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I’m going to be real- I enjoyed BotW and TotK enough, but I don’t see them as traditional Zelda games and it actually pisses me off that Aonuma has come out and said we will NEVER get a traditional 3D Zelda ever again. So the success of the open-world Zeldas is the nail in the coffin for the games we actually grew up loving. The death of the open-world fad can’t come soon enough, most of these games are nothing special.

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Looks great, a much needed departure from the NSMB formula, not that those games weren’t fun. Not a fan of Nabbit and Yoshi being locked behind easy mode, but at least it’s lore friendly I guess.

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On the one hand, I’m as tired of ports and remakes as anyone else. On the other, TTYD is a perfect RPG and the exact opposite of what they’ve done to Paper Mario for two generations, so it not only gets a pass but a big fat golden power star.

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The ‘Switch 2’ having a camera for literally no reason is extremely on-brand for Nintendo, so I kind of believe it.

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I feel like I’m in the minority when I’m looking forward to Nintendo making a high-powered console for once. The last time their hardware was on par with or better than the rest of the industry was the Gamecube, which was an amazing little system.

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Honestly a handheld PS4 equivalent of the Steam Deck sounds nice too.

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I think I’ve grown past enjoying Bethesda’s wide, shallow ocean design philosophy and bare-bones dialogue trees. There are simply better RPGs on the market now.

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Love how hard they’re leaning into the inherent bizarro world aspects of the Mario universe.

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You know a game is going to be good when half the industry cries and shits its pants and begs not to be held to its standard.