My highlights were Fall Guys, No More Heroes 3, kinda Pyra for Smash (I like Pyra! But I haven't played Smash in over a year) and the general fact that the first half of the year is looking pretty stuffed. Famicom Detective Club is interesting, I'm at least curious. Mario Golf is nice, even if it's not a game for me. Maybe the girls will like it so I'll get to play it a bit.
That being said, I really thought they were going to show Xenoblade 3 and for some dumb reason didn't realize at first this would be a Xenoblade character for Smash, so I was incredibly disappointed. Same for Zelda: Aonuma even wore that shirt he always wore for BotW news (IIRC) so I thought this was either going to be BotW 2 or a Zelda collection... instead they showed Skyward Sword, my least favorite 3D Zelda game and the antithesis to BotW in terms of game design. I expected Skyward Sword to be included in a Zelda HD collection (with Wind Waker and Twilight Princes) as it's not a Wii U but a Wii game. But no, we're now even getting Wii games from 10 years ago for full price. That being said, apparently the rumored Zelda collection will still come, and if that is the case I'll be happy. I'm also happy for the people who like Skyward Sword!
I'm torn on Splatoon 3. My first thought was "why give this of all games a sequel?" I understand BoTW 2 or Odyssey 2, or any other single player game getting a sequel. But Splatoon? Why not just release paid DLC? But if the game is good I'll buy. I really hope we'll get split screen multiplayer though!
Overall it was a solid Direct, just not many games for me personally.
