THAT Was ONE of the Nintendo Directs of ALL TIME!!!

I liked it. I didn't love it. It wasn't It didn't I wasn't yelling and screaming and jumping up and down like Tom Cruz on Oprah the whole time, but I liked it. I think the best thing about that direct and they told us going into it was it was going to be games releasing in winter. So, they could really only pull from games releasing in the next 6 months or so. It's more of a look at what's upcoming now. I always have really high expectations for a direct and it's because we've had some really incredible directs in the past. And sometimes I get in my own head about, well, we don't know anything about Nintendo's 2027 plans. We don't know X, Y, and Z. All we know about is a Zelda remake, and then a sports game is coming out, and we have Fire Emblem this month. There is a lot happening in the next couple of months, I will say. So, I start thinking about like surely they're going to start dropping. Oh, this game's in development now. We're getting a Smash game, a 3D Mario game, like the big franchises that we haven't heard about yet. I mean, we had an incredible 3D Mario in the first like 6 months of the Switch One releasing alongside a full Zelda. So, I think I'm I'm just in a headsp space of like surely that's going to happen again. We're going to get something big pretty soon. And I think Nintendo are just playing things closer to the chess now. They're not announcing things too early like they did Metroid Prime 4 years too early. They're very much, hey, this is what's coming in the next 6 months. But we can immediately get the coolest thing out the way first and then the other cool thing. Oh my god. This is Metroid Ravenous. OH YES, DUDE. That was sick. That was sick. Metroid Ravenous. We did know that a Metroid Ravenous titled game was coming because I think it was listed on a a a website somewhere accidentally and then pulled down, but it was enough smoke to cause a fire. I would have been way more surprised and offguard by this if I didn't know that. But I had no idea how sick this was going to look. And it is the eye cleanse that I needed. It is the juice fullbody extraction cleanse I needed after Metroid Prime 4. After they butchered my girl after they ruined the game and the story and they didn't represent Samos as badass as she is. Here we have Ravenous. She just looks sick. I mean, she looks cool before she even becomes a essentially a zombie and just feasting on all of the enemies. They show her getting stabbed. And I I'm I'm guessing essentially what they're going for is like she dies or gets reanimated in some way and literally becomes a zombie type Samos that needs to feast and eat all of the creatures to stay alive. Eat or be eaten is the tagline for this, which is so cool. It's giving Doom vibes as as just far as the level of badass. And if you didn't play Metroid Dread, I do honestly feel it's the best Metroid maybe ever, but that we've had in a very long time. And at this point, even though I'm more of a fan of the 3D games, or I was, I'm happy to just commit to the 2D. Just go full 2D with these releases. They're doing such a better job. Even the title ravenous with the font and the the the hot pink. It looks so cool. There's sick amiios. There's a cool collector's edition. The box art looks phenomenal. This was by far my highlight of the entire direct and could have been the one more thing. Could have been the thing that opened it. Could have been anywhere in this and I would have loved this direct. It it SO COOL. WA I'M NOW I'M SURFING ON A SHARK. [laughter] WHICH REMINDS ME, this video is sponsored by Surf Shark, which is actually great because if you've been watching my videos for a long time now, you'll know that me and Surf Shark, we go together like peanut butter and jelly. 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So, on top of everything, if you're not happy, JUST GET YOUR MONEY BACK. I DON'T KNOW WHAT MORE you people want. All right, let's get back to the video. The other big thing from Nintendo was this. This is cool and I'm going to like it. Can I say that? Can I stress that? I might even love it. I honestly, for the most part, do not like Kirby games. I have never really jailed with them. I played Forgotten Land because I liked the idea of a 3D open uh platformer type Kirby game. And I loved it. I had so much fun with that game. It was one of my favorite Switch games. So, I am so open to this being awesome. It's just I'm still not a Kirby fan. Even after that one game, it didn't convince me. But on on top of that, I think it's why I tried to explain this when I was live. It's more that so many of us Nintendo fans are dying to get some of our franchises come back. We have to wait so many years in between these releases. And it feels like Kirby. You get Kirby every day. [laughter] It's like every day you wake up to a new Kirby. every direct there's at least one if not five Kirby representations at some point. I mean this direct alone had already had Kirby earlier in the event when they showed new amiiros for air riders. So we just get a lot of Kirby. So getting another Kirby for me there's a little bit of an eye roll of like oh all right what is it this time and I will say it looks awesome. So, I know I know I I know I'm I'm hypocritical, I guess. I loved Forgotten Land and how open it was, but I was thinking while I played that, it would be cool if it was even more open, if they actually committed even more to less of like a a structured level layout and went open with this. And I think this looks really good. I also like that the trailer started in this beginning area. Cutesy, fun, kind of shows you a little bit of what's going on. And then Kirby rips open the dome of the Truman Show life, I guess, that he's living in here and he sees the real world beyond, which is funny actually. I didn't even mean to do that just then, but the game is called World Beyond. So, it's literally the world beyond his game. And it's kind of implying I think by looking out into this it it's a very different geographical like structure and and these weird cliffs, these structures and weird like alien things going on. So it kind I think it's giving like this is going to be different. This is going to be a different kind of Kirby setting and adventure and game. It's it's giving Breath of the Wild Kirby. It's giving uh