 Hey everyone. Last time I looked this good it was E3 and we were talking about Nintendo's last direct uh and well I guess E3 showcased whatever they wanted to call it digital event they have used different names over the years but here's the thing uh it was really really good and it had some good moments obviously capped with seeing breath of the wild two again for the first time in two years but despite my hype for that to me it was just a c to c plus direct there have been better ones in fact I'd argue when they unveiled Splatoon 3 that potentially was almost a better unveiling in that of itself than almost anything that happened at E3 except for the fact that Metroid Dread occurred but today we're actually going to be talking about the new direct because well I did do a live reaction to it and it's up on the channel and 5000 plus of you have tuned in and checked that out um I actually have additional thoughts to give now that it's been a day um basically a little over 24 hours since the direct happened because I've had a chance to sit back and think about it and I gotta be honest with you this might be one of the best directs of all time and at least for Nintendo close to perfection now for I talk more on this I want to remind you that we are giving away a Nintendo Switch OLED to enter all you need to do is be subscribed and then come to a live stream that we're doing next week Friday now setting all that aside no fancy intro here we're just going to get right into the conversation um I have all the stuff over here that happened in the direct and a lot of it I might skip over not that it's not relevant there was a bunch of you know cool indie games delta rune chapter 2 for free uh that was a really cool one obviously we had Actraiser Renaissance you know which is a remaster of a SNES classic and all time obviously the Castlevania Advanced Collection all of that is great but what I find interesting is that I feel like this direct was one of the first ones to truly have something for everybody and I don't say that very often about these kind of shows I did praise Sony show earlier this month but it didn't necessarily have something for everybody not like this direct did and that's what I find so fascinating obviously it's hard to go without talking about 3D Kirby I mean we got a 3D Kirby game can you guys believe I don't know if anybody is aware this is the first time we've ever had a fully 3D Kirby game I don't know if we can call it open world yet I have a feeling it's going to be open world like but either way it's at least going to be similar to the kind of the openness that we had in Mario Odyssey I would assume or at least levels or stages are going to be open the point is we have never had a 3D Kirby game before and yeah I have a few minor criticisms right I can criticize the fact that there are times in the gameplay that the world looked a little empty like there really wasn't much to interact with and enemies and it felt like there should be more happening on screen just like there wasn't Mario Odyssey there was always something exciting happening in every screen of the game there's some action and it didn't feel like that in this footage at least for parts of it other parts of it felt fantastic but again the game's not here yet it might not be here till summer next year I know they said spring so probably an April game but still it's not here yet and there's still time for them to polish and flush that out and typically when we see footage at these events I already know this based on my actual history of covering Nintendo we're usually seeing footage that happened like three four months ago this usually is not representative of the current state of the game and they did note that you know in the hey this is not like final footage or anything so don't make any harsh judgments so I am cautiously optimistic for it but I'm just glad to see that they're actually treating Kirby seriously Kirby has been a yearly IP for some time we do not have a Kirby game this year and this is probably why because all of their efforts are being put into this game a game that they have promised in prior interviews would be the greatest Kirby game of all time maybe it will be we'll see if Kirby can successfully transition into a 3d platformer but I'm pretty excited that they're even attempting it uh so that that alone is already making me excited and I know we're all hoping that Donkey Kong was going to get a similar treatment again even though we've had it one other time on the n64 which Nintendo speaking of the n64 they are adding the n64 and the Sega Genesis to Nintendo Switch online and I've seen a lot of reactions over the last 24 hours at least headlines where people are being like hey nobody expected Genesis I did I called it literally the morning of the direct I called that Genesis was going to be unveiled and going to be part of Nintendo Switch online but that doesn't really matter what matters is we are getting the systems and at least according to one insider Emily Rogers these are going to be much grander than what we've had in the past so in the past n64 topped out at 21 games on virtual console and for Sega Genesis we have that Sega collection that's 54 games and supposedly there's going to be more than 54 games when it's all said and done with this Sega Genesis platform and obviously we have the controllers some controversy with the Sega Genesis one because in North America we're only getting the three button version while in Japan they're getting the six to be fair the six button wasn't the most popular version here in North America but there are some later games in the Genesis library that really took advantage of those six buttons but whatever there's lots of third party controllers and by the way you don't actually have to use these controllers to play you can just use the joy cons or a pro controller so it is what it is but it is cool to at least have those controllers as an option for nostalgic