Was a pretty great direct! Had a bunch of neat releases, and unlike before many of the things showcased are actually coming out relatively soon. Personal highlights: Major MH:Rise DLC Metroid...
Was a pretty great direct! Had a bunch of neat releases, and unlike before many of the things showcased are actually coming out relatively soon. Personal highlights:
Major MH:Rise DLC
Metroid Dread
Yoko-Taro deck builder RPG
More Triangle Strategy footage
New 3D Kirby
Castlevania Advance Collection (+ coming out today!)
Splatoon 3
Bayonetta 3 footage
It was a little strange that SMT5 got relegated to one of those montages in the middle when it's coming out in a few months but I guess they don't have any footage ready? Or at least they didn't bother to make a new trailer for this.
Metroid Dread looks great. My husband was happy about the Shadowrun series coming to Switch, as that’s his main platform and he loved them on the PC. Also I’m happy to see that Nintendo finally...
Metroid Dread looks great. My husband was happy about the Shadowrun series coming to Switch, as that’s his main platform and he loved them on the PC. Also I’m happy to see that Nintendo finally seems to understand that we want old games — especially N64 titles — but I’m not thrilled that most of them are locked behind the online “expansion pass” instead of just sold directly.
Very underwhelming. At first I thought the leaks claiming that Game Boy/Game Boy Color games were coming to Nintendo Switch Online were a let-down. But then N64 and Mega Drive games were announced...
Very underwhelming.
At first I thought the leaks claiming that Game Boy/Game Boy Color games were coming to Nintendo Switch Online were a let-down. But then N64 and Mega Drive games were announced for NSO, which was good and in the latter-case highly unexpected, and then Nintendo revealed the catch - a new tier of NSO subscriptions which will undoubtedly hike up the price of Nintendo's already-dogshit online service.
You're paying an elevated subscription fee for access to seven Nintendo 64 and fourteen Sega Genesis titles on launch. And some of these titles are quite underwhelming too. It's an increasingly tone-deaf response to the threat of emulation and retro game piracy, which is easier and more accessible than ever before.
Only thing that I think N64 NSO could be good for is if you want to get into Super Mario 64 speedrunning. The Shindou version ported to Switch as part of Super Mario 3D All-Stars had many (bad) changes including the removal of the backwards long jump glitch - which previously made the 16-Star, 1-Star and 0-Star routes possible.
(Yes, you can technically do a 0-Star speedrun on the Shindou version but it's using a separate TAS-only glitch,, unless you can nail hundreds of frame-perfect wall kicks over a several minute span to skip the 30-Star door, 50-Star door and Endless Staircase...)
An official Mega Drive Switch controller costs $40, yet you can buy a wireless 8BitDo replica of the six button pad that is probably of a better build quality for $15 less... The N64 pad doesn't have such good third-party options but you just know 8BitDo or Hori are going to come out with a Switch-compatible one eventually.
Predictably underwhelming. The most interesting announcement is probably the 3D Kirby game. N64 games but only with a higher NSO price tier just instantly turns this from something to look forward...
Predictably underwhelming. The most interesting announcement is probably the 3D Kirby game. N64 games but only with a higher NSO price tier just instantly turns this from something to look forward to to a typical Nintendo facepalm moment. Maybe it’s time for me to revisit the emulation scene. Or play some new games on my PS4.
Was a pretty great direct! Had a bunch of neat releases, and unlike before many of the things showcased are actually coming out relatively soon. Personal highlights:
It was a little strange that SMT5 got relegated to one of those montages in the middle when it's coming out in a few months but I guess they don't have any footage ready? Or at least they didn't bother to make a new trailer for this.
Overall pretty happy with it.
Metroid Dread looks great. My husband was happy about the Shadowrun series coming to Switch, as that’s his main platform and he loved them on the PC. Also I’m happy to see that Nintendo finally seems to understand that we want old games — especially N64 titles — but I’m not thrilled that most of them are locked behind the online “expansion pass” instead of just sold directly.
Very underwhelming.
At first I thought the leaks claiming that Game Boy/Game Boy Color games were coming to Nintendo Switch Online were a let-down. But then N64 and Mega Drive games were announced for NSO, which was good and in the latter-case highly unexpected, and then Nintendo revealed the catch - a new tier of NSO subscriptions which will undoubtedly hike up the price of Nintendo's already-dogshit online service.
You're paying an elevated subscription fee for access to seven Nintendo 64 and fourteen Sega Genesis titles on launch. And some of these titles are quite underwhelming too. It's an increasingly tone-deaf response to the threat of emulation and retro game piracy, which is easier and more accessible than ever before.
Only thing that I think N64 NSO could be good for is if you want to get into Super Mario 64 speedrunning. The Shindou version ported to Switch as part of Super Mario 3D All-Stars had many (bad) changes including the removal of the backwards long jump glitch - which previously made the 16-Star, 1-Star and 0-Star routes possible.
(Yes, you can technically do a 0-Star speedrun on the Shindou version but it's using a separate TAS-only glitch,, unless you can nail hundreds of frame-perfect wall kicks over a several minute span to skip the 30-Star door, 50-Star door and Endless Staircase...)
An official Mega Drive Switch controller costs $40, yet you can buy a wireless 8BitDo replica of the six button pad that is probably of a better build quality for $15 less... The N64 pad doesn't have such good third-party options but you just know 8BitDo or Hori are going to come out with a Switch-compatible one eventually.
Only good surprise was footage of Bayonetta 3.
Predictably underwhelming. The most interesting announcement is probably the 3D Kirby game. N64 games but only with a higher NSO price tier just instantly turns this from something to look forward to to a typical Nintendo facepalm moment. Maybe it’s time for me to revisit the emulation scene. Or play some new games on my PS4.