Bowser's Fury Kirby. Uh it's giving Nintendo. And again, I'm not a huge Kirby guy, but this is a big announcement and a big game and uh unexpected and a surprise, which I think is my favorite thing about it. There was no leaks. There was no rumors. I didn't know this was happening. I was taken off guard by it. And that to me now is what Nintendo directs are. You have this long presentation of things that are happening and you're not going to like all of it. And some of it's going to feel a little bit like a slog, but hey, you don't have to watch it. And at some point, Nintendo is going to surprise you. At some point, Nintendo is going to give you something cool. All right, now we can backtrack. Honestly, two or three more things that I'm really going to take a look at, and we can breeze through most of the other stuff. Also, a lot of it just wasn't new news, but Persona 4 Revival is coming May 20th. That is my favorite Persona game. I started with Golden, so I'm excited for everybody that gets to play that. However, you can play my reaction. As soon as this ends and it glitches and there's a hint of green, I knew where we were going. I almost couldn't believe it. I'm so jealous of people that haven't played it and get to play that. Ooh, that went green for a second there. Persona 6. That actually gave me chills. Hopefully, this is a game that releases day one, day and date with everywhere else and you can play it first on Switch 2. That's just really cool. I'm very excited for that game and to see more of it. Usually when we get a bigger look at a game we've already seen a couple times, I zone out a little bit and I'm like, "Okay, you're just kind of refreshing us." But I will say this one, this Switch Sports 2 one, I'm glad they did this because I was not convinced on this game. I played the first Switch Sports. It was definitely like a one week banger where you messed around with the mini games for for a week or so. You tried to play online with your friends and then realized how restrictive it was. Only like three of the games could actually be played online with more than two people. The bowling had like 20 people, but you could only play online with like eight people and then the rest was NPCs. Like it was so restrictive and it was only six mini games really. And then they released DLC over the next several years, but it released too slow and too infrequently for me to pick it back up again. This is releasing with a ton of extra games. So, I liked that concept alone, but still thought I would probably put put it down after a week because there's not much else to do. This deeper look showed us that the world is open for you to explore. You can just fly around it, roam around it. But more than this Mario Kart world, adjacent offline play in the world, there's also this ranking system against the NPC characters in the game. So, there's like a a ladder and you It's almost like a single player mode where you can try and beat them all at their best sports and become the best of everything on the island. And I like that. It just gives you something to do. It gives you something to like a gameplay mode to play around with. Island Crown when you're not playing online or you're not playing just the mini games. They really do seem like they put a lot more work into this one and it's a lot more full of a game on launch. I still think it's probably going to be a couple week one and done for me, but I'm more looking forward to it now than I was before. And I think finally the last thing that really made me pop and jump out of my well I was standing so I didn't really jump out of anything was a Yo-kai Watch localization for a new game in development. Finally. I didn't think it was ever going to happen. It's a lot like Pokémon but also very different to Pokémon. And and if you like Pokémon, you might like this. And if you don't like Pokémon, but you want to like it, you might like this. It does a lot of really cool concepts and changes. There's a bit of a darker theme to it. And you collect Yo-kai ghosts and and spookies, but we but they haven't been getting localized. I mean, the fourth game is on Switch, but only in Japan. And here is an announcement of this Yo-kai Watch 2 Haunted Domain being developed for Switch. And I think that's fantastic. This was a this was big pop for I was very excited for this. This might be my favorite like third-p partyy announcement of the whole thing. All right, and then we can go back to the start and we can uh skim through some things that are cool. It opened with I think our first look at Monster Hunter Wild's gameplay. We knew it was happening, but this is the game running on Switch 2. Definitely a 30 framer, but looks fantastic. I think it looks really good. This is a perfect game to play on the Switch 2. just pick up and do a couple monster hunts. Then our first gameplay look at Final Fantasy Revelation, which again, Square Enix and Capcom are both doing some incredible work on this console. And even though we knew this was happening, it's just cool to see this same day and date as everywhere else. April 8th, brand new Final Fantasy game launching on Switch 2 looking like this. Really cool. Weirdly, Hyrule Warriors is getting an update, and we didn't see that in yesterday's direct, but this is a game that sorely needs the Switch to enhancement to make the frame rates workable, but to even add more enemies on the screen and clear up those visuals. I mean, you see the side by side right there, and it's a night and day difference. I preferred this game a lot over the new age of imprisonment, so I might play that again. Mecca Chameleon was a twist I did not see coming. This is a Steam game that has sold like 10 million copies. It was a It was a random friend slop hit. I played it with my friend Bob and I love it. It's really fun. If you haven't seen it before, go watch some like people play it, some gameplay online or just wait for it to come to Switch. I know how it looks. It looks cheap. It looks rigid. It's so much fun. It's so good. Piccopia is getting another DLC pack. I think this would be more exciting if it was more than just accessories, but this is a midway DLC pack in between the last big expansion and the next big expansion. Does look cute though. My favorite part of the new Star Fox game is the multiplayer. I thought the battle mode was fire, but it