This is an excellent list. The only thing I would add is a bit of Silksong news. It has to come out eventually, right?
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The Nintendo Thread of Existential Doom
- Thread starter Becksworth
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This is an excellent list. The only thing I would add is a bit of Silksong news. It has to come out eventually, right?
I mean, the most recent news was from last month saying it had been delayed, so...I'm not holding my breath, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't still holding out a little bit of hope.
Last second predictions:
- One Nintendo-adjacent franchise will enter the musou machine this year... Xenoblade?
- Gritty Yoshi's Safari reboot
- New 2D Mario? Yes, New Super Mario Bros Switch
- Metroid Prime 4 will look more like a sequel to Federation Force than anybody will be willing to admit
- 35 minutes of Pikmin 4
- One Nintendo-adjacent franchise will enter the musou machine this year... Xenoblade?
- Gritty Yoshi's Safari reboot
- New 2D Mario? Yes, New Super Mario Bros Switch
- Metroid Prime 4 will look more like a sequel to Federation Force than anybody will be willing to admit
- 35 minutes of Pikmin 4
One detail about it I picked up on re-watching: one clip shows 2-player co-op with one person playing Mario and one person playing Yoshi, and then Mario rides Yoshi, which sounds like a great way to navigate through trickly platforming sections with a skill imbalance.
Pajaro Pete
(He/Himbo)
we are finally free of the New Super Mario Bros curse
I hope so. But we got nothing on my list!
Mario Wonder looks wonder-ful. Absolutely can't wait to play it. As mentioned elsewhere, NSMBU rocketed to the top of my Mario rankings this year, so I'm very eager
Sprite
(He/Him/His)
The Peach game’s theme seems to be theater and ribbons, which is certainly a step up from Super Princess Peach’s “girls be cryin’’”
Mario RPG is definitely the big standout for me overall but *I am vibrating with anticipation to have Star Ocean 2 on a newer console again*. And the updated graphics and character art look absolutely fantastic. Really excited at how Super Mario Bros. Wonder looks, too.
This also just missed being the longest gap between core Mario games by about 3 weeks.
This was on the Japanese stream:
Feel like we missed out on this.
Feel like we missed out on this.
Here's a direct embed of the official youtube video of the trailer to avoid Twitter's frequent Oops! All Artifacting and also the first 75% of the video is in 144p style video streaming.
The basic pitch is that the protagonist is a tanuki named Bakeru (literally just a verb meaning "transform"/"impersonate," but it's also just one sound off from the plausible boy's name Takeru) who takes the form of a human, and he also can power up into legendary figures like Momotaro, granting new movesets.
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Fuckin' PREACH! I'm loving the art style for this, and just what looks like the overall willingness to try new things. At least in the same sense as your Galaxies and your Odysseys. 2D Mario was never bad, but it needed shaking up in the worst way and I'm glad they're finally doing it.
Between that, the Pikmins, and a new DQ Monsters (FUCK YEAH) there's a lot to be excited about.
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
Just thinking about how the Peach and Luigi's Mansion game coming out in 2024 means the Switch will probably have an 8th year of new 1st party software support at the very minimum...
I think it would be bonkers for it to not be.
Whatever comes next is going to be a hard sell for me if it's not basically exactly like the Switch in terms of portability and ease of use, and no BC would not improve the proposition. It's their problem to solve, not mine.
Phantoon
I cuss you bad
They're going after the DS and PS2 aren't they, the absolute madlads
I hope they have Odyssey 2 ready for the new Switch, a new Zelda is now six years off. Who knows what that means for Metroid Prime 4.
MrBlarney
(he / him)
I just want to make a throwaway post to say that I feel like the Super Mario RPG remake's character models are a little too short and pudgy, and that it's a little bit weird to see the Super Mario Bros. Wonder character sprites facing in an odd three-quarters angle. But it is pretty neat to have both games on the horizon this year, especially the latter. It should be neat to see what kinds of gimmicks Nintendo can throw together with those blue flower effects.