Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

Oh my God the direct sucked. It was a dissapoinment. Some Square games and nothing more.

@belmont You mean you weren’t a fan of EA’s faux-Raid Shadow Legends level of advertising?

So, once I'm in a better mood, I'll go back and look at the trailers for that Octopath strategy game with the stupid name again. And the Famicom Detective Club games look pretty neat. But I'm just kinda annoyed right now.

And Skyward Sword was a stupid game to port. Who wants to swing a sword with an analog stick?

@Ralizah I didn’t expect FDC and it was less a good surprise and more of a ‘holy moly this is tropey af and I’m not really sure why they’re localising this and not the million other games without translations’

@nessisonett Oh? I know very little about them, but they look like fun mystery/horror VNs, and the presentation was pretty damn good for the genre.

@Ralizah I mean... the stories were basically like ‘there’s been a murder plus supernatural stuff plus YOU HAVE AMNESIA?!?!?!’. The presentation is pretty nice though.

@nessisonett Isn't that true for like every anime game?

@Octane Just like how every Sony exclusive either has a brooding protag with a tragic backstory or a wisecracking *****. You have to trudge through the tropey rubbish to find the more interesting and original stuff just like every other genre.

@nessisonett You talking about Knack?!?

I'm downloading that Triangle game now. It looks decent, even though I'm not a huge FF Tactics fan.

Is the Octopath team dedicated to coming up with the stupidest possible name for every game they develop, though? "Triangle Strategy." Ugh. Might as well call Uncharted "Climb Talkey" or something.

@nessisonett Eh. Everything is tropey when you analyze it deeply enough. Being tropey isn't a bad thing. It's more how effectively those elements are utilized.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD and Mario Golf are up. 60 euros each. Legend of Mana is 30 euros.

@belmont Let that sink in for a moment. OG Skyward Sword was cheaper than the port

Some interesting stuff there. Famicon Detective Club seems interesting. And there's also World's End Club, though I can't tell if it'll be excellent or rubbish.

It seems a little early to be getting Splatoon 3, though that might just because I only played through Splatoon 2 last year. I'll probably be eager for more Splatoon once 3 hits in 2022.

@belmont Ports should never be full price, especially just the one game and not a collection, that’s absolutely bonkers.

@nessisonett I'm OK with ports like 3D World that add a decent amount of new content and/or add significant QoL improvements.

With that said, I'll be sticking with Skyward Sword on my Wii U.

@Ralizah That whole Direct felt like the end of the 3DS, when there were loads of unexpected ports and also like the Wii U when Breath of the Wild was being held until the next console arrived. It’s strange, the Switch should be in its prime but it prints money without them trying so of course they aren’t going to try. Covid isn’t really an excuse when you look at the games coming from third parties and on other consoles. It’s just plain strange.

@nessisonett I REALLY hope this doesn't point to the Western release of Nocturne HD being delayed.

And Gnosia was listed as "early 2021" on Nintendo's website. What the heck happened to that?

Rune Factory 5?

Disco Elysium?

They can't even use the excuse of "it's focused on the first half of the year," because a number of 2022 or late 2021 projects were highlighted.

I'm still baffled that Crash Bandicoot 4, which looks pretty genuinely good, wasn't even mentioned in the Direct, but F2P garbage and shovelware was.

@Ralizah I totally forgot about Gnosia which looked pretty great. And also Rune Factory 4 is up there with my favourite games of all time and the fact I completely forgot they announced the sequel what feels like years ago does not bode well. I can’t believe so much time was given to Plants vs Zombies and that dreadful looking EA game with the worst humour I’ve ever heard in an advert. Plus that Star Wars game is going to be a dumpster fire, it’s made by Zynga who literally made their name making crap pay to win Flash games on Facebook back in the day. You’ve got to wonder how much you have to pay to get into a Direct.

@nessisonett That's what particularly annoys me about this. Good stuff is coming. This year. But it's totally clear that companies are just paying to have their trash highlighted in Directs now. If Directs are just going to be dumping grounds for trailers of games that nobody would be willing to watch otherwise, then what's the point of them?

The people who are doing Directs now clearly don't care about curating what's highlighted.

@nessisonett So much time for PVZ.

It was a 1:40 trailer my guy.