was too limited. There was only a couple of different maps you could play on. There wasn't many modes. And I said this when the game launched. If that was more expansive, I could have seen that actually going somewhere. There's a DLC free update for the game and it's all focused on the battle mode, which for me is great news. I don't know how you guys feel about the battle mode. I wish this was all there at launch cuz now you're kind of asking people to go back to a game they probably already moved on from, but I will be going back and playing this and playing the new modes. I really did enjoy the battle mode. We see Witcher 3 remastered gameplay on Switch 2. We see Kingdom Come Delivery 2. Kingdom Come on Switch One might be the best looking Switch port. It ran terribly. They really prioritized visuals, but it looked phenomenal, and this looks no different. This they looks like they are pushing the Switch 2 to its limit. Interested to see the frame rates on this one. I hate to gloss past this Professor Leighton game. It just isn't one of my favorite. I've never played one and I'm not super in. I love the style of it and the vibe of it, but it's I will give it a shot. I don't think I'm going to fall in love with it, but we will see. Pikman is getting a Switch to treatment. I love this game, but I've already finished it. So, for me, I wasn't really super invested in that. The last the back end of the 15 minutes was a lot of uh interesting titles and and smaller experiences. This one is playable in handheld mode only which I find interesting. There's a new mode added to Xenolade that I don't really care about this mode to be honest, but I will be playing the game again. And there's a new character which is interesting. This can's one, Karin's one where you're climbing a mountain is probably for me the most interesting random other experience I saw that I wasn't expecting in this event just because I like that there's a story and there's mystery and you need to try and survive and looks like you have to hunt as well and and try and eat food and there's there's characters to meet and places to explore as well as this intricate climbing mechanic that looks terrifying. I will check this one out. I'm actually very interested in that. Resident Evils 2, 3, and 4 with 7, 8, and 9 running so well on the system. I 9 was running in 60 fps. These are going to be fantastic ports. And if you haven't played these games, I mean, I have, and I might replay them. Mario Kart did get DLC, but a smaller free DLC. There's this cute little Easter egg type mode where you can do the old courses from Super Nintendo. And then there's also a new knockout tour path, which I would rather they add new tracks and maps rather than adding a new path between the old tracks and maps. I love that there's free content and it's an expensive game, so it should have some free content. I just wish it was a bit more substantial. I made a bold claim on the stream today when I saw this game. I feel like the 2D HD 3D games, they've become the new farming sim. You're guaranteed to see at least one every single time. And it's all blending together for me. They're all on my backlog. I They all They're all the same. Then we got a really awkward sizzle reel with just really horrible music that showed us like 007, which this is the first time I believe we're seeing some of the gameplay raw docked on our screen. We saw some gameplay come out at Gamescom, but not this clean. The game looks really good running on Switch. I mean, honestly, unbelievably good running on Switch 2. Then Far Cry 3 of all the Far Cries, and it just keeps going. It just keeps going through a bunch of games all the way to Guardians of the Galaxy, which if you haven't played Guardians of the Galaxy that was an underrated game that I really enjoyed that didn't sell enough and so there's never going to be anymore, but it was really good. And that is this Nintendo Direct. I definitely would not put it in the this could have been an email category like some people are. I think if you're a Kirby fan, obviously the I think that's another thing too is Nintendo has so many big fandoms within itself. You can watch this as a Nintendo fan and it be the best direct ever. I mean, you get a Kirby, you get a Metroid that those could be your two biggest franchises and you and it's in and you don't even understand how anyone could be disappointed. Or you could not really like Metroid Dread or Metroid games, which makes sense. It's a smaller niche. You know, Metroid Dread sold 3 million, which is like the bestselling Metroid game. So, it's not like everyone's not playing it, right? And then not everyone's into Kirby. So, it could also be boring. It could be both. And what I'm realizing is it's a Schroing is direct. You can love it, you can hate it. I don't think it was bad. I think what it did is it focused on games coming out in the next 6 months and it showed us what's upcoming and there's a lot of really fun great stuff in there. It just wasn't a super on the edge of your seat riveting exciting screaming every second direct like we've had before that definitely sets the tone and sets the standard. And I think there's also just so many things that we've been wanting and waiting for. You know, there's so many things that people want to see every time that get rolled over every time and then we never see it, right? I think at this point we've we've been left too long with too many wants, needs, and expectations that keep rolling over that we keep putting on the next direct when in reality it's just a showcase of things that are coming out soon. And also, hey, look, Metroid Ravenous and a brand new openw world Kirby game. Sick. Well, that's September. So, now we go back into the hibernation of waiting for the February Direct. I think I I'll see you guys then. By the end of tomorrow, once everything has calmed down, my podcast at 7:00 p.m. Nintendo will dive into everything, the Zelda Direct, this Direct, the fallout of everything, the extra stuff that wasn't talked about, anything that came out of the treehouse. So, if you want to see that, I'll leave links down below. Come check it out. Like, comment, and subscribe. Let me know what you thought of this direct. You can think it was bad. You can think it was good. All I care about is that you think something and you think it for yourself.