Watch the Nintendo Direct E3 2021 & Treehouse livestream here
E3 2021 is almost over but there's one more big show. Join us for the Nintendo Direct livestream here on Shacknews Twitch.
Do you see it? That faint glimmer of a pinhole of hope. The light at the end of the tunnel is upon us in the form of one more digital direct chock full of hyped game reveals, announcements, and trailers. Nintendo is set for a roughly 40-minute direct that is scheduled to go live on June 15 at 9 a.m. PT / 12 a.m. ET. We'll be streaming the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct over on the Shacknews Twitch channel or you can follow along with the conveniently embedded streams below.
Watch the Nintendo Direct E3 2021 livestream here
The Shacknews Twitch stream above is your home for the Nintendo Direct E3 2021 livestream with our own special flair. Join our hosts as we react live to all the biggest surprises from the show.
Watch the Nintendo Treehouse Live E3 2021 livestream here
Nintendo has been using its Treehouse Live platform to extend its E3 coverage with hours of interviews and gameplay demonstrations. The YouTube video above will be your spot to see all the details, but there's also Nintendo's Twitch channel if you prefer.
There's sure to be some unexpected reveals and shocking revelations in store for the Nintedo Direct at E3 2021. Check out our feature on predictions, rumors, and leaks for a little pre-show fun and be sure to chime in with your predictions for the presentation. If you're watching along with us on the Shacknews Twitch channel, be sure to say hello to our hosts and react with them in chat! You can also participate in what will most likely be a monster thread below with your live reactions.
After the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct, there's not much left for E3, but stay tuned to Shacknews as we gear up for E5 and the summer of doing our jobs!
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They specifically mentioned they were only going to talk about Switch games at this year's e3 IIRC but that wouldn't stop them from "one more thing"ing the conference. If I had to guess though I don't think we'll see that announcement here.
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It sounds like they are down playing that
“Tune in for a #NintendoDirect with roughly 40 minutes of info focused exclusively on #NintendoSwitch software”
https://twitter.com/nintendoamerica/status/1404471078446112770?s=21
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I wanna see some BOTW2!!
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I do not think we will see a new Switch until maybe the first quarter of 2022 at the earliest. One reason is that its common for Nintendo to pump up that quarter's earnings by March 31st. More importantly, I don't think Nintendo will release an updated Switch until they can stock up enough supply. In this case I don't think they will launch a Switch Pro until they can secure at least 20-30 million units to ship in its first year and around 10 million for its first quarter.
With with the current global component shortage I do not think neither they nor Nvidia can accomplish this, so instead they will ride out the 2019 Switch and the Switch Lite until they can build up enough stock for the new model.
Its also worth noting that Nintendo last month ramped up Switch production output to 30 million units for the upcoming fiscal year. There is no mention of new hardware and in the current state of things I can't imagine that shipping a new console with an Ampere based SoC in those quantities (supposedly a customized Tegra Orin at 7nm or 5nm and cut down to run at 15 watts) will be achievable unless they've already been accumulating hardware and that somehow hasn't leaked.
Again, I assume they've been cranking out existing Tegra X1+ hardware instead, but we'll see: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Electronics/Nintendo-raises-Switch-output-to-record-30m-on-stay-at-home-demand
Even Apple, the consumer electronics company with probably the most domain over supply chain and component manufacturing, has had to delay products due to component shortages.
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As for games, I think 2022 will be a huge year. We already know that sequels to big 2017 games like Splatoon 2 and Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle are next year. I think that the sequels to games like Breath Of The Wild are also reasonable by then. Hell, we might finally see something about Metroid Prime 4 since it'll have been four years since the game completely rebooted at Retro.
2021 though? One of the few games this year that's worth getting hyped about, Elden Ring, was most likely pushed back from last year given how unusual it is from From Software to release initial trailers so far from actual release. This year's E3 is defined by COVID pushing development back and Japanese devs were hit the hardest. I'm not getting my hopes up for the back half of 2021!
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Simplest answer is usually the best one. A massive component shortage and milking the 2019 refresh even more (the Switch has been the best selling hardware for like 30 months straight) are as good a reason as any to expect a wait.
