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Has a Nintendo game's storyline ever made you feel anything?
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Majora's Mask. You felt the desperation of the NPCs as the moon was about to crash down. Really did a good job of making you feel it.
Napalm_Frank
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Not that I remember. Not really why I play their games.
The Zelda games... Link's Awakening was the first to make me feel emotionally moved. Majora's Mask was another that kicked me in the feels. EarthBound, of course. The Mario games are good at making me smile and feel good.
The Metroid games have made me feel suspense, particularly Metroid Fusion and even the end of that made me smile a bit too.
The Metroid games have made me feel suspense, particularly Metroid Fusion and even the end of that made me smile a bit too.
Beren the Empty-Handed
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A bunch of Zelda games do this.
Xenoblade.
Kirby makes me feel joy.
Mario Galaxy with the storybook.
The first Metoid when the actual metroids appear. Actual fear.
Xenoblade.
Kirby makes me feel joy.
Mario Galaxy with the storybook.
The first Metoid when the actual metroids appear. Actual fear.
Twice.
Fighting Red at the end of Pokemon Gold - no words were spoken and yet I felt something. The setting (he was all alone at the top of a mountain) really helped.
Wind Waker - specifically Ganon talking about his jealousy of Hyrule at the end. In such a short speech, ti completely humanized his character.
So, not the whole story of each game, but specific moments.
EDIT: Majora's Mask had some great moments as well.
EDIT2: In terms of humor, Paper Mario TYD, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga and Kid Icarus Uprising.
Fighting Red at the end of Pokemon Gold - no words were spoken and yet I felt something. The setting (he was all alone at the top of a mountain) really helped.
Wind Waker - specifically Ganon talking about his jealousy of Hyrule at the end. In such a short speech, ti completely humanized his character.
So, not the whole story of each game, but specific moments.
EDIT: Majora's Mask had some great moments as well.
EDIT2: In terms of humor, Paper Mario TYD, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga and Kid Icarus Uprising.
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What a weird thread. I assume you mean something along the lines of "feel sad" or "feel emotionally attached" because it should be obvious that a lot of people feel joy playing Nintendo games, otherwise they wouldn't have as many fans as they do. Even then, this is still a weird question unless you're the type of person who thinks Nintendo only makes Mario and Pokemon games. Some Nintendo games focus entirely on gameplay with little to no story elements, and some have more in-depth stories and characters. If you want to play something out of the latter group, try something like Xenoblade Chronicles or Mother 3.
Majora's Mask impacted me more than almost any other game.
Others that had excellent story...
Ocarina of Time
Wind Waker
Metroid Prime
Thousand Year Door
Pikmin 2 (didn't play the first one so not sure how the impact would have changed)
Animal Crossing
Those are the ones that spring to mind. Keep in mind that story is much more than plot. Plot is just construction. Story is much more meaningful. For example the games above have much stronger story to me than Fire Emblem or some plot-based games like that.
Haven't played any Earthbound games but I really need to. I'm only 10 hours into Breath of the Wild but it seems to have potential.
Others that had excellent story...
Ocarina of Time
Wind Waker
Metroid Prime
Thousand Year Door
Pikmin 2 (didn't play the first one so not sure how the impact would have changed)
Animal Crossing
Those are the ones that spring to mind. Keep in mind that story is much more than plot. Plot is just construction. Story is much more meaningful. For example the games above have much stronger story to me than Fire Emblem or some plot-based games like that.
Haven't played any Earthbound games but I really need to. I'm only 10 hours into Breath of the Wild but it seems to have potential.
The zelda games ending usually get to me.
Skyward sword - ending made me wish I didn't finish the game. Since i fell in love with these characters and I wanted to see them interact more with each other
<3
also twilight princess, Midna is such a tease :3
and OoT
knowing that saria is gone from the world to become a sage
thses zelda games always manage to hit a emotional spot for me op
Also after beating them. It makes me depressed that I won't be able to play another another big 3d zelda for another 5 years
Skyward sword - ending made me wish I didn't finish the game. Since i fell in love with these characters and I wanted to see them interact more with each other
<3
also twilight princess, Midna is such a tease :3
and OoT
knowing that saria is gone from the world to become a sage
thses zelda games always manage to hit a emotional spot for me op
Also after beating them. It makes me depressed that I won't be able to play another another big 3d zelda for another 5 years
Tavernacle12
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Elite Beat Agents
"You're The Inspiration"
Manly tears.
Also Majora's Mask, Link's Awakening, Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars, and Super Paper Mario, off the top of my head.
"You're The Inspiration"
Manly tears.
Not so manly tears
Also Majora's Mask, Link's Awakening, Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars, and Super Paper Mario, off the top of my head.
NintendosBooger
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No, but that's not what I look for when playing Nintendo games or any video game for that matter. Challenge and creativity are what I seek there, not a lullabye.
Otakumegane
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Xenoblade was reallllly good.
foxuzamaki
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Mother 3 is the best video game story I have ever experienced, its not the only Nintendo game I felt something with, its just the strongest, out of every video game really
Lord of Ostia
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Fire Emblem 7 and 9. Xenoblade Chronicles. Wind Waker.
