It's been an agonizing wait, but the Nintendo Direct meant for last week finally dropped today. It's a shame that a good number of announcements supposedly meant for the Direct have surfaced throughout the week, but delaying the Direct out of respect for the victims of the Hokkaido earthquake is undoubtedly the best course of action. Anyway, if you haven't caught up yet, watch the Direct below: The Direct starts out strong, with a teaser for a Luigi's Mansion game for the Switch. Still gotta play the first two games, but I'm hyped nonetheless. The first segment of the Direct was on games coming to the 3DS. I'm rather amazed that, nine years on, games are still coming out for the damn thing.
I thought the 3DS segment would be a little bit longer, but the Direct moves on to Switch games in quick fashion.
The Direct switches over to a segment about the Nintendo Switch Online. They haven't done a very good job at selling the service to people, so it was nice to have this little segment. There isn't really any new information in the segment apart from glimpses of what NES games will be available, as well as some sort of tease for "special offers". I'm still not sold on this service, but I need it to play Splatoon 2, so I guess it doesn't matter. To tie in with the online granting access to NES games, they also show off new cool-looking wireless NES controllers that you can attach to your Switch just like the Joy-Cons. I thought that was neat. The Direct heads back into Switch game announcements after this brief tangent.
We get a sort of sizzle reel for a few more games, mostly for the annual games like FIFA, NBA 2K19, and Just Dance. They also show off Lego DC Super Villains, Team Sonic Racing, and Warframe (which finally has a release date). Square Enix gets their own little segment for Final Fantasy games in here. It's nice to see Square supporting the shit out of the Switch, which can only mean good things.
As expected, the Direct ends with Smash Ultimate shit. First, they announce the Smash Ultimate Switch bundle, which looks cool. Second, we get a new fighter: Isabelle from Animal Crossing, via what is probably the tamest and most chill character reveal trailer in the history of Smash Bros. And finally, to end the Direct, they go ahead and confirm Animal Crossing Switch. Goddamn, dude. Despite the delay taking the air out of some of the announcements in this Direct (we had already heard about a good number of the games shown here), I still think this was a solid showing for Nintendo. Sure, I didn't get more Metroid Prime 4 or Bayonetta 3, but I'm more than satisfied with what they announced here. If you'll excuse me, I have to save money for Katamari Switch.
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