Nintendo Showcase for the Year Thoughts and Opinions Part 1

I have to split this into parts there is a lot to go over and I’m only posting about half the showcase now and the other half later.

Mario and Luigi: Brothership

I am glad the Mario and Luigi RPG series is continuing after the studio who made the games shut down. While the game does look fun and I do want to keep an open mind we don’t know if this will be as good as previous entries and whether it will be as good as the previous games or not.

Nintendo World Champions NES Edition

A game based on timed challenges and how quick you can do them based on games that released on the Nintendo Entertainment System of games. I feel like this game would be fun for not just casual gamers who want to see how fast they can do something, but for the Speedrunning community as well. It could potentially introduce people to Speedrunning the older games and I like to see the fans of that get attention.

Fairy Tail 2

I unfortunately have no history with the Fairy Tail franchise I’ve never seen the anime and the most I know about the series is not enough to judge the games based on it fairly. If it looks fun to you or not is something I myself cannot judge at this time.

Fantasian Neo Dimension

Fantasian is a game that is being made by people who have worked on the Final Fantasy series of games. It definitely does its best to show that experience a unique turn based RPG system and world very remincent of Final Fantasy an interesting game at the very least.

Nintendo Switch Sports

Basketball is coming to Nintendo Switch Sports. This doesn’t really mean anything to me. I own a Wii and thus own Wii Sports so already have that game, but I also own Wii Sports Resort where the basketball game originates and while one of the better games on that collection I don’t really need either of these though I can recommend them if you never played them before.

MIO: Memories In Orbit

A 2D platformer similar to Celeste focusing on precision and precise movement making a very difficult, but overall satisfying and fun game. Much like Celeste it isn’t difficult to understand the game, but it is hard to master both the controls and movements. It looks fun and if you like games like that then this will probably interest you.

After we got a few more licenced games including an update to Disney’s Illusion Island, a Looney Toons Basketball Game, and some Hello Kitty game. I have little to no interest in any of these so we’ll just move on. We then got an update to Amung Us adding 2 classes to both Crewmates and Imposters.

The next game announced was Farmigia a mix genre game. It seems to be between monster taming games and farming. It seems to be you will be raising a large amount of monsters on your farm then taking them to battle. It at least seems interesting and looks fun to at least play.

After that we got three remakes Donkey Kong Country Returns, Dragon Quest 3, and Luigi’s Mansion 2 are all getting HD remakes. Also somewhere in there was some Funko Pop and a Denpa Man game I had no interest in.

The next half of the Showcase analysis will come next week as well as closing thoughts on it thank you all for your patience.

Nintendo of America “Nintendo Direct 6.18.2024 – Nintendo Switch.” YouTube, June 18, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX3BkD5PVUM&t=1149s