 Hey everyone, how is it going today? We got some cool rumor here for you, some rumors actually, a couple of things here. Coming from a person who has a decent track record, it's someone we have covered before, they're not 100%, nobody ever is. Obviously always take things with a grain of salt, but the couple of things we're talking about here are very interesting and worth your time. We're talking about some plans for Donkey Kongs. Remember the old rumors that we had a whole bunch of people supporting a new Donkey Kong game development, well we have a bit of an update on that. And then there's more here as well. Remember the Fire Emblem Remake rumors? Well they're back and this time we have an update on those as well. So this is really, really cool and I can't wait to jump into it. So let's just do that. Now, before I get into this, we are giving away two copies of Skyward Sword HD. Head down in the description to enter. Good luck with that. Also, by the way, before I do anything else on this, I am doing a stream tonight at 8 p.m. Central Standard Time. It is my birthday today. So we are doing a birthday stream. We will do other stuff as well on that stream. We'll talk about some of the news and all that, but for the most part it's just, hey, let's chat, let's Q&A it up and let's celebrate me turning a new age. What age do you think I am? Some of you guys know what age do you think I am today. All right, let's get into this. This all comes from Zippo. Zippo is a leaker who's been in a recent era and I think Neogath before that. He has a blog. He's gotten a number of things correct. More recently he got pretty much all of the Sonic Anniversary stuff correct. But he got some stuff wrong as well. This is just the way it goes with leakers in general. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong and it is what it is. But his track record's probably about 60-40 in terms of right to not right. And what's interesting here about when he talks about Donkey Kong is he's not the only person saying this. So there's a lot of people back in the Donkey Kong stuff. Although he gets into something that he right now as far as I can tell is the only source on when it comes to Donkey Kong. So let's just get into what it said here. Cause he did a 2021 sequel post to Nintendo's E3. Like basically Water of Thoughts on Nintendo's E3 gave it a pretty good grade. And then obviously what happened to games that people expected to see and he covers two of them. First they'd be in Donkey Kong. He says, this is an interesting case. This game has apparently been in development for over three years now. And if I were a betting man, I would have absolutely thought it would have been an E3. But it wasn't. Again, he didn't say it was going to be an E3. It's one of those, he knows it exists, but like, you know, he doesn't know when it's going to be revealed. I've heard a bit more about this. So maybe this might help put people at ease. I've been told by multiple people that Donkey Kong is the next franchise in line to follow Mario and Nintendo's push for their game franchises to become multimedia juggernauts. Donkey and Company. That's weird, why is it Donkey Kong and Company? Anyways, that's me nitpicking over something that doesn't matter. Sorry, it bothers me when it's like things aren't phrased correctly. Aren't just getting a new game. They're getting animation. And before this catches fire, my sources did not specify whether this was a movie or a show. Just that an animation featuring Donkey Kong characters was early in the works. A big theme park expansion, which we have seen images before. Merchandise, et cetera. The new game is not just a one off. Donkey Kong is being taken seriously by the big end again. And that should be good news for fans everywhere. Just be patient. You'll hear, you'll be hearing more sooner rather than later. So yeah, that's obviously sounds like something that we're going to be hearing about before the end of this year. Now I do think they're going to end up pushing this DK game to a 2022 title, which again just ends up just packing 2022 even more. But there's been a lot of stuff happening, I think, because of COVID. I think that a lot of delays in some of these games and by the way, Nintendo has a decent line up to end this year. I wouldn't say that the rest of 2021 is like, oh my gosh, but I mean, we've got Metroid coming. And that's already a big deal to me, Metroid dread. So yeah, and I think that Mario Party game is going to end up being just fantastic. So yeah, I'm not too worried about the rest of the 2021. I do think 2022 is clearly shaping up to be one of those legendary 2017 type years. And so Donkey Kong potentially being pushed to that but being revealed in the later direct this year. I wouldn't be surprised on that. Another game he talks about here is that Fire Emblem Remake that's been rumored by multiple sources. And he said this, yes, this is very much happening. What I do not know currently is which Fire Emblem game is being remade. Fans are split between either the genealogy of the Holy Ward or the Burning Blade. Either would make sense considering both titles have never seen an English language release. Again, I've been told once again that this is a game that is nearly complete. So as I see Nintendo sitting on it, they're good and ready to make, I don't even know. This is another really poorly put together sentence. What's interesting too is he mentions he has an editor earlier. I don't know. I think he's just, you know, like on my live streams and I go, hey, Nintendo Prime, what are you doing? $1, $20, something like the whole, I think he's got a little skit here with an editor because he really has an editor and this is how it's coming out. The editor's doing a really bad job of fixing the sentences here. Anyways, when he does no more, he says I'll make an update. Have some patience, Fire Emblem fans, you're gonna be eating good before too long. And that's really interesting because this is like the fourth person I have seen and that I've reported on in my videos that has put out there that these Fire Emblem remakes are basically done. So why aren't they coming out? They might be. Maybe Nintendo thinks they don't need a long hype cycle for it. Maybe Nintendo thinks, hey, this is gonna be a February game next year. Maybe this is the March game next year, right? We know that Pokemon Legends Arceus comes out in January but after that we don't