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Today, Nintendo will hold its highly-anticipated summer Direct, featuring 40 minutes of reveals for games coming to the Switch in 2024. It’s likely one you won’t want to miss, so you can watch the June 2024 Nintendo Direct here.

Watch the June 2024 Nintendo Direct

The June 2024 Nintendo Direct will take place today at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET. It’ll be streamed on the Nintendo YouTube and Twitch channels. You can also watch it using the video embed above.

There’s no telling what will be shown during today’s Nintendo Direct, but we do know one thing that won’t be there. Nintendo has confirmed that the showcase will have no mention of the Switch’s successor.

That’s how you can watch the June 2024 Nintendo Direct. As always, stay right here on Shacknews for all your Nintendo News.

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    June 18, 2024 6:00 AM

    Donovan Erskine posted a new article, Watch the June 2024 Nintendo Direct here

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      June 18, 2024 7:13 AM

      Mario & Luigi Brothership looks fun.

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      June 18, 2024 7:18 AM

      DKC Returns HD!!!

      Hell yeah, likely buy

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      June 18, 2024 7:19 AM

      lmao what the fuck is Denpa Men

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      June 18, 2024 7:23 AM

      Looking forward to the Dragon Quest HD-2D games.

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        June 18, 2024 10:09 AM

        DQ5 is the one I’d like to play. It is widely considered the best in the series. Hopefully they get to remaking that one at some point

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          June 18, 2024 10:12 AM

          DS port was great

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            June 18, 2024 11:15 AM

            I've heard. The big thing holding me back is the potential of a remake, because I'm not going to play through it again

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              June 18, 2024 11:22 AM

              I do actually replay these from time to time, though they take long enough it isn't exactly a yearly thing and 5 isn't actually my favorite.

              It is a great game, don't get me wrong, but 3 and 4 are just outstanding - both for very different reasons.

              3 as a culmination of what the first two tried, plus as sort of the logical extension of where you could go with player-created characters - in some ways it still kinda stands alone with that.

              4 as the exact opposite of that, for the first time strongly defining all the characters and the way they all came together was just great - honestly was kinda what I was hoping for out of Octopath.

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      June 18, 2024 7:27 AM

      Haha an actual Zelda game.

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      June 18, 2024 7:28 AM

      oh shit playable zelda!

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      June 18, 2024 7:29 AM

      Wooo new Zelda but in that engine from the Links Awakening reboot that only runs at 28FPS. :(

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      June 18, 2024 7:30 AM

      why isn't this thread more active? this is the most incredible nintendo direct in a while.

      new(ish) sakaguchi game, DQI-III remake, Zero Mission and Four Swords game, new Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga game, DKC Returns HD remake, new Zelda game where you play Zelda in the Link's Awakening remake style... and I'm definitely forgetting shit.

      and it's not even over!!

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        June 18, 2024 7:33 AM

        You do enough “here’s seventeen farming simulations” and no MP4 news and people just pick up the highlights later

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          June 18, 2024 7:34 AM

          Yep.

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          June 18, 2024 7:36 AM

          yeah well that hasn't been most of this direct so far

          The worst thing I can say about it is that it's a lot of remakes but they're rounding out huge gaps in the catalog I think a lot of people have (like I think a lot of people missed DKC returns and Luigi's Mansion 2)

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          June 18, 2024 7:36 AM

          Oooo a HOBBIT farming simulator now!

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        June 18, 2024 7:35 AM

        dont care. MP4 news or go away. dont want to play games on 10 year old hardware

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        June 18, 2024 7:36 AM

        It's early in the day.

        Nintendo missed all the gaming hype cycle by scheduling this a few weeks after Summer Game Fest.

        There wasn't much hype from leakers to drive interest.

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        June 18, 2024 7:36 AM

        Yeah this is great so far. I'm not 100% sold on new Zelda game though.

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        June 18, 2024 7:41 AM

        here is mp4 you whiners

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        June 18, 2024 7:50 AM

        its early for the west coast.

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          June 18, 2024 7:55 AM

          I thought old people get up early anyway

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        June 18, 2024 7:51 AM

        chattyis ded thats why

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        June 18, 2024 8:03 AM

        The video didn’t update so I had it running in the background, so I refreshed to see that it was already over lol.

        Some really nice games, also some "lol bitch please, wii port donkey kong hd 6 months off?" That’s something you shadowdrop.

