Well it is hard to explain but i will try my best. Its really the sum of all parts of their games, its the way everything in thier games come together to make it timelessly enjoyable from the controls to the artstyle to the music and sound effects everything just fits perfectly together to make an enjoyable game.
For eg for those whoever played SMW on snes when you play the first level and you hit all the turtles on the platform the whole effect of the catchy music the sound effect when each koopa is hit and the extra life sound effect everything just fits together neatly into an enjoyable single moment, basically it just feels good to do. That is nintendo magic everything in their games they try to make it enjoyable to do, because really that is the basis of video games enjoying what you are doing on screen.
In mario 64 the speed the camera moves behind coupled with the timing of his animation makes it enjoyable to just run around and jump. Only now that western games have become more prevalent that i realized all these were not by accident, for eg when i first played gears of war i thought nothing could stop me from enjoying it, it was a 3rd person shooter had local co-op play through the campaign and had possibly the best graphics at the time this game is perfect, only to my horror that somehow everytime i shot someone they died of a heart attack why did they die of a heart attack, then i realized they just did not know how to make it feel satisfying, imagine playing a shooting game that doesn't feel satisfying to shoot people thats my example of a completely terrible game.
I can still play starfox 64 to this day and still enjoy because its a shooter that feels satisfying to shoot something no matter how many times i do it, that is nintendo magic.
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