• I was pleasantly surprised by how interesting Mario Party and Smash looked. I typically don’t like these games.
• Fire Emblem looks fantastic, I like the new gameplay direction, BUT - I really hope those cartoony/hammy American accents aren’t in the game.
• Felt they should have not spent so much time on Smash in the Direct, and instead given more time to other games, or shown some more games. Also, in all the time they spent, they didn’t show the single player mode - because IMO the last game wasn’t nearly as fun as the adventure game they had in Brawl - I am hoping for a return to something with more depth.
• I felt it was a little light on content, I was hoping to see something from Monolithsoft - they spoke of an XCX port a while ago, nothing on that; they also have three dev teams, nothing from what they’re working on. I was expecting some Animal Crossing as well since they have the mobile game - kind of weird they would pump that brand without having an actual Animal crossing game on the horizon.
• No Dragon Quest, what? It is really strange.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2 DLC looks really cool. They’ve done very well with this game. I HOPE they aren’t spending too many resources on it.
• Pokemon game looks like a lot fun, graphics are nice in an Animal Crossing/Earthbound style. I am unsure why they aren’t pushing this as the big game this year > watching on treehouse now and it looks like a really cool take on the franchise - the focus on catching and not having to battle them down to a certain hp mount before death (I hated that in Pokemon White), and instead only focusing on the battles on the non-catchable Pokemon. I like the focus on the more iconic Pokemon. IMO this one would have been better to focus on. than Smash.
• Would have liked to see more of a demo on third party titles coming to Switch this year, many were just quickly brushed over or not shown at all.
I don’t know about assigning numbers to a presentation, what’s the scale based on? It sold me on several games I woukdn’t have otherwise bought, so I would rank it as successful. I typically don’t care as much as other people about Nintendo trying to sell me on games I am going to buy anyway. I also don’t care about new game announcements coming since I prefer a more even spread across Nintendo’s Directs, and their Summer Directs have been better than E3 lately anyway (except the Zelda focused one which could have only ever worked for that game).
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
