Core Nintendo properties for me (not in my order of preference but in some seemingly fitting order):
Mario: Competent but forgettable main entries. Mario Maker was amazing. So was Captain Toad.
Zelda: aLbW gets way too much love imo: it's a good game but nowhere near the "best Zelda in a long time." Unless the wait between it and SS was a long time
. Zelda U has me trepidatious. So much open world, nonlinear, new direction talk for a series that has not thrived on such design, at least since OoT.
Metroid: MIA. A huge gap.
DKC: Tropical Freeze is a great game.
FE: Fates has sort of salvaged FE a bit. Awakening was atrocious and frankly should be burned. Conquest managed to mend some bridges in its own, fresh way while also continuing Awakening's disgusting lack of stylistic taste.
Smash Brothers: 4 is largely wonderful but I got a lot less play out of it than I'd have liked and expected. People around me weren't interested anymore.
Pokemon: I almost have a complete Pokedex now despite having skipped some of the generations! I do hope they go back towards BW, 150 new Pokemon style with Sun and Moon.
General impression: Wii U and 3DS have been good systems with quiet gems but the systems haven't blown me away. My investment in them was well placed but I want better in the future. Favorite Nintendo game of the generation is probably DKCTF.
Also, the core of Wii U was probably the Smash/MM/MK/Splatoon multiplayer experience. I only own two of those games and online multiplayer is not my chief Nintendo interest but it's a neat form of success.
Mario: Competent but forgettable main entries. Mario Maker was amazing. So was Captain Toad.
Zelda: aLbW gets way too much love imo: it's a good game but nowhere near the "best Zelda in a long time." Unless the wait between it and SS was a long time
. Zelda U has me trepidatious. So much open world, nonlinear, new direction talk for a series that has not thrived on such design, at least since OoT.Metroid: MIA. A huge gap.
DKC: Tropical Freeze is a great game.
FE: Fates has sort of salvaged FE a bit. Awakening was atrocious and frankly should be burned
. Conquest managed to mend some bridges in its own, fresh way while also continuing Awakening's disgusting lack of stylistic taste.Smash Brothers: 4 is largely wonderful but I got a lot less play out of it than I'd have liked and expected. People around me weren't interested anymore.
Pokemon: I almost have a complete Pokedex now despite having skipped some of the generations! I do hope they go back towards BW, 150 new Pokemon style with Sun and Moon.
General impression: Wii U and 3DS have been good systems with quiet gems but the systems haven't blown me away. My investment in them was well placed but I want better in the future. Favorite Nintendo game of the generation is probably DKCTF.
Also, the core of Wii U was probably the Smash/MM/MK/Splatoon multiplayer experience. I only own two of those games and online multiplayer is not my chief Nintendo interest but it's a neat form of success.
