Holy shit guys, you weren't kidding in the LM3 technical praise thread.
Playing for yourself, it looks damn incredible and is definitely the very first Nintendo first party Switch game that feels like a real next gen game.
I know that they accomplished the crazy good graphics with a lot of old-school techniques and little tricks but that doesn't changes the final outcome of what we see here.
This is probably the most AAA feeling Nintendo title in, maybe generations, in some ways, cause it's not only the graphics, it's absolute everything around it.
Yes you had all the Mario platformers and Zelda's in the last 2 gens, but they all were relatively simplistic when it comes to the core. Mario's were mostly, really well done, but simple platformers, BotW was a huge playground with a lot of toys but almost zero story, nothing ongoing throughout the game and made with the thought of you living your own adventure in it. Everything really well done on its own way, but here, I feel like they did something they never really do normally.
I'm playing like 5-6 hours already and I'm at the police appartment now, and up to this point, almost every single room you get in to, has his own little animations and cutscenes and a continuous happening that's constantly developing with every 3 minutes of progression, it's like a story driven adventure with almost more cutscenes than gameplay.
Normally you would get like a tutorial, a little story opening and then here are your level 1-1 to 1-9, see you for the next 2 minute cutscenes in about 3 hours, but here, almost every single door surprises you with new animations, new cutscenes, new tasks to do, new gameplay elements, new stuff that's happening and a presentation that just doesn't stop to deliver.
The way Luigi reacts to absolutely everything in this game in a completely new way each and every time, over like 6 hours already, just gives me the feeling of playing a continuous 6 hour adventure already, rather than playing a "normal" Nintendo game with a simple core element and strict levels to go through.
This finally feels like a real next gen Nintendo game and I'm f'n impressed.