 All right, listen, let's not do the whole dance of I say this is a mid direct and then chat gas lights me into This is the best direct we've ever had and every single announcement was tailored perfectly for me And then everyone likes and comments on that reply with yeah, I can't believe people Mario thousand-year-doll So this this is for my YouTube video. I make today. I did a poll 10,000 people Approximately and 50% said mid and then 31% said bad We're in the tail end of the switch's lifespan at this point the best directs for the switch are behind us Especially when we had smash and we were getting smash reveals which always heightened a direct at this point A nintendo direct is just a press public event that lets us know what's happening in the coming weeks or months on the switch It's not gonna get too crazy until we start looking at the nintendo switch, too So was this a mid direct according to the 10,000 people that watched it with me? Yeah, it kind of was but there was a lot of really great things in this direct And I got to say as far as recent directs this went by really quickly I enjoyed almost everything that I saw maybe it was a little air, but I think it was a good air Kind of like stuff Now there's a lot of really great things in here. We can take a look at I had a great time watching it. Okay. All right Okay, I'm gonna skim through a lot and then go into a deeper detail today on my podcast Which you can watch wherever you watch my podcast, but it started with Splatoon 3 DLC I'm not big in a Splatoon and I fell off the third one pretty quickly But I love the art style the music and the direction of this DLC And it sounds like it's a giant tower that you battle your way up and improve your stats on the way But they said it's infinitely replayable and I kind of like that It's like adding a rogue like into a non rogue like game But it adds that infinite replay ability which is great for DLC Mario vs. Donkey Kong remake I have never played one of these you could I I swear I swear to God before today if you had asked me what kind of game These even were I probably wouldn't have been able to tell you. I've just never been interested. It looks very charming I am just assuming by looking at this gameplay that it's for a younger audience Just kind of like a more kid-friendly Mario game Although I guess all Mario games are kid-friendly, but this one looks very catered towards children It looks cute and fun obviously no reason for me to play it, but The switches for all ages this new Prince of Persia game Looks too good. I don't know. I'm it doesn't feel right to be excited for a Ubisoft game I feel dirty saying that Which is a shame because I used to love Ubisoft games, but this one looks great It looks like it's taken a lot of inspiration from Metroid Dread, but it's Prince of Persia. I'm looking forward to this game Yeah, we'll just skip through a little bit because it it did get off the rails a bit. There's a spy Family game. I've never seen spy family. This is revolving around the daughter. I guess it looks cute I don't know might maybe fun and then of course we start get the glimpses The the the deeper dives in the things that we'd already heard about But we're seeing more of them now like Mario RPG Which they've added a lot to this game actually now if you time a attack command perfectly You can hit all enemies which will hope will definitely speed up a lot of the fights But hopefully not make it too easy to just start wailing on every enemy at once every time you attack They might cheapen it a little bit for me, but we'll see. I could also just Not time my attack make it harder for myself Apparently there are these old DS games one was never even released Outside of Japan and they're getting a remake and or a remaster and a port over to the switch I don't know if these are cult classics for some people. They look interesting Uh, I don't know if I'll play them, but this one did catch my eye, but I don't think I'll play it So I guess it didn't catch it that hard. Oh now the peach game the princess peach Showtime which I don't love that name, but it's fine. I didn't make it. You know what I do love this I This actually slaps. I Wasn't sure if I'd be excited for this game. I'm still not sure what I make of it as a whole I can't tell how the game plays exactly and every time peach gets a new outfit the gameplay style is supposed to drastically change and since it's set around Showtime and like a play or like a movie theater It almost says to me just set pieces where in each little set piece of a level you do a different thing Almost mini-game adjacent where now you're doing this and now you're doing this But it does seem to have some side-scrolling elements to it too almost Paper Mario E in the way that it looks I really have no idea how this one is going to play out You know a lot of streamers like to make bingo cards before going into a direct But I guarantee you two raiders one through three remastered we're not on anybody's bingo card also Kind of remastered it's interesting They knocked out a lot of the triangles in the character model I mean she definitely looks remastered, but also Lara herself has really only been remastered to about PlayStation 2 and then the rest of the game. I Mean it's brighter Some parts look a lot better some parts if you'd just told me it was the original I would have assumed that it was like I can see the difference when you put them next to each other But the way that my brain remembers these games are a lot closer to the new remastered version So if I had just seen that I would have been like yeah, that's oh, that's the first tomb raider So yeah, I don't know it's it's a It is technically remastered all of that shade thrown I am actually excited to dive into these games again. I have a lot of nostalgia for them This is this only matters to me and none of you are gonna care But I'm what I've made a really fun YouTube video where I played all 11 of the IR reader switch games and