This Direct was bitter-sweet for me. There was a lot of cool stuff in it, but almost every single one of them comes with a "but".
I'm really glad Super Mario 3D All-Stars turned out to be real... but why is it a limited release, why is even the digital release getting a limited time frame only, and why weren't the games remastered (except for maybe the slightest of texture upgrades)? The illegal fan PC port of Super Mario 64 is literally better than the version they're offering to us.
Super Mario Bros. 35 looks like a really, really cool game... but why is it only playable until March? I absolutely can't come up with a reason for that.
Getting Super Mario All-Stars on Switch is cool... but it's only as part of Switch Online, which means it could disappear at any moment. Didn't necessarily expect a physical release of it like for 3D All-Stars, but at least, a downloadable game would be nice.
The Direct had a lot of cool Mario stuff in it... but why wasn't there even a single major new Mario-related game teased? Be it an Odyssey 2, an entirely new Mario game or even a Mario spin-off. I mean, Mario Kart Live looks pretty damn cool, but the nature of it being an AR game means it won't be playbe with a limited amount of physical space, and while Super Mario Bros. 35 looks pretty cool, it doesn't feel like a major game. Literally every upcoming Nintendo-related thing that we currently know of is either a port/remaster or just a minor and/or niche game, and while I know this is the year of COVID-19, that's barely a sufficient explanation for how much of a drought this year is for Nintendo.
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