the english narration for nintendo direct always makes me feel weird.
conversation I had with a buddy last night, about how totk just didn’t do it for us and we’re going to take a step back from giving FFXVI a shot.
Something Tim said on the pod this week relates to a conversation I had with a buddy recently.
He said something along the lines of “It’s ok for me to accept that I mostly just like old games”
That’s 100% where I’m at, and the more old games I play, the more worthless new ones seem. The more old games I play, the more informed and contextualized my opinions and tastes become. Every now and again, there’s a new release tailored for me, and that’s good. Just accepting where I stand.
I have also been saying that nintendo’s gonna keep pimping the switch and wringing out more life from it. That seems to be true still. I am correct.
Seeing this, my knee-jerk reaction was “those are worth 70-150 dollars”, because the blue SP is the exact one I had as a kid, and it’s difficult to find one now for a reasonable price.
Last, I think the new mario bros is very cute. Something I’ve said very often is I forsee a future where perhaps games like Earthbound are remade in a claymation style, 20-50 years from now. I think we’re still on that trajectory, and this mario bros is the first in a new wave of faux clay style games. frankly, I’m here for it. But not sure how wonderous the clay textures will be in a sub-1080p resolution. It should be 1440p-4k and at least 60fps to convince us with the clay texture realism.
Gaagaagiins The visual style [of the smrpg remake] is boring in comparison to the original but it’s still cute
IMHO at first glance It looks like they did a great job adapting the original squaresoft 3d cg render style from the official artwork. They doing a move similar to what fans did with the Super Mario 64 RENDER 96 project where they made super mario 64 true to form with the CG official artwork and concept art. It’s at least cool to see them respect the original art and not sterilize and homogenize the unique and “off model” character designs. Gives me hope that the mario rpg series could become interesting again. Lets see if there are any translation changes. The script of that game was fun.
