{"id":10680,"date":"2024-06-18T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10680"},"modified":"2024-06-18T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T15:05:44","slug":"nintendo-direct-6-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10680","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Direct 6.18.2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Honestly, I kinda lost interest in doing these Nintendo Direct play-by-plays a while ago, but this is very likely the last one where the Switch will be the main focus. In that case, I figured why not? Let&#8217;s a go!<\/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=\"Nintendo Direct 6.18.2024 \u2013 Nintendo Switch\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kX3BkD5PVUM?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>Mario &amp; Luigi: Brothership<\/strong> &#8211; Sweet! I know some people were predicting a remake, and I certainly wasn&#8217;t expecting an entirely new game! It seems to have a pretty wide variety of original characters and enemies, which is great! And the series&#8217; art style looks wonderful in true 3D!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m just really not into this. It&#8217;s interesting, yes, but I&#8217;d honestly rather just play the actual games instead of the parceled-out challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fairy Tail 2<\/strong> &#8211; Anime nonsense that I don&#8217;t care about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fantasian: Neo Dimension<\/strong> &#8211; Anime nonsense that I <em>do<\/em> care about! The pedigree alone is enough to get me interested. But I need to re-watch (and pay attention to) that trailer to get a sense of what the gameplay is actually like, since I know it&#8217;s a port of a mobile game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nintendo Switch Sports <\/strong>&#8211; They&#8217;re adding basketball. I still haven&#8217;t bought this game, so&#8230; not really relevant to me. And basketball alone isn&#8217;t a big enough draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MIO: Memories in Orbit<\/strong> &#8211; Incredible visuals, appears to be a metroidvania. Consider me intrigued! But I&#8217;ll need to know more before I&#8217;m completely sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disney Illusion Island<\/strong> &#8211; There&#8217;s a free update that adds a new mode. I still haven&#8217;t purchased the main game, and likely never will, even though I&#8217;ve been very much wanting to play it since it came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hello Kitty: Island Adventure<\/strong> &#8211; Nope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports<\/strong> &#8211; Look, I didn&#8217;t buy Nintendo&#8217;s multi-sports game. I&#8217;m not going to be buying one that&#8217;ll be way jankier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Among Us<\/strong> &#8211; DLC or something, who cares it&#8217;s not 2021 anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Farmagia<\/strong> &#8211; I actually don&#8217;t care for the look, or the name. Seems to be Pokemon but you literally farm your monsters? Could be good, but meeeeeeeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donkey Kong Country Returns HD <\/strong>&#8211; Ported for the second time. It&#8217;s a very good game that I&#8217;m considering buying again! (But I probably won&#8217;t. I didn&#8217;t pick up the <em>even better <\/em>Tropical Freeze port, so&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dragon Quest III HD<\/strong> &#8211; Yeah, I&#8217;ll absolutely buy this. I adore S-E&#8217;s &#8220;2D-HD&#8221; style, and Dragon Quest, <em>and<\/em> I&#8217;ve never really played DQIII before, so this is actually a perfect game for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dragon Quest I &amp; II HD<\/strong> &#8211; Well, yeah, I&#8217;ll buy this too. The original Dragon Quest was my very first RPG, and I&#8217;ll buy it in as many forms as I can. DQII is&#8230; also there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Funko Fusion<\/strong> &#8211; No. Just no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Luigi&#8217;s Mansion 2 HD<\/strong> &#8211; You know, I just couldn&#8217;t get into LM2 on 3DS, so I doubt that I&#8217;ll bother with this. I can&#8217;t put my finger on exactly why it didn&#8217;t click with me, but it&#8217;s probably the multiple mansions and mission-based structure. I prefer having one huge playground to explore at my leisure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The New Denpa Men<\/strong> &#8211; I played the first Denpa Men game on 3DS for a while, but it was boooooring. Never finished it, never played any sequels, never going to play this one. Sorry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Metal Slug Attack Reloaded<\/strong> &#8211; Metal Slug, but&#8230; tower defense? No, that&#8217;s not what I want from Metal Slug. Good on them for branching out, but it&#8217;s not for me. Maybe. I don&#8217;t know. The more I think about it, the more I waffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Darkest Dungeon II<\/strong> &#8211; Never played the first, and I can&#8217;t imagine that this sequel isn&#8217;t going to win me over. Literally nothing that I know about this series appeals to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NSO Update <\/strong>&#8211; A Link to the Past GBA, Metroid: Zero Mission, Turok, and PERFECT DARK!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero <\/strong>&#8211; Actually, I&#8217;ve always wanted to play Phantom Brave. But I&#8217;ve been putting off the original for like 20 years, so the outlook for this one isn&#8217;t so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection<\/strong> &#8211; You know, if it were just fighting games, I&#8217;d probably write it off immediately. But there are a handful of brawlers in there too, which are<em> very<\/em> appealing to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Super Mario Party Jamboree<\/strong> &#8211; Nah, man. You need friends to Mario Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom <\/strong>&#8211; A LINK&#8217;S AWAKENING SEQUEL WHERE YOU PLAY AS ZELDA! HOLY SHIT! AND IT LAUNCHES IN SEPTEMBER! I also like how this one seems like it&#8217;s going to focus more on puzzle-solving than combat. This is good. I like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Just Dance 2025<\/strong> &#8211; [insert vomit sound effect]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LEGO: Horizon Adventures<\/strong> &#8211; You know, I may just buy this for novelty of playing Horizon on my Switch. And it&#8217;ll probably be more fun than the actual games. (There&#8217;s my hot take of the day.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stray <\/strong>&#8211; I didn&#8217;t care about cat game on PS5, and I don&#8217;t care about it on Switch. Good on whatever dev team put in the work to get it running on Switch, though. It&#8217;s obviously taken a graphical hit, but still looks pretty good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tales of the Shire<\/strong> &#8211; I get that they have a nice little following online, but I have absolutely zero interest in &#8220;cozy&#8221; games like this. Even <em>with<\/em> Gandalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ace Attorney Investigations Collection<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m sure this is exciting for Ace Attorney fans. Me, I&#8217;m not one. Never played a single game in the series, and likely never will. I don&#8217;t even know enough about them to know which games this collection is&#8230; collecting? Remastering? Remaking? I just don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy<\/strong> &#8211; Danganronpa but as a strategy RPG (or tower defense?) instead of an adventure\/investigation game? Not really my cup of tea. But man, those guys know how to write a good story&#8230; I&#8217;d put this on the maybe list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Romancing Saga 2: Revenge of the Seven<\/strong> &#8211; One of my long-term life goals is to one day make time to play all the SaGa games. I&#8217;ve really liked the few I&#8217;ve played, and this one looks very cool. I like the focus on making choices that direct the story, and I might actually just jump into this one when it comes out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s finally real!? In 2025&#8230; Honestly, it&#8217;s been in development for so long, I&#8217;m a little surprised that it&#8217;s not being held back as a launch title for the Switch successor. But hey, I&#8217;m not complaining. METROID!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I kinda lost interest in doing these Nintendo Direct play-by-plays a while ago, but this is very likely the last one where the Switch will be the main focus. In that case, I figured why not? Let&#8217;s a go! Mario &amp; Luigi: Brothership &#8211; Sweet! I know some people were predicting a remake, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nintendo Direct 6.18.2024<\/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":[12,20,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games","category-zelda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680","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=10680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10685,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions\/10685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}