KI: Yeah, and it looks Nintendo isn’t committing hard in either direction-it looks like for now they’re going with “Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros. But yeah, I like what I’m seeing with this initial teaser Inklings are in, Mario and Link look fierce as ever, and there’s always a chance we could get some great new stages and modes out of this iteration.

Miyamoto has also stated that Nintendo aims to have a longer life cycle for the Switch than past Nintendo consoles (can’t blame them if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it), so it makes sense that a real Smash 5 could come, albeit further down the line. As I mentioned in my predictions article prior to the Direct, there’s really no need for Nintendo to rush a new Smash game out the door when there’s an entire base of Nintendo fans who never played (or, at the very least, never owned) Smash 4 on account of it being on Wii U. What do you guys think?ĭavid Silbert : Agreed. For me personally, I think that it’s a 2018 release points to the fact that this game is much closer to Smash for 3DS/Wii U than a fully fledged new game, but with new characters and, perhaps, significantly revamped movesets for legacy characters who have stayed much the same through several iterations. So it looks like we’re getting Smash this year, with Inklings as a new fighter and, at the very least, Breath of the Wild Link as a playable character as well. But after I saw the second Inkling, my suspicions that this was Smash kept going up and up… then we saw the background turn black, and that apocalyptic, burning Smash logo in the distance. Kei Isobe : When I heard the splatting noises at first, for some reason my mind defaulted to a Portal 2 release for Switch. Let’s get started with our thoughts on the biggest news to come out of this Direct, shall we? That was a Nintendo Direct that started off with all of us here being generally pretty whelmed before dropping a major bombshell on us. The new Metroid Prime focuses instead on cooperative play, completely void of a long-established single-player campaign.Smash, Octopath Traveler, and Ports… Glorious Ports And it's single-player, as all Metroid games have been. Metroid Prime has a tradition to uphold, of fantastically fun puzzles combined with very nice FPS elements. Metroid Prime: Federation Force is perhaps one of the best examples of the negative reactions that can be garnered from too much change. Like many reboots, it can drive away the native player base. That's not to say that the direction they want to take with re-imagining their games is going to be for everyone. That is until you actually experience their creation.

That also means that they're going to be taking some chances that might not seem exciting on the surface. But we're giving them new things to enjoy,' 'We're taking our great IP and transforming them and making them new again - making them fresh and appealing for the fan who feels they know the franchise. They want to transform themselves, essentially, and become a household name again, innovating in brilliant ways like they have in the past. In an interview with Mashable, Reggie Fils-Amie was very frank about the direction that they're taking for the future. Nintendo promises it'll be awesome once you actually play it, however. The blending of genres in Metroid Prime: Federation Force isn't seen as positive by fans. 70,531, and counting, thumbs down on YouTube are pretty significant. Nintendo's newly announced Metroid Prime: hasn't received quite the reception that Nintendo has hoped, and they're paying attention to that criticism too.

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