Nintendo Switch: any other salty WiiU owners out there?

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bdbdbd said:

curl-6 said:

I tend to agree; there's nothing inherently wrong with E-rated games, but since that's pretty much all Nintendo make, their output lacks variety.

That's why Metroid was such an important series, it spiced up an otherwise homogenous first party lineup. Sadly, if they made a Metroid for Switch, I'm willing to bet they'd make it some cartoony BS.

But the point is, that something being cartoony does not make it less mature. The mature part of the games is not in the art style. The mature part lies in the content. Yes, I would too like to see more mature games from Nintendo than we have seen recently, but I just don't see value in kiddie mature rated (16+/18+) games with fantasy content. Not saying there could not be ones at all, because there obviously is a market for such.

It's more about tone than anything; on Wii U for example, after playing through the colourful cartoonishness of 3D World, Splatoon, or Pikmin 3, it was a nice change of pace to play through the dark grunginess of Fatal Frame/ZombiU or the playful eroticised hyper-violence of Bayonetta 2. It's nice to have a wide variety of games that look and feel very different to each other.