| curl-6 said: Having slept on it, (stayed up to midnight here to watch it) it wasn't quite the worst Direct ever, as there were a couple of cool things. Problem was, it felt like 10 minutes of worthwhile content buried amongst 50 minutes of filler. Stuff like the Mario sponsored marathon in Kyoto didn't need to be there, and among the new games announced there wasn't anything that felt like a real wow moment or heavy hitter. Yoshi and Fire Emblem aren't bad, but they not really system sellers or showstoppers. Pokémon Pokopia looked kinda terrible, the Virtual Boy segment felt like a bad joke, and the announcers needlessly recapping what we just saw got tiresome. On the flipside, Resident Evil, Fatal Frame, and release dates for FF7 and Prime 4 kept it from being a complete disaster, but it was a very underwhelming show. Nintendo's marketing has been bafflingly bad this year for some reason, in stark contrast to how smart it mostly was last gen. |
Agree with the mario sponsored marathon
Disagree with the Yoshi and Fire Emblem, those are my personal system seller level titles (Yoshi is what got me to get a N64 years ago).
I personally enjoyed the direct, it was chock full of titles I'm interested in and third party title announcements (that I would be interested on other platforms).
Honestly, they could have had a Mario direct and had the Mario announcements all in it but only if they had more third party and other non-mario announcements.
But if they did that, we probably wont have another direct until next year (Assuming we get another one in the next 3 months).
