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Splatoon had Mario characters in it at one point before they decided to make original characters for that game, being the Inklings.

This has very generic looking characters in it, while this could really have benefited from having some big Nintendo faces in it, Mario or otherwise.

They can't all be winners!

Never really got to try this one out, but I've been looking forward to this one being added so I could give it a shot!

This is just getting hilarious at this point.

Absolutely not. Unless I get it for free. Or like, 5 bucks at most, and it won't go for that ever, I'm sure. There's very little appeal in this one, in my eyes. There is virtually no Nintendo charm to be had here.

It was my third entry I think after TTYD and Super. As it wasn't my first, I found things to be rather rough around the edges, but I still really love this entry. The story is really nice and the gameplay is solid. The graphics look really cute, and the music is sweet. Absolute banger of a game, this one.

A remake would absolutely help in pulling out the rough edges from this one. It definitely needs the remake treatment more than TTYD did. Not that I minded TTYD getting it instead, since that's my favorite, but you know!

For once, Japan is the clear loser instead of the clear winner.

My personal guess is that they don't include these songs yet solely to give people more incentive to buy the games and listen to these soundtracks there, and then later upload them after a year or so. Would give the game a slight bit of a boost I would imagine if they can advertise them again in a relatively small way like that.

@Peteykins Unfortunately I did, yes. lol

Other people's kids are gonna eat good

That sounds..... uh, pretty horrible not gonna lie lol.
But hey, if they can make it work and make it fun, why not?

Why did they have to make them amiibo, now I have to get this set. 😤

A solid 8 for me. There was just a good showing all around in my opinion, absolutely 1-upped the Partner Direct for me. Quite good!

I never finished this game, but I always thought it was cute and charming when I did play it. This update should bring me back when it comes!

This game very much reminded me of some old Flash games I used to play back in the day. That already gave it points, but the multiplayer gives it extra. It looks really fun. Keeping an eye out for this one!

Somehow I don't think I ever heard of this game, I thought it was Lethal Company at first. Don't think I'll be going for this one regardless. But it's cool to see here!

Seems like a good title. I won't buy it yet but I'll put it on my wishlist.

This game looks so cool, I'll be sure to try the demo.

I saw it earlier, and while I still don't particularly care about Fortnite, the trailer is pretty dope. I like it. 👌

Needless to say, one of my all time personal favorites. This game is absolutely phenomenal and I'll always love it. Wish the series that spawned from this wasn't so up and down in quality, but if nothing else, I'll always be grateful for this entry!

And to think, back when I first saw it as a kid, I thought it was too childish. If only my kid self knew it would grow to be a top favorite for me, hahah.

Still hoping for the Yoshi series to get the Bananza treatment one day. There are several examples already of how Yoshi would play in 3D, and those examples are great.

I can't wait for the Paper Mario plot twist coming from this survey.

Huh. That's a nice surprise. I'm expecting more hype from this than the Partner Direct, personally.

They could easily have spread these out over time but it's nice to see them adding multiple game soundtracks on occasion.

@rjejr They're not dead until we stop getting physical altogether. They're dying, but not dead yet, and we can keep fighting to keep them around longer, using surveus such as this one.

I'm sure physical will be dead eventually. But we're not at that stage yet, so there's no need to exaggerate.

I never want to imagine 99 Marios and a Yoshi in a thong ever action, thank you very much.

Anyway, I'm not necessarily going to expect anything. Are we really supposed to expect a celebration every 5 years now? I mean I'm not gonna complain if that will be the case, but I'm not expecting anything here.

@rjejr It doesn't have to be dead. In fact, it simply is not dead yet, I don't know why you're claiming it is. There are still proper physical games coming out.

Game key cards should not be the future. Sure you can trade them in, sell them, and such, but guess what, you can do that with proper physical versions too. Game key cards are not needed for this. The only people who benefit from game key cards are developers, and the extra storage cost is pushed onto the consumer.

Game key cards do not need, nor deserve, to be defended.

