EDGE gives Yoshi's New Island 4/10 [62 on Metacritic]

[MikeRox]

RolStoppable said:

MikeRox said:
I did, I even live in the EU so had them earlier :P However, none of those are actual Nintendo (as in in house) games.

Isn't Xenoblade the 3rd game in the Xeno**** set? (Xenogear PS1 and Xenosaga PS2)

I did enjoy Pandora's Tower, great use of the Wii Remote, but again, more 2nd party affair rather than an actual Nintendo game, much like I don't consider Banjo Kazooie/Conker/Jet Force Gemini etc actual Nintendo games.

I know where you live. I also know that you are a bad character, because you didn't buy the Castlevania game on the 3DS.

Anyway, a new IP has to be developed inhouse, so I say "What about Wii Sports?" and you say that's not the type of game that counts. Therefore we can basically skip one back and forth. Since Steel Diver isn't particularly good, it doesn't count either. So what it comes down to is some very specific qualifiers. Okay, that was a good discussion. It led nowhere, but it didn't take long.

HOW DARE YOU! Such slander!!! I even have the posters for it!

Such myths must be busted! :D :P

And it's still there :P

 

 

Wii Sports and Steel Diver I'll give you. However, they still don't have the magic of Pikmin :p and particularly Wii Sports is a different type of game (I loved it, I was there day 1 with the Wii just like I was with the Wii U) however, I still think Nintendo are "going through the motions" of their existing IPs at the moment and it's damaging them.

I grew up with a Nintendo who were constantly introducing new things. I'd say the last "New" thing they introduced was Wii Sports, look how many consoles that shifted. It's a mini game compilation rather than a full blown game, which is why I used Pikmin instead. Steel Diver is also a mini game rather than a full blown title. Hell Tearaway is considered too short to be a full blown game.

But I'd love to see Nintendo go back to their old ways. I'm a full blown old skool Nintendo fanboy. I think they've gone off on a tangent which worked great with the Wii because it drew in a new audience. They went into the Wii U expecting to be able to just replicate that success, that didn't work, so they're now looking back to previous successes trying to replicate them, hence the overload of "New" and "going through the motions" sequels.

I actually think if Nintendo go back to the thinking that led to Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pikmin, etc being born, they would find they are able to enjoy a success irrelevant of what Sony and MS are doing.