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curl-6 on 09 March 2016
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nuckles87 said:
curl-6 said:

Modern Nintendo seems happy to let other developers make darker games for their systems, (Bayonetta 2, Fatal Frame) but stops short of making them themselves, with the exception of the Xenoblade games, which I think they still view as "external" cos even though Monolith is now a first party studio, they only became so relatively recently.

Nintendo these days seems too afraid of taking risks with their software to go all-out on a modern Metroid they way they did with Prime.

I'm not really sure Nintendo sees Monolith as many more "external" than Retro. Hasn't Monolith assisted Nintenndo on a variety of in-house projects?

How does Nintendo seem too afraid to take risks?

Monolith has two studios; the one that made the Xenoblade games, and a smaller one that assists with Nintendo EAD's games.

And many of Nintendo games this generation have played it safe and not done anything really adventurous or demanding; Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, New Super Mario Bros U, etc.

In prior generations we had stuff like Metroid Prime 1/2/3, Mario Galaxy, Mario 64, Twilight Princess, Ocarina of Time; epic, no-holds-barred blockbusters that pushed the envelope and spared no expense. On Wii U, about the only game so far that feels like they really went all out on is Xenoblade Chronicles X.