Nintendo Direct/Indie World/Treehouse/Showcase Discussion Thread - Directly 2 You

I thought it was a solid showing considering we might not be seeing much past the first half of next year with the new console on the horizon.

I was pretty content with that. That’s fine by me if they’re working on some Big’ns for the Switch 2. What’s been announced last time and elsewhere and what was announced yesterday will keep me going for a long while, that’s no hassle.

The Another Code collection and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door are the only remakes I can see myself definitely getting. A remastered Tomb Raider trilogy that’s playable in the twenty-first century is appealing as well – there’s always been good games in there somewhere, hidden beneath utterly rubbish controls and movement that always played especially naff next to the N64’s best. I’ve never really connected with Mario Vs. Donkey Kong if I’m honest. Even if it were a straightforward ROM dump on the GBA Switch Online app I don’t think I’d have bothered trying to playing it.

Horizon Chase 2 and F-Zero 99 were my highlights, and that they both launched right after the presentation was magic. I’d have got Trombone Champ straight away as well but in Samba de Amigo Party Central I’m just done with another rhythm-centric game. I’ll get it in due course

I'm always disappointed that MvDK isn't as much like DK94 as it feels like it should be. I have the GBA cartridge right here but I'm not super into it.

I can kick my Paper Mario N64 online attempt into touch now with that Thousand Year Door mention! It was excellent, but I can't play two of the buggers in a 5 year period.

I think I'd agree for the most part with that Mario vs Donkey Kong opinon - it's not quite as puzzle-y, and I think there's room for a new HD single-screen level series for Mario in the future (as opposed to the sub-Lemmings stuff that has happened since).

BUT F-ZERO 99! All y'all better be on F-Zero 99. It's exactly what needed to happen with the SNES F-Zero, and it's more compelling than Mario Kart 8 online. I can't stop playing it. My only gripe is that (as with MK8) having 2 large teams in Team Mode isn't comprehensible, and really should be more smaller teams. But it's blimmin' great.

Hopefully the other tracks will open up soon, at the moment only offering the first 4 tracks at random, the last 1 in the easy GP in GP mode, and then the two random later ones the original game lets you practice.

(Does anyone know why the original F-Zero was like that? In practice mode, you could only choose the 5 tracks from the first GP, and then 1 from each of the others, but not all.)

Jimbob wrote:

BUT F-ZERO 99! All y'all better be on F-Zero 99. It's exactly what needed to happen with the SNES F-Zero, and it's more compelling than Mario Kart 8 online. I can't stop playing it. My only gripe is that (as with MK8) having 2 large teams in Team Mode isn't comprehensible, and really should be more smaller teams. But it's blimmin' great.

Aye it is superb! I got my first win on Friday & I've not had rush of adrenaline like that in an online game for a wee while, although I do wish the standard 99 mode was double the amount of laps so you could see more folk crash out and get a bit more of that elimination feel you see in other BR/99 games.

I enjoyed a lot of that Direct, there's not many huge hitters but plenty of stuff I know I'll have a good time with. I've only played a little F-Zero 99 so far and despite how bad I am at the game I think I'll get some time out of it, there's a lot more to it than the needed to include. I'll pick up Trombone Champ within the next few days as I've been itching to play that ever since it was first released on PC.

Super Princess Peach looks a lot more interesting than I was expecting so I think that will be really fun and Wario Ware is giving us proper simultaneous multiplayer like the series has been begging for ever since the Gamecube. Thousand Year Door is huge of course, I've wanted to replay that for a while and anything that hurts the Pre-owned Nintendo game market is great.

There's plenty more I'll play as well even if they won't be day one purchases, the likes of Mario Vs. DK, Dave the Diver and Horizon Chase 2 are all things I know I'll enjoy when I fancy something new.

The_Jaster wrote:

Jimbob wrote:

BUT F-ZERO 99! All y'all better be on F-Zero 99. It's exactly what needed to happen with the SNES F-Zero, and it's more compelling than Mario Kart 8 online. I can't stop playing it. My only gripe is that (as with MK8) having 2 large teams in Team Mode isn't comprehensible, and really should be more smaller teams. But it's blimmin' great.

Aye it is superb! I got my first win on Friday & I've not had rush of adrenaline like that in an online game for a wee while, although I do wish the standard 99 mode was double the amount of laps so you could see more folk crash out and get a bit more of that elimination feel you see in other BR/99 games.

It's absolutely first class right enough. I’ve had no wins yet but with the Fire Stingray I’m regularly competing in the top 10. There’ll be more Grand Prix, modes and options added in short order I’m sure, but from the get-go I’m massively impressed with how it’s turned out. It’s not just a gentle reminder of how brilliant the original F-Zero is, but a very loud and extremely compelling reason to bring the series back for an all-new game.

I had a sleepy evening on F-Zero 99 followed by an okay morning but I haven't had a chance to really sink my teeth in yet - hoping to rectify that this week.

I've got one single race win, and did also win a GP series which I might put my CV. BUT I NEED ANOTHER GO NOW

Ahhhh I'm never going to have a great time with a showcase where the game youse are all talking about afterwards is an online battle royale adaptation of an SNES title.

Did we get a single new game announcement though?  Not a game on other platforms, not a game we'd seen bits of already, not a remaster or remake or DLC but something actually new?  F-Zero 99 at a stretch I guess? Oh wait: we got Unicorn Overlord. Otherwise there really were a lot of remakes and remasters featured weren't there?  Did we need another trailer for Luigi's Mansion 2 or Super Mario RPG HD?  And I echo what y'all are saying about Mario vs. Donkey Kong, as somebody who's never play DK94 I'd love something done with that instead.

Oh and they successfully ruined Another Code in one fell swoop with that voice acting, which I guess is grimly appropriate given recent Nintendo Directs.

It was the Nintendo Direct equivalent of hold music really.  A clear sign that Nintendo's bigwigs are working on something else, as Jas and Cappa have said.  At the same time, given that we know nothing concrete about this 'something else', I feel like that's letting them off the hook a bit.