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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT8| Begun, The Nintendo Has
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Quick - somebody convince Nintendo to hire Dark Cloud's uncle
But seriously all this interest (read: Nintendo power podcast and a throwaway line in AC's localization) in StarTropics has me wondering if someone at NoA is trying to make a push for it to come back.
That's tied for my most wanted Nintendo franchise revival with Eternal Darkness.
At the very least StarTropics should get some kind of fucking Japanese release lmao
We've gotten shit like Panel de Pon (without Yoshi) and Mysterious Murasame Castle over here, and Japan also got once western exclusive games like Kid Icarus: Of Myths & Monsters. I don't know why the idea of giving ST some exposure in their home country is some completely taboo thing to Nintendo.
We've gotten shit like Panel de Pon (without Yoshi) and Mysterious Murasame Castle over here, and Japan also got once western exclusive games like Kid Icarus: Of Myths & Monsters. I don't know why the idea of giving ST some exposure in their home country is some completely taboo thing to Nintendo.
Not only I bought EBA, I also imported both Ouendan games! I probably had played that "Ore Ore" song about for 1 million times. The one with three engineers building a giant mecha to fight with a giant cat. They play checkers instead.
Miyamoto doesn't want his co-workers at NCL to know Takeda made a better Zelda game than he did.
I'm taking a long hard look at it. Seems like a pretty great value for someone who has never touched the series before like me
Just thinking about how Nintendo might see the franchise - what does StarTropics bring to the table that isn't already accomplished by Zelda? I've never played StarTropics but I read a lot about it being "like Zelda." That seems to be a common theme in some interviews: not making redundant products, both within Nintendo's suite of games, and the industry as a whole.
Then again, it's not like they've never done it before. Star Fox Adventures overlapped with the Zelda formula, and DK64 wasn't too distant from Banjo.
i was excited to create the first OP solely because I was ready for MPT to be announced.
Nintendo has been playing a sick game with me for years.
And even that was really more just the result of Nintendo letting their then-golden boy Rare do whatever they want.
I guess it can be said that StarTropics has a more western oriented vibe, which distinguishes it a bit from Zelda and its somewhat "anime" aesthetic. I guess there could be appeal in that.
Despite my joke in my previous post it's actually not like Zelda at all beyond the fact that they're both adventure games. It's a lot more story based and has a heavy focus on platforming, almost to a level of being a puzzle platformer at times.
One thing this game brings to the table is that it's set in the real world. And it has a tropical explorer/archaeology setting that's pretty different from anything else Nintendo has.
Gameplay wise it's hard to really modernize, at least conceptually. So it might need to go in a completely different direction than the originals did. Maybe they could lean into the baseball aspect a lot more?
This is now a blessed thread.
Zoda's Revenge gets a bad rap by the way. It's still a very solid game and where else are you gonna be able to deliver pizza to Cleopatra?
Retro Studios presents
A Shigesato Itoi game
Metroid Federation Force 2
Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series.
Edit - I agree with (I think it was skittzo0413) who said that Startropics is better than the original Zelda, I was actually shocked that there was a fucking NES game that I was actually willing to play through to the end and thoroughly enjoy. I sincerely hope it returns one day.
(Idk if i'd been able to do it without the rewind feature tho, that final level, yeesh).
Yeah can we get the Direct out of the thread title now? It's genuinely not relevant anymore.
Gameplay-wise, I wouldn't expect any StarTropics reboot to be necessarily be all that similar to the NES games. It can grow in a different direction than Zelda.
Because they'd probably make it into a sci-fi action RPG or an action platformer or some other unrepresented Nintendo genre (FPS anyone?).
Honestly, I wonder if it's the miracle that Note guy was referencing, it wouldn't shock me if the young and plucky Splatoon team want a crack at it.
Even though it did have some tough levels it really wasn't punishing at all, which was very nice back in the day. If you run out of lives you just start that level over again.
But yeah it had the right combination of gameplay progression, story and overall variety that Zelda never really had. It's a little surprising that it was so overlooked and that it still to this day hasn't released in Japan.
I mean I'm willing to bet there will absolutely still be another Direct this year, even if we aren't getting one any time soon. It's not like Directs are dead.