ReyVGM
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Huh?
GiantBreadbug
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I'd also like to know which games it's implied that I'm """supposed""" to be having an emotional reaction to since Nintendo games just clearly aren't capable of plumbing such great emotional depths as whatever those games might be
Bamboo 竹
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The Future Past DLC of Fire Emblem Awakening made me feel really sad at some points.
TheSpaceBetween
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Of course! Even the end of Galaxy made me tear up.
Plots as a whole not so much, but each also has their own little moments of sadness, joy, or profundity.
Take the end of The WindWaker, for instance. First it gets you to sympathize somewhat with Ganondorf and see a glimpse of a battered man who knows he's far gone from where and why he started, then you hear him laugh in sheer villainous joy.
Metroid Prime series tells sad stories of doomed civilizations in each game (the Chozo colony on Tallon IV, the Luminoth and their slow defeat by the Ing, the Bryyonians and the Elysians in Prime 3).
Other Zelda games offer glimpses of triumph or desperation.
Fire Emblem: PoR and RD told resonating stories about racism and the ties of religion and political oppression.
Take the end of The WindWaker, for instance. First it gets you to sympathize somewhat with Ganondorf and see a glimpse of a battered man who knows he's far gone from where and why he started, then you hear him laugh in sheer villainous joy.
Metroid Prime series tells sad stories of doomed civilizations in each game (the Chozo colony on Tallon IV, the Luminoth and their slow defeat by the Ing, the Bryyonians and the Elysians in Prime 3).
Other Zelda games offer glimpses of triumph or desperation.
Fire Emblem: PoR and RD told resonating stories about racism and the ties of religion and political oppression.
Neoleo2143
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Oh yeah, Pikmin 3 was some great stuff. Despite People saying Miyamoto hates stories, the Pikmin Games are actually really great at telling stories both mechanically and narratively. Dare I say, they're some of Nintendo's best in that regard and great stories in general.
I feel like Nintendo games are some of the few that actually hit me in the feels.
Most of the post-OoT Zelda games (particularly their endings) know how to emotionally manipulate you.
The first two Paper Mario games have managed to navigate a fine line between absurd humor and epic conclusions.
The Mother series has its gut punches, especially the third game.
And Mario Galaxy's first hour or so was just jaw dropping in how beautiful and majestic it felt.
flintstryker
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Sa-x is the only thing to have ever frightened me in a videogame and it was largely because I played all the 2d metroids back to back so I knew just how scary Samus was at the end of Super Metroid
LinkSlayer64
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NO! Don't you dare inflict those memories of EBA upon me! Don't don't do this to me!
PrinnyBomb
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Superstar Saga was hilarious.
Though that may have been because I was in elementary/middle school. Haven't done a replay in a very very long time
Though that may have been because I was in elementary/middle school. Haven't done a replay in a very very long time
AuthenticM
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digita1alchemy
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No, but to be fair neither has any other story from a game.
TDLink
Member
Other than general joy/happiness that comes from expertly crafted games...
- Kid Icarus Uprising
- The Wonderful 101
- Earthbound & Mother 3
- Metroid Prime
- Pokemon Gold/Silver (Confronting Red specifically)
- Fire Emblem: PoR and RD
- Xenoblade
- Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Zelda: Majora's Mask
- Zelda: The Wind Waker
OfficerRaichu15
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Pikmin
The fact that throughout the game you learn of Olimars family and the care he has for them, only for Olimar to not gain enough of his ship parts to return home and survive. The fact that there are two items that pay homage to how much his two children truly care for their father really makes the player want to get the man home.
Pikmin 2 didn't really have a personal connection other than paying off rent and saving Louie.
Pikmin 3 though, oh boy
The fact that you are the only chance of your entire planets survival and you need to learn to adjust to the wildlife to obtain for for you and the planet is riveting.
The fact that throughout the game you learn of Olimars family and the care he has for them, only for Olimar to not gain enough of his ship parts to return home and survive. The fact that there are two items that pay homage to how much his two children truly care for their father really makes the player want to get the man home.
Pikmin 2 didn't really have a personal connection other than paying off rent and saving Louie.
Pikmin 3 though, oh boy
The fact that you are the only chance of your entire planets survival and you need to learn to adjust to the wildlife to obtain for for you and the planet is riveting.
Yoshimitsu126
Member
Yeah Mipha is way more interesting since she already seems to have a relationship with Link when they were children instead of tsundere Zelda.
Almond
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Xenoblade Chronicles X with everyone's story about how they're dealing with the new situation they're in, Xenoblade Chronicles overall journey, and I think Skyward Sword with multiple things happening at the end.
Probably others I'm forgetting.
The12thGripper
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Xenoblade and Punch-Out (Wii) for sure.
Neoleo2143
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Also, Xenoblade was one of the most quotable games I've played? Also, it probably has my favorite core party in a JRPG since Chrono Trigger especially when I got all the Heart to Hearts (tedious, but worth it).