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There's lots coming this year : https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/1404159983168589829/photo/1
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I believe in using data to make people look like idiots. so here we go:
Yakuza Like A Dragon - already on xbox and other platforms, coming to GP
Dark Alliance - launching D&D (day and date) with other platforms
The Ascent - launching PC and Xbox
Hades - existing come to GP
Twelve Minutes - D&D
Aragami 2 - launching xbox pc only
Sable - launching xbox pc only
Anachrusis - D&D pc xbox only
Scorn - D&D pc xbox only
Back 4 Blood - D&D
Shredders - launching xbox only
Amoung Us - existing come to GP
Hello Neighbors 2 - D&D xbox pc
The Gunk - D&D xbox pc
Psychonauts 2 - D&D with launch except PS5
Flight Sim - existing coming to GP
Age of Empires 4 - windows PC only at launch
Forza Horizons - new game launch
Halo Infinite - new game launch
so 19 games in that picture and only 3 are games released before today that are being added to GamePass. want to fix your statement?
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Quite the opposite, I don't get worked up over trailers or title cards, same reason the old Sony presentations never hit me. They'd show target footage and then not actually ship anything for years. Awful.
This isn't quite as bad but its the same thing. I get why a Todd Howard fan would be excited for Starfield but that's quite literally 18 months away. I'm way more interested in what is happening within the next 8-10 months.
An Elden Ring release date and gameplay trailer excites me way more than a cinematic trailer and nothing else.
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Nobody is criticizing that, 2021 is not a great E3 overall. There are individual games worth being excited over, Elden Ring most of all, but if people express excitement over a game that they like (Metroid Dread for example) its weird to come in telling them they're wrong.
I think Far Cry 6 looks like crap and expect the Horizon sequel to be as mediocre as the first but I don't threadshit the Ubisoft or Sony threads.
I myself have been pretty critical of the whole thing and said Nintendo's would be underwhelming before it even started, but I also know that COVID basically pushed everything back at least a whole year, so its very strange that the only response you have is "Nintendo brain lol".
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My last Xbox was a 360 (well actually 3 of them because they liked to die) I'm hoping MS gives me motives to buy a Series X. So far I'm only hyped about Starfield but with caution considering their last few games (Fallout 4 and the other weird one).
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Its a good console! I use my PS5 way more but that's only because of the games right now (Guilty Gear Strive, FF7 Remake, Persona 5 Strikers, Ratchet & Clank, etc), but more exclusives are coming.
The real factor is if I want to play a certain game on my PC or on my couch, and its nice having both under the same subscription
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Nintendo Direct Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQz_ECTGGyA
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lol, what a tease!
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I hope so. With a release this year even? Oh my
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Holy shit lol Twitch restarts the damn ad if you go to another tab wtf thats some mega shitty shit fucking bullshit.
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There’s a big lag in audio :/
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Super fucking Monkey Ball!
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and it looks like a remastered collection, so the good ones are there.
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Is it a paid DLC for the main game? i missed that.
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Thought that was going to be a DLC pack, Super Mario Party SuperStars... eh.
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NEW METROID!
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They specifically called it Metroid 5, which means it is probably post Fusion, hence the suit.
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https://youtu.be/afUI8nIrGgI
Japan’s business culture of lifetime employment means that yeah, the same guys who were working on the version 20 years ago are working on this version too.
Also I like this dude. Gives me hope there’s people buried in Nintendo who care deeply about every seemingly forgotten franchise.
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Trailer
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2d Metroid on the Switch? Basically perfect for it. I'm sold.
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Any new metroid is good. And oct 2021! nice.
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They announced this like 4 years ago, good to see an expected release date.
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Weird lookin game.
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eShop runs sales every couple months, $10 to download when it happens: https://psprices.com/region-us/game/859907/shin-megami-tensei-iv
https://psprices.com/region-us/search/?q=shin+megami+tensei&platform=3DS&show_dlc=on&content_type=
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yr loss bro, SMT and Persona are some of the best games ever made periodt
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super underwhelmed thus far minus Metroid. Cmon Nintender... start droppin bombs.
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Lol, another Fatal Frame.
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Eiji Aonuma PLEASE show up and save this shitshow.
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I thought we'd never see it again, even if it is just a remake.
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Biggest surprise was this.
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Does anyone actually like the (whatever) Warriors series?
Like every single one is
- Bunch of enemies on the screen
- Do spinny thing
- Enemies are dead
- Repeat
Hyrule Warriors just seems like the same game poured in a different glass.
