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🕑 Added 2024-06-23 15:40:14 +0000 UTCWe're still buzzing about last week's Nintendo Direct! Clearly the Switch still has a lot of life left, and there are plenty of upcoming games to look forward to.
What one game from the Direct left you most excited and why? If you choose the "something else!" option, be sure to tell us what it is!
-Kit & Krysta
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Dexter S.
I picked Mario and Luigi, but it could have so easily been Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom or Dragon Quest III HD-2D remake. I am also kind of interested in Stray, it looks like avery good port to Switch and would be nice to play for the first time.
Brooke Obscura
When the trailer revealed the TotK quick select menu for echoes (a long list of items that you have to scroll horizontally) my interest in the game plummeted. Based on my experience with TotK, there are only a handful of items that you’ll actually want to use, with the rest essentially being filler. I suspect it to be the same here, where only a handful of echoes will be useful for an optimal play through and the rest will just be there to populate a list to make it seem as though the game has more depth than it actually does. One other thing that worries me about this art style is the performance. The Link’s Awakening remake famously had frame rate issues and poor performance, and it never received a patch to address those issues. Additionally, the one new thing added to the remake, where you assemble pieces of previous dungeons, was awful Stacking furniture looks ridiculous, not heroic. Creating echoes of enemies to fight by your side may sound exciting at first, but think back to any other game that you’ve played in the past where you had to watch a CPU character with poor AI “assist” you. It’s only a matter of moments before you’ll wish you could just dispatch these enemies yourself. I wish was more optimistic, but I think this is going to a tedious game experience that has the same, or possibly worse performance issues than the Link’s Awakening remake. Aesthetically, the toy diorama look is one that I’m not particularly fond of for the series either, so very little about this trailer appealed to me, despite it launching on my 40th birthday. I may have just aged out of some games, and that’s okay. There was plenty more to see in this presentation that did merit hope for the future of the Nintendo Switch, even as we approach the launch of its successor.
