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« Last post by Khushrenada on September 26, 2025, 01:35:17 AM »
So, the ol' Nintendo Direct.
I must say, the beginning Mario Anniversary segment got me hyped up and expecting to see some footage of a new Mario 3D platformer. It made me realize how much that is sort of at the top of my gaming wishlist right now. After waiting patiently through the shrug of a tease for the next Mario movie, I then got to be disappointed by just getting a port of some past 3D Mario games in Galaxy 1 and 2. It's a bit of a mixed reaction since Mario Galaxy 1 is my least favorite 3D Mario game (and adding more story pages to Rosalina's storytime book is a further step in the wrong direction). Plus, with Galaxy 1 being included in that recent 3D All-Stars, it just further felt like it was way too soon to be hyping up a port of that game again. On the other hand, Galaxy 2 remains in my memory as one of the absolute best Mario games of the past 15 (heck even 20) years and it's been so long since I played it that I'd welcome a replay of it. Of course, I don't really need this port to do that since I still have a functioning Wii U and Wiimotes. Still it made me wonder if this might be a gearing up to suddenly announce Super Mario Galaxy 3.
But nope. It's a new Mario Tennis, my least favorite of the Mario sports games. Even that felt like it was too soon to be having another Tennis game but it's been 7 years since Aces right now. And, to its credit, what was shown actually had me thinking it might be the first Mario Tennis game I'd actually want to buy and play instead of buying it more to sit on my shelf as completeness for a software library catalogue. The DLC for Mario Wonder reminded me that I really wanted to finally get that game and get playing it since I seem to be jonesin' for a new Mario platformer. And that's what I've done. Got a copy of the game and played through the first world now. Looking at this DLC again, it seems to be more about making a party game out of a Mario platformer but it also seems to be hinting at more regular platforming content as well. Consider me intrigued yet at the same time it was a bit of a let down that after all this Mario talk, the best announcement just seemed to be about DLC for a game two years old.
Although then we come to Yoshi. They included him in the Mario portion but I consider the game a bit separate from the Mario series particularly as there doesn't seem to be any of sign of Mario appearing in this game. By far the best announcement in the Mario section though due in part to it being a game, a new game and maybe a different direction for the Yoshi series. The game I thought of when seeing the trailer was Untitled Goose Game. That's because UGG was about figuring out how to figure out how to pull off a checklist of objectives and it seemed like that's what this game was showing. Figuring out objectives /missions of requests to enter them into the Mr. E book. Curious to see how this one might turn out.
(More posting to come)
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