4th September 2019, 11:48 PM
So yes, Nintendo had a new Nintendo Direct yesterday afternoon. They showed a lot of games... but they are almost all multiplatform ports, mostly of older games, or first-party titles we already knew about but they showed maybe a few new elements of this time. The first-party software shown includes Luigi's Mansion 3 (sorry, I still don't really care about this series), Pokemon (no interest), Animal Crossing (very little interest), Tetris 99 DLC (that looks cool!), the Link's Awakening remake (looking great), and a couple of new ports/remakes of older games -- Xenoblade 1 and Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE are getting Switch ports. It's an okay but, for me, mostly not especially exciting lineup; I know a lot of people are excited for Pokemon and Animal Crossing, but I'm not. The Xenoblade remake looks nice and has better character models, but it's a good looking Wii game, so I doubt I'll be buying, at least not unless the price goes way down eventually; that version's probably fine. And that's about it for first-party software.
The other major component was some new Smash Ultimate DLC announcements -- Terry Bogard from SNK is the next character, they're adding back in the Home Run Contest mode (with a new two player option!), and they have some new paid DLC costumes for the Mii fighter, most interestingly including Goemon. That's pretty neat, the Goemon games are fantastic. (There's also some Undertale character costume, but I don't care about that.)
And finally, SNES games are coming to the Switch, like NES ones, for Nintendo online subscribers. 20 games are going to be there for launch, some expected and some interesting -- Joe & Mac 2, really? Huh. It's cool that there won't be an added fee for this.
Otherwise, the rest of the Direct showed off a lot of ports of older games from other platforms both old and newer-- Overwatch (a good game, and I like that it'll have motion controls, but no way would I start over in progression and unlocking and such, one time is enough!), The Witcher 3, Divinity: Original Sin II, Doom 64 (the only one of these I'm interested in maybe getting), Jedi Outcast (and Jedi Academy is coming too; it's too bad it's these games I have never liked, and not the first two Dark Forces games, which are some of the best FPSes ever made...), Deadly Premonition, etc, etc. Yes, I get it, the Switch is popular but underpowered versus the other consoles, so it's getting a lot of older games and that's okay, but I at least don't get super excited for ports of old games I probably already own on other systems. Oh, one third party exclusive apparently was announced; Deadly Premonition 2 is Switch only and was announced. A lot of people are excited about this, but as someone who has never played a Swery game and has never wanted to, I don't care one bit, I don't think.
So yeah, this direct showed a lot of things and a few were interesting, but for me specifically it was definitely underwhelming. I wasn't expecting anything from it though, so that's fine; hopefully other people like this lineup more. Mario Maker 2 is already out, after all; the Switch has already won my game of the year!
The other major component was some new Smash Ultimate DLC announcements -- Terry Bogard from SNK is the next character, they're adding back in the Home Run Contest mode (with a new two player option!), and they have some new paid DLC costumes for the Mii fighter, most interestingly including Goemon. That's pretty neat, the Goemon games are fantastic. (There's also some Undertale character costume, but I don't care about that.)
And finally, SNES games are coming to the Switch, like NES ones, for Nintendo online subscribers. 20 games are going to be there for launch, some expected and some interesting -- Joe & Mac 2, really? Huh. It's cool that there won't be an added fee for this.
Otherwise, the rest of the Direct showed off a lot of ports of older games from other platforms both old and newer-- Overwatch (a good game, and I like that it'll have motion controls, but no way would I start over in progression and unlocking and such, one time is enough!), The Witcher 3, Divinity: Original Sin II, Doom 64 (the only one of these I'm interested in maybe getting), Jedi Outcast (and Jedi Academy is coming too; it's too bad it's these games I have never liked, and not the first two Dark Forces games, which are some of the best FPSes ever made...), Deadly Premonition, etc, etc. Yes, I get it, the Switch is popular but underpowered versus the other consoles, so it's getting a lot of older games and that's okay, but I at least don't get super excited for ports of old games I probably already own on other systems. Oh, one third party exclusive apparently was announced; Deadly Premonition 2 is Switch only and was announced. A lot of people are excited about this, but as someone who has never played a Swery game and has never wanted to, I don't care one bit, I don't think.
So yeah, this direct showed a lot of things and a few were interesting, but for me specifically it was definitely underwhelming. I wasn't expecting anything from it though, so that's fine; hopefully other people like this lineup more. Mario Maker 2 is already out, after all; the Switch has already won my game of the year!
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