there's only 11 and there hasn't been a new one in years Literally the entire library of switch has 11 games that use the IR reader this direct Introduced to new ones my video is done. It's ready to go And now I got to add in two more We have this trombone game which was previously available on other consoles It's coming to switch and they've added motion controls and IR controls Because they hate me and also the new warrior wear game We got a deeper look at that and it uses some IR motion control. They are there are 11 IR games on the switch total in the last five It's almost six years and they just added two more in this direct without getting caught. Are you kidding me? Anyway, sorry, that's a very me problem that this direct caused another look at Luigi's Mansion 2 HD which is literally just Luigi's Mansion 2 from the 3ds on the switch I Can't I don't I don't think they did it and Mm-hmm Oh, and they showed us the Nintendo museum that's come into Kyoto which is in March Which is a shame because I'm going to Japan this month I don't know if I told you guys that yet, but you got more Japan vlogs coming It would be a really cool if the museum was ready because what I'm actually going to Kyoto I'm going with Bob and Kim obviously and it's gonna be so much fun Let us in the museum early Miyamoto Let us in all and this is cool So they told us when the Zelda and Ganondorf amoebos for tears of the kingdom are coming on top of that They've added Xenoblade 3 amoebos and they look great Noah and Mio I think this might be the first time in a long time. We've had amoebos outside of smash Which is a shame looking at these almost because it's like you almost kind of wish they were playable in smash It feels like a smash reveal, but like it's not you could keep doing characters for smash It's not too late to just do a couple more and then on top of that Speaking of smash characters the final smash character that didn't have an amiibo yet was Sora and now he does this amiibo looks fantastic Up until now honestly Tomb Raider might have been the thing I was most excited about But then not only does Nintendo acknowledge F-Zero They put F-Zero on the screen during a direct so they remember F-Zero exists, but it's F-Zero 99 Oh That's sick Just like they did with Mario 99 and Tetris 99 now You can race F-Zero style with 98 other players in a revamped version of the game where when the cars clash They drop orbs, and if you pick up enough of them You can go to the skyway and shoot over the top of them a lot of us want a new F-Zero and this Kind of is but isn't what we were talking about but to be honest this is sick And I'm actually very okay with this Especially if it's a stepping stone to new F-Zero Dave the diver. I saw people playing this on Twitch It hasn't come to consoles yet. It's coming to switch soon This game looks really fun like honestly people are calling this game of the year contender Which I think is not really but just to go to show how fun it actually is and I've been waiting to play until it Comes to switch. So that was a very exciting then more Mario Kart 8 deluxe stuff Mostly characters they showed including Peachette. So now we just need bowser Come then honestly. I honestly I kind of burned out a Mario Kart, and I don't really I don't really care anymore I'll play anymore if they added bowser. I would reinstall Nintendo I would reinstall right near the end. They thought it would be a good idea to give us a Two-minute trailer for among us, and it just boiled down to a new map So that was a fun use of our time then the final look at the last thing this direct had to offer What could it possibly be Metroid Prime 4? You might be wondering no something possibly even better I Had this is the first time during a live reaction that I was rendered completely speechless when I saw this I Immediately thought it was a new paper Mario, which is crazy because we already had two for the switch I thought it was a sequel to thousand-year-door. I thought Cuz I was like this looks like a thousand-year-door that looks like the town from a thousand-year-door But there's no way there's no way we get there's no way Nintendo is going back to when paper Mario was good This has to be a sequel with dumb new controls like origami and Color splash and we're gonna hate it and we're gonna wish it was thousand-year-door. No, it is actually Thousand-year-door. It is a remake of thousand-year-door And I kept watching it speechless just hoping I wasn't wrong and this was what I thought it was Thousand-year-door is my favorite paper Mario if you've ever played a paper Mario and you haven't played this one This is the best one for the story for the pacing but mostly for the RPG mechanics of it all the battle mechanics was just the best and most rewarding I didn't have any dumb gimmicks. It just was a good RPG and then there was like a weird look at the end of peach and this Robot and I don't remember this from the first game and Peach is talking about teaching it love and it almost seems like they Hinting towards maybe there's new story in this game. They've added stuff or its DOC or its or its paper peach I don't really know What we're looking at the end there, but very intriguing as mid as everyone said it was I had a lot to gush about here For this video. There was a lot of meat to look at and and pick at there were a lot of cool announcements There was nothing I think that there was nothing massive, right? There was no big thing This was it felt like a cookie cookie cutter direct that kind of just told us about some things that were coming up There was a couple cool third-party things and then a remake for one of our favorite games But I do agree it kind of feels like something big was missing. I am I am I It was good. It was fine and there's a lot that I'm excited for let me know what you're most excited for down below Like comment subscribe and all of that. Oh God. I'm so tired. There's so much to do today See you guys soon for the podcast Bye