This is a good point, though it doesn’t really apply to exclusives.

What about soundtracks?

Their naming scheme isn’t the greatest, with One, One S, One X, Series S, and Series X. (Will people unfamiliar with the brand actually be able to know what’s what?)

As some have pointed out, this just leaves Nintendo as the odd ones out now (worldwide).

Not sure that I even knew about the leaf reappearing... I seem to recall hovering back and forth across the river to get the remaining coins.

My first thought was that they meant giving any of their characters too much personality/backstory/character development...

I did a bit of a Nintendo 64 binge a few years back, with this being one of the games. It was pretty fun. Nice to see it getting some love still!

The joke wasn’t obscure or reliant on in-depth knowledge of subcultures, either- even if someone had no clue who Aloy is, they could still figure out what’s going on.

Maybe I’m just forgetting, but there aren’t many visually stylized games with a rich, detailed art style like this, are there? It seems like the tendency for a while has been toward either simplistic and cartoony, or simplistic and pixelated.

It finally happened: HD is now passé!

And that Zelda game that came out a few years back- you know, the really popular one, Ocarina of Time- is somehow almost two decades old! What happened?

Guess again. Two decades ago is 1996. Two and a half decades is early ‘90s!