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Will there really be a jump in the rollercoaster?
They're really emphasizing it!

A new single player adventure like Subspace Emissary would be amazing!

Maybe BG3 is fun, but god is it ugly.
No art direction whatsoever, character design is generic as hell and the color palette is fifty shades of brown.

In the meantime:
Beating Hornet until Hollow Knight: Silksong comes out.Day 774:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PTShX6GYHU

I can't believe there's no mention of F-Zero 99.
It's such a unique multiplayer online gaming experience, with one of the deepest racing game mechanics.

@ottoecamn Of course Ghibli themselves are unlikely to do it, even if it's not unimaginable. What the general audience is saying is that they would like a Zelda film's visuals to have that style and sensibility. There are many other studios who could achieve this with the right direction (e.g. Comix Wave, IG Prod, Sola, etc.)

@ZeldaLord If you go back, you'll see that most people's reaction was actually surprised/curious, not disappointed.

@Olliemar28 As someone working in the film industry, anything can still happen before principal photography (the actual filming), especially since the screenwriter and actor strike put everything on hold.

I'm so glad the reception has been so overwhelmingly negative - in a stark contrast with the Super Mario Bros Movie announcement.
The only hope is that this will make them reconsider making the movie in animation, with either Ghibli, Laika or another animation studio. We're currently living in a animation renaissance, and it would be such a shame to miss out on this.

I'm glad the reaction all over the web is negative. Choosing to make it live action rather than animated is very risky, but doable with the right team (for instance directed by Guillermo del Toro or the The Duffer Brothers). But with the producer of Morbius, the writer of Jurassic World and the director of a forgotten mid 2010s franchise, there's literally no hope this could be any good.

Happy Birthday NintendoLife team!

I never realized how crazily successful Animal Crossing has been. It makes me think this will be the next movie Illumination and Nintendo will do next.

It's nice but I wouldn't go as far as comparing it to Ghibli's work.

@VancouverVelocityFan
Fair enough, but it's such a missed opportunity not to have included courses set in South America, Africa or even the Middle East.

As much as I love their ingenuity, it's really unfortunate that Mario Kart's World Tour courses are all limited to Europe, Asia and the US.

I'm surprised you guys at Nintendo Life don't have a direct channel to Nintendo to flag things like that.

This game filled a TOTK-shaped hole in my life!
I can't wait to bite my joycon in anger as I try to complete the Queen League to unlock Whitelands II!

First leaked footage!!!

Hot take: Nintendo will give Mario Kart some rest to avoid franchise fatigue and will start pushing F-Zero ⚡

Using Zelda as an example is a pretty strong indication that TOTK will be re-released in 4K on the Super Switch, followed by some DLC.

The best theory I've read is that it's a new branch parallel to everything else, created by Zelda going back in time. If she hadn't, Ganondorf couldn't have taken her appearance and the forthcoming timeline wouldn't have been possible.
This also allows Nintendo to treat the BOTW/TOTK Hyrule as a brand new slate.

My feeling is that the DLC announcement will come with the release of the 4K version of TOTK, coming to Switch 2 as a launch title next year.

I love this story.
My forgotten game is a side scrolling 2D arcade game from the late 80s/early 90s in the vein of Shinobi but with more cartoony graphics. You could play as one of 3 boys, each with their own abilities. I remember one of them was a Ninja but can't remember the other 2 (a spaceman? a cowboy?)
I tried finding it but it's ungooglable.

Love a good fake!
Back in the early 2000s, I made a bet with a friend that I could make his CG concept of a PS3 go viral, and it did!
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps3-concept-image-debunked/1100-6084898/
But admittedly it's much harder to achieve these days.

NINTENDOLIFE could you please run a poll asking how people would imagine a Zelda movie?
Every one says not Illumination as no one wants pop songs and a talking Link.

I would love a Ghibli style movie, but I understand that 2D is not as glamorous as 3D for big budget films, and Ghibli's 3D movies don't look that great.

Some people mention a live action movie like LOTR or GOT which is too western and doesn't reflect Zelda inherently Japanese take on fantasy.

Microsoft be like "-45%? Is it Black Friday already?"

