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If you’re the type of person who’s optimistic about this being anything other than terrible, you’re probably an expert self-gaslighter.

@KidSparta Yes.

This is no contest whatsoever. Even if you went with the exact same composition of the NA version, there’s a far more interesting way to depict it.

Hilarious to me that it’s 2026 and I’m still seeing Wii U games win stuff like “best Switch game”.

@EVIL-C I got several replies to my post and almost all of them had some variation of this line. The “corporate” stuff you’re all harping about has been present all along. It is not new. That is very likely not what he is talking about.

@The21zonz I’m not talking about game genres, bud. I’m talking about the culture in the industry, which older developers universally hate.

@Friendly Lol is this a joke? That has literally always been the case in gaming, I have no idea what you’re talking about. In fact I would say developers have significantly more say now that indie gaming has taken off. I guess I forgot that this is not nintendolife from 2012 and I’m probably twice the age of everyone here now.

@Maxz You’re describing things that have always been there in the industry. None of this is new. It only seems new if you’re not working in development, not paying attention, or new to gaming.

Dev in chat: the “new generation of developers coming up” are distinctly why the industry is no fun anymore.

@batmanbud2 (insert Matt Damon aging gif) So yeah ditto to my first reply to you, then. Welcome to the Splatoon fanbase, better late than never.

@batmanbud2 lol! I think you missed the entire point of what I said, and possibly the definition of the word “opinion” while you were at it. Thanks for blowing your secondhand copium smoke in my face but I’ve been playing everything Splatoon has to offer since day one of the very first game (when you were probably in preschool or something) and this is my personal assessment of the series. Don’t take it too hard, buddy.

@gcunit No way. If anything, they need to go back to the 90’s kid super soaker summer break vibe of the first game. The further they get from that aesthetic, the more it loses its entire core identity. Raiders is awesome gameplay wise but it would be hugely improved if they had more upbeat music and a setting that wasn’t just “grey with salmon diarrhea splashed on it.”

@allahver_fist What….?

@YoshiAngemon I am also not a “Republican Trump supporter”. And I ask the mods to keep the comment section open, because closing comments for something that’s slightly political is weird.

Always hilarious to see people who want the government to pay for literally everything and want to raise taxes every chance they get crying over the government finding new ways to raise money at our expense.

@YoshiAngemon Don’t worry, buddy. All you have to do is swear allegiance to Israel and you’ll be fine.

My favorite memory is when I found out that the “game” was just a maps data refinement/collection scheme disguised as a game to obtain massive amounts of free labor from the people “playing” the game and then selling all that data for insane amounts of money.

@Grim I’m not your guy, pal

@Grim I think you’re looking at a cartoonish looking human character made to look like he’s wearing an elephant suit underneath his normal clothes and therefore looks like a morbidly obese person in an elephant mask. Also it’s called a joke, bud.

I still can’t get over how much I hate the elephant power up. I avoid it at all costs when playing Wonder. Imagine how much better the game would be if the big flagship power up were something that’s actually fun to use and cool to look at instead of just…. obesity.

I think it’s absolutely depressing that gaming has become so stale that this is what “game journalists” are whining about. A side view of a character lying in bed in the dark. In a game we’ve seen no gameplay or even still shots from.

Looks like it would be awesome if it weren’t a roguelike. Genuinely tired of those now.

At this point I think we can safely throw out IGN’s reviews.

@Old-Red Nintendo always saves their best for systems that no one buys.

@Dman10 Have you played the game?

@8bit-Man I’ve been playing Yoshi games since the first one came out. I have never been under the impression that it was aimed at anyone other than “a younger audience”.

I know nothing about this guy but he’s gotta be pretty old by now. You have to give old people some slack. They aren’t terminally online and don’t know about 90% of the stuff we’re aware of. And even if they’ve been made aware of ai videos by now, they almost certainly aren’t aware of all the moral grandstanding against it.

@Windbreaker1612 The industry has literally always been like this. It’s no different from any other segment of the tech world. I say as someone who’s worked in the industry for two decades.

I want a new Donkey Kong game that's actually a Donkey Kong game and not just digging.

I would be getting it day one anyway, but it’s not like we have anything else to play.

NGL they should’ve just churned out another mainline Shovel Knight game. Would’ve been easier and faster and more popular than this will probably be at this point. I get that they’re probably extremely tired of that series after all the extra modes they had to make for it, but as it stands, their studio sounds like it’s on the brink of ruin and I don’t know if this game will fix that. Oh well, hoping it’s good and not as frustrating as some are saying.

@Jeronan Yes but there’s a good way to do that and then there’s what Illumination does. Kids are much more capable of handling abstraction, depth, mystery, surprise etc than what these movies offer them. And even if the content isn’t as dumb as you think the kids need it to be, it’s better that way because it’s good for them to have growing room in what they’re watching, or reading, or playing. It’s actually better for their development if they don’t immediately understand it all and have to think about it or ask questions.

