It's really weird how people can't accept that the reason why Japanese media was so groundbreaking was because it was a playground for creative types, and once it became corporate and the people who founded it passed on, it was doomed to the same shortsighted actions, arrogance and politics that destroyed the rest of the Japanese economy.
My other controversial take is that the first phase of this corporatization was actually moe-ification which massively homogenized the creative spirit of Japanese productions. Moe on its own was fine but the late 2000s onward was literally a rat race to the bottom to make everything as absurdly moe as possible to the point where you can't have a production without also adding the same handful of tired character archetypes in order to sell merch.
>I've been kicked in the balls twice already trying to get this thing but I'm not gonna give up trying to get my balls kicked a third time.
With Nintendo it was more of a Disney-fication (which is a different type of moe compared to usual fanservice based one). Like Disney they are sitting on unused family friendly IPs that maybe get a reference to sell some merch, but rarely get translated into games. You can argue modern Nintendo is more reliant on those IPs than actual gameplay.
What has Nintendo actually sat on last gen? F-Zero, which isn't really family friendly (game's way too hard for kids) and Star Fox which is for forty year old perverts. And both of those did actually get stuff. What else is there?
Kid Icarus, and other assortment of NES titles that only appear in Super Smash Bros. Though I guess it is true that not a lot of people care about those.
Yeah, KI didn't get anything beyond its creator putting a lot of it in SB. As far as I can tell, literally every other franchise got something. Even Star Fox got the SF DLC in Star Link year one and Star Fox 2 available outside of the SNES Mini for the first time. Mario got tons of stuff, Zelda got tons of stuff, Metroid got tons of stuff, Smash got years of support, Mario Kart ended up with well over 50 courses, even stuff like Advance Wars and FDC came back.
The best experience is playing natively at a enhanced frame rate to avoid unnecessary bugs and glitches in emulation. So basically, a switch 2 pro or one that's been hacked to allow OC and modding would be the "best experience" possible.
Punch-Out, Balloon Fight, Wave Race, Space Firebird. Too many to name.
I feel like "sitting on games" is a bit of an unfair complaint when the company in question has been consistently making games longer than anyone else in the business, amounting to 50 years of production. Like... yeah, they sat on Punch-Put and Balloon Fight and Wave Race, but seriously? They release a minimum of six or seven games per-year on the first party ticket and have dozens of franchises under their corporate umbrella.
So it was great until the final boss and now it sucks? I guess, you pick your own metrics...
Having the framerate tank during the final boss does ruin the experience for me, this was sub-30fps gameplay, a 3d platformer should not be lagging to this extent (and I'm not say the entire game sucks, it was fantastic up until this point)
I'm not someone who hates on Nintendo all that much but in all seriousness - why would you expect this from Nintendo? I get why you would expect it in theory but have the past few decades not given you enough reason to doubt that Big N can deliver this?
Anything is better than that. What's SF?
Is this really its reputation now? Fucking hell
Yes. Can't be hard to let a smaller company do something with it. They let Crypt of the Necro Dancer make a fucking official Zelda fan game crossover, I think they can commission Inti Creates to mess around with some abandoned IPs.
This should be spoilered tbh
That is kinda inexcusable, if it was pretty far under 30.
What a strange way to group these IPs. Splatoon has been a massive success and has tons of kids merch and marketing in Japan, it belongs on the same tier as Animal Crossing. Kirby is also bigger in Japan than you might expect, and it gets new games frequently because its HAL's flagship franchise. The other four don't get games as often, but they're still on different levels. Donkey Kong is big because he's a Mario spin-off, he just doesn't have a consistent dev team since Nintendo parted ways with Rare, so any new DK game takes resources away from other potential games. Metroid is definitely not as popular as any of those other series I've mentioned so far, but it has Sakamoto to always champion it and it has a certain "hardcore" cred most other Nintendo IPs don't have.
