave as much as an impact on me as 4 did. I’m on the royal content currently, snd that’s pretty much already better than the main story to me. Still need to beat that content though.

@VoidofLight The main antagonist of the third semester was probably the best written Palace Ruler since Kamoshida

It felt like a throwback to when Atlus tried to make humanized villains with characters like Joker in the Persona 2 duology and their motivations come off as well-intended but ultimately too screwed up to come to pass. It's actually a great commentary on how your ideal reality will never be as fulfilling as just living life with all its hardships

@TheFrenchiestFry Honestly, I can’t wait to progress through the rest of the royal content.

@TheFrenchiestFry I meant hitting Persona 5 levels of production quality. Say what you will about it, but it's one of the best looking and sounding JRPGs this generation.

@link3710 Oh for sure

Persona 5 is probably the best presented game of this entire generation. They've been getting better at properly defining the visual style of their RPGs since Persona 3 and this has even carried over into games like SMT IV and IV Apocalypse, but P5 was basically them perfecting how their games are presented down to their art direction and UI. That game isn't even among the very best looking PS4 games in terms of sheer detail but it really gets up there because of how amazing its art direction is

@TheFrenchiestFry Playing through 5, it feels like it's the strongest one out of the modern persona games, in terms of it's gameplay and art direction. Story-wise, It's pretty alright. I wish the characters were as engaging as the ones in 4.

Tbh the only parallels I see between Persona and Pokemon are the selection of monsters and the turn-based battling...it all stops there, really. Each series scratches a particular itch and I'd honestly never thought of comparing them, tbh. For me, Persona is more about the story, social links, and characters, with the monster part secondary (or, even, tertiary). Sure, monster capturing and building is key to battle - but only really in advancing your stats and abilities - the monsters are otherwise quite disposable and out of the picture, rather than the key focus like in Pokemon.

Digimon Cyber Sleuth is actually somewhere in the middle, I think. It's a great series and I really recommend it to fans of either Pokemon or Persona (although it never reaches the absolute highs of either series, it's pretty solid all around).

What are the chances we see a Zelda Direct in the next two weeks?

@MarioBrickLayer Next week is the best chance of a Zelda Direct given it's closest to the actual anniversary and the 2 weeks surrounding has much more likely other stuff happening.

• This week - 3D World launch (Nintendo wouldn't distract from its launch by giving Zelda news)
• Next week - Best chance of Zelda Direct
• Week after - Pokemon Direct is very likely (both 2016 and 2019 had Pokemon Direct as close to Pokemon Day as possible without being on a weekend)

So I think if there's not a Zelda Direct next week then not much is being done for Zelda 35th anniversary.

@Grumblevolcano In other words, don’t expect Nintendo to do anything for Zelda’s anniversary. Gotcha

Seriously, Nintendo are so out of left field I would not be surprised if they just did a tweet saying “What’s your favourite Legend of Zelda moment?” And leave it at that for the whole anniversary. At least until second half of the year when they do a limited release collection like they did with Mario. It’s still anniversary year and there’s every chance they only started work on it when they saw how insanely successful they were with the Mario collection.

I'm with @FragRed on this one. Nintendo can announce a Zelda anniversary Direct whenever they want. They are not bound by a certain date. I also think that a Zelda collection is fairly certain to come this year. Nintendo would be crazy not to milk this cash cow, especially since it's relatively easy to make.

How exactly are releasing a collection of old Zelda games and releasing a last gen port mutually exclusive? People that want to buy an 8 year old Mario game will buy it regardless of what else is out there. People that want to buy a group Zelda games from at least 10 years ago will buy it.

"It's impossible because other gaems are coming out. They aren't going to release gaems when gaems are gaems and coming out gaems." ~Wise man