{"id":9625,"date":"2022-02-09T17:07:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9625"},"modified":"2022-02-09T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:07:02","slug":"nintendo-direct-2-9-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9625","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Direct 2.9.2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It feels like forever since we&#8217;ve seen a big Nintendo commercial like this. Maybe only since December? But I don&#8217;t think I did a &#8220;liveblog&#8221; of the last one, so&#8230; as good as forever ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Show&#8217;s starting! Let&#8217;s-a go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes<\/strong> &#8211; Looks to be a musou based on FE: Three Houses, which I never played. I <em>did<\/em> play the original FE:Warriors, and while it was fun, I just don&#8217;t care enough about Fire Emblem in general to play this&#8230; double-sequel? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp<\/strong> &#8211; Man, it looks <em>so good<\/em>, and it&#8217;s been <em>so long<\/em> since we&#8217;ve gotten an Advance Wars game. I&#8217;m really torn on whether I&#8217;m going to get this or not. On one hand, fun. On the other hand time sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/strong> &#8211; It blows my mind that this is coming to Switch. Is it through the cloud? I&#8217;m not overly interested in it, though that&#8217;s mostly because of the not-so-great reception it got when it originally launched on PS4. I could see myself getting into it if given a chance, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mario Strikers: Battle League<\/strong> &#8211; Yes! What is the best video game sports franchise? Mario Strikers, without a doubt! It&#8217;s the Super Smash Bros of sports, basically. Looks like there are a ton of new options in this one, and it looks like a blast! Also, Rosalina is playable in this one, and I&#8217;ll <em>always<\/em> say yes to Space Princess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Splatoon 3 <\/strong>&#8211; Salmon Run mode was <em>by far<\/em> the best part of Splatoon 2, and I&#8217;m very happy to see that it&#8217;s coming back, presumably bigger and better than ever. I hope it&#8217;s not only available at certain times of day this time around, though. That was real dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Front Mission 1st<\/strong> &#8211; Neat. Not sure if there&#8217;s room in my life for a tactical RPG that doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;Final Fantasy&#8221; or &#8220;Triangle Strategy&#8221; in the title, but it looks cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disney Speedstorm<\/strong> &#8211; FTP Disney kart racer. Could not care less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Star Wars: The Force Unleashed<\/strong> &#8211; I could get into this. I&#8217;ve always wanted to play it (and the sequel), but never got around to it. Maybe now&#8217;s the time! Well, maybe <em>April<\/em> is the time, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Ezio Collection<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;d be very interested if I didn&#8217;t have to work or sleep. A bundle of three open-world games makes me feel somewhat&#8230; agoraphobic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SD Gundam Battle Alliance<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve never Gundam&#8217;d anything, and I&#8217;m not about to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chrono Cross: the Radical Dreamers Edition<\/strong> &#8211; Amazing! Square-Enix finally remembered that Chrono Cross exists, and that people like it! While I&#8217;m not blown away by the enhancements, I do like the idea of being able to play the packed-in,  officially-translated-for-the-first-time version of Radical Dreamers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kirby and the Forgotten Land<\/strong> &#8211; Obviously I&#8217;m 100% in for new Kirby. And now he can merge with cars and vending machines? Sure, why not? Probably not as good a gimmick as <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9393\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9393\">robobot armor<\/a>, but still looks fun! And there&#8217;s a town that grows over the course of the game! That&#8217;s like my favourite thing in games!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MLB The Show 22<\/strong> &#8211; I already told you that Mario Strikers is the best sports game. No sale. But I <em>do<\/em> appreciate the muppet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece<\/strong> &#8211; I <em>think<\/em> it&#8217;s every KH game, in the cloud. I have them all on PS4 already, so&#8230; this is too little, too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series<\/strong> &#8211; Yes! Klonoa is great! I&#8217;d like to know more about which games are actually included in this collection. Klonoa 1 and 2 would be enough to warrant, but I wouldn&#8217;t complain if the GBA games were included&#8230; Regardless, it&#8217;s nice to see Klonoa get some love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Portal: Companion Collection<\/strong> &#8211; I wondered a couple years ago why Portal hadn&#8217;t been ported to modern (or even last-gen) consoles yet. It&#8217;s about dang time! Maybe now I&#8217;ll finally finish Portal 2&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Live A Live<\/strong> &#8211; A SNES RPG that I&#8217;ve always wanted to play, but it felt a little too difficult to get into because it was never released outside of Japan. I will <em>absolutely<\/em> be playing this remake. If nothing else, to experience the incredible Yoko Shimomura soundtrack as it was meant to be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nintendo Switch Sports<\/strong> &#8211; As a hermit, I have no need for this. It has online play, sure, but 97% of the fun of Wii Sports was local multiplayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival<\/strong> &#8211; Nah. I need the arcade machine with the actual drum, please. Fun fact: I&#8217;d actually really like to learn how to play a <em>real<\/em> taiko drum. It was something I vaguely intended to do in the pre-COVID age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Triangle Strategy<\/strong> &#8211; Can&#8217;t wait! CAN&#8217;T WAIT! (I can&#8217;t believe that didn&#8217;t give it a better title, though.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cuphead &#8211; The Delicious Last Course<\/strong> &#8211; Having never finished the original Cuphead&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll get this and correct that. But probably not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Metroid Dread<\/strong> &#8211; An update that adds a one-hit-and-you-die mode? No way! Dread is already too hard as it is! But I <em>will<\/em> take advantage of the Rookie mode for speedrunning. Boss rush mode seems like a nightmare that nobody asked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Earthbound \/ Earthbound Beginnings<\/strong> &#8211; Overdue. S&#8217;all I&#8217;m sayin&#8217;. It boggles my mind that Nintendo is sticking to their guns, vis-a-vis never releasing Mother 3 outside of Japan, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sizzle Reel &#8211; Nothing here particularly piqued my interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe <\/strong>DLC &#8211; Again, this is long overdue. And as cool as it would be to get 48(!!!) additional courses, it&#8217;s not nearly enough to get me to buy Mario Kart 8 again. Though it is free for NSO members&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles 3<\/strong> &#8211; <em>This is the only thing in the world that I care about now.<\/em> <em>SEPTEMBER!!!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nintendo Direct - 2.9.2022\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EhDFA_O7zNg?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like forever since we&#8217;ve seen a big Nintendo commercial like this. Maybe only since December? But I don&#8217;t think I did a &#8220;liveblog&#8221; of the last one, so&#8230; as good as forever ago. Show&#8217;s starting! 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