We need this survey to work together with us voting with our wallets so that they HAVE to do something about it.

Game key cards can stay, but as an option next to the proper physical version. Then again, why would anyone want a game key card over a proper physical version? I think game key cards really should just be a thing of the past.

It honestly very much reminded me of how a 2D Zelda game typically plays, that's for sure. And in all the right ways. They absolutely sold me on this game, and I would highly encourage everyone to give the demo a try. It plays very well!

I'd even go so far as to say that this game sold me on the HD-2D artstyle more than any game prior has done. Probably because this is the first time where I play a game in such an artstyle where I actually enjoy said game. I've only played the original Octopath Traveler before this demo, and that game just did not sit well with me, in regard to how the character stories were handled rather poorly. I've yet to play other HD-2D games, but I am glad to finally have one in Elliot that clicks with me.

Looking forward to this one for sure.

Alright, at least one positive for me now: I tried out the Adventures of Elliot demo, and I really like this game! Didn't expect to like it as much as I do, but they sold me on getting the game at least.

What form my purchase will take, I'll have to see, but it will absolutely not be a game key card purchase. I would like to be able to play this game plenty of times in the future and not have to rely on it still being up on the eshop, thank you very much.

Yeah I'll be buying anything I want from this list on Steam if they'll be available there. Game key cards can go to heck. I'd rather not have third party support at all at this rate because it feels essentially non existent like this anyway.

Just waiting for the moment Sony mysteriously finds more PS2 sales yeah. Lmao

This WOULD have been my most anticipated announcement from the Direct, but then I learned it's gonna be on one of those blasted things.

I added it to my wishlist on Steam yesterday though, I'll just get it on a sale on that platform.

That said, the game does look really good and I do love how much content there is in this one.

@Willo567 Yes, for a few reasons.

1. Steam games are often cheaper.

2. PC games can be modded without Nintendo riding your tail about it.

3. Part of the reason I've been a console gamer is so I don't have to worry about storage (as much). Game key cards are forcing people to manage storage constantly and I hate that. PC is just easier to manage storage wise.

4. PC games will be playable for a long time. I don't know if the next Nintendo system will be backwards compatible, and/or when the eshop goes down and preventing me from redownloading my games. Game key cards will be useless at that point too.

So yeah. In my eyes, getting games on PC is just becoming much more attractive when compared to Switch 2.

And I'm almost ashamed to say I'm (still) one of those fans. I love Nintendo games, and I have to admit I love my Switch 2 so far. But I don't love it for the third party support. The third party support on it is practically non existent on it for me, due to these game key cards. It's so bad. So bad. And it's so sad. And it's making me want to buy all these games on PC instead. I might just do that. They're cheaper there, plus there's mod support. I always wanted to support third parties on Switch 2, but so long as the games are on game key cards, I'd much rather support them elsewhere.

I really don't want to be so negative. I really don't. I want to be excited. I want to cheer getting all these cool games on the system. I want to look forward playing all these games on my shiny new Switch 2.

But I just can't. And it's frustrating. I need something to change or all my third party games will be purchased on PC, because I sure as heck am not going to be purchasing any game key card. And Nintendo needs to be better at providing dev kits to third parties too. Nintendo needs to not hold an exclusive club and fix the whole Switch 2 situation, pronto.

Pardon the lengthy rant, but this whole Direct and everything around it really laid down how disappointing this Nintendo generation is turning out to be. They're turning me into the meme of an old man yelling at a cloud at this point. But I can only yell at a cloud so often before they lose me as a fan altogether. I already dropped Pokémon after years of being a loyal fan. They can lose me overall too. I have a Switch 2, but if the next system will be just as poorly handled, I might not even get that. I never would have considered not getting a new Nintendo system prior to today. But here we are. Of course, we're still years off from then, so it's too early to even say that anyway, but it does depend on how things go from here on out. If they screw things up more and more, I'll just become a PC gamer instead.

Pardon the double post, apparently I reached the comment length limit and had to split it into two.