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        June 18, 2024 8:14 AM

        Sorry I was still in the middle of basket herding when I remembered the time

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      June 18, 2024 7:36 AM

      As investigations¡!!!!!!!!!?!!!

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        June 18, 2024 7:39 AM

        Ahem, both Ace Attorney Investigations coming, including the long awaited English translation of the second.

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      June 18, 2024 7:41 AM

      Metroidddddf

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        June 18, 2024 7:41 AM

        Prime 4????

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        June 18, 2024 7:42 AM

        Prime 4: beyond!!!!!!!!!!!

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        June 18, 2024 7:42 AM

        2025

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        June 18, 2024 7:43 AM

        MP4 beats Silksong out

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        June 18, 2024 7:46 AM

        I tried to play Metroid Prime a few times, I think I got pretty far the second time, but the backtracking was killing me and I had to stop. I could just not be good at the game. I loved the action/story/music/atmosphere though. Should I have tried 2 and 3? 4 looks pretty awesome from what they showed.

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          June 18, 2024 7:47 AM

          I felt like the backtracking in Prime 2 was far worse

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          June 18, 2024 7:53 AM

          3 had less backtracking iirc (you'd and on different planets and mostly progress more or less linearly through them, with the option to go back and re-explore later if you wanted to) but it was also by far my least favorite of the games, I barely remember anything about it.

          MP2 had worse backtracking due to its hub design which forced you through the same areas again and again.

          I dunno, the MP1 experience is really helped by having some kind of Super Metroid fondness/nostalgia and if you don't have that or have moved far past that kind of game and hate backtracking/exploring, it might not be for you.

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          June 18, 2024 8:10 AM

          Nah, the first one is easily the best. If you couldn't get into that, I don't think the sequels would grab you.

          And it's gonna be impossible for this new one to live up to the hype people have thrust upon it over the years.

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            June 18, 2024 8:25 AM

            Yeah, Metroid Prime is easily the best. But really, whether Prime 4 lives up to the hype depends on what you expecting.

            I don’t expect Prime 4 is going to change the formula drastically. I’m sure they’re going to go for an open world thing, but not nearly to the extent of change the Zelda formula had in BotW.

            So hype is a funny thing there, I think a game lives up to the hype when it does what you hope it to do.

            It’s purely subjective, and if Prime 4 delivers more of what I enjoyed from Prime and less of what I didn’t like from Prime 2 and 3, then it lives up to the hype for me.

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          June 18, 2024 4:14 PM

          Did they port it to switch? Does it still have waggle controls? I got like 1 hour into the Wii version before I just shelved it because I couldn't do the controls

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            June 18, 2024 4:16 PM

            Remaster for switch with modern controls and it owns

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            June 18, 2024 4:21 PM

            Not just port, they completely redid it. Same engine, but all the graphics have been redone and basically every control option you could want (aside from just mouse/keyboard) is available.

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              June 18, 2024 4:24 PM

              IGN's review specifically highlights the controls:
              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l51UJqOsHzA

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              June 18, 2024 7:53 PM

              It looks like how you remember, but if you look at OG or emulated footage the upgrade is crazy

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                June 18, 2024 8:00 PM

                It is crazy how good the original looks on a CRT even today. It's kinda like that first RE Remake where it the quality/fidelity perfectly matches what the medium was made for.

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                  June 18, 2024 8:06 PM

                  Sixth-gen CRT gaming was amazing, still stands the test of time

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        June 18, 2024 2:17 PM

        Gameplay looked good but man the Switch hardware is really showing its age. The graphics look mediocre, but as long as the gameplay is there I am in. I am assuming they will reveal an "enhanced" version for Switch 2 before it releases.

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      June 18, 2024 7:41 AM

      OMG!?!?

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      June 18, 2024 7:41 AM

      !!!!!

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      June 18, 2024 7:41 AM

      It's a me!, Metroid!

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        June 18, 2024 7:43 AM

        i can't believe they got john metroid for this game

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      June 18, 2024 7:42 AM

      GMD!!!

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      June 18, 2024 7:43 AM

      MP 4 Beyond - 2025 - has to be a dual gen title then, yes?

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        June 18, 2024 7:45 AM

        very likely

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        June 18, 2024 7:48 AM

        Switch 2 is expected to be backwards compact, so unless they have the type of tech MS has used to allow forward comoatvwith improvements I'd expect this to be a switch title.

