Yoshi3

Great additions…
Now… could you add a freaking NORTH compass marker in the mini map Nintendo?
Jeeesh…. Why should fans teach you how to design your own game and your HUD?

The free roam markers should have been there from the start, it’s a basic feature in open worlds 🙄🙄

Good…. Tbh the Deku tree was hideous
Hopefully is the final battle set

One of the best “old” Zeldas… it’s just …. different. And the music is a banger.
And it’s not that hard. I remember beating this as a kid and having no problems as an adult either.
I hate to say it but Git Gud.

@YoshiAngemon is that confirmed?

Just hack your 3DS, put the VB emulator in it and play in stereoscopic 3D glory and don’t give a cent to Nintendo and their greedy practices.
Because they really should give you the option to play this without the 3D without having to pay $30-$100 for mid games.

@Novuscourvous ahh the corporate talk to sell more? Yes yes…who would’ve guessed. I also remember them saying Skyward Sword was going ”back to fundamentals” too. So, which is it according to “the devs”?

They can say peanuts, but the facts are the facts. Zelda 1 & 2 had a Zeldavania progression, although lighter than 3. You could still tackle the temples in a “kinda” order you want. Yet you still needed items you found in others to access other temples and to complete them.

The moment BotW and TotK ditched items and gave you everything from the start, they became something else entirely separate from what Zelda had been for 30 years. Might as well be a spin-off.

The devs can say whatever they want to defend their atrocity… but the proof is there in the NES games design structure and you can’t change it. You can ignore it, but that’s not our problem, is it?

@N00BiSH Im not sure … did Mario Galaxy 2 use exactly the same map as its predecessor with a few remixes here and there?

That could be a HUGE reason

@Novuscourvous see? This is an example of someone making excuses comparing BOTW to Zelda 1 without knowing videogame design.

But is one enhanced port worth $40 USD?
Naah…

@Banjo- I 100% agree… shoehorning open worlds ala Mario Kart, ends up affecting its design, in every single game (in that case by making such wide and straight roads just to connect them)
And that’s why BOTW and TOTK are the worst Zeldas for me too. BOTW was a good game because it had that fresh aspect about it…. But TOTK rehashing almost everything? Sigh 🙄
Also, I love that profile pic. HUGE BK fan since the 90s too.

@OrtadragoonX not true. You still needed the ladder and the raft to complete the game and reach new dungeons. And to get those you still needed to through other dungeons. It still had the Zeldavania gameplay and you weren’t given everything from the start, unlike BOTW and TOTK.
I dont know why it’s a rampant excuse for BOTW and TOTK to be compared to the original LOZ. Its structure was just because of the limitations of videogame design in that era. But you can see the the original purpose was to obtain items and progress to the next area.
In the Dark World you still needed items obtained in other dungeons to complete others, again, retaining its Zeldavania roots.

BotW and TOTk butchered this game design, completely destroying the Zelda DNA, from its most basic concept: obtaining new items to progress further.

Don’t take my word for it… take it from the Vania master IGA: https://youtu.be/VvUx43CrvaM?si=7pSofRtxJjW7t1Km

This open structure butchered the Zeldavania design in which you obtained new items to progress, it also butchered story progression, character development, character design (90% of people inhabiting the world are generic NPCs, unlike most Zeldas in which almost every single one was designed from scratch, giving us unique and quirky characters and NPCs)
It also butchered dungeon design, because why bother making a dungeon unique, thematic and centered on a new item/ability when you have EVERY single ability from the start?

This also affected the difficulty curve and puzzle complexity, because whenever you obtained new items and abilities, the puzzles mixed it up progressively… whereas in BOTW and TOTK once you played 20 shrines you felt like you had seen it all.

@NinjaWaddleDee that I can agree on. I think that everyone complaining about the decision is gonna buy it and play it either way. We have been waiting 8 years for it.
Doesn’t mean we aren’t worried.
Off topic but I don’t think it worked with Zelda. In a way yes, but in the process it destroyed vital parts of its DNA so much that it feels like a whole other IP with a Zelda paint coat.
And I’m worried it will happen with Metroid too tbh.

