We Talk Over: Nintendo Direct 02/08/23

Dan on Giant Bomb content!? Imagine if they put this guy on the podcast.

DAN! We're live!

I only watch these things on the off chance of a Silksong date so this was like a 3/10.

This was a great direct! Excited for all the game boy/game boy advance games and Advance War!
Grubb can finnaly get his bag of hair back

The vehicle stuff in ToTK looks cool, it seems as if they looked at how people were stretching the engine/mechanics/world of BotW (i.e. octorok balloons, stasis launches, etc.) and are formalizing that stuff into more accessible mechanics. If the direction of the game is looking at all the requests and weird exploits the community were up to and expanding on that in creative ways, I'm even more excited.
That being said I am somewhat cautious like others have said - in around six years of development time, they seem to have added some floating islands and few new tools for Link to play with? There's gotta be a substantial "hook" for me to go and explore largely the same world again besides maybe that there's new shrines in place of the old ones. I mean - the major story stuff in BotW was just…not good and having more of that is not exciting to me (the VO in the trailer continued to be that crummy sounding stuff from the previous game) but maybe they're just really holding out until release to really give us what is so uniquely cool about this game.

Overall this was a great Direct – there's quite a few things to be excited for this year. Pikmin, Fantasy Life, Ghost Trick, Illusion Island, Samba de Amigo among them. I hope the GBA selection adds games like Ninja Five-O and dare I say possibly somehow magically some day...Mother 3. Oh and we need Monkey Puncher on GBC.

Some really good games shown off that I'm interested in getting but not that fond of the new Zelda game getting a $10 price hike. Maybe if Nintendo was releasing a new Switch, then the price hike would have made more sense to do.

Jan's Ranking of Tiles idea is the most revelatory thing in this.

They should do a Pikmin X Grounded crossover.

Would a Mr. Magoo game just be Lemmings?