{"id":7331,"date":"2018-01-11T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2018-05-29T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:55:49","slug":"nintendo-direct-mini-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7331","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Direct Mini reactions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo shadow dropped a little Nintendo Direct this morning. I mean, sort of. The date leaked online a while ago, and Nintendo had been making vague tweets in the days leading up to it, but it was never formally announced. So as a Nintendo-focused blogger, I feel like it&#8217;s my sworn duty to go over it and write up some thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_u7g5BlfiY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>The World Ends With You: Final Remix<\/strong> &#8211; I bought the original version on DS, and played it for roughly an hour before it got lost in the tide and I sold it due to lack of interest. I can tell you definitively that this port would suffer the exact same fate, so I&#8217;m surely just going to take a pass on this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX DLC<\/strong> &#8211; I didn&#8217;t buy Pokk\u00e9n DX, because I have the original on Wii U. And while adding Blastoise is a very effective hook if you&#8217;re trying to get my money, it&#8217;s still just not enough to get me to buy this game a second time. I didn&#8217;t get into it as much as I hoped I would the first time around, I doubt the second time will be the charm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kirby Star Allies<\/strong> &#8211; Okay,<em> now<\/em> we&#8217;re talking. I love Kirby games, obvi. But to be honest, I was thinking about skipping over this one. I mean, I know that I&#8217;ll enjoy it, but Kirby side-scrollers are all pretty samey, so I was thinking maybe just play Planet Robobot again and save myself the $90. Can you believe that things have gotten so bad that new video games cost $90? (After tax, that is.) That&#8217;s just ridiculous. I need a cheaper hobby.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably end up buying it anyway. It&#8217;s just to gosh-darn pretty!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some demos<\/strong> &#8211; I have zero interest in Kirby Battle Royale, and I already have Dragon Quest Builders on PS4. Pass. Pass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition<\/strong> &#8211; I already own this game on Wii U and 3DS. I&#8217;ve purchased the DLC packs on both versions. I&#8217;ve spent approximately $185 on this game already. And yet, I can&#8217;t help but desperately yearn to buy it again on Switch. I&#8217;m going to do my best to ignore it, but don&#8217;t be surprised if one day I write a blog post about how I couldn&#8217;t afford food for two weeks because I bought friggin&#8217; Hyrule Warriors a third time. I don&#8217;t mind buying a game a second time if there&#8217;s some added value, but when you get to a third or fourth purchase, that&#8217;s where I have to start drawing lines. This version adds nothing but Breath of the Wild costumes. Not exactly a major draw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mario Tennis Aces<\/strong> &#8211; I like that Camelot seems to be putting some heart into this one, after the last three or four Mario Tennis games were half-assed disappointments, but the fact of the matter is that I never really get into these Mario sports games.\u00a0Likely because I have no friends to play them with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana<\/strong> &#8211; I won&#8217;t lie, 90% of the appeal here is that Dana character and her excessively skimpy outfit. I don&#8217;t usually care for the terrible costumes that female characters get in JRPGs, but this one really clicks with me for some reason. Other than that&#8230; ehhhh. I don&#8217;t know enough about the Ys series to care, and my budget just doesn&#8217;t have room for something that I don&#8217;t get an immediate urge to purchase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Mario Odyssey: Luigi&#8217;s Balloon World<\/strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s a free update for a game I already own. So yeah, I&#8217;ll probably give it a go. Don&#8217;t see much appeal, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy<\/strong> &#8211; Meh. I have a King of Fighters game on my Switch. I already never play that enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ACA NEO-GEO Art of Fighting 2<\/strong> &#8211; What did I <em>just<\/em> say?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle DLC<\/strong> &#8211; I love this game and I love this trailer, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be buying this DLC. I&#8217;ll give it an honest consideration if I ever get around to finishing the main game. But, that&#8217;s not looking too likely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAYDAY 2<\/strong> &#8211; Don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fe<\/strong> &#8211; Sorry, I stopped watching. What was this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celeste<\/strong> &#8211; I was only half paying attention while this game was on. I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s about, but the visuals certainly smack of something that I would dig.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DKC: Tropical Freeze<\/strong> &#8211; Oh hey look another Wii U port that I&#8217;m not going to buy. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, Tropical Freeze is a magnificent game in every regard, but I haven&#8217;t even finished it. And the Funky Kong mode looks like a good way to give players an &#8220;easy mode&#8221; without shaming them like Super Kong. Still. Unless it&#8217;s coming in at half-price, I can&#8217;t see it happening for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dark Souls Remastered<\/strong> &#8211; <em>UH HUH YES DAY ONE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Praise the sun! To think that a port of a game released in 2012 is the thing that excited me most from this presentation. But, it&#8217;s Dark Souls. <em>Dark Souls<\/em>. In Japan it&#8217;s been confirmed that it won&#8217;t even be a full-price release, so woop woop here I go again to Lordran! Gonna be prepared to die on the bus! On my lunch break! On the toilet! Prepared to die everywhere!<\/p>\n<p>Plus I never bought the DLC for my 360 copy, so there&#8217;s even some new-to-me content in there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo shadow dropped a little Nintendo Direct this morning. I mean, sort of. The date leaked online a while ago, and Nintendo had been making vague tweets in the days leading up to it, but it was never formally announced. So as a Nintendo-focused blogger, I feel like it&#8217;s my sworn duty to go over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nintendo Direct Mini reactions!<\/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":[51,12,23,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-souls","category-mario","category-pokemon","category-video-games","category-zelda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","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=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7659,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions\/7659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}