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loveletterworm Ā· 2 years ago
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The ā€œsignificant updates only come like once every few monthsā€ thing splatoon is on nowadays is so scaryĀ  they said they werenā€™t planning to update the game until june...Um well earlier i determined through an extremely long series of conjectureĀ  that there might be a decent chance of them starting to post more than 2 sentences about side order in may. so i will attempt to look forward to that until my attention breaks again. This is why i wanted to be a bullshit untrustworthy video game leaker the other day because i thought my guess sounded pretty good
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clownkiwi Ā· 4 years ago
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Rubyā€™s Thoughts on the Super Mario Bros 35th Anniversary Direct Earlier This Morning
ok!!! letā€™s talk about those silly mario announcements today, because, if ya know me, i love me my marios so much. in fact, some of my favorite games of all time include super mario world 2: yoshiā€™s island, super paper mario, super mario galaxy, mario & luigi: bowserā€™s inside story, super mario rpg, & super mario odyssey; itā€™s safe to say ive been a mario fan for a long time, and i love him alot.
and considering its marios big year (shhhhhh, hes turning 35 this year!!!), youā€™d expect a lot of big things. and, like i said, we got a bunch of mario announcements!!! some of them huge!!! and some of them iā€™m mixed about, but weā€™ll get to that once we start talking about them. so, letā€™s start with the very first announcement down below!!!
1) Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros
So like, as the first announcement, ummmmmm. This doesnā€™t look too bad. and I know this was made as a collectors item for like the most extreme Mario fans & game collectors/ā€historiansā€. And Iā€™m one of those, a huge Mario fan. So like, I really really want it, even though itā€™s just a Game & Watch with Mario 1, The Lost Levels, a clock, & a Game & Watch game, priced for $50. And Iā€™m on the fence. Like, ehhhh??? Should I pay $50 for games I could easily emulate on my laptop for free??? But also, this is a collectors item, and I know Nintendo fans will buy these in bulk and sell them for a higher price on Amazon & eBay, so like. Maybe I will get this. Just to see all the Mario stuff on there!!! And Iā€™ll keep the box as well as the thing itself, and yea, I might actually get it for Christmas. yay :)
2) Super Mario 3D World + Bowserā€™s Fury
Now this was definitely an exciting announcement!! We all knew this was happening, from all the rumors, just to the fact that this was inevitable. Iā€™m very glad Mario 3D World will get another chance on the Nintendo Switch!! If youā€™ve heard from many Mario fans & Wii U owners, it has to be one of Marioā€™s most underrated adventures in recent years; and thatā€™s coming from someone whoā€™s favorite underrated classics happen to be Super Mario Land 2 & Super Mario Galaxy 2! So itā€™s very exciting that we got one of the best Wii U games ported on the Switch! And this time itā€™ll have online multiplayer, but I donā€™t think thatā€™s what Iā€™m excited for the most. What Iā€™m really interested in has to be Bowserā€™s Fury. What is that? Will it be harder levels, will it just be more of what we already loved from the game, or will it be a whole new campaign/story after beating the main campaign? Nintendo has been very vague about it, and we can only really know once it getā€™s close to coming out next year. So Iā€™m very excited to see what thatā€™s about!!
And yes, I should warn you, this is the only bit of new Mario content to come out that I can actually play. Everything else will be pure nostalgia bait, for both good and bad reasons. Weā€™ll talk about that later, but all things considered: Iā€™m very excited for this game, and I canā€™t wait for it to come out on Switch :)
3) Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
OK, so like. If I was 7-11, I would be very excited for this, and Iā€™d be begging my parents to get this. This would be something fun to play with if I was younger. But not only am I not in the age group appropriate for this, our house is messy as fuck. If I wanted to properly play this, Iā€™d have to clean everything up our house, which will take a lot of work. So, this will be one I will pass on. Not to say it isnā€™t cool as fuck and Iā€™d love to get it, I just wonā€™t be able to play it ever in my house. Plus, it can only be played indoors, meaning I canā€™t make cool as fuck courses outside. Thisā€™ll be one of those Nintendo Labo things to me personally, where Iā€™ll see it, goĀ ā€œWow!! Cool as fuck, wish I had that,ā€ I wonā€™t get it, and I donā€™t think my life will be personally too affected. Still really cool though, Iā€™ll admit that.
