Nintendo began the show with a trailer for a fantastic looking mech game. It featured beautiful graphics that looked like they were cell-shaded. The battles featured huge weapons and giant enemies. The game is called Daemon X Machina and it will be released in 2019.
The next trailer is for a game set in the year 3564 in country of Coeia. Everything's Japanese, subtitled in English. I caught something about a Titan and the destruction of Aegis. When they finally started showing the game, it's an open world RPG and then I recognize it to be Xenoblade Chronicles 2. It's the DLC Torna Golden Country and it will be available in September.
Reggie Fils-Aime appears and talks about the Pokemon games Let's Go Pikachu and Evie that were announced a couple weeks ago. They can now interact with Pokemon Go so what you catch in Go you can transfer to the Switch Pokemons. There's also the toy Pokemon Plus that will have an exclusive Pokemon (don't remember which one) and will let you move Pokemon around with it.. Nov. 16.
The next video shows people coming together to play something. Then they reveal the game and it's SUPER MARIO PARTY! It shows one of the new mini games involving two Switches being placed together to form a larger map. That's pretty cool. All the other mini games look like fun, too. It releases on October 5th.
A trailer begins to play showing a map of a world followed by some anime cutscenes. The game is revealed to be Fire Emblem: The Three Houses. The gameplay seems to be a mix of turn based combat and real time action. It looks like it could be the biggest Fire Emblem yet. It releases in the Spring of 2019.
The next trailer was for Fortnite and it announced that it's available to download today for free.
Reggie appears again with some fluff talk. He shows off some quick trailers for Overcooked 2. It looks to be greatly improved over the first and it will release August 7th. The next trailer he showed was for Killer Queen Black. It's an arcade style multiplayer game, but it didn't really grab me. It will be available later this year. The next trailer was for a game called Hollow Knight and is available today. The game's a side scrolling platformer and it looks like the kind of platform that I really enjoy. I might have to check it out.
A quick teaser for Octopath Traveler (and I'm upset that I didn't get anymore from this game either, thanks to nothing really being shown at SE) announces its release date for July 13th with a new demo available on June 14th.
A rapid fire video began playing showing off a lot of games. What I caught was Starlink, Arena of Valor, a Minecraft expansion, Sushi Striker, the Donkey Kong expansion for Mario+Rabbids, Pixark, Just dance 2019, DragonBall Fighter Z, the Splatoon 2 expansion, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Crash In-Sane Trilogy, Ninjala, Paladins, Dark Souls. SNK Heroines, Monster Hunters Generations, The World Ends With You, Megaman 11, and Mario Tennis Aces. To be honest, I grow tired of these montages because I feel like there should be time dedicated to talk about the games they're showing.
Masahiro Sakurai appears to talk about the new Super Smash Bros. game titled Ultimate. He started off by showing the fighter roster video. I actually was trying hard to list all the characters that were appearing, but he really could have save everyone a lot of time by just saying that every single Smash fighter from the franchise will be here. Yes, every one of them. *begins deleting a huge block of text* Your roster will start small, just like the first Smash game. There will also be eight player battles.
Next, he talks about how fighters have changed. Mario will have his Odyssey suits. Link will be the Breath of the Wild variant. Ike has two costumes and both versions are independently voice acted. There will be a female Pikachu with a heart-shaped tail. Fox will be based on Star Fox Zero. Ryu will now always face his opponent when on-one-on. Samus can now charge in mid-air. Marth has a faster Dancing Blade and is now fully voiced in English. Snake has returned with his Shadow Moses Island stage. King Dedede's Final Smash is a cage fight. Zelda's design is from a Link Between Worlds. Sonic's Super Sonic Final Smash is now more chaotic. Pac-Man got a speed boost. Pokemon Trainer now has a female variant. Captain Falcon's Big Blue stage returns. Cloud will show his limit gauge. There will be eight versions of villagers. Mr. Game and Watch looks more like the original version. Wolf is based on Star Fox Zero. Kirby has a copy ability for every fighter. Shulk has easier access to Arts. Ganondorf's design is from Ocarina of Time. There Mii types have more tweaking for different styles. Zero Suit Samus's power suit fires a laser for Final Smash. Olimar's helmet now cracks when he takes damage. Bayonetta has both 1 and 2 costumes. Wario's Wario-Man Final Smash will be completely different. Donkey Kong will be more expressive. Wii Fit Trainer has a new face. Mega Man's stage now has all the hazards from both the Wii U and 3DS stages. R.O.B. has a gauge to show hovering energy. I then lost connection so I don't know how much else I missed. When I got it back, I saw that the Squid Sisters are an assist trophy for the Inklings. Assist trophies are used to call in help. Bomberman will be one of over 50 trophies in the game.