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          June 18, 2024 7:59 AM

          they can have another SKU for Switch 2, this game probably comes out with it of after it launches anyway

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          June 18, 2024 9:31 AM

          It can presumably be like some games like God Of War where it adjusts settings based on hardware. That game does PS4, PS4 Pro, and PS5.

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      June 18, 2024 7:50 AM

      Switch 2 was running Prime 4, right? That looked nice.

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        June 18, 2024 7:51 AM

        Yeah that environment shot at the end looked really nice.

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        June 18, 2024 7:56 AM

        it looked Switch 1

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          June 18, 2024 8:00 AM

          The stuff at the start did. But that last Secret of Mana looking forest area looked too good for og switch.

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            June 18, 2024 8:12 AM

            maybe it was a cinematic, no idea

            I doubt they showed anything switch 2 on this event

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            June 18, 2024 8:06 PM

            Looked like a worse xenoblade

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        June 18, 2024 8:05 AM

        Looked the same as switch remaster and its 100% a switch game. They announced it like a million years ago before it was rebooted. Best you will get is the upscaling higher framerate that comes with the soc update.

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        June 18, 2024 2:55 PM

        Unless that intro was 480p it’s cross Gen

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        June 18, 2024 2:59 PM

        100% a Switch game, it looks great but not that far off from Prime Remastered. Whatever is on Switch 2 will be much sharper and maybe with more stuff going on.

        The softness of the image was absolutely Switch though

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          June 18, 2024 3:07 PM

          The amount ongoing on in the background is impressive but even if it’s cross Gen I’m playing on switch I can’t wait for switch 2

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            June 18, 2024 3:09 PM

            Why are you assuming a wait?

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            June 18, 2024 3:12 PM

            I wouldn't be surprised if it comes out around Switch 2 launch. I'm sure they're debating the release order of S2 games right now, maybe Prime 4 at launch and the next 3D Mario a few months later. They'll have monthly releases like they did for Switch either way

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          June 18, 2024 3:09 PM

          Yeah. I fully expect the S2 version to have a better lighting model, even if it's just ambient occlusion.

          That was one effect clearly missing in what we saw that would have a marked benefit to image quality.

          To say nothing of res and texture quality, etc.

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      June 18, 2024 7:51 AM

      Solid lineup to close out the switch. I may have to buy a couple more vouchers!

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      June 18, 2024 8:01 AM

      Metroid looks exactly like I need it to LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

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        June 18, 2024 8:32 AM

        I hope it has lots of calm exploration. I don't want another FPS that's mostly fighting humanoids and dodging environmental obstacles

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          June 18, 2024 8:49 AM

          They won’t but I really wish they’d let you up the fov in the Prime games. I can’t play any on consoles since it’s like 65 or 75. Something super low.

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            June 18, 2024 8:52 AM

            You are playing from inside helmet so the field of view makes more sense with the prime games.

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              June 18, 2024 9:18 AM

              That really doesn’t matter when the five is so low it makes me and others nauseous. Within 10 minutes I’ll be incredibly sick.

              I get the artistic intent but there needs to be an adjustment so that more folks can play,

              Only Prime I’ve played was Primehack on PC because I could do this.

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                June 18, 2024 9:22 AM

                This is such a common response to FOV complaints. It's not about a "design decision" it's the fact that low FOV gives some people HORRIBLE motion sickness, myself included. It's actually a deciding factor for me before I purchase 3rd or 1st person game and yes it even matters in 3rd person.

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                  June 18, 2024 9:24 AM

                  Absolutely. If a game doesn’t have e adjustable fog in some way. I don’t buy it because I’ll get sick. It’s so frustrating.

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                    June 18, 2024 9:26 AM

                    It is, I am constantly following games on steam and if I see something that peaks my interest (usually an indie game) I request a FOV slider. I wasn't always susceptible to low FOV but around the time I hit 30 or so I started getting terrible sickness and migraines. Finally figured out what was going on, shitty FOV.

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                June 18, 2024 11:24 AM

                That's totally understandable and I'd certainly not be opposed to a setting, but FOV narrowness affecting motion sickness also has to do with screen size and position from the screen.

                Have you tried playing them on the couch feet away? There's actually a reason console games tend to be narrower and it isn't just performance - it's can actually be more correct depending on your orientation with the screen.

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                  June 18, 2024 12:40 PM

                  Sadly no, I've sat just as close as a computer monitor for kicks. Basically anything less than 85 at any distance makes me very uncomfortable to downright ill.

