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Come on, it should be the P-balloon Mario from SMW!

This list needs Tomato Adventure! It was directed by Yoshihiko Maekawa, the same guy who directed Super Mario RPG and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, but it was never released outside Japan! It laid the groundwork for the M&L games

10,000 Gecs already came out though

@NEStalgia Skyward Sword is Fujibayashi

Hideki Konno

Hironobu Sakaguchi

Xbox and playstation don't even have enough games to split between the two sadly

I can't wait to see some gameplay footage!

None of them look good to me unfortunately. The torch hasn't really been passed from the great Square directors of the 90s and 00s. It feels like a very different studio now.

Fun fact: Super Mario Kart was actually originally developed as a multiplayer counterpart to F-Zero! I think it's even based on the F-Zero engine

Honestly I was expecting Reggie to say that he tried his hardest to get it localized but Miyamoto was against it or something.

It almost doesn't sound like a true story to me.

I'm more interested in where all the different codes came from tbh. Any chance you'll add that for each of them?

Always loved her.

Tri Force Heroes gets too much hate. That game was some of the most fun I've had in my life

Oh...boy. Didn't the Harvest Moon creator make a "shop" game too?

Ah yes it's Pills by St. Vincent of course!

"Sonic creator" he was just the programmer...

Looks like a mini karaoke machine

My guess is that it was a mistake

@I-U True, I guess I just wish the games were more consistently good over the years and more innovative gameplay-wise. With a different producer I think maybe they would be. I think Sakamoto puts more emphasis on the story rather than gameplay mechanics.

@I-U Yoshio Sakamoto did not direct the first Metroid game. That was Satoru Okada. Sakamoto was just a character designer on that game. His first time directing a Metroid game was the third one, Super Metroid, which in my opinion is horribly overrated.

Nintendo's biggest mistake was giving this series to Yoshio Sakamoto

Ugh, this looks good

Way too many of these games

The Legend of Zelda: Road Warrior

I loved the original game on DS, but this doesn't look great to me from the trailer. Also bad news: Tatsuya Kando is no longer directing, it's Hiroyuki Ito. I wish it weren't!

Edit: Apparently this Hiroyuki Ito is a different person with a similar name to the Hiroyuki Ito who directed FFIX and FFXII. Their romanized names just end up looking the same. You learn something new every day!

A Short Hike 99

Always remember to tune your Joy-cons before playing

I personally don't see any reason to ditch Stardew Valley for any of these other games! I loved the Harvest Moon games for SNES, N64, and Gameboy, but they haven't been exciting to me since then.

Love your articles, Kate!

@KateGray Thanks, I needed an avatar!

Yuji Naka gets way too much attention and credit for creating Sonic. He was just the programmer. He didn't design the characters or art (Naoto Ohshima did). He didn't design the levels (Hirokazu Yasuhara did). He's really riding those coattails.

The top 5 were all directed by Shinya Kumazaki. I like his games, but it's interesting that they beat out the originals by Masahiro Sakurai.

Once upon a time, Smash Bros was a history lesson on video games that helped introduce people to games they wouldn't normally be acquainted with. Yeah, there's still the spirits, sure. But a long time ago, there were playable characters like Ness from a commercial failure called Earthbound, and Marth and Roy from a series called Fire Emblem that wasn't even released in the West. Heck, there was even the Ice Climbers from an old arcade game and Mr. Game and Watch from an obsolete handheld. R.O.B.? But now it's left the Nintendo history pretense behind in favor of current era advertisement characters, and people are understandably unhappy about it. Geno is important. Super Mario RPG is important. The fact that you personally aren't familiar with it just goes to show how you could benefit from Smash including a "historical" character like Geno. Look at what happened with Fire Emblem after Melee. People are right to be frustrated.

@roboshort Oh boy, could you help me work on my cover letter?

They really should just cut their losses and scrap this game. Metroid is a dead series, as much as people love it. It really does seem like they are reaching after potential sales rather than working creatively for new ideas. They know that Metroid has a big fanbase and they want to deliver on the promise of Metroid Prime 4, but the Metroid format is too limited to innovate on without feeling "not Metroid". The best they can do is put out the same game with better graphics and slap a new title on it, like all the other first person shooters out there. The problem is that's not Nintendo's way of doing things. Hence the development restart. All I can say is good luck to the team behind this, and that I am also available for hire

come to brazil

I just bought a new pro controller, and I was about to send it back because out of the box it was drifting. I thought it was faulty of course. Just downloaded this update and now it works perfectly! What timing!

I'm interested because of Hideki Kamiya (a person), not because of Platinum Games (a company). It's the people behind the games that make them good!

@Paraka I was going to comment this!

What does the use of the cloud or not have to do with creating good software people want to play? If cloud gaming is as good as they say it is, wouldn't players not even be able to tell the difference?

Stupid idea only fit for a quack like Kojima

@Kirby_Girl Yes! Great points. I'm glad someone else sees it

@duffmmann My theory is that the Smash games are secretly just Kirby games, and Sakurai tricked everyone into allowing their characters in the games just so Kirby could have more abilities to copy. Think about it: the control scheme for Smash is pretty much the same as the old Kirby games, the last main Kirby game Sakurai directed was Kirby Super Star in 1996, and his next game was Super Smash Bros in 1999. He never returned to Kirby...or did he never stop?

@Chunkboi79 Oh boy

@Chunkboi79 Whoa really?

@Chunkboi79 @roadrunner343 @Tempestryke Depends on if you think it's the same team when the lead designer/director of Banjo-Kazooie had nothing to do with Yooka-Laylee or Playtonic. It's kinda like The Beach Boys touring and making music without Brian Wilson, ya know?

"We copied Banjo-Kazooie. Now we're willing to copy any game."

@OorWullie Yoshi's Island is a Takashi Tezuka game.

Or as it will be released in the West, Litóher.