The next video showed off all the stages, so many I couldn't keep up. I did see a tower level from Breath of the Wild, though. I'm basically assuming that if there was a stage in any Smash game, it would be in this game. Of course, all older stages have been graphically improved.
The next segment talked about techniques. Directional air dodges have been improved. Dodging too much leaves you vulnerable, something about a perfect shield... and then I began zoning out. The next segment after that revealed that Super Smash Brothers Ultimate will be compatible with the GC controller. All Smash amiibo will also be compatible, even if characters are from different series.
The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate segment ends with a trailer showing Samus, Mario and Megaman walking down a catwalk in a giant facility. Something begins attacking them and then we see Ridley from the Metroid games. Ridley has been revealed to be the new character for Ultimate.
And.... that's all...
*takes glasses off and begins to pinch bridge of nose, then tosses glasses aside*
Your typical complacent fanboy that laps up any bone Nintendo throws their way will have called Nintendo the winner of E3 just because of the overwhelming amount of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate information they bombarded everyone with. For me, though, that's exactly why they lost (to the big 3, not in general). This wasn't an E3 press conference. This was a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Direct with a few other games shown off on the side. It's bad form. Again, great if you really love Smash and don't care for much else, but for me, really bad form.
"Cool, we got a lot of Smash info!" Where's my fucking F-Zero? "But, we got Smash info!" Where's my fucking WaveRace? "But Smash.." WHERE'S MY FUCKING PAPER MARIO?! WHERE'S ALL THE OTHER GAMES?! Where was the new Yoshi they showed off last year? Oh, cool, we got Overcooked 2 coming. How about showing off more of the WarioWare game they teased? Oh cool, more ports of old indie games. Any more news about the new Metroid? Nope, just another video of already confirmed games that are coming out this year. Supposedly, there's some article that explains why Nintendo has been so reserved. Basically, they could have have shown off more but decided not to because they wanted to focus on this year's launch window. So translated, "We have nothing ready to show off anytime soon." Microsoft has been showing Crackdown 3 at every E3 since 2014 and you couldn't share a shred of information about Metroid Prime 4, a game you teased LAST year? If you weren't ready to show anything off, you shouldn't have even teased us with it last year!
Do I sound salty? Hell yeah, I am. And I admit, I'm being unfair. They did start the show off with a new mech game that looks pretty damned good. It reminds me of Zone of the Enders. There was the Super Mario Party reveal. We finally got a closer look at the new Fire Emblem game, and a montage video that shows plenty of other games coming out this year. So, why am I so bothered so much by an in-depth look at the new Smash Bros. game that took up almost half of the show? Because I view that game as waste. I was expecting a brand new Super Smash Bros. game but instead, I got an amalgam of all the other games. I'm sure there's going to be new characters. We did get Ridley, after all. But I'm getting tired of rehashing.
We got a brand new Zelda and Mario last year, so why can't I just be happy with those two? I HATE that fucking rationale. That's apologist attitude that's kept Nintendo complacent for decades and I refuse to give Nintendo free passes for this shit anymore. I should have been this upset over Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but the thought of playing MK8 on the go was so appealing, I forgave them but truthfully, we should have had Mario Kart 9 by now. I get that the Wii U didn't sell, so Nintendo is recouping by bringing port after port to the Switch, but enough. Fuck Tropical Freeze. Should have been a new Donkey Kong. Fuck Captain Toad. Should have been a sequel. Fuck Pokken Tournament DX. Should have been a Pokken 2. Fuck all the Wii U ports. Should have been new games. Fuck Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Should have been a brand new Super Smash. And where the fuck is Story? If there's no Story Mode, I'm canceling my pre-order.
I'm angry with Nintendo, but do you know why I don't get angry with the other companies? I get disappointed with them, sure, and am disappointed with both MS and Sony to some degree over their shows. But when I'm disappointed in Nintendo, I become angry. I love them more than any other company. I see greatness in them at times and we've seen just how well they can do with last year's Breath of the Wild and Odyssey, so I EXPECT that level of commitment from them. At all times. You ALWAYS expect more from people you love the most and when you don't get it from them, you get disappointed enough to become angry. Cool, you gave us over 20 minutes of Smash info, but that should have been its own Direct. We needed - I - needed more from you. I need you to commit MUCH harder to the Switch than you are now. Fuck this drip feed that everyone dangling their tongues out for is so happy with. I'M NOT! Open the floodgates, Nintendo. MS and Sony dropped the ball this year and still did better than you.
Overall rating: D
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