Grading Nintendo's 2024 - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Grading Nintendo's 2024

Release Date: December 2, 2024

In the episode titled "Grading Nintendo's 2024" from the Kinda Funny Gamescast, hosts Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Andy Cortez delve deep into Nintendo's performance throughout the year. The discussion spans game releases, hardware innovations, third-party support, and overall strategic direction as the Nintendo Switch approaches the end of its lifecycle.

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1. Introduction to Nintendo's 2024

Tim Gettys kicks off the episode by setting the stage for evaluating Nintendo's endeavors in 2024. He emphasizes the importance of a comprehensive review as the Switch nears the end of its lifecycle.

"[00:07] Tim Gettys: What's up? And welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games Cast live for Monday, December 2, 2024."

2. Hardware Innovations: OLED Switch Lite Upgrade

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around Tim's personal project of upgrading his Nintendo Switch Lite to an OLED version. This modification includes a brighter screen and enhanced connectivity options, showcasing the community-driven innovations around Nintendo hardware.

"[05:37] Tim Gettys: [...] I did a perfect job getting it all done, except for this top part."
"[06:06] Tim Gettys: Yeah, dude, burn your fucking retinas, man. This thing's even brighter than the Switch OLED."

Andy Cortez expresses amazement at the upgraded hardware's capabilities, particularly praising the new HDMI Turbo Max 5, which allows direct TV connectivity without compromising charging.

"[07:08] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: What do you mean? USB C into your tv?"
"[07:09] Andy Cortez: This is crazy. So the switch, obviously the switch live was like, oh, you can't dock it into your thing or whatever. But the Newer HDMI Turbo Max 5 [...] it works. It just works."

3. Game Releases and Remasters

The hosts systematically evaluate Nintendo's game lineup for the year, highlighting both original titles and remasters.

a. Standout Titles

• Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom: Praised as one of the best Zelda games, Blessing Adeoye Jr. lauds its design and how it stands out in the franchise.

  "[17:14] Andy Cortez: [...] it's like, this was one of my most played games this year."

• Mario Party Jamboree: Hailed as the best Mario Party since the N64 era, the game receives commendations for its engaging gameplay and nostalgic appeal.

  "[17:24] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: [...] Mario Party Jamboree is probably like one of the best Nintendo games of the year for me."

• Paper Mario Thousand Year Door Remaster: Tim emphasizes the impeccable remake, maintaining the original's spirit while enhancing visuals and gameplay mechanics.

  "[15:26] Tim Gettys: [...] Thousand Year Door took those steps further and this game is gorgeous."

b. Remakes and Remasters

• Mario Golf and Mario Tennis: These titles are noted for their solid performance, though Andy Cortez remarks on their visual quality compared to earlier iterations.

  "[34:22] Tim Gettys: [...] they put out a lot of that. We're hitting that. That vibe."

• Metroid Prime Remastered: Discussed as a successful remaster that modernizes the classic without losing its essence.

  "[35:38] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: [...] Greg way today. And you'll be able to watch the live recording of the Kind of Funny podcast with Kevin Coelho making his return."

4. Third-Party Support and Indie Titles

The episode highlights Nintendo's strengthened third-party support, with titles like Pentiment, Grounded, and Marvel vs. Capcom Collection making their way onto the Switch. This influx is seen as a positive move towards aligning Nintendo with mainstream console capabilities.

"[26:12] Tim Gettys: [...] third-party love. I think a very important thing that was a first this year for all intents and purposes is PlayStation and Xbox support."

Blessing Adeoye Jr. reflects on the significance of third-party titles in expanding the Switch's library, expressing hope for continued diversity in future releases.

"[34:47] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: [...] these games would translate well to the platform. I. Right now my expectation is set that like that'll still continue to happen."

5. Nintendo Switch Online Enhancements

Nintendo continued to bolster its online services by regularly adding new game soundtracks and classic titles. The Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and the "Soundclock Alarmo" product are also notable mentions.

"[54:20] Tim Gettys: [...] they really are at the point where."
"[54:21] Tim Gettys: [...] we're just not getting Assassin's Creed Shadows, I guess nobody did."

Andy Cortez shares his experience with the Soundclock Alarmo, appreciating the serene night sounds despite criticizing its aesthetics.

"[57:30] Andy Cortez: [...] the night sounds are real nice to him."