reasons plus some people just prefer to play on the original controllers so that's great and that is a pseudo advantage over something like emulation especially with these older controllers like the n64 controller and the Sega Genesis controller that don't necessarily work with PCs out of the box takes a lot of modifications to make them work with pc or you have to use a third party controller and 8-bit dough and others have done excellent jobs making kind of sort of their own replica controllers so my thing with this whole online thing is that I need to know the pricing I don't have an overall reaction until we get pricing without pricing it's hard to know if this is a good value or not at least to me not because I'm not excited to play n64 games online hello that's amazing Mario Kart you know just all those games f0 you know all the having online play is great online leaderboards would be better but online play is better than not having it but still I'm going to temper my expectations on it until I see the pricing because I am a bit scared that Nintendo is about to offer a $20 expansion pack which doubles the price you know I'm talking per year for an individual doubles the price of the current one I might be willing to pay that at least to check it out for that first year but I don't know that it's necessarily something I'm going to want to keep paying for based on my track record of not really playing a lot of retro games there's only a handful of really old games that I care to replay and n64 does happen to have a couple of those like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask even though I've replayed those games so many times especially after they came to the 3DS still it's good that we're getting them and it does add value to Nintendo Switch online at least sort of not really to the current service but the more expensive one some people are wondering where the hell is Game Boy and Game Boy Color just wait just trust me on this one just wait they're still gonna they're gonna be there just wait like six months all right just just trust me on that one that being said uh there was a lot of cool things and one thing I think that has brought down the direct for some people was the Mario movie announcement which no one you know okay they announced basically an exact release day of the movie happening next year here in North America and that's great but they announced the voice cast and I think that this was actually really really good I had some initial shock obviously because I definitely didn't expect Chris Pratt to be the voice of Mario I didn't expect Jack Black to be the voice of Bowser key to come in as Toad like I didn't expect some of these castings that they did maybe the one for Princess Peach was the one I maybe expected the most she was definitely one of the people I thought would make a good voice for Peach but what I find interesting here is setting aside the kind of meme-tastic way that Miyamoto called Chris Pratt cool it was that was pretty cringe Miyamoto I actually really like what they're doing here with the Mario movie this is exactly the direction I internally hope they were going to go because while I wasn't sure what would make a successful Mario movie and again we don't know if this is going to be successful or even good what I will say is Nintendo is fully buying in as is DreamWorks and Illuminations and the fully buying in on creating a Mario movie that isn't like the video games the number one thing to me that makes a video game adaptions to movies suck is when they try to be like the game the reason the Sonic movie to me worked is because they weren't trying to be like the video games they did their own thing they told their own story they created their own way that things work like the teleportation with the rings like they created their own way of doing things and that to me led to the Sonic movie obviously with Jim Carrey being the perfect pick for the villain kind of being perfect in a way for what that movie could be and I feel this is about Mario Mario is a character that doesn't talk very much he does talk he does have a voice so does Toad so does Bowser all these characters talk but they always talk sparingly and obviously with the voice of Charles Matney and he's still in there probably voicing a few side characters wouldn't work in a movie and let me clearly explain why if you're going to have a movie where the characters are talking and talking a lot which they didn't have to go that direction but I had a feeling they would and if you're going to do that you don't want to use those original voices and the reason you don't want to use them is have you ever listened to Charles Matney going on a prolonged like multiple paragraph talking as Mario before I have have you heard the Toad voice going on and on for over a minute I have if you listen to these voices they're kind of annoying they work in small snippets the wahoo here we go like that all that stuff works it works in small snippets it doesn't really work for more long form conversations so honestly one of the my greatest fears is that really want to stick with that and it was going to feel super childish and it really wasn't going to work it was going to be just too wrong fitting that we're going to try to make the game itself be a movie and now I don't think that's happening at all you know when Miyamoto mentions the cool factor of Chris Pratt as memetastic as that is it's more so that he obviously we're referencing that Mario is talking a lot in this movie a lot and they wanted somebody who's good at that now we can argue whether Chris Pratt's the right choice I don't know but based on the whole casting they definitely are trying to make this a comedy film and I like that it's going to be a family film but it's going to be a comedy film there's probably going to be jokes in it that maybe only adults are going to get one of those kind of like how Disney sometimes has some jokes in it that adults