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Yup. I love them. I played through all the main campaign of Hyrule Warriors 2, and had a great time with it. I'll be happy to go back.
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No way this is the last announcement. Please be joking
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Oh thank god.
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I never played the original. Cool stuff.
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rofl pro level trolling
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damn this is lookin NUTS
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BotW2, thank god.
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2022, not bad.
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Probably, they usually do, even the direct sequels in the series previously all had different names.
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Treehouse revealed a Metroid game once, there's still time.
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Hopefully.
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So much of that stuff is not actually gonna make 2022, Zelda included =P
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I agree. It looks fantastic and I am in no rush.
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Wow BotW2... FINALLY. I got a bit emotional, lol
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If Zelda is gone the whole fuckin game after saving her and she was with Link in the teaser…
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the talk in the industry is because of the hardware issues in the supply chain, Nintendo can't really do a new form factor right now. so they update the switch with internal changes and wait for a switch 2 or whatever is next a few years out. I think we see that 5-6 become 7-8 right now
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I hope BoTW ends up being a launch title for the Switch Pro.
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No Super Switch Pro .... yet. Maybe sometime this summer?
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fine with me. No need for it this soon imo.
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Nintendo already ordered 30M units for this fiscal year. They can barely keep up with existing demand and have had the best selling console hardware for about 30 months.
They'd get washed if they tried to ship an Ampere based Switch with this insane component shortage. Imagine the PS5 or RTX 3080 but even worse.
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Pretty much. They may as well wait the full 7 years for a switch 2 then.
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I have a feeling people will be let down by the "pro" when it comes out. My guess it will be smaller bezels, better battery and 1080p in handheld but probably the same 1080p docked too. Nothing major like 4K upscaling or HDR.
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Rumor is a cut down Tegra Orin running at 15W and I think that's very reasonable.
An iPad Pro from 2018 has GPU performance roughly on par with an Xbox One. I think its reasonable to expect a Tegra at around that performance level with DLSS capability that can still be put into a $300 hybrid by 2022. We'll see!
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They can still announce mid-year to have sales by fall.
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Yeah, they'd want to accumulate at least 8-10 million units for launch and 30 million for its first year. That's not happening right now and they still can't keep up with demand for current hardware, so I think it'll be next year.
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All the rumors on the Switch Pro claimed that production was to start this month, having secured the component supplies earlier (that's part of the basis of the rumors). That said, we know the chip market has still be volatile and thus plans could have changed as early as this last week.
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More metroid footage on treehouse, nice :D
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Yeah, I think they're working on polish hard right now. Honestly not a huge fan of the Samus Returns physics that appears to be back but that's a really minor nitpick.
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Kind of sad Zelda 35th anniv is skipped over. No events or mention. Just a shitty skyward sword remake :(
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yeah kind of cool novelty piece I guess.
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So Metroid Dread is one part Fusion, one part Echos, and uses the DNA of Samus Returns. Hopefully this is better received than any of those, even though Samus Returns wasn't a bad Metroid game and the other two were decent.
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Yup, I just hope it's less linear than 2/3rds of those titles. And from what they've shown in Treehouse it's more than one of these E.M.M.I. things (really feeling the portal influence here).
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It was good, and the couple of times I got surprised by the SA-X for the first time it was a freaky feeling. Hopefully more of that here.
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IIRC SM3DAS wasn't announced till like 2 months before release. Maybe we'll have something similar here. That being said, while Zelda is one of the most celebrated of Nintendo's series, it's not nearly the same kind of money maker as, well, video game Mickey Mouse.
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There’s always the 40th anniversary 😢
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Extended Shin Megami Tensei V trailer on Atlus' Japanese site: https://youtu.be/1PgRBcRi5NY
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It's the same Samus Returns physics it looks like, not my favorite (that would be the floaty Super Metroid physics) but it plays quite well.
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From the little run through it doesn't appear to be as "required" but it definitely speeds things up. It'll be interesting if you can do a counter-less run in this one.
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A 4:3 240x160 screen that's <3"x3" IIRC. Metroid Fusion was pretty good graphics for the GBA too although the art direction didn't agree well with the technology.
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That’s the same language they used in the direct.
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Judging by this thread, it seems like Nintendo actually ended up delivering?