4) Super Mario Bros 35
OK OK, so this was another one of thoseĀ ā€œWOAH, WACKY NINTENDO COMING AT US FROM LEFT FIELDā€ things that like, seemed so obvious. Why hasnā€™t Nintendo conceived a Mario Battle Royale? Well, only because they were holding it for Marioā€™s 35th Anniversary, and, I love it!!! This seems like a game Iā€™ll play alot, and Iā€™ll have to play as much as I can, because compared to these other games, this one will be limited!!
Yea, would you believe it?? If you have a Nintendo Switch with Nintendo Switch Online, you can only play this from October 10th to March 31st. Which seems very dumb!!! Why would you get everybody excited over a cool game that alot of people might love, only to take it away from us, like, barely six months after it came out? This makes no sense! But trust me, weā€™ll go more in-depth on this soon. Before we talk about that, letā€™s talk about the other stuff!
5) The other stuff
I wanna get those cute new Mario overalls. I also wanna get those Splatfest keychains when they come out, as well as those Mario pins!! Sadly, you have to buy one of the new $60 Mario games when they come out, which sucks! Because I donā€™t have much money on my Nintendo account, and I donā€™t even have a job, so I canā€™t get it right away. Also seems real greedy to give out something for free when you also have to buy something in order to obtain it. But trust me, this is only a setback; I will get those pins if itā€™s the last I do.
But, of course, itā€™s time to talk about the most controversial announcement that was made today. The final announcement Nintendo made today regarding Marioā€™s 35th Anniversary, and thatā€™s
6) Super Mario 3D All-Stars
Thatā€™s right! The highly rumored, highly hyped up, highly exciting announcement yet! The one everyone has been talking about, the one weā€™ve all been getting excited over! And even though I was first excited by this, I was also a little bit disappointed. Now, however, Iā€™m even more mixed on this one!!
Letā€™s talk about the Pros & the Cons about this one.
Pros
Mario 64, Sunshine, & Galaxy are finally on Switch!!! Wow, that is very exciting!!!
Wow, Mario Sunshine looks so beautiful in HD!! Probably because of the widescreen thing, but that makes it better!!!
The Music Player is cool, Iā€™m glad Iā€™m now able to listen to the whole soundtrack of Mario 64, Sunshine, & Galaxy on the comfort of my Switch!! :)!!!
Iā€™m glad theyā€™re all together in one collection!! Thatā€™s super cool too!!
And hey, itā€™s coming out real soon too, thatā€™s cool!!
OK, thatā€™s all I have on the Pros, letā€™s move onto the Joycons. Cons, I mean.
Cons
OKAYYYYYY, where can I even start??? The title is very misleading. It is calledĀ ā€œSuper Mario 3D All-Starsā€ right?? Why didnā€™t these games get beautiful HD remastered graphics, or better yet, full on remakes?? With updated graphics, stuff missing from the original prototypes added in there (like playable Luigi in Mario 64), or, hell, even stuff added from the DS remake onto the Switch remake?? Playing Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo Switch in an All-Stars-esque package should mean a total upgrade!! All weā€™re really getting is like,Ā ā€œHigher Resolutionsā€ (even though fans have been able to port Mario 64 onto PC at 60 FPS & in 4K widescreen resolution, and the way the game looks on Switch just seems to be barely emulating, but whatever) and updated controls for the Switch. Now, itā€™s not to say that the novelty isnā€™t cool. Iā€™m glad weā€™re able to play Mario 64 & Sunshine on Switch, but like, if these are just straight up ports of the original games with nothing added to it, why even release physical copies of it when you could just release them seperately through Virtual Console, or, ya know, just separate releases on eShop?? It didnā€™t seem too hard to just port them on Switch, why not rerelease them on the platform for a cheaper price? And speaking of,
The price of this. How are you able to justify 3 games that are all more than a decade old for $60 if youā€™re not even gonna add in any new content besides a music player?? This kinda seems very cheap and reeks of Nintendo trying to make as much of quick bucks as possible from this. You gave the fans what we wanted, you did the bare minimum, and now you will earn in the reapings. And I wouldnā€™t even harshly complain about this!! Yea, sure, fans are making more beautiful upscalings to Mario 64 on PC for free, but suuuuuure, make your loyal fans pay $20 for a 25 year old game you can easily emulate on your PC. And thatā€™s not even my biggest complaint.
