Well if you got the last release with only lion king and aladdin sucks to be you. Buy it again sucker!

 

If Doom Slayer is not announced as the final Smash character during the Direct tonight I will go absolutely NUCLEAR towards Nintendo

 

Kirby and The Forgotten Land, plus Animal Crossing direct with the Roost has made this direct worthwhile for me.

 

So I gotta wait until October 5th to see if Nintendo either redeems themselves, or if they forever remain on my List Of Jericho

 

Final Smash Direct and Age of Calamity DLC disappointed me.

 

Kind of underwhelmed on this one.

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3D/third-person Kirby is... interesting... But I feel like it's going to end up being more Donkey Kong 64 than Super Mario 64 in terms of how well it works.

Weird choice to be announcing other Directs/streams. Particularly for Smash.

Splatoon 3 I felt like I should have been more excited to see. Not sure why I wasn't.

And the Mario movie casting choices... Out of the people I had actually heard of before, Jack Black was the only one that I had any amount of confidence in them playing the role well. Chris Pratt as Mario just seems off to me.

Also, Nintendo: please stop showing Samus' face through her helmet. It just highlights how awkward the proportions of her Power Suit look on a human.

 

The only thing new that I liked was Kirby

 

It was aight.

 

Looking forward to the Smash Direct and the N64 games on Switch (especially Banjo-Kazooie at a later date, did NOT see that coming). Not looking forward to the Super Mario Bros. movie.

For fuck's sake, let it GO. It's just a game.

 

You have absolutely NO IDEA how long I’ve been screaming for Nintendo to add Doom Slayer to Smash. I even started an online petition to get them to do it

 

Yeah, this waluigi all over again…

 

I don’t expect Doom Guy / Slayer because he might be seen as to violent. If Microsoft will choose to add a 3rd character it will be Master Chief. He can have a similar move set to what Doom Guy will have and he is more PG-13.


Personally I want Ryu Hayabusa. He I one of the last NES characters that I would want. Him and the Contra guys.

 

I mean, considering Bayonetta sorta made it, it would likely that either character would just have toned down movesets. Really, it's up to Microsoft on which green wearing action gunner would even be chosen.

Those would be pretty good choices for representatives. Honestly, i don't know what to go with for my guess, honestly.

 

Mario party list of 100 mini games for the new game.

Nintendo | MiniGame Mario Party Superstars | Nintendo Switch |

 

Any Metroid news? Or a new DKC?

 

None for DKC (unless you count Seth Rogen voicing DK in the Mario movie). Metroid just got the Dread overview trailer.

 

I’m curious as to how much they’ll charge for the Nintendo 64/Sega Genesis upgrade.

 

Summary for those who can't/didn't see the Direct.

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• Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak expansion. Summer 2022.
• Mario Party Superstars trailer (featuring 5 N64 boards, and minigame-only mode with 7 courses.)
• Voice of Cards: The Isle of Dragon Roars. (Card-based tabletop style RPG.) October 28. Free demo available today.
• Disco Elysium The Final Cut. October 12 digital. Early 2022 physical.
• Age of Calamity Expansion Pass. Guardian of Remembrance. October 29.
• Chocobo GP. (kart style arcade racer with up to 64 players.) Switch exclusive, 2022.
• Final Sakurai Presents for Smash Ultimate will be October 5th.
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land. (What appears to be a 3D Kirby adventure/action game.) Spring 2022.
• Animal Crossing New Horizons Direct airing in October, with new content coming November.
• Mario Golf Super Rush free updates: Koopa Troopa and Ninji playable characters and two new courses. Available later today.
• Disney Magical World 2: Enchanted Edition. (Includes all DLC from the original 3DS version) Coming Holiday 2021.
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (the Aspyr enhanced version of the original, not to be confused with the recently announced Aspyr developed remake of the game.) Nov. 11th. eShop Preorders up today.
• Dying Light 2: Stay Human - Cloud Version (required internet to play, and will have free demo.) February 4 2022
• Dying Light: Platinum Edition. October 19th. Preorders available today.
• Triangle Strategy. (Changes due to earlier survey highlighted including: difficulty adjustments, visual improvements, camera angle controls, the addition of the ability to review previous dialogue, streamlined game flow, and improved loading times. More details at Nintendo.com.) Coming March 4 2022. Preorders up today.
• Metroid Dread. (New trailer shown. Visit Metroid.Nintendo.com for more information.)

