#skyward sword is a masterpiece gem

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Late Direct thoughts now that I’m off work! Lots of good things on the way, it looks like.

Triangle Strategy: And I was just thinking about Octopath the other day as a rare gem of a sprite-based game in this 3D-modeled day and age... and this one doesn’t disappoint either! Same gorgeous ‘HD-2D’ look... gameplay wise I’m super intrigued to see how it develops! I love Fire Emblem, but I couldn’t get into FF Tactics, so I’m interested to see where this falls on the continuity there. “Choose your story” stuff is also fascinating, a little intimidating, but again I’d love to see where it goes.

Outer Wilds: Big fan of this news! I had to stop watching a playthrough so I wouldn’t get spoiled if I ever played it myself... now I have the excuse. Definitely picking this up.

World’s End Club: Really, *really* fascinated by this! Danganronpa has never been my type of game, but the fact that this is promising a super different and ostensibly less weirdly horny take on the premise has honestly got me really interested. I appreciate that a game finally dared to answer the question of “Okay, but what if they just... left instead?” and made a whole story out of that.

Splatoon 3: Big fan of this news! (Yes I just typed that twice in the exact same cadence.) But yeah, it looks like more delivery on the solid core concept, in a fun new environment. Finally we get to see the payoff for the Chaos splatfest victory so long ago... And honestly, the singleplayer campaign in this setting is going to be to die for, I can just feel it. After the excellence of 2 and Octo Expansion, I feel like they’ll serve up another masterpiece.

New Smash reps: I don’t know Xenoblade, but like always, they look fun and well-crafted, and I’m going to enjoy having them in the game. Mr. Soccerguy does it again, and I look forward to the showcase. Not really disappointed over the opportunity cost of the slot either. Congrats to XC fans!

Other announcements that are neat but I have no strong feelings about:

- Hades collector’s edition, very nice

- Age of Calamity DLC, probably not gonna get it until I finish basegame but cool

- Anyone else notice that this Direct is the first time Switch Mii’s have been acknowledged in, like, 3 years?

And, of course, last of all...

Skyward Sword HD: My baby, my precious, my sweet sweet favorite of all time, the game without which I likely wouldn’t be the Zelda nerd I am today. Still the announcement I’m having the most feelings over... I’m very pleased. And hey, the motion controls discourse is solved forever because it’s just... you have the option now, for either. (Plus I’ve heard that the Switch does *really* good when emulating Wii gyro, arguably better than the Wii even.) Cute that they reminded us of the places where BotW ran with the ideas SS pioneered, too.

Anyways, day started out kinda weird, but this has certainly turned it into quite the good one. Hope all of yours are good too :)

#i talk a lot tag #nintendo direct spoilers #we got all of these announcements... #we also got infinity train s4 confirmed... #and dlc is coming to crosscode which i've been getting into recently #gonna bring out my favorite hashtag again #a fine time to be alive