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      June 18, 2024 8:33 AM

      Finally The Legend of Link.

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      June 18, 2024 9:12 AM

      Links Awakening is next on my list to play after Captain Toad, looking forward to it because link to the past is absolutely my favorite zelda game. It's cool to see another is being made in that style

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        June 18, 2024 1:09 PM

        It's awesome but I had to google how to progress numerous times in that game, some of those solutions were no where near straightforward.

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          June 18, 2024 3:04 PM

          Noted hahaha

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            June 18, 2024 3:10 PM

            Not to shit on his skill level (at all!) but it isn't generally considered very tricky.

            I beat it in the OG Gameboy without a guide.

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              June 18, 2024 3:28 PM

              Yeah I just don't have the time nowadays for trial and error puzzle solving.

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                June 18, 2024 3:46 PM

                I don't think Link's Awakening really has that; you usually have pretty good clues.

                But I definitely don't laser focus on a single game like I did back then, either.

                And like I said, I wasn't trying to throw shade or anything, I just wouldn't want him turned off from the game.

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                  June 18, 2024 4:00 PM

                  Did you play the remake? I don't know, I played a ton of adventure games growing up as well and beat most of them without issue - but playing links awakening as an adult made me realize I don't have time to try 'give X item to Y npc' or anything similar. It's honestly been a while and can't remember the specific points I got stuck on, but I remember thinking "really?" at a few of them.

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                    June 18, 2024 4:05 PM

                    I did, as well as the original. For the character quests they usually have dialog that should hint you in the right direction, like the Crocodile on the beach mentions that he collects canned food.

                    But it is a game that expects you to explore and talk to people. Or call Ulrira for a hint.

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      June 18, 2024 9:13 AM

      yay! A new mario party!!

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      June 18, 2024 9:29 AM

      Really solid Direct. New 2D Zelda game looks great and I didn’t think we were getting another Mario & Luigi game.

      Metroid is obviously going to be a cross platform release. Looks great ofc

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        June 18, 2024 9:35 AM

        Also MvC2 off of sixth-gen finally!

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        June 18, 2024 11:09 AM

        Yeah, that's a solid lineup to go out with. The actual Nintendo games looks great, but honestly even just the Dragon Quest and Ace Attorney Investigations would be enough to keep busy.

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      June 18, 2024 9:50 AM

      Does Brothership require a second player, or are there similar Nintendo games where the AI does a good job?

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        June 18, 2024 9:53 AM

        Mario & Luigi are single player RPGs. In the prior games the different bros would be controlled with the A and B buttons

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          June 18, 2024 9:55 AM

          Oh! Perfect for mobile Switch gaming

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            June 18, 2024 9:58 AM

            If you have NSO then the first one from the GBA is on it. Great game, still most people’s favorite from the series

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      June 18, 2024 10:20 AM

      There has never been a good SaGa game.

      I remember as a kid back in the Super Nintendo days when I saw a preview for Romancing Saga, and it looked like Final Fantasy 3 on steroids, and I was super excited about it. It never came out stateside when I finally got a chance to play it (and many other SaGa games), I understood why they didn’t port it over back then.

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        June 18, 2024 2:05 PM

        i don't get this. why not just say it's not your thing?

        it has like over a dozen entries in the series, clearly it has its fans and what fans say about the game does make it sound really interesting.

        also reminder people used to throw the same kind of shade at fromsoft games and some of the games by yoko taro look at where they are now

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          June 18, 2024 4:37 PM

          Sorry, I didn’t figure I had to preface it with this warning: “the comments posted are the opinions and views of the author of this post.“

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        June 18, 2024 6:43 PM

        Seriously they always suck. The guy who makes them is weird.

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      June 18, 2024 11:11 AM

      ngl i was hoping for metroid dread2 but ill let gmd have this one

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        June 18, 2024 11:17 AM

        Mercury Steam is working on something; I expect it's a first year Switch 2 release, something to follow Prime and maintain momentum.

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        June 18, 2024 11:34 AM

        Would be day 1 purchase for me no doubt, that game ruled.

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      June 18, 2024 1:06 PM

      https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1803077139672997903

      "That was a truly great Nintendo Direct for a “dying” console. Nintendo’s long term decisions allowing them to release so many games, even as they make a generational transition, flies in the face of what everyone else is doing and is paying off."