Oh yea, before I go to my biggest complaint: why didnā€™t you include Mario Galaxy 2?? I know Galaxy is a pretty long game, but at the very least the $60 wouldā€™ve felt a lil bit more justified (not totally justified, btw!!! $60 still feels too much to play 4 games that are all a decade old at least). And as it is now, it feels very bare bones. You canā€™t just rerelease Mario Galaxy onto the Switch without itā€™s sequel,,, and again, these wouldā€™ve been my biggest and only complaints, if not for this one,,,
Nintendoā€™sĀ ā€œVaultā€
Limited Release. Not just limited physical release, but limited digital release too. You can only legally purchase this game when it comes out on September 18th, 2020 til March 31st, 2021. After March 31st, 2021, you wonā€™t be able to legally purchase this game ever again. And this isnā€™t just a weird thing for the United States. The whole world will get affected by this too. You arenā€™t safe if youā€™re in Britain, Japan, Europe, or anywhere else where this game is legally sold.
Out of all of Nintendoā€™s anti-consumer practices theyā€™ve done in the past half-decade, out of every greedy way Nintendo tried to make money off of your nostalgia, this has to be the most greediest and the most uncharacteristic ever. And I am absolutely anti-capitalist, all of yinz should know this by this point! But even then, this just seems incredibly shady.
Why would you hype up your fanbase over the anticipated rereleases of fan favorite games onto your console, ones that could rank in fans old and new, and only release it for a limited amount of time, before putting it back into a hypotheticalĀ ā€œvaultā€, never to be legally released for an unknown period of time?
And why, as a company trying to heavily protect their image, take down ROMs & ISOs & emulators, but not even clearly release your classics onto modern consoles without doing something weird about it?
You all know what Iā€™m talking about: stuff likeĀ ā€œNintendo Switch Online Nintendo Entertainment Systemā€ andĀ ā€œSNES Classic Editionā€!!!! Like, limited edition stuff like NES Classic or SNES Classic are at the very least justifiable because they were made to make a quick profit for Christmas by nostalgia-baiting your audience!! Sure, that kinda makes sense. But this is moment that Nintendo seriously crossed the line.
The one chance, the one chance Nintendo could get every Mario fan happy & excited, and they did the bare minimum, in the most cheapest way possible, in the least consumer-friendly way possible, in order to make up for potential losses during this pandemic.
And honestly, we couldā€™ve gotten something better. You could either chalk this to Nintendoā€™s results from being terribly impacted by a pandemic that forced everyone way from each other, or Nintendo was really planning this all along. And they could easily do this again as well if this game sells well.
Compared to Disney, which tons of people made comparisons to, I canā€™t currently pirate these Mario games! I lost important buttons from my keyboard for the D-Pad, and the PS4 controller I borrowed from my bro wonā€™t work on my laptop anymore because I lost the proper cord, and other cords I tried using wonā€™t work as well. So, I canā€™t really boycott this game. Mario is very close and dear to my heart, and Iā€™m willing to buy this game.
However, what scares me the most is that Nintendo could do this again. Zeldaā€™s 35th happens to be next year. What happens if they released the Zelda 64 games for a limited amount of time on Switch as well??? Or what if they released the Gamecube & Wii Zelda games as ports for the Switch in a collection for a limited amount of time as well??? Iā€™ve seen someone predict that Nintendo could possibly do this again, and I canā€™t really stop it because I want to play Mario Sunshine on my Switch, I want to play Mario Galaxy on my Switch! But I absolutely despised the way Nintendo went along to do this. And Iā€™m gonna hate it even more when they do it again, thinking they could easily fool us again just because it has theĀ ā€œMarioā€ name on it, or theĀ ā€œZeldaā€ name on it.
And thatā€™s what Iā€™m more scared and excited for all at the same time.
At the very least, more people are starting to notice.
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