To be clear here though, we're not talking about remakes. Sonic Mania is a totally new game made in the same style as the old games. I know you probably know that anyway, I just want to make sure there's no confusion about what I was saying originally.
I usually reference Joshy boy and his GC cult. He hates Kirby for being repetitive or something along those lines. He kinda flip flops because he just needs to hate Nintendo product nowadays. When it comes to the GC cult, they don’t give a shit about Kirby until they suck Air Ride’s dick for having one mode they like.
>criticizing Kirby for being "repetitive"
Oh, they all HATE that shit. Absolutely despise it and it's "wah"s.
There's plenty of competition for the 3D-2D Mario games but they keep making that trash. There's plenty of top-down ugly Unity adventure games but they made that port of Link's Awakening. Nintendo just does shit at random like they've got a "bad decisions" dartboard. And all the choices are to release a game but add some gay feature to it or to not release a game at all.
They criticize NSMB too, thank god.
They would be singing a different tune if that one Kirby game that was gonna come out for the GC didn't get canned and repurposed later down the line.
There's one more:
Hell, there's an actual Kirby Smash bros game:
Maybe that why they never bothered porting NES Remix series over to Switch? I thought they looked interesting but never got around to them.
The game is really only held up due to the City Trial mode. The game was a product of development hell and it definitely reflects that. They tried to make a simplified kart racer by only using one button, but that approach just makes the game hard to get a feel for and, ironically, more challenging for the average person to play. It doesn’t help that the challenge board is filled with bs challenges that seem way harder than they should be given said controls. Then there is the top down mode which is lame and no one seems to play. City Trial is alright, but it is a one map mode that gets draining after a while due to how underdeveloped it is. Once again, the challenge board only makes it worse as it has very repetitive requirements.
Not really. The GC peeps just like the GC. They would probably just claim that Kirby got bad after the GameCube rather than not care. This is pretty much how they handle Mario & Zelda.
Probably. The games were fine from what I could remember, but overall, Nintendo really needed to get off the NES comeback craze. We are at the point where they have pushed the NES/SNES so hard that not even EarthBound can stir excitement. At that point, it should really be clear that you messed up somewhere.
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Arlo I can kinda get. He's a Pikmin fan and I can get why Pikmin fans are a little pissed off rn. He comes across as "it's not for me but that's fine", with the occasional little bit of jealousy (and I can't blame him, it kinda sucks to have a series you love on hiatus like that).
I normally don't believe rumours/leaks too. But I'm pretty sure the direct being on the 29th is true.
This is why I really don't like the idea of RPGs in general being reliant on a Nintendo console for their main base. Because it's not based on Classic Nostalgia™ it's alien or foreign to Nintendo's main consumer base and they wind up putting stuff at odds.
Why even bother making a Direct solely for Xenoblade 3 if Nintendo "doesn't consider it a primary series"? For that matter, why is Xenoblade a Nintendo-exclusive franchise in the first place if what you said above is true? Shit, Splatoon 3 has only gotten paltry 2-3 minute trailers while Xeno 3 gets a full-blown 20 minutes. Xenoblade 1 Definitive Edition was the "one last thing" at the September 2019 Direct, and got a solid chunk of that next February's Direct Mini focused entirely on it. Xenoblade 3 was the "one last thing" at this past February's Direct. And this isn't even mentioning the sales:
That's not a bad number for what people consider a "niche" series.
Actually no this is what came from Nintendo itself