{"id":10401,"date":"2023-09-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2023-09-14T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:44:05","slug":"nintendo-direct-9-14-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10401","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another Nintendo Direct today! Though it seems like it really hasn&#8217;t been that long since <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10281\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"10281\">the last one<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, like last time, instead of typing out a sentence of knee-jerk reactions about every game like I used to do, here are some more in-depth thoughts about the two new Mario series games announced during this Direct:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Princess Peach: Showtime! - Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qfj6ZEpf78g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Princess Peach: Showtime!<\/strong> isn&#8217;t quite the sequel to <strong>Super Princess Peach<\/strong> that I&#8217;ve been longing for, but it is the princess&#8217; first starring role since then. I think. I <em>also<\/em> think that this looks like it could be a pretty good game! I&#8217;m still not sure what kind of game it is (platformer? adventure? mini-game collection?), but I&#8217;m certainly interested by all the different transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that this one is really about Peach getting her actual own adventure. I particularly like the fact that there&#8217;s a new villain and Peach is getting to be the hero to a different kingdom&#8217;s people. Yeah, the story will likely have the depth and complexity of a kiddie pool, but at least there will be a whole bunch of new characters! Saving Toads from Bowser should be reserved for the traditional Mario platformers moving forward. At most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Ume5pSIcKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I like how some Nintendo remakes will add an &#8220;HD&#8221; or &#8220;Remaster&#8221; or whatnot onto the titles, and some don&#8217;t. That&#8217;s how you know that the remake is there to actually replace the original game. What that actually means&#8230; I have no idea. I&#8217;m just typing nonsense as it enters my brain at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door<\/strong> is a continuation of Nintendo&#8217;s best effort to  revive their GameCube library at the highest price points possible. Following the (somewhat expensive) ports of <strong>Metroid Prime<\/strong> and <strong>Pikmin 1 &amp; 2<\/strong>, I&#8217;m actually surprised that this game is getting a full remake. Especially since the original <strong>Paper Mario<\/strong> never got that treatment. Of course, I&#8217;ll absolutely buy this and enjoy the heck out of it. It&#8217;s Paper Mario; even the bad ones are fun. (But this is a <em>very good<\/em> one.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always with remakes, I&#8217;m hoping that there will be more than a simple audio\/visual upgrade here. There were plenty of things I didn&#8217;t recognize in the trailer, which seems like a good sign, but it&#8217;s likely just because I haven&#8217;t played the game since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Nintendo Direct today! Though it seems like it really hasn&#8217;t been that long since the last one&#8230; Anyway, like last time, instead of typing out a sentence of knee-jerk reactions about every game like I used to do, here are some more in-depth thoughts about the two new Mario series games announced during this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10402,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions\/10402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}