6. Events and Major Announcements

The hosts recapitulate significant events from 2024, including:

• Discontinuation of Services: The end of online services for the 3DS and Wii U.
• Termination of Mario & Sonic Partnership: Ending a 17-year collaboration with the International Olympic Committee.
• Patent Infringement Lawsuit: Nintendo and Pokémon Company file against Pocket Pair.
• Launch of Nintendo Museum: Opening in Kyoto, Japan.
• Expansion of Super Nintendo World: Scheduled for December 11th.

"[56:07] Tim Gettys: [...] on April 9, Nintendo went through puberty, had a divorce, discontinued the online services for the 3Ds and Wii U."

7. Community Feedback and Ratings

Listener feedback via super chats provides a spectrum of opinions:

• Positive Feedback: Many appreciate the consistent game releases and specific titles like Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.

  "[62:10] Tim Gettys: [...] echoing that was [Zelda] is a huge release."

• Constructive Criticism: Some listeners feel that many releases were forgettable or simply remakes without innovation.

  "[57:30] Greg Miller: [...] These are all games that we know are going to sell very well on a Nintendo console."

• Overall Ratings: The collective sentiment from the hosts and listeners ranges from 6.5 to 8 out of 10, acknowledging both strengths and areas for improvement.

  "[66:02] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: [...] I think this was a bad year for them with the exception of Zelda."

8. Expectations for Nintendo Switch 2

Looking forward, the hosts express cautious optimism for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2. They anticipate enhanced hardware capabilities, broader third-party support, and potential flagship titles that could reinvigorate Nintendo's standing in the console market.

"[37:48] Tim Gettys: [...] If Nintendo continues the success they have, which I expect them to."
"[38:52] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: Yeah, I wonder how they think about it, right?"

Andy Cortez envisions major titles like Elden Ring running seamlessly on the new hardware, setting a high benchmark for performance.

"[39:51] Andy Cortez: [...] I like, I'm in a place where I don't expect that though."

9. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

In wrapping up, Tim Gettys commends Nintendo for maintaining consistency in game releases and fostering third-party partnerships. While acknowledging that 2024 wasn't Nintendo's strongest year, the hosts are optimistic about the groundwork laid for future successes with the Switch 2.

"[63:52] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: [...] This was a bad year for them with the exception of Zelda."
"[64:37] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: Yeah."

The episode concludes with an invitation for listeners to share their thoughts on Nintendo's 2024 performance and anticipation for the next year's developments.

"[61:27] Blessing Adeoye Jr.: [...] Let us know in the comments below what your thoughts of this year for Nintendo."

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Notable Quotes:

• "It's all love, though, you know?" — Tim Gettys ([00:33])
• "This thing's even brighter than the Switch OLED." — Tim Gettys ([06:06])
• "Mario Party Jamboree is probably like one of the best Nintendo games of the year for me." — Blessing Adeoye Jr. ([17:24])
• "They were like, yeah, make it for the console and like, you know, the people that play are going to play it." — Blessing Adeoye Jr. ([34:01])
• "If Nintendo continues the success they have, which I expect them to." — Tim Gettys ([37:48])
• "This was a bad year for them with the exception of Zelda." — Blessing Adeoye Jr. ([63:52])
• "Let us know in the comments below what your thoughts of this year for Nintendo." — Tim Gettys ([61:27])

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Key Takeaways:

• Nintendo's 2024 was marked by a mix of solid remasters, standout titles like Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, and consistent third-party support.
• Hardware Modifications, such as the OLED Switch Lite upgrade, showcase the community's dedication and innovation.
• Third-Party Partnerships have improved, bringing a diverse range of titles to the Switch ecosystem.
• While some releases were praised, others were deemed forgettable, leading to an overall rating between 6.5 and 8 out of 10.
• Future Prospects: Optimism surrounds the upcoming Switch 2, with expectations of enhanced capabilities and major game releases.

This comprehensive review from the Kinda Funny Gamescast provides valuable insights for Nintendo enthusiasts and gamers alike, offering a balanced perspective on the company's performance and future trajectory.

Transcript

[Tim Gettys]

What's up? And welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games Cast live for Monday, December 2, 2024. We're in the final month of the year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep.

[Tim Gettys]

How does that make you feel? Blessing. Adio, junior.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, right now I feel bad because I'm realizing that I. I wore an Xbox bomber jacket on a day where I went. I'm going from a very PlayStation focused KFC to a Nintendo focused game. Games cast into an. Into a PlayStation focused stream after this.

