Nintendo had a good show, not great though maybe? I think a few more surprises would have been nice, but there were a couple of things I certainly wouldn't have expected.
Surprises:
-If you told me someone was making a
Dark Crystal strategy RPG, I wouldn't have believed you. Feels like something from another timeline. Will keep an eye on this.
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Switcher III Wild Hunt, I didn't believe that was possible on Switch. This game has gotten a lot of praise, I'll look into it now. Same goes for
Alien Isolation.
-Nobody told me someone was remaking the original
Panzer Dragoon!!! I hope Zwei, and especially Saga get remakes too.
-Seeing
Settlers of Catan announced made me think eJamer would be happy.
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Minecraft Dungeons sounds like it'll make boatloads of cash. For some reason I thought this would've only been on Xbox.
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Zelda BOTW sequel, just pump it into my veins. Can't wait to see what they do here, adding caves is a good start.
-That topdown 1920's mafia game had a good tune playing.
-I don't know anything about
The Sinking City but it piqued my interest.
Other observations:
-The
Smash trailer at the end was hilarious. It's amazing how they mine King K Rool out of all characters for so much comedy in these short trailers.
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Astral Chain looks, well, off the chain. This might have sold me on getting a Switch.
-Still not a lot of gameplay footage for
Daemon X Machina on show. Ditto for
Fire Emblem, bit worrying imo.
-I like the direction of
Luigi's Mansion 3 with the haunted hotel, Shining style. There was a ghost you could find in the hotel of Hitman: Contracts back in the day which I always thought was neat and creepy. That said, I'm not really sold on this one. It looked a bit Toad's Treasure Tracker to me with small, detailed puzzle rooms.
Overall: Definitely still interested in Astral Chain, and Daemon X Machina too. Witcher 3 and Panzer Dragoon are ports I'd probably get. Also curious what they do with Dark Crystal, I like the movie.
I think Nintendo had one of the stronger presentations of this year's E3, but to be honest the competition wasn't super fierce. Maybe knowing so much about their output already kinda made it seem a bit subdued for me.
Had a great time with everyone on the Discord chatting though, really fun time to be a Nintendo fan.