      Truly the most solid and sustainable pipeline in gaming. Even in its last year they're still putting out multiple mainline franchise games.

      https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1803080079221665981

      "i always wonder if there's ANY possibility Sony PlayStation studio games can lower their budgets and ppl can be OK about that. it feels like Sony games are trapped to staying as $300 million, 6-year dev games. you will finish college when your favorite Sony sequel releases."

      If they can train people to be excited for more games like Astro Bot instead of putting all their eggs in the "playable HBO TV series" basket, then maybe?

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        June 18, 2024 2:08 PM

        Mario, Metroid. Zelda, etc all have like 6+ years between new releases. Nintendo just has a lot of really great first party properties

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          June 18, 2024 2:12 PM

          But Nintendo does seem to be learning how to mix it up.

          2D Mario, Metroid and Zelda games have all filled slots very well in what would have been a fairly bare lineup with just the big 3D games.

          And they're not lesser experiences. I'll never understand why the industry constantly throws away things that work, even though it's been going on at least since the US PSX's early ban on 2D games.

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            June 18, 2024 2:29 PM

            Exactly. They have years between their big marquee 3D releases but still have a constant stream of games, and as you said they aren't necessarily filler releases either.

            The Switch hasn't gone more than two months between first party releases for seven years, which I think is a huge reason why the system has remained so popular. The whole "Playstation/Xbox has no games" meme doesn't apply because Nintendo doesn't just release a 3D Zelda or Mario game every generation and leave the rest of their release cycle to rot. There's always one more reason for someone to buy the system.

            A library hasn't been this stacked for quantity since the PS2, but its combined with the quality of their scarcer output from N64 through Wii U. Again, its the most sustainable first-party pipeline in gaming, certainly the only functional one.

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            June 18, 2024 7:36 PM

            Yup, let's look at Mario releases recently:

            Mario Odyssey 2017
            Mario Maker 2 2019
            Bowser's Fury 2021
            Super Mario Wonder 2023

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      June 18, 2024 1:38 PM

      I thought MIO looked awesome, good music too
      https://youtu.be/38tZ9yeyoz0

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      June 18, 2024 3:12 PM

      Do we know who is developing Brothership? I'm curious what Next Level Games has been working on.

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        June 18, 2024 3:14 PM

        That's the big question on Nintendo Twitter, because AlphaDream shut down in 2019.

        My understanding is that NCL absorbed many of their employees so maybe it has some of the same developers but under the main Nintendo roof instead of as a third party.

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          June 18, 2024 3:17 PM

          Interesting. The animations and art style on Brothership are fantastic, will def be picking that up to play with my son.

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      June 18, 2024 7:20 PM

      Skimming some of these again and the animation for Mario & Luigi Brothership is extremely fucking good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5I3DcapElQ

      Luigi in particular is great, also reminds me what a terrific looking game Luigi's Mansion 3 was. Either way this looks like the box key art from all of the GBA and DS games

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      June 18, 2024 7:34 PM

      The new mechanics in Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom are wild!

      They basically stole some of the autobuild weirdness from TotK and let you place any "discovered" items down anywhere at any time.

      There are going to be so many freeform solutions to puzzles and combat that make the player feel clever, like they were the first one to figure it out.

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        June 18, 2024 7:37 PM

        Yeah a lot of potential for creativity for sure, but I'm concerned about how much the inventory management UI will factor into the gameplay fun factor.

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          June 18, 2024 7:52 PM

          Looks like the trigger pulls up an item menu to scroll through

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            June 18, 2024 8:16 PM

            Right, but if I'm pulling that up every 30sec to scroll left/right for my item to select will be annoying. I'll obviously reserve judgement for when we know more, just saying it looks inventory heavy from what we've seen so far.

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              June 18, 2024 8:19 PM

              No doubt, its a tough problem to solve for sure. It does look like they're trying to minimize going to a menu screen at least. I assume that Y button or something will sort items by type/alphabetical/etc

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        June 18, 2024 7:58 PM

        Its also a continuation of the open 2D Zelda style from A Link Between Worlds, where the game is way more freeform with items. In ALBW you can rent or buy every item pretty much from the start while in this game every object can be an item. Both break from prior 2D Zelda games where items are tied to dungeons and push you down a linear path, really cool.

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          June 18, 2024 7:59 PM

          Which reminds me that ALBW should get a port from 3DS, its a top tier Zelda game and IMHO one of the best of the decade

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