I’m not super familiar with the battle facility of older games but isn’t that what the Battle Tower + Custom tournament(which is about to get custom-ier with the 2v2 stars tournaments?) are for? Plus I could recall wrong but I feel like I dimly recall new options being added to Battle Tower or something like that with…

To be honest if you look at some of the cliche of “western” religions like the prevalence of “Local Thunder God, sometimes Patriarch God” in some of these pantheons and then look at how many of these cultures speak languages part of the greater Indo-European family of languages...

.... it sorts of loosely make sense ^^;

Plus it could be just me but I’ve generally found that analog trigger tend to be kind of harder on my wrist’s carpal tunnels with the current non-analog “triggers” of my Switch? The added pressure required to use the full width of the analog trigger’s range definitely feel like more strain during longer play sessions…

So much re: Monster Hunter.
Holy shit, I don’t think I can describe how hyped this announcement make me. It’s almost a good thing it’s only in 2021 because that give my time to clear my backlog a bit, thankfully.

Tbh Generations Ultimate is kind of an extreme case.

Sure World had less monsters, even with Iceborne but also.... that kind of made it possible to complete in the first place in my opinion and still had a good fair couple of months worth of playing.

GU however... I think I temporarily uninstalled it to refocus on other…

I doubt it. You have to recall that Monster Hunter games traditionally always came in “pairs” every generations. One for “primary” consoles, and one for “handhelds”.

The only exception was Gen 4 which was the only gen to be exclusively handheld. But even then it still went by the “main”/”side title” formula with…

I’m tentatively curious nonetheless because A: the return to a full-on fantasy setting again, even if it’s still going for that visual styles of more modern FF titles.

B: Yoshida is involved, which I cannot help but if it has anything to do with point A.

Technically the publisher(and thus rights-holder?) is 505 Games. So what money would end up going to Zaimont(and I guess it’d be debatable if the royalty money was meant to be specifically for the -studio- he’s now in the process of burning down, which could get him on technicalities I bet) would depend on whatever…

Maybe because, exception of the NES(which does have that kind of emblematic “start of the franchise deal”) this timeline seem to exclusively focus on consoles generations?

Honestly I could see them doing that, especially if the “Collection” itself sells enough.

Sell the -collection- as a limited time exlusive, then after the deadline is over start selling them separately as eshops-exclusives?

Honestly technically it’s a year/anniversary that only just began so while I’m perfectly fine with the current selection, I’m not putting it into the domain of the impossible for them to release more Mario-related news later.

This basically was just a mini-Direct rather than full-fiat so if a full Direct ever…

Mostly because they seem to have focused on generations rather than titles proper. Like they’ve shown Mario 1-2-3 because they’re emblematic but also likely because they’re all on the All-Stars collection that re-released on the SNES Online Service app. 

Tbh, this was basically what I expected of a 35th anniversary Direct. The only thing I could have asked more myself would have been news related to a remaster of Mario RPG or Paper Mario 64/Thousand Year Doors but any of those three had always been one heck of a long shot and thus unlikely to happen by default.

As it…

I’m basically just waiting for the moment I can make an actual pre-order for the physical version of that 3D All-Stars collection.

Plus, though that was from the era of “retail only”, the previous releases of the All-Stars collection were always kind of limited “anniversary year only” kind of deal iirc? So if anything it would be them keeping with tradition though it feels weird it affects the digital release as well(but then again, the free…

Tbh as I was saying I could see that. A N64 online collection tied to the online subscription releasing after the end period, followed by more Gamecube ports as stand alone retail/digital releases?

Otoh, wasn’t the original Mario All-Stars kind of a similar deal in that it was ONLY sold during a limited period originally or something like that?

I recall the Wii’s re-release of All-Stars being similarly limited. It does feel weird in that the eshop release will -also- be affected by that but I guess it’s to drive…

“The only benefit to them acquiring Rare was that Nintendo had fewer exclusive.”

Sadly I can picture this as well enough in the eyes of a corporate exec to be the point of it.

Really cool!

This said one thing I just noticed, and I just realized was the case for Paper Mario... that’s now two reveals where:

-There’s no Direct, even mini. But more importantly...
-Not even any single announcer speaking or any sort of voice recording during the trailer as we normally see to hype up a title.

That…

On re: Mario’s Boot/Mario’s Hammer I think they might be more than option... they might potentially even be gear of all thing. The full trailer showed Mario performing the same (now standard?) line jump attack on a row of boos but the text calling the attack was specifically “Shiny Boots”... which doesn’t sound like a…