I'd say next up will be Donkey Kong or Kirby, while a sequel to Super Mario Bros is being developed.
Animal Crossing won't be far behind.
Zelda needs to be a 2D anime film, done by a Japan studio like Ghibli or Comic Wave.
Metroid is the only one that could be a live action movie.
Personally, I would love to see an F-Zero live action film.

@Uncle_Franklin Ghibli Zelda is the only possible Zelda

Is that a Mii on Luigi's phone?

Happy to support the Nintendo Life team!
I probably check out your site min 5x a day and I love the positivity that transpires through all your writing!

Waluigi: "Have you heard of the SMASH BROS INITIATIVE?

Very disappointing that only the cars and characters are made of Lego and not the world around them. It's such a missed opportunity and makes the art direction looks generic.
I'm a big Lego fan, but I'll pass.

Jill Valentine needs to be in the next Smash Bros!

The most likely issue will be a silly name like New Switch, Switch 4K or Switch + Expansion.
Just call it Super Switch and we'll all be happy.

Greenpath all day every day!

Nice! I loved this game and so does everyone around me. I found the reviews needlessly harsh. It's the perfect example of little snacks of games I can play in one evening which is all the gaming I can get to do these days anyway.

If you had asked me 20 years ago what Mega Man would look like in the far future of 2023, that's... not what I would have pictured.

Is no one talking about the fact that the website acknowledges Mario & Luigi's mom in one of the reviews???

Although individual characters and environments are well drawn, they're too generic to stand out in a sea of anime inspired games.
Also, it's lacking a coherent vision that's unifying all the elements together, like a proper art direction.
On that note, when is Silksong coming out?

What's frustrating is that Game Freak puts so much time, people and money into their new IPs to the detriment of the Pokémon games which are looking worse and worse.
If they're fed up with making Pokémon games, they should renegotiate their deal with Nintendo.

I can't find it at any Crystal Should I be able to find it at any Tera Raid Crystal?
I have completed the game but not all the post game stuff but I was hoping to join an online Raid. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

@Ryu_Niiyama
The ESRB rating does not cover addictiveness:
https://www.esrb.org/ratings-guide/
A lawsuit like this could change it.

@Ryu_Niiyama

You're confusing violence and addiction.
ESRB Ratings are about violence in videogames.
Addiction is a completely new phenomenon.

But indeed this could be a solution: that ESRB creates a new label for addictiveness. Unfortunately, big companies like Epic will only budge if faced with a lawsuit.

Don't get me wrong: I disapprove of poor parenting in any form.
But more needs to be done to protect vulnerable people, adult or minor, from addictive games.

@ComfyAko @Ryu_Niiyama @BlueCoolYoshi
The big difference is that our society understands the addictive nature of alcool, tobacco, drugs or gambling. But addictive games (designed with behavioural psychologists) is a new phenomenon.
Most parents won't know how much more addictive Fortnite is from a Mario game.

I hope this lawsuit wins and that addictive games are forced to display a warning about their danger.

Everyone is missing the point here!
It's not about blaming poor parenting but acknowledging that there is, for some, an addiction problem in the gaming community.
While some games (like the ones made by Nintendo) are designed for FUN,, an increasing amount are being engineered for ADDICTION.
How many people have divorced because of videogames? (I know at least 3 couples).
How many kids have failed exams?
How many adults have lost their jobs?
This is an extremely important topic that no one in the community wants to acknowledge or write about.

Technically good but the art direction is unimaginative af.

That tweet is 100% the reason they were fired.
I work in VFX on big movie franchises.
I've seen people get fired for more innocent tweets than this.
When you work on top secret franchises, you have to learn to shut up your tweeting hole.

I hope this still leaves him enough time to finish Delta Rune and start Mother 4

Cancelling all my meetings for tomorrow 3pm cause grown men needs some dopamine!

@Kyloctopus KOTAKU from today is very different than the KOTAKU from 2 years ago. I've been reading the site every day for the last 14 years and the quality of journalism as really evaporated as the more senior journalists left.
Nowadays I find it really hard to navigate through the click baity articles, commercials and random articles about wrestling.

That being said, I hope Nintendo will respond to this. Any harassement, intended as a joke or not, systematic or explicit, should not be.