Wednesday, June 21st was the latest Nintendo Direct presentation. These presentations showcase upcoming game releases and DLC for games already released. These presentations, to gamers, are like Christmas. Tonight, I am going to share my takes on some of the announcements.
First, I'm going to talk about the Super Mario RPG announcement. This is a fully 3D remake of the 1996 Super NES game Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, which was a collaboration between Nintendo and renowned game publisher SquareSoft. I was shocked to see a remake of this cult classic, since Square Enix, the successor to SquareSoft, is very stingy with Intellectual Properties, and since they developed the game, the original characters Mallow and Geno are owned by SE, which I find to be weird, since Nintendo PUBLISHED the game, and as such, I think that the characters to a game should be owned by the publisher of the game, even if they were made by a seperate developer.
Next, I'm gonna talk about the reveal of the new Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC Wave 5 track "Squeaky Clean Sprint". From what it looks like, I think it's the bathroom of Peach's Castle. The new characters were surprising, too. Wiggler, the caterpillar enemy, is being added, after being in the Mario Kart 7 roster, and absent from the original MK8 roster. Petey Piranha, from the Mario Kart: Double Dash!! roster is back, alongside a new character, Kamek, the Magic Koopa who has been Bowser's adoptive parent since Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
The new 2D Mario game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, looks so psychedelic and trippy, and I LIKE IT! It looks more like a fan game than a real Nintendo-published game, which is ironic, considering Nintendo's stance against fan games.
Pikmin fans must have had the time of their lives with the details of the Pikmin 4 game, alongside remasters of the 1st and 2nd Pikmin games. That means that the whole series is now available on Switch, since Pikmin 3, a Wii U game, was ported to Switch as Pikmin 3 Deluxe.
There was also a new Princess Peach game teased to us. It is slated for a 2024 release. I think that this game is going to be a sequel to the 2006 cult classic Super Princess Peach.
And the Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon remake looks alright so far, I think that Next Level Games will polish it up and make the graphics look like Luigi's Mansion 3.
These were the best announcements in my opinion, and I think that Nintendo had a better presentation than the other guys this year!
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