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Yeah, the loss of casual work-related conversation slows stuff down. I work in localization, and even just talking to another human being helps me warm up the writing muscles so I can conjure my word things smoothly.
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Everyone working on the game should have a devkit. We need something to run the game on, we can't just run it on PC if it's specific to the console. You should always be building/running/debugging on the platform you're working on. Like 99% of the time we're running it on actual hardware, so not having physical access to it just makes things a little bit more complicated. We can have a pool of devkits, but then you run into the same issue as working remote when you're actually at the office.
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Prediction: they make Metroid Prime Trilogy and do like SM3DAS where it's got artificial scarcity because it pumps up their numbers over a weak holiday season.
Yes I know that one dude from Retro said MPT would take more effort than people realize but Nintendo just unveiled a Metroid 5 no one knew was in the works my bet is they took the MPT resources and got some Japanese dev working on it in secret.
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Surely the prettiest Mario Party game to date.
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Yea but $60 for a n64 remake... tough sell for me. I am sure it will sell bonkers though which is why they do it.
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E3 sale is up: https://www.nintendo.com/games/sales-and-deals/
Once again, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Gold Edition is $15 and is a banger: https://www.dekudeals.com/items/mario-rabbids-kingdom-battle-gold-edition
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No new Switch announcement... boooooooo
New Metroid.... cool.... though I don't care much for the design of the suit and the Switch is starting to really show its age.
BOTW2 looks fucking fantastic and I can't wait!
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In person events are already happening. I don’t think I have to “keep dreaming” :p
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Honestly that is all I wanted to know from the Nintendo show and if it there was a Switch Pro or Switch 2 and when.
I am super sad there was no Silksong info :( , having said that like you said it was at E3 2019(and well into dev looking incredible) and it is 2021 now, so it must be launching this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even if Silksong is pushed to next year I don't care, it is going to be a 10/10 and freaking incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Shit.... MercurySteam is the developer again. The same dev that made those generic 3D "Castlevania" bro-slashers on PS3 and 360
The action looks pretty good from the gameplay I've seen, but the environments and enemies are a little bland. And I don't like cinematic action-shots that take away player agency. Especially in a Metroid game.
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Nintendo farms out quite a lot! The terrific Luigi's Mansion and Punch Out games to Next Level (recently acquired like they did to Retro), Super Smash Bros to Bandai Namco, Mario Golf and Mario Tennis (and Golden Sun) to Camelot, Mario & Luigi series to AlphaDream (RIP), Yoshi and Kirby to Good-Feel, Fire Emblem and Paper Mario to Intelligent Systems, co-development of BOTW with Monolith Soft, etc etc.
They just don't have the bandwidth to do everything in house so they also have producers who take on supervisory roles towards second and third party games. What's happening with MercurySteam isn't unusual. WayForward or Team Cherry (oh man) sure would have been cool though!
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Essentially, the first Lords of Shadow is legitimately good, with a fair few hiccups and misses along the way - enough to make it not a classic, but I definitely wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
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I watched enough video to know that my soul would be crushed by playing them.
Retains none of the aesthetic from the 2D games, whether its enemy designs, music, environments, whatever. Just look to the Netflix series to see people that "get" what makes the Castlevania vibe.
And then the gameplay just looks like a combination of Tomb Raider, Batman Arkham game, and Devil May Cry. I guess that's cool if you're into it. But there is not much "platforming", and the hack and slashing looks like mashing the same sequence of buttons into eternity. I guess you have to get better at maneuvering as the game progresses, but that is just monumentally unappealing to me.-
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It was pretty good, you can tell Nintendo had a hand with it and the team seems to have learned from several of their Castlevania mistakes.
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Advance Wars will have online play up to four players. I wonder if you can share custom maps online too.
I wish it was priced like WarioWare is but the visuals looked much better on Treehouse Live than in the trailer. On the fence but it feels like Nintendo is finally testing the waters again for interest in more Advance Wars. The series was always good but sales declined with each following game in the series, even though the last two were on the DS.-
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Mario XCOM 2 will be great no matter what, absolutely can't wait. I warmed up on Advance Wars after seeing it on Treehouse Live, looks much better in action than my initial impression. Still wish it was priced like Warioware but if the online and map editor are cool then that'll take the curse off of it
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