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curl-6 1 day ago
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firebush03 said:
curl-6 said:

The early to mid Switch 1 era was the peak, so like 2017-2019.

Although I miss Iwata, it took a while for the early Directs to find their footing and there just wasn't much on the Wii U to showcase.

The Switch 2 era directs so far have been weirdly bad, with poor pacing, too much filler, and a lack of showstoppers. Hopefully they manage to improve going forwards.

Eh. While I’d say the late-Switch 1 Directs are my favorite, early-Switch 2 is a comfortable second for me. Revisiting those early-Switch 1 Directs, they really were a bit iffy. Sure all the third-party showcases and 3DS inclusions were exciting at the time, but definitely would not fly in a modern Direct. The standards just keep going higher.

My only issue with the Switch 2 Directs thus far is that we haven’t gotten an Echoes of Wisdom/Mario Wonder/Tears of the Kingdom-teir reveal. Ocarina and Ravenous could have been that had they, y’know, not been totally spoiled several months in advance lol.

I feel like the S2 directs so far just haven't been directed/paced very well, very often during them I'd get bored and be like "come on, enough of this filler, announce something exciting already". The last one for instance, like 80% of it was a nothingburger, even if Metroid/Kirby were cool, like it was 40 minutes long but felt like it could've been cut down to 15 minutes and been better for it.