Can't really say anything. Years have ground away any concept of hype for me, even with Nintendo. I won't lie, I looked at nothing for BOTW or Super Mario Odyssey before they launched, because I honestly didn't think they'd be any good.
The fact that BOTW was very good, and Super Mario is near perfect, is the exception not the rule. Just look at Nintendo's history. It's littered with dog-shit land mines and games that amount to white noise. We already know that the BOTW formula and the grandeur of Odyssey will be thrown out. The one thing SEGA and Nintendo have shared over all these years is, regardless of weather it works or not, throw it out, proverbial babies and bath water too. Ya, we had Metroid Prime, GALAXY 2, and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, but one was an epic series of exploration games, the other was to cash in on a dying platform, and the last one was just an excuse to dry clean Luigi's overalls.
Thousand Year Door, gone. Super Paper Mario, gone. Well ya, Metroid Prime is gone too I guess. Wind Waker, gone (we all struggle to accept it, be we must. The DS ones are shite). Twilight Princess, gone. Sunshine, gone.
I guess the TL;DR here is, nothing, because Nintendo's output quality is nothing but a sin wave graph. Jaw-droppingly-brilliant, to, "oh ya, that exists", mediocre, to, "I need like ten showers", bad, and back again.
EDIT: Should also disclose that I'm one of those intolerable dicks who just bought a second Switch tablet, pre-loaded with 3.0.0.
The fact that BOTW was very good, and Super Mario is near perfect, is the exception not the rule. Just look at Nintendo's history. It's littered with dog-shit land mines and games that amount to white noise. We already know that the BOTW formula and the grandeur of Odyssey will be thrown out. The one thing SEGA and Nintendo have shared over all these years is, regardless of weather it works or not, throw it out, proverbial babies and bath water too. Ya, we had Metroid Prime, GALAXY 2, and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, but one was an epic series of exploration games, the other was to cash in on a dying platform, and the last one was just an excuse to dry clean Luigi's overalls.
Thousand Year Door, gone. Super Paper Mario, gone. Well ya, Metroid Prime is gone too I guess. Wind Waker, gone (we all struggle to accept it, be we must. The DS ones are shite). Twilight Princess, gone. Sunshine, gone.
I guess the TL;DR here is, nothing, because Nintendo's output quality is nothing but a sin wave graph. Jaw-droppingly-brilliant, to, "oh ya, that exists", mediocre, to, "I need like ten showers", bad, and back again.
EDIT: Should also disclose that I'm one of those intolerable dicks who just bought a second Switch tablet, pre-loaded with 3.0.0.
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