understand but kids have no idea what's going on I kind of feel like it's going to have that kind of vibe when you got Seth Rogen in there you know is Donkey Kong and some people think unironically he's actually a good choice for it I think unironically all of these guys are actually good choices for it now I understand some criticisms that how the hell is Chris Pratt going to play an Italian plumber one Mario is never really sound like an Italian plumber anyways so there's that to the original voice actor obviously wasn't an Italian person and beyond all of that does it really matter it's a fictional made up character you know I always take issue of people bring that stuff up it's like who cares look you don't have to like Chris Pratt you don't have to like that he's voicing Mario but I'm excited by it to me this was all the right casting choice for what they're trying to do they're basically saying forget what mario's ever been we're redoing Mario the way we want to do it in a funny way and I'm glad they're just fully buying it and going all out and it might crash and burn it might not work most video game adaptations don't but sometimes they do sometimes they do if ryan reynolds can be pikachu hello sounds nothing like pikapik sounds nothing like that if ryan reynolds can be pikachu yeah chris pratt can be mario yeah like I I understand you might like ryan reynolds more but it worked out pretty well for detective pikachu didn't it so let's just wait and see what happens but I honestly think that this was an overall positive thing it is weird to announce a voice cast now without having a trailer probably could have waited for the trailer but it is what it is trailer is probably coming next year but beyond all that this direction a lot bayon out of three I should have saw bayon out of three coming ahead of time I didn't so it was a bit more surprising to me only because bayon out of three and the new Kirby game technically leaked both of them on nintendo's japanese website ahead of time we actually got a screenshot for Kirby but we didn't for bayonetta we just got the name but yeah bayonetta three I think it looks great you know I think it looks really good especially on switch there's been some weird reactions where some people say it looks like a ps2 game or bayonetta isn't as sexy I guess because she's not as scantily clad at this exact moment that might change throughout the game I don't know maybe because the voice actor has changed so it doesn't sound like bayonetta in the last two games I don't know but platinum could have used the last voice actor they could have did whatever they wanted I highly doubt anything in this game has been slowed down or changed because of nintendo's request nintendo let bayonetta two happen so why the hell would they change things now bayonetta is what bayonetta is it's just exciting I think this has the chance to be a five plus million seller maybe more because the switch everything on switcher seems to sell like gangbusters yeah like I don't know I thought it actually looks really really good I am a fan of the bayonetta series I have beaten bayonetta one and two uh so yeah I I'm just excited to see the continuation of the umbra witch and maybe happiest for platinum games who no longer has to field questions every day about why we haven't seen bayonetta three now we have and now they can actually talk about it a little bit at least as much as nintendo's letting them do it um another really great showing was obviously bring us platoon 3 back um see us platoon 3 again just kind of confirms that the game is on schedule and probably going to be coming early next year uh that that's about all we could take out of that platoon 3 uh looked great um I don't have any complaints about it I love that they're continuing the wonky way they've been advertising it for the entire last two entries by treating everything as if it's new research and all I love it I love it I love it platoon 3 gang buster game um but even like project triangle strategy right some people might not be into it but those that are really into it and it looks like that might be the big game nintendo's banking out for march maybe they pushed one of these other games into march I don't know but right now that's kind of the big exclusive game in march anyways um and then we got new dlc for master hunter rise and it's massive dlc mega dlc like a major expansion pack that's happening next summer uh yeah for monster hunter rise fans that's a huge announcement didn't really see any gameplay of it but still a pretty huge announcement that you're getting major like a major expansion um there was a couple things that were kind of like what so animal crossings finally getting its big update what we're going to get a separate event for it next month smash bros character going to get unveiled next month well I think next week or no the week after so in two weeks we're getting the reveal of uh of the new character and smash the final character a 40 minute sakurai presents that thing like he does for a lot of the characters except you sometimes they're unveiled before the present usually what happens is they get unveiled at like a direct and then they do a presents later here they're just doing it all at once which is is fine um I think some people would have felt like this direct would have been an a plus plus if they would have brought the animal crossing update and the smash character reveal into this show but nintendo's got marketing to worry about and spacing out the marketing is for the best like they didn't announce the price point of the online services which does make me tepid thinking nintendo knows it might be a negative reaction so for now they want the positive reactions of n 64 and genesis kind of brush the negative reactions under the table I haven't it not happen out of direct but that's just a gut feeling I have I don't know but still uh mario party superstars uh looked really really damn good talked about