mZuzek said:
Nah, the Isabelle reveal was the worst. I was already expecting a character reveal of course, so it would have to be hype to get me excited, and Isabelle isn't hype at all, plus her trailer was really underwhelming. Compare it to the awesome Ridley trailer featuring Mario and Mega Man (rip), or the Belmonts trailer featuring Luigi (rip), or Dedede trolling the Kongs as K. Rool and stuff like that... there were a lot of memorable moments in these trailers and they were loads of fun to watch even if we already knew where they were going, but the Isabelle one..? At first I thought it was a new Animal Crossing, and I was fine with that, but from the moment she mentioned Smash it was just a slog until we got some gameplay of a character I didn't really want in the game - but then again, I can barely mention a couple characters I'd still want in the game at this point other than pipe dreams like Amaterasu or Hollow Knight. Then, when I was already disappointed, they teased Tom Nook as an echo fighter and I was like "NOOO" and then it was an actual new Animal Crossing and well, that was fine. But not a good way to reveal either thing in my opinion. I'd have probably given it a 5 if I voted today. For it to be a 6, it'd have probably needed to not feature that awful Nintendo Online moment, which confirmed to us, in very pretty words, that we really are being ripped off for the same crappy online we've been enduring with Nintendo since the DS days and some NES games no one cares about... and they still dared to say they're gonna "reveal more details later". Ugh. That whole thing just made me really salty, it single-handedly turned an otherwise average direct into an insulting one in my eyes. That is to say, I couldn't really care about anything they showed afterwards unless it was really hype, and nothing was. |
Fair enough. I'm not that much of an online gamer and $20/year for a subscription service seems really low to me in a day and age when I spend $12-$15 a month on services like Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Netflix. I expect the offerings to be more robust in the future, and voice chat doesn't matter that much to me. But I completely understand how paying for a gimped service in comparrison to the other online offerings seems insulting. I also assume you're not much of an Animal Crossing fan. I am, and that reveal was the perfect amount of misdirection...and that slog was intentional. Even Tom Nook clicking on the SWITCH of the lamp showed that Nintendo was not just trolling us, but themselves. They were basically using that lamp as a metaphor for their spotty releases and showing that give Nintendo time and they'll bring the light. In my opinion, this Direct was that light shining. It was the proof that the Switch will be supported and that there will be do droughts.