@NinjaWaddleDee yes! Can’t wait for all games to “evolve” into open worlds… like a blob devouring all creativity and all games being and feeling the same. Yay!

@Olliemar28 good, then, respect points to them. What a weird coincidence that it’s about the same thing, comparing the same games, and on the same day.

So… @Olliemar28 did Comicbook just plagiarized your article?

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/metroid-prime-4-reminds-me-of-another-sci-fi-shooter-which-isnt-a-good-thing/

@rushiosan am I missing something? Tanabe has been a producer since Metroid Prime 1, and he is a producer in this one too.

I agree with the bike aspects too though… they feel out of place.

Thank you… an open world is the ANTITHESIS of what everything Metroid is supposed to be.
And I’ve said it for years since the rumors came afloat.

Stop making everything open world!

@SpaceboyScreams a 3D layered Hollow Knight? Ok... I'll bite... I'm interested

It was a great game. Bayonetta will always be an amazing IP with great action sets.

Hell, even Bayonetta Origins was awesome.

I hope Platinum and Nintendo can keep this IP alive for years to come.

@TrueBlueYoshi Im glad. You don’t get bricked as long as you’re not online….for piracy I have Switch 1… For online and paid games I have the Switch 2.
Since I don’t support these practices from Nintendo … Mario Galaxy 2 will go to the S1 for free. Peace ✌️

@TrueBlueYoshi Gary Bowser was not the end user or “consumer” LMAO 🤣

He was the hacker who helped develop the tools for piracy for profit. Not the one who “downloaded the games”

The most they can do to you as a consumer is brick your console

@TrueBlueYoshi not in this side of the Earth.
Btw have you ever heard of someone getting caught of pirating?
Only sites that profit from it or the ones that make the hack… never a user or consumer.

@Suketoudara no, they forced me into that corner because I will not approve those practices. So, pirating it is. And I’m happy with doing it because I already have my SMG2 disc for Wii.

Awesome… now do the Lost Levels 😈

I can’t believe this series went on for 3 games by now. They are the most repetitive game I’ve ever played, but with “new” characters each time.

Yeah LMAO no….
I’m buying the cheaper AliExpress variants
Thank you very much Nintendo.
I’ll be spending less with you from now on

@StewdaMegaManNerd it’s not about the popularity duh… if so then Star Fox games would be free 🙄🙄

It’s about the budget and effort put into it. Metroid Prime Remastered had all its assets built from the ground up.
Mario Galaxy 2 is just a port.

Learn the difference

Now we just need a collection from all the random projects like Command Mission, the Battle Network GC game, the Gameboy games, the two PSP games, the Megaman x Street fighter… and … what am I missing besides the Legends duology and Tronbonne?

The X Dive Offline has been pretty fun on PC too.

This Direct was atrocious. Good reveals ... but Nintendo did showed their ugly greedy nose this time around ... quite a lot.
There were more things that I disliked than what I actually liked.
PROS:
-FF7 trilogy coming to Switch 2
-Fatal Frame 2 Remake
-RE9 coming to Switch 2

CONS:
-DK Bananza "day one" DLC? What is this? 2012? And $20 for ONE level and a mode?
-Fatal Frame 2 Remake incarcerated to Switch 2 when it can clearly be handled by the Switch 1
-Pokemon A-Z "day one" DLC? Da F?
-Open World Metroid Prime? Those words shouldn't be together at all
-$40 for a port of Mario Galaxy 2? HAHAHAHA ... Sure Nintendo... sure.

And that's on top of my head.
Atrocious practices and this new direction for Nintendo is worrisome.
I'm not liking this generation's Nintendo AT ALL.

Tip: People, don't give in to the Virtual boy stand. You can have the exact same 3D experience sans the headaches and dishing $100 just by installing the emulator on your 3DS. Not having the option to play those games without the stand is a kick in the

@StewdaMegaManNerd If you think Metroid Prime Remastered is even remotely close to this ... then you didn't even play Prime Remastered ....

Ha ... Nintendo getting ridiculously greedier and greedier ....

