Welp I just finished the direct (had to watch later due to work). I think the best thing about it was that it happened at all. Like, it's really nice to have a game company do a presentation thats almost the length of a feature film. Having said that, there wasn't much that really got me excited.
Famicom Detectice club seems neat, it's nice to see that Miitopia is still a thing Nintendo cares about, and Mario Golf may be alot of fun if that story mode pans out. Project Triangle Strategy is one of the worst titles I've ever heard. I'm concerned they'll keep it. 'Project Octopath Traveller' eventually became 'Octopath Traveller'. In spite of that, it may have been the most interesting game I saw. No More Heroes III looks rough. The character design of World's End Club is repelling me. They're like half Pokemon Trainer, half Pokemon. No Shin Megami - big missed opportunity for publicity.
The only definite buy for me was Skyward Sword HD. I never did play the original so I'm looking forward to it.
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A new Miitopia would've been better than a rerelease, and a reduced price would've been even better still. Regardless, Miitopia was really fun (if a tad repetitive).
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NMH 3 looks bad. It looks like a 360 indie game with how everything looking like plastic. Don't get me started on those environments, christ almighty. Mind you; the first two games aren't lookers either. But at least those had style. This game feels Suda forced his team to make this.
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NMH3 never looked good to me, visually. But it looks crazy and creative and I think it could be fun as a result. I’m just glad games like it exist.
Miitopia is a joke. I can’t believe they wasted the time bringing it over. And for $50? I’m not one to complain about price. I’m really not. In fact I can’t recall a single time I’ve ever complained about a game’s price. But I’m gonna complain about this one. I seriously thought it would be like $9.99. I almost spit out my iced tea when I saw $50. I might would have bought it for $10 just to sate my curiosity. But not for $50. It won’t even be getting the wishlist star. I really don’t even understand why they bothered to bring it in the first place. Maybe it was just to provide some more casual games to help bolster their lineup as they target new, more Wii-era friendly Switch owners. Who knows.
I started playing Triangle Strategy. It’s good. It’s really good. They nailed it.
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Poor Stubbs the Zombie seems to be entirely forgotten. People get excited for old games for old Ninja Gaiden and Legend of Zelda games because of branding but Stubbs gets tossed aside for being graphically outdated. Last time I played Stubbs the Zombie, it was really fun but it was really difficult to run on modern hardware. I'll be happy to give Stubbs the Zombie another go.
I played NMH 1 back when it launched on switch and honestly, I wasn't crazy about it. It was pretty repetitive and boring imo. Maybe I just don't understand it. I heard 2 gets alot better but 1 turned me off so I didn't even invest in the 2nd. I should have probably tossed this comment in the unpopular opinions thread so I don't get bashed, but NMH3 was brought it, so it is what it is.
Poor Stubbs the Zombie seems to be entirely forgotten. People get excited for old games for old Ninja Gaiden and Legend of Zelda games because of branding but Stubbs gets tossed aside for being graphically outdated. Last time I played Stubbs the Zombie, it was really fun but it was really difficult to run on modern hardware. I'll be happy to give Stubbs the Zombie another go.
To be fair, as someone who pays attention to all sorts of games, old and new, I'm not sure I've heard a single person mention Stubbs the Zombie after the year it came out until today. That's an obscure one to bring back out of nowhere.
I honestly don't think anyone who wasn't hardcore into gaming at that specific time even knows it exists.
@TheFrenchiestFry Maybe Atlus is delaying Nocturne western release until after the Japan release is in a better state? It does feel like not appearing in the Direct means it's no longer a Spring release.
Not only no one asked for it but it’s a full price 60$ game, on 3ds it sold terribly.
My understanding was that it sold really well. Over 160,000 units in Japan alone. I also suspect that it’s coming because Nintendo has figures on it being a game that AC owners bought (something you can market to that audience).
I think it’s clearly low effort but high potential.
@StuTwo Yeah Miitopia sold well on the 3DS, it was part of Ninty's million selling list they put out. Not as big as Tomodachi Life though but I'm not entrirely sure what the difference between those two are to be honest as I didn't play them.
So Ninty has a big European sale today. I'm hoping it is including first party games and DLC for them rather than the usual Ubisoft 75% off stuff, in particular I want the Pokken Tournament DLC cheap.
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Yeah, it sold about 1mill on 3DS but it was a very late release. I think it's a reasonably smart release given the number of people who brought Animal Crossing on Switch. I mean Animal Crossing on Switch has sold almost 3x as many copies as it did on 3DS.
Also as strange as a Mii based game in 2021 may seem the Wii launched 15 years ago. The early to mid 20s are the peak "I have disposable income, few responsibilities and lots of free time" game buying ages. These people are nostalgic for the Wii like my age bracket is nostalgic for the SNES and N64. And there's nothing more Wii era Nintendo than a game about Miis
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Not to sound pessimistic but do you really think they would hold back on Botw2 if it releases the same year? If they don't even have a new trailer for the game i doubt there will be anything new this year, otherwise they would have showed it, i am pretty sure.
The lack of a trailer in a February Direct is not much of a sign of anything to me. If Nintendo are planning any kind of 'presence' at whatever form E3 might take this year, for example, or just a June Direct, then it's there where I would expect a BotW2 update if its coming this year.
Miitopia is obviously targeting the New Horizons install base.
Looking at the release schedule for the first half of 2021, there's so much interesting stuff in there that there doesn't seem to be much reason for upset right now. There'll be more Nintendo announcements for games this year, I'm sure.
Can't remember if it was this thread or the Direct thread, but someone was griping a few pages back about the lack of games from Nintendo. Now, most of us have probably had similar feelings since the portable/console merging, but there's so many decent games on/coming to Switch from non-Nintendo sources that I think it's good business sense to slow down a bit. Looking back at the GameCube era, the 4 Mario sports titles (Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Strikers) all released within about 2.5 years. That sort of schedule can lead to Nintendo/Mario fatigue (particularly with the Olympics games every 4 years too), and it's far better, I think, to spread their output further apart if third party games are there to fill in.
That's not to say though that I wasn't disappointed last night by the lack of another Nintendo IP getting an announcement, and I'm a bit miffed/interested in why Splatoon 3 was chosen as the 'one more thing' when it's release is so far off and what was shown had nothing to suggest it was going to be much different to Splatoon 2. There was a bit of a gap in that Direct last night in terms of action adventure, besides Skyward Sword HD. A Donkey Kong or Kirby 3D adventure, for example, would have had me dancing.
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