Man, I have to say they didn't cheap out on WarioWare Gold, even if they're reusing microgames but they got major design overhaul so they do feel like new (some of them uses different control compare to the original). Missions is great for replayability and Challenges are very fun, especially SplitScreen and Sneaky Gamer.
Nintendo can be greedy like Wario and make it that there's a Special Smash Bros. demo available when Nintendo Online goes live but only accessible to subscribers.
The only reason they'd do a demo is to test the servers, and it'd make the most sense to have it open to have the most stress test they could do.
So uh.... It seems like BOTW is the timelines from every game being merged into one.
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/character/zelda/history/index.html
Even better, it's at the end of the timelines but they don't specify which one it follows.
Eiji Aonuma, series producer: “Well of course it’s at the very end. But, I get what you’re asking, it’s which timeline is it the end of?”
Hidemaro Fujibayashi, director: “That’s… up to the player’s imagination, isn’t it?”
Then they just admit that if you've been making any serious attempt at keeping a consistent timeline you probably should have given up years ago.
Aonuma: “Hyrule’s history changes with time. When we think of the next game and what we want to do with it, we might think, “Oh, this’ll fit well”, and place it neatly into the timeline, but sometimes we think, “Oh crap”, and have to change the placement. Actually, the decided history has been tweaked many times.” (laughs)
Fujibayashi: “Lately within the company, a term called ‘New Translation’ has cropped up. (laughs) Strictly speaking, we don’t change it, but rather new information and truths come to light.”
It's pretty much just the Turn A Gundam of the Zelda series. The end point of the timeline, but it mashes together wildly contradictory alternate universes. People who try to make sense of that timeline are even more doomed.
I sort of figured that BOTW is like the eventual circumstance of every timeline. As in, every timeline converges to BOTW.
I've also heard people describe each Zelda game as different ways of telling the same story - Link saving Zelda and defeating Ganon.
Hyrule Historia was a mistake.
What I'm surprised is they STILL haven't given a date to talk more about Nintendo Online and when it'll be available.
So it was 100% intentional.
https://twitter.com/BDFF_OFFICIAL/status/1026383400469295104
I'm not- the service starts in September, them not talking about it most likely means that they're waiting to be as close as possible before they lay everything out.
Was havin a Big Think on the Smash Direct and gotta say, I have a strong inkling that octolings are gonna get announced an echo.
They did say this was the year of the octoling and the date of the direct is 8 - 8 - 2018. Could be possible.
The Japanese word for "eight" is "hachi" as in
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/129/3af4d393-63f3-45f3-bcb0-4d9f1085707e/Avatar_heihachi_mishima_1[1].png
So they're going for the Bethesda school of retconning, then.
8 sideways is infinity
infinity war
Thanos confirmed
jeez there was literally a new Mewtroid game released like this week, you Sameow fans are ridiculous
(WarioWare Gold is very good incidentally and it has like four Metroid references in it)
Conversation a radio:
Sakurai: Okay fans, which Fire Emblem character DO you want?
Fans: Hector!
Sakurai: You're breaking up but I think I got the message. Believe in me.
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