And of course the big rumor actually came true. Nintendo Switch Online - new membership plan. Including N64 games. With local and online up to four player multiplayer. At launch games available will be:

• Mario 64.
• Yoshi's Story.
• Ocarina of Time.
• Dr. Mario 64.
• Star Fox 64.
• Mario Kart 64.
• Mario Tennis.
• WinBack.
• Sin and Punishment.

Future additions will include Majora's Mask and F-Zero X. (With more to come. Games teased visually include Kirby 64, Mario Golf, Pokemon Snap, Paper Mario, and Banjo Kazooie.)

Sega Genesis games also coming to the expanded plan, starting at launch with:

• Castlevania: Bloodlines
• Contra: Hard Corps
• Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
• Ecco the Dolphin
• Golden Axe
• Gunstar Heroes
• Phantasy Star IV
• Ristar
• Shining Force
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Streets of Rage 2
• M.U.S.H.A
• Phantasy Star 4
• Shinobi 3
• Strider

Again, with more to come.

Service expansion will be called "Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack." Coming in late October. Pricing and exact date to be revealed at a later time.

Member exclusive N64 and Genesis controllers will be available for 49.99 each. (These are the FCC listing everyone was discussing, evidently.)

More Switch announcements in the rest of the Direct:

• Shadowrun Trilogy. Coming 2022.
• Castlevania Advance Collection. (Includes Castlevania X (SNES,) Circle of the Moon, Harmony and Dissonance, and Aria of Sorrow. Quicksave, button mapping, and rewind features. All regional versions of the included games and a new gallery mode.) Launches today.
• Actraiser Rennaisance (Remastered Actraiser. New audio which can be swapped for the original, as well as new stages and boss battles are included.) Available today.
• Deltarune Chapter 2. Available today as a free update to the game.
• Hot Wheels Unleashed. September 30th.
• Surviving the Aftermath. Holiday 2021.
• Shin Megami Tensei V. Digital preorders up today.
• Wreckfest. Fall 2021.
• Arcade Archives Pac Man, and Arcade Archives Xevious. Available today.
• Rune Factory 5. March 22 2022.

Miyamoto-san pops in to talk about Illumination Mario movie. Holiday 2022. Dec 21 2022 in North America. Exact dates for other regions to be announced. Cast announced: Chris Pratt is Mario. Anya Taylor-Joy is Peach. Charlie Day is Luigi. Jack Black is Bowser. Keegan-Michael Key is Toad. Seth Rogan is Donkey Kong. Charles Martinet is involved in surprise cameos. Kevin Michael Richardson is Kamek. Fred Armisen is Cranky Kong. Sebastian Maniscalco is Spike. More updates will come in future.

Back to Switch:

• Splatoon 3 (New trailer and gameplay elements shown. Takes place in Splatsville, the city of chaos. Surrounding the city are the Splatlands where battles take place. New main and special weapons. Story mode singleplayer campaign's theme is "Return of the Mammalians." More updates to come.) Still TBA 2022.
• Bayonetta 3. (Extensive gameplay trailer is shown.) TBA 2022.

My thoughts:

The

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N64 rumor being true

makes me indescribably happy lol. I am also pleasantly surprised to

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see Mario 64 included.

It makes the exclusivity and

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limited availability of Mario 3D All Stars

feel both less and simultaneously more shady and irksome, and their refusal to simply

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announce the price now when they clearly know what it'll be

is also quite annoying. But my happiness vastly exceeds my annoyance so I'll opt to ignore that.  