I wonder if there has ever been considerations to port/remaster previous Mario Kart games, and if not, then why. I know the gameplay is pretty consistent between each so some people may not see it as warranted, but at least from a business perspective with how much Mario Kart sells, it seems like a smart decision to me. Maybe it's not worth it to do just one entry and wouldn't be much interest for it as a full priced game, but seeing as they're already doing the 3D collection, I feel like there would be interest in a Kart collection too. Throw in 64, Double Dash and Wii, with online support, and I know for me at least that would be an insta buy. Especially as Switch is yet to get an original MK entry, perhaps this would tide the fans, and reignite interest for those who are bored of 8, until 9? Just a thought.
As far as I'm concerned, they'll literally NEVER remake any old Smash Brothers, Animal Crossings or Mario Karts because they're very iterative and remakes of the old games could undermine the modern ones, particularly online. I wouldn't be surprised if Mario Kart 64 doesn't make NSO at all.
I think Nintendo just really doesn't want overlap on their evergreen multiplayer titles. Even in genre. Smash is their ONLY fighting game, Mario Kart is their ONLY racer, Splatoon is their ONLY arena shooter, etc. They'll put them on Virtual Console/NSO but to sell as a retail product runs counter to "this is THE Mario Kart of the generation, if you want Mario Kart on Switch, play this."
They can be in the same genre. But I feel Nintendo's stance is that they need to distinguish themselves from any current IP in a meaningful way. ARMS, despite being a Fighting game like Smash, plays nothing like Smash Bros.
It's not a joke. Star Tropics is legitimately good. It's set in a real world. You go across islands. There's more story and characters (remember we're talking NES). I would love to see it translated into 3D.
The reason given was that they couldn't come up with anything new for the series, especially something to distinguish itself from Mario Kart.
A Star-Tropics remake similar to Link's Awakening would be pretty cool, but I don't see them ever going further than that.
Nah fuck that
3D, 1 billion dollar budget, ray-tracing, 4K, celebrity voice acting, the fucking lot.
Ugh all this StarTropics talk is getting me hopeful, don't get me hopeful. Quick Nate, come tell us that it's not one of the miracles and that it'll never happen.
W21 Nothing
W22 Pikmin 3 DX
W23 Nothing
W24 Smash DLC
W25 PokemonDLC
W26 Nothing
W27 3DWorld & 3D AllStars
Not anymore
lol
Once they get Arika to revive Joy Mech Fight then they'll finally have a second fighting game to go along with ARMS!
- Nada. Nothing. You lose.
- Good day sir.
- Smash DLC + Pikmin 3 DX
- Neigh
- Pokemon DLC
- Paper Mario Origami King Trailer #2.
It's really not too surprising. I would love to see how many 3DS games released 2018 and beyond sold even 250k copies. I'd be shocked if it were more than a handful. Hell, in 2017 only three of the top selling 3DS games actually released that year. The market shift once Switch released was insane.
they already let Arika revive Urban Champion on the 3DS
that was the test run for the real deal
One thing that does bug me about some people here is that they seem to think the Switch (2018 and 2019 in particular) still had typical Nintendo software droughts like the past. Are you people even playing the same console? Sure 2020's a bit questionable, but that's only because of a pandemic complicating matters. 2019 was the furthest thing from a drought, especially on Nintendo's side. Yeah, it took a while for the bigger stuff to come out but there wasn't any part of that year where there was nothing to play.
Even 2018 still plenty of solid content despite being more port heavy. So it annoys me that some still think even when Nintendo is putting out lots of games, that's still not good enough. There is no drought, the sooner people realize that the better. If you still think Nintendo hasn't gotten away from droughts, you clearly have not owned a Wii U my friend.
Even 2018 still plenty of solid content despite being more port heavy. So it annoys me that some still think even when Nintendo is putting out lots of games, that's still not good enough. There is no drought, the sooner people realize that the better. If you still think Nintendo hasn't gotten away from droughts, you clearly have not owned a Wii U my friend.
Was anyone really arguing 2019 was a software drought? I think it's generally regarded as a very stacked year.
I still think 2018 should have had NSMBU in the middle of the year as a heavy hitter, instead of saving it for 2019.
NateDrake i hate to bother you, but could you please kill this if you haven't heard it coming. At least we won't discuss what will always be a dream.
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