I'm not gonna lie, this Direct has me very fearful for the future of the Switch 2. Not necessarily in terms of success, because so far it seems to be performing quite well. At least in terms of hardware and first party sales. Don't know how well the game key cards games are performing.

But the fact that (almost) all of these games shown are said to be in game key cards leaves an incredibly sour taste in my mouth. They're really trying to shove that down our throats, and I really, really, really can't stand that.

But it's not just that. A lot of stuff felt to be missing here. A lot of stuff that, somehow, feels like it's all Nintendo's fault. Maybe the game key card situation made some third party developers pull back on their support, after seeing they weren't selling. Maybe it's because Nintendo is being incredibly weird with the whole Switch 2 developer kit thing, where a lot of devs aren't given one for whatever reason.

It all reeks suspicious one way or another. The Switch 2 should have been a big success coming off of the immensely popular Switch, but it really feels like Nintendo is butchering it for no reason other than "**** you". They're truly turning into the Disney of the video game market now, and I don't like it.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic though. It's still too early to yell doom and gloom right now, since this was the first post launch direct, and it hasn't been even half a year yet since the system launched. But good gracious they're really not doing a good job selling this system. Yet the system does sell. Probably because they've garnered enough fans now to keep themselves sustained off of fans alone or something, fans who stick with the brand regardless of how bad the company gets, much like Disney.

The gal of calling the game key card a physical option. What a flipping joke.

A mediocre direct made worse by the fact that everything is on game key cards.

At this rate I may not even buy any third party games on Switch 2 and just switch to PC for third party stuff. This is so disheartening.

There was a time where this would have excited me, but the HD-2D games all look so similar that I've grown kind of tired of this visual style, especially since it's most of what SE is willing to give us, regarding new original games for specifically Nintendo platforms.

I'm glad with the support, but, eh. I'll try the demo though. See if they can win me over!

Almost makes me want to support the game key card thing anyway but I'm a firm believer that nothing like this should be pushed onto the end consumer. Nintendo should find a way to keep everyone equally satisfied.

Neat. Hoping for a good show. Bring it on!

I might dive back in now. It was good fun when I played it, but a game like this really benefits from higher frame rate. I hope it loads faster now too.

Button mapping is definitely a good feature. The only reason I don't make more use of it is that button prompts in game often don't change to reflect this, unless it's built into the game itself.

Certainly a worthwhile update I'd say! Though I'm not much of an artist myself. Maybe I'll follow along with one of those Bob Ross videos and use his guidelines to create a happy little vista with happy little trees and happy little clouds and a happy little Bowser kidnapping a happy little Peach being bombarded with happy little fireballs by happy little Mario--

Wait, I think Bob may not have actually painted some of those things.

This was probably the closest thing to getting me to enjoy a pokémon game from the latest Pokémon presents, but the price absolutely ruined that. I'll probably get it when it drops in price over 50%, otherwise, no sale from me.

I'm waiting for a sale. Not worth the current price whatsoever to me.

Plus, day 1 DLC is a red, greedy flag to me.

I just tried GRIS for the first time. The visuals and the music are both beautiful, but the gameplay is so unengaging that I quit not too long into the game. A shame, I was looking forward to enjoying it, but it just turned out to be rather boring. It's like Mario Kart World where there's just a lot of going straight for a while before anything exciting happens.

I'll probably play a bunch of Ace Attorney Chronicles 2, instead!

Don't really care for Lego still but that commercial recreation is pretty lit.

I hope it won't be the case so he loses credibility.

Leakers suck, even if it's just a Direct date leak.

Well. At least it doesn't seem to have micro transactions...

If it ever goes on sale, DLC included, for under €15, I may get it. This doesn't seem to be worth a cent more, imho.

I can appreciate silly little things like this.

The pre-show with DJ Pikachu was really cool, and I'll give them points for that. But the presentation was so incredibly lackluster for me, there were zero things shown that interested me.

I went in with zero expectations and somehow still came out disappointed lol.

But hey, at least my money is saved now, since I won't have to buy any Pokémon games now!