Has Monolith surpassed Retro Studio as new Nintendo elite studio?

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freebs2 said:

melbye said:
Retro could have been Nintendo's Naughty Dog, but instead they have been wasted on mediocrity. If they finally announce a game and it is not on the level of Metroid Prime they might as well shut down. But these damn rumors that they are making Diddy Kong Racing persists. To answer the (two year old) question, yes Monolith has surpassed Retro

If you think DKTF is a mediocre game in a sense it doesn't have the same level of ambition as BOTW than 90% of Nintendo games are mediocre.

To be fair, DKTF is a great game and turned out to be even better than I thought it would. But let's be honest, it's a game nobody asked for. It felt very close to DKCR and generally people aren't asking directly for the sequel of a 2D platformer.  It was an extremely safe choice to make DKTF, both from a developpmentpoint of  view and from a financial point of view.

They took 3 years to develop DKTF, and since 4 years already they did not release anything. Meanwhile Monolith Soft have realeased 3 of the greatest JRPG, pushing each time  and taking risks.