some of the new uh the the returning courses we're gonna see all 100 mini games by the way now have a smidge of footage on the japanese website so you can actually see all of them in action I have actually watched all of them I saw a compilation video earlier today and it looked really really really good um obviously we got you know nice announcements like the original kotar is coming nights of the old republic is coming that's fantastic that's coming in november um you know there's just a lot of really really good stuff here I mean heck even like that card game the show what was it called the yoko terrell's card rpg voice of cards so voice of cards um like it's coming this october and honestly I'm not that into this kind of stuff I I like card combat but more so in like button kato's kind of rpg's but seriously this was really really good looking for what it was um and credit to them for actually getting it in a nintendo direct that's a lot of attention um to a game like that that wouldn't exist without a direct um obviously we have all the dying light announcements that were cool too like dying light to stay humans coming it's a cloud version and you know the cloud version is going to work best on switch OLED so everyone's talked about the advantages of switch OLED are only importable but because it has a one gigabyte ethernet port that you can't get those same speeds on the current dock with the dongle cloud versions of games in dock mode are actually going to run best on switch OLED fun fact about that um or you could say switch all its dock I guess you can use you just buy the dock but the docks are always hard to buy on their own so I guess the dock is more the impressive thing there but yeah that's really really good I'd rather have the game than not and uh yeah I'll probably try out the cloud version they'll have a free trial the day of launch which is cool so people could see if it actually runs well for them I like free trials for these cloud games so people can actually test them before they buy them so they don't waste their money very big kudos to all the devs out there that are doing this or maybe Nintendo's requiring that they do it but that's cool and then obviously we have the other dying light um collection at pack that's coming and that's like looks like that's playing locally on switch but those are even older games so shouldn't be too hard to make them look good we obviously got an update on new stuff coming to mario golf super rush I mentioned delta rune before delta rune chat for two for free finally been waiting a long time for that chocobo gp coming back right we this is actually like almost like a pseudo remake of a really old ps1 game uh yeah it's back and it looks really good it's basically final fantasy mario kart and I don't think there's anything wrong with a little bit of final fantasy mario kart let me get disco elysium again that looked great we had uh that disney magical world enhanced port from 3ds okay cool um age of calamity dlc I mean oh that dlc actually looked really really good um I'm excited for that it's it's story dlc which hell yeah um you know we had shadowrun trilogy um bringing three classics to the switch rune factory five a brief showing which I actually played rune factory five um so like to me this was practically perfection I don't know what more I could ask we could require metroid prime four needs to be there um game boy should have been announced uh the smash character should have been announced breath a little wild two should have been there super mario odyssey two should have mario kart nine and it's true that over the next year there might be other directs that have a bigger end game than band out of three right metroid prime four might be considered a bigger deal than band out of three to many people a mario kart nine might be a bigger deal uh super mario odyssey two might be a bigger deal there have like swatoon three so far has been the biggest and a direct announcement of the year even bigger than this but from start to finish this was a complete direct and we don't get complete usually there's so much fluff but it felt like a complete direct to me some of you are going to say I hit the snooze button for a while band out of three woke me up or Kirby woke me up that's fine I get it a lot of us judge every direct based on hey was this direct appealing to me personally was every game shown something I'm interested in I don't judge directs based on if every game shown I'm interested in I could tell you right now I probably won't buy a majority of what was in that direct but what I can do is try to take my bias out look at it objectively and go damn there was a lot of really good looking games in that direct a lot of them a lot of high quality games in a wide variety of genres plus some experimental stuff with Kirby I mean whether or not it's good or not credit to Nintendo for at least trying I mean I hope it's good I hope they don't blow it but still this direct to me is about as good as Nintendo can put together a direct this might even top most of the directs during the a lot of years might be controversial to say that but I honestly think those directs were a little bit overhyped for what they were they were just new at the time and I think when you look back at some of them it's go yeah there were some good announcements but from start to finish the only thing that really felt cool was obviously some of the little skits and we don't get the skits anymore but whatever the skits don't make a direct the what's in the direct makes the direct so yeah kudos to Nintendo baby you brought the goods now obviously I want to see all you guys react to this down in the comments below let me know your thoughts on the direct your favorite game shown at the direct how I did in this video did you gain anything out of it probably not that's all right except for the fact that I kind of look good in the suit 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