And even at toddler age, kids can still tell when they’re being patronized and talked down to. And that’s all Illumination’s movies, and almost ESPECIALLY their Mario movies, do. They announce to kids that the studio thinks they’re dumb by waving shiny objects in front of them and playing goofy songs and making slow motion fart sounds. It might entertain kids for a while but eventually it will mean nothing to them and many will start to resent it and ask for something that goes deeper than surface layer.

I love this guy so much for what he’s created over the years. He’s given me a lot of happy hours the last 37 years. But he still seems incredibly naive to so many things, and that is what I find baffling. I don’t know what the Japanese call boomers, but whatever that word is, it fits him.

These Mario movies are eye candy, but brain rot. They look amazing. They give us massively detailed looks at characters and worlds we haven’t seen in any greater context than brief cutscenes. In that sense, they’re fun. Kids seem to enjoy them and I’m glad they’re bringing new fans to the franchise.

But come on man, the writing and the stories are less interesting or thoughtful than what you’d get out of a group of five year olds, and I seriously mean that. There’s no imagination to it. Its Illumination’s trademark Slop. It’s exactly what I expected when they were announced as the studio that would be making these movies. And I can only hope that the Zelda movie will fare far better in the hands of a different studio, and unfortunately I hope Miyamoto is far less involved in it.

Say what you will about the original Mario movie, but I would honestly rather watch that than these movies. At least it tries to be different, instead of just running Mario through a copy machine.

@PlatinumTour What else would it be…?

I like how people won’t admit that they’re interested in a movie without qualifying it as being “terrible” or something. It doesn’t look terrible at all. It looks like a crazy, awesome, mirror image of the source material.

Treasure Tracker was nothing short of sublime. The fact that we never got a sequel is criminal.

They came up with some of the most fun moment to moment gameplay mechanics I’ve ever experienced in a game. And then built an entire game around it. And then a couple hours in I realized that that’s not at all what I want out of Donkey Kong and I hope the next one is just a normal game that I might actually want to revisit someday.

@Friendly lol, kind of funny that you think this is even close to being true. The only place where there may have been a carve out is Japan, but even they’re pretty toxic in this regard now. This is pretty common in business, everywhere that it’s conducted.

Good. There’s nothing more depressing than seeing a game that looks amazing and then finding out it’s a roguelike. I have never played a game that I felt was improved by being roguelike. It is always the opposite.

I find it extremely odd that Nintendo wasn’t their target platform to begin with.

@CaptainQuo Honestly I’m just happy it’s not a freaking roguelike.

@Serpenterror I would certainly love to see it.

@Serpenterror Yep, I’m aware it’s made by WayForward. But they don’t own the game. Disney owns the rights to that game. WayForward and Capcom had a license with Disney, and it apparently expired. So I’m not holding my breath.

Genuinely stupid that it took them this long to put it on Nintendo systems. Also, would really love a port of DuckTales Remastered, but I’m sure we’ll never get that one either.

@CaptainQuo “ I don't understand where you are coming from at all.”

I very much doubt that that’s true, since I made my thoughts pretty clear and you don’t seem to lack in literacy. It’s more likely that there’s something else about my post that you don’t like.

At this point I just find my imagination drifting off to a world where Iwata survived and is still running the show, Reggie is still running NOA, and we’re getting games we care about and not getting completely gouged for overpriced predictable slop games AND systems. The 3DS/Wii U era was a million times more fun as a Nintendo fan than the last few years have ever been, even if they didn’t print money for Nintendo.

I’ve been a Nintendo fan since I was four (37 years ago!) and this new iteration is just painful. They don’t care about their fans. They care only for their profit, seeking a path of generic output and generic corporate culture. They’ve made a lot of money exploiting the nostalgia of people like me, but they’re not even trying to do that anymore so I honestly don’t care to see where the future takes Nintendo. Good luck to this polished corpo-bot, I’m sure she’ll make sure all the accounting look good and will make sure no one anywhere feels either excluded or catered to.

@Vyacheslav333 lol good one. I’m sure it will actually get much worse.

I’m not a algo chasing youtuber and I’m here to tell you that this game is not “good enough.” It’s got a couple good areas, some good gameplay, but in general it’s actually mostly a piece of crap.

@The_Nintendo_Expat The complacency isn’t always reflected in the games themselves. Sometimes it’s reflected in the frequency of the games, or the franchises that we get, or their interest in getting third party titles, or their pricing. Right now I think we’re seeing the long term effects of losing a CEO who actually loved games and replacing him with number crunchers who care more about the books and customer satisfaction is secondary.

Nintendo gets complacent on games when they’re in success mode. They act like they can charge whatever they want while delivering a weak game lineup and everyone will just automatically get on board with it. That’s typical of them. But the market probably perceives that people aren’t really stoke about any of it.

But I also just sense something more concerning, which is something plaguing most of the industry, and that’s the death of genuine creativity and originality, and idiotic social issues and writer self-inserts leaking into their games, all of this resulting in a complete inability to deliver games that anyone actually likes.