Allow me this little exageration on the title, but that's what it feels like reading off other people's comments or news articles.
Anyways, Covid or not, this has been another slightly lackluster E3 show. I get how the current situation probablyl slowed down most game devs...
But here we are! The last presentations have been streamed! Most publishers announced stuff! Nintendo actually showed games coming this year 2021 instead of 2022 (aside from a Breath of the Wild 2 teaser).
Let's check this out in no particular order:
First up, bye bye the only exclusive game on Xbox SX (is that how you spell it?) I kinda wanted. The Medium will come to PS5 now, as I guessed. I really enjoyed Bloober Team's Layers of Fear or the recent Blair Witch game. I didn't want to miss this horror title featuring the return of Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka on the music.
We will apparently get a brand new Super Monkey Ball! I mean, not a new game. Like the last one which was a remaster, Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania is a remix of the original "trilogy", meaning SMB1, 2 and Deluxe (which was actually a remaster of 1 and 2 on the Xbox..?). A neat little package of over 300 of levels with a ton of bonus and modes right on time for the 20th anniversary of the Super Monkey Ball series!
On the Nintendo side, plenty of stuff. Starting with a brand new WarioWare, WarioWare: Get It Together! I like this news, but part of me wishes we could get a new Wario platformer instead...
After teasing a new Metroid Prime, Nintendo instead went back to the original sidescroller series and announced the long rumored and canceled Metroid 5 (which started on GBA before moving to the DS and then.. nothing),Metroid Dread. This looks great. I know lots of people will enjoy this one, including my bro who is a big fan of the series.
And finally while everyone wanted old games (people kept making up rumors and leaks about a Zelda Anniversary collection with the Wii U/3DS versions of Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess), Nintendo instead decided to show us some more of Breath of the Wild 2. Which seems to take a lot after Skyward Sword - which kinda explains the re-release actually. Exploring floating island over the world map, freejumping and more of the good stuff from the original BotW, which easily remains one of my fav entries with Zelda 1.
So a bit more good stuff over here.
I wanted new actual games from this whole E3 show. Not just remakes and re-releases. I'm sick and tired of the gritty action photorealistic-stuff. Give me more imaginative and colorful stuff. No wonder I spend more time replaying 8/16-bit stuff lately over current games. And even more homebrew and indie stuff. (Did you know the Sega Megadrive/Genesis has, like, 50 upcoming new titles this year alone??)
All in all.. I'm only here for Zelda and the Guardians of the Galaxy game, I guess.
See you next year!
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