[Tim Gettys]

It's all love, though, you know?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It is all love. It is.

[Tim Gettys]

All boxes are just boxes. We're just here playing video games. We can all support everything at once, you know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Listen, I feel I have. I realized I was cleaning around my room this last weekend, the long weekend, and the amount of Xboxes I have in my room, the amount of boxes I have generally.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, hold on. The amount of Xboxes you have in your room?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yes. Cause I store a lot of things under my bed in my closet, Tim. And so I have like an old. I had like old Xbox ones.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, gotcha. Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I had like my Xbox Series X connected to my monitor that I actually use. I have under my. The TV that I have in my room has a Xbox. Xbox One, I guess Xbox series Xbox One X is under my tv. And then I had like a bunch of old Xbox ones under my bed.

[Tim Gettys]

Tim, I thought you were a bunch of Xbox ones.

[Barrett Courtney]

I thought you were pausing cause you were gonna correct blessing on the plural Xboxes being Xbox.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I heard about this.

[Andy Cortez]

No, I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm on Greg's side of this. That's fucked up. I don't like it. No, you don't like that?

[Tim Gettys]

Stupid.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't like. I don't like the pluralization of that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, what do you like?

[Andy Cortez]

I do like that I still have Joey's old Xbox One X that she lent me after Minecraft out. And it was like the Gears of War edition. So when you push the power button, it like does like a weird sort of like ice sound effect.

[Tim Gettys]

Remember when they sent us the Taco Bell one and it made the. The gong sound?

[Andy Cortez]

Really good stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

Xbox is crazy, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Great marketing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did you get new glasses?

[Andy Cortez]

I got a bunch of pairs just kind of lying around. Yeah, okay, we're. When I just want to cover up my eyes, Tim, when you want to cover your eyes. I don't want people looking at my eyes.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, well, I'm looking straight into them right now.

[Andy Cortez]

You know what I mean?

[Tim Gettys]

They're looking. Oh, Shit. Now, now they're hidden. They're hitting everybody. Remember everyone, this is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday we get together to talk all about video games, whether it's reviews, previews, or retrospective look backs on the year, just like we're doing right now. The last couple of weeks we had Bless and Greg do a Fun Little Semi Psi love you reunion where they talked about grading the PlayStation 2024 year. We had Mike and Paris do the Little Xcast reunion, talking about Xbox last week. And now here we are with our fun makeshift Nintendo squad talking all about Nintendo's 2024. If you want to be part of the show, please, super chat in. Let us know what you would review. Nintendo's 2024. What were the highs? What were the lows? Was there any surprises for you that you want us to talk about? Please get those in and we'll get to them as we go. A little housekeeping for you. You already got a great episode of kind of Funny Games Daily. That was Bless and Mike breaking down shoehe leaving PlayStation and a whole bunch of other PlayStation stuff, including them do going all out for their 30th anniversary putting out a commercial. It's my favorite type of thing, Andy, you just. Let's get nostalgic and go back and have text on a screen with some emotional music playing and like getting back to video game moments. That's all I need in my life.

[Andy Cortez]

It's an easy win.

[Tim Gettys]

It's easy win.

[Andy Cortez]

And their first Blue sky post.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, is it really?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I went in on Blue sky today for the first time. I was only following James Williams just by accident. I didn't even realize I followed him because it just happened. And then Joey called that out, was like, tim, it's really funny.

[Andy Cortez]

Leave it that way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was wondering because I got the notification 30 minutes ago that Tim Gettys followed you back.

[Tim Gettys]

So I just went in and I actually what I did was I went to each of your pages and just kind of like went through who you're following and just like, oh, wow, y'all made this easy for me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I might do that. I think to do that.

[Tim Gettys]

So. So thank you, Tim.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're. You're gonna be enlightened being on Blue sky because now that I've been on Blue sky for a few weeks, I can't go back. I open up Twitter and I'm like, oh, this is the dark place.

[Andy Cortez]

I go over there just to like, you know, call grums an idiot and stuff like that's the Only reason I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Go over there, I opened up Threads on Accident the other day, and I was jump scared. Yeah. I was like, oh, God. Fucking all bots over here.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, God. There's more people wanting to know what to do in San Francisco.