Nah... I'm glad I just turned my Switch 1 into a piracy paradise after getting my Switch 2

I will not support this

@N00BiSH tbh it’s the first time I’m arguing about day one DLCs since 2015 maybe?
But I get what you mean.
I’m not THAT mad about it.
But it got me off guard for them to do something like this TWICE in the same direct. (Pokémon being the other example)

So I hope they don’t start going into that corporate direction.

@electrolite77 you gave one example, I can give you 20. And as I said, saying one thing and doing another, that’s called hypocrisy.

And let’s be real 1/3 of the cost of the whole game for ONE level and a new mode?
Whaaaaaaat?

@N00BiSH sure… but then why go lengths to defend that? I don’t like hypocrisy. Not from a person nor corporate or any kind.

@N00BiSH the main point isn’t that they have never been greedy. It’s that they are now GREEDIER. Waaaaay more.

That’s why, there’s a reason when gamers say that a successful and arrogant Nintendo is the worst kind of Nintendo. They tend to go way over their heads.

@N00BiSH 5 bucks or a 100 bucks. That’s not the point. The point is that it was free for most players.
Is this free if I preordered Bananza? No?
Then point still stands.

And preorder meant that people that had the game DAY ONE… would have access to it. Otherwise then it wouldn’t be day one for late players. Right?

Nintendo had other DLC philosophies back then and I won’t keep discussing it when there’s tons of proof.

@N00BiSH aha… and Piranha plant was FREE because it was “day one” dlc. Thanks for proving my point

@N00BiSH even back in the day “Day One” DLC meant DLC that was worked along the game just to be cut and released a few days/weeks afterwards for maximum profit.

It never meant LITERALLY day one.

This was obviously worked along the game and cut. There’s not time to make such kind of content under a month.

@N00BiSH nah, I like Nintendo since I was 3… but there’s no reason to defend things that shouldn’t be defended. It’s shortsighted to think even Nintendo is perfect. Iwata’s Nintendo was a different beast than this one.
And it’s a great comparison because they explicitly said that they were against the so called Day One DLCs.

And yes, there IS old Nintendo and new Nintendo. Different leadership will always move the boat in different directions.
No old Nintendo? Ask Yamauchi.

@electrolite77 no, you’re not getting the reason behind the complaints. Nintendo repeatedly said in the past that they adopted a different philosophy for say “Day One” DLC.

I guess that philosophy is gone now huh?

@N00BiSH because I don’t like hypocrisy. And Nintendo has been well documented to be against these DLC practices since the WiiU and 3DS era and adopting a different philosophy and approach to DLC from their competitors.

But this New Nintendo is old Nintendo worst enemy I guess.

Nintendo is getting very greedy this generation. These bad practices of DLC are so 2010s.
DK and Pokemon ... there's really no excuse to cut content like that... but anyway

@electrolite77 yeah but back then people complained and that was seen as "immoral" in the gaming world when content was purposely cut just to sell as DLC. And Nintendo consistently avoided it (except for some cases)

But this Direct ... I'm not feeling this "new" greedy Nintendo.

@JustMonika I mean, thanks for the suggestion... but the thing is that I don't want to spend loads of money on consoles anymore. That's the reason I've stayed with the PS4 and now Switch 2.
If most things are coming to Switch 2 then I'm good to go.

Awesome! There’s no reason to get a PS5 for me now. At least not with the PS6 looming in 2027

It’s Bs that this is incarcerated to the S2. This could easily be handled by the Switch too. These games need all the sales they can get and a port to Switch 1 would be better for everyone.

But anyway… it’s good to see most of the series in Nintendo hardware. (I mean they owned the IP for a while… and underused too)
I’m a horror fan and these games are quite scary, haven’t been able to finish the WiiU one since release :/ because it was so stress inducing

10 years ago this would have easily passed by as a predatory practice. DLC only like what… a month after release?

Also Pokemon A-Z DLC being announced even before the game is out?

Wow… Nintendo is being very corporate kind of greedy this generation.

@Uncle_Franklin I’ve played them in all their 3D glory. It’s easy to install the emulator in the 3DS.

I mean, it’s awesome. But I’ve already played these games in 3D on my 3DS.

And it’s not a library I would dish $$$ to have a virtual boy stand for 2 worthwhile games.