In a broader sense, this is also just super reassuring and heartening to me from a

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legacy

standpoint. Just the mere existence of

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F-Zero X and Paper Mario

in this for instance will ensure new players discover them as they were, among others. Nintendo needs to leverage and make available their

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back catalog

much more than they do, and this is a great extension of that concept imo. It gives me hope that they do so for

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other platforms and games as well.

Would happily pay

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59.99 a year for this personally. Again, no price revealed yet, but I think that would be reasonable.

And it's also interesting and exciting that this sets a precedent for

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non-Nintendo platforms

being included. That could go in lots of exciting directions if they pursue it further in the future. Also, I know it isn't, but, some small part of me feels like

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Nintendo literally selling a classic Genesis controller and classic Sega games on its console

is like the ultimate

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"we won the console wars, we sell your products and make money off of them"

power move ever.   Just kind of funny considering the past. (But also a tad bittersweet. I really

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loved Sega's platforms back in the day.

)

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Castlevania Advance Collection

getting a shadow drop also makes me super happy. It's been rumored forever now and so to finally see it as well as its features makes me ready to grab it right away. Some great games in there.

Finally seeing

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Bayonetta 3

was extremely satisfying and long overdue imo. The long dev time thankfully also shows in the footage shown, as it looks very polished and fluid to my eye. (Not a jaggy over-aliased mess for one thing, like many Switch reveals recently have been, despite a pretty impressive visual design going on.) It, despite this, still not coming until 2022 is a bit disappointing, though. So I will hope for early 2022, rather than later.

I wonder if

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Chocobo GP

is the source of the rumored

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MK8 DLC.

Given the look and presentation, it might make sense if someone misidentified it then leaked that misidentification.

A new

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actual 3D Kirby

is totally unexpected and tentatively intriguing. Didn't see that coming, and I might have to check it out. That said, while "gameplay is not final" as always, it looks really plain, and overly aliased to boot, in my eyes. So I hope we see it get some more love before release.

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Kirby is a major Nintendo IP

and I love many of those games, but I feel like sometimes despite that it gets the short end of the stick in terms of quality and polish. I hope that isn't true in this instance.

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KOTOR

getting a port to Switch makes me very happy. One of my favorite games of all time, easily. Even just the minor enhancements in the mobile version but with added controller support is enough to make it worth a purchase to me, since the PC version, while it does have controller support technically, isn't ideal with a gamepad.

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Triangle Strategy

continues to look great. Glad to see them respond to feedback and that it's coming out early next year rather than later.

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Wreckfest

has developed over the years into an (imo) great

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arcadey racer with physics/damage model emphasis

so I hope the Switch port is solid, as it fills a niche not really filled right now on the platform with many high quality games.

While I'm not too interested in

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the Illumination movie

I do have to say that the announcement of the

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voice cast was, uh, interesting... and mildly worrying, but I will give it the benefit of the doubt until we hear them and see those voices paired to the animations.

Of course I really wanted (as always) to see

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Xenoblade Chronicles

but we can't have everything. I doubt now that we'll be seeing it this year, unless it's in an end-of-year Direct to prime for early 2022.

Given the

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lack of major new titles announced that are coming out in the remainder of this year

I think it's safe to say we've probably now seen everything the rest of 2021 has to offer on Switch in terms of major games at least.

I also feel this Direct was just a teeeensy bit light because of that, and that my earlier suggestion that if they wanted to they could have entirely eschewed it for this month had it not been for

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the Switch Online expansion news

and just made most of these their own uploads or waited until after October/November, was close to being true.

That said, that one announcement alone justifies a Direct imo, and the things that were big and positive news make me hugely happy, so I'm definitely happier than not with this.

Edit: Surprised this wasn't noted in the Direct, but there's also a pretty big eShop sale happening right now: Nintendo Sales & Deals - Nintendo Game Store - Nintendo - Official Site

Things like Mario + Rabbids (normally 59.99) being 15 bucks, etc. Some good deals.

 

Thing about any disappointing directs is that there’s bound to be one bad direct eventually.

 

You might just have to accept that Nintendo probably ain't putting Doom Slayer in as the final character and that the game isn't retroactively ruined by its absence.