actually know in Breath of the Wild 2, Splatoon 3 or Sparks of Hope is coming out. I assume Sparks of Hope is gonna be more like summer like the original game and I assume Splatoon 3 is probably a summer game because Splatoon just has that summery feel to it even though it's a desert, desolate place to go into. It just feels like a summer type of game and that's what they did sort of with Splatoon 2, like right before summer. So I can see that being like an April May release for Splatoon 3. You do, you know, Sparks of Hope in July, maybe June. You have Legends Arceus then. Maybe Donkey Kong or Fire Emblem are gonna end up being the March 2022 games or April or something. I have no idea. So I feel like there's obviously a lot of slots still open in 2022 in comparison to this year where it's only really like one month and I don't know that they're gonna force Fire Emblem like push it out for that one month. They made it say, look, we know we're gonna sell out our systems this year anyways, let's just wait till 2022 when we're more caught up in production. Maybe there's a new system on the market. I have no idea. And Nintendo wants to just repeat 2017 all over again and just slam us with games. So right now he's saying that this thing's pretty much done and I happen to think he's probably right. At least based on the other people that have talked about this game, I obviously don't know what Sam is under, but there's been other leakers out there that have referenced this of Emily Rogers, et cetera. So I got a feeling that DK and Fire Emblem Remakes, I mean, Fire Emblem Remakes coming, do we really need even a leaker to tell us that? Fire Emblem Remakes makes sense. Look what they did after Fire Emblem Awakening, they started blasting us with some remakes and then look what happened with Fire Emblem Three Houses. It's like the best selling Fire Emblem Game of All Time are pretty close to it. I believe it all sold Awakening, so I'm pretty sure it's the best selling Fire Emblem Game of All Time. Of course, they're gonna hit us with a remake next. And then obviously Donkey Kong, I mean, we haven't seen one really. I mean, yeah, we had Tropical Freeze get ported, but we haven't really seen one since the Wii U days. I think 2014, right? Maybe I'm a little off on the exact release year, but yeah, that's like the last time we saw Donkey Kong. And when we think even longer about that, once the last time we saw it internally develop Donkey Kong, it's been rare. And then Retro, now Retro Studios is owned by Nintendo. Rare wasn't, but Retro Studios is wholly owned by Nintendo, so I kind of get that, but I don't know, it's interesting to see what's going to happen with that. And obviously we need to know when are we gonna see Metroid Prime 4? Obviously, clearly I don't think we're even seeing the game til next year, and it might not even see, like it might not come out next year. Metroid very much might be a 2023. I have no idea, because they're not, while they're gonna blow their load next year, they're still gonna have something for 2023, right? They're not just gonna give us a nothing burger, are they? Unless that's the year of new systems coming out. Again, I don't really know what Nintendo's plans are at this point. We just have to stay tuned. And I know Nintendo wants Switch to last as long as it possibly can. So even though 2022 might have a killer lineup, I don't think that's like a swan song year. I think they're gonna keep it going, at least as it stands today until Nintendo really tells us any different. So yeah, that's really cool. I'm glad that we have these couple games to look forward to. Obviously we still have Nintendo's currently known slate to look forward to that just, yeah. You know, I'm just really glad that we have more to look forward to and we're gonna continue to have more to look forward to. You know, some people ask me sometimes, like what other games I expect Nintendo to do. You know, we heard about a couple of Kirby games. We don't, I don't know if there's gonna be two Kirby games, but we know the Kirby team has publicly stated they're working on a new Kirby game. They said that early last year and they've been sitting in a couple of interviews since. So we know a new Kirby game is in that works. That could be the game that gets dropped in Nintendo's open month, which is like, what is that open month? Is it August or is it September? I can't remember. Let's look at the release slate. One of these upcoming in the next three months, there's an open month that doesn't have a major first party Nintendo game that they could slip in a Kirby game for that. So maybe that's what fills that open month. I know there's a major third party game that comes out that month. So should we have a 10 say five? I don't know. I gotta, again, re-look at that release calendar. But maybe that's one thing we'll do tonight is we'll take a look during my birthday stream at 8 p.m. I'll take a look through Nintendo's release slate for 2021 and beyond because Nintendo did give us updated graphic on that. So maybe we could take a look at that together and just have a good time tonight. Oh, all you guys are having a lovely day. I hope if you're in the United States you had a good Fourth of July weekend. Stayed safe, especially since, you know, I know there's some areas that are still having some COVID outbreak issues. So hopefully you're staying safe. If you were able to be around a bunch of vaccinated people and able to celebrate the fourth, awesome. I didn't really do much on the Fourth of July, to be honest. Mostly just stuck with my fiance and my kids. We went to her grandparents' house without them even being home. We went down on their dock because they live in the lake and we just watched fireworks from there. We jumped in the lake too and swam a little bit. But yeah, it was a pretty chill Fourth of July for us. Usually we have a big family thing. We didn't have that this year because my dad had double knee surgery and didn't want to host anything. And we can't host fireworks at my house because we have giant power lines in the backyard. Because we do the shooting in the air, big bang one. So anyways, it was a good time. It was a nice relaxing time. And now, here we are on July 5th. My birthday. Woo! Celebrating another year on Mother Earth. Thank you guys for tuning in. And I'll catch each and every single one of you in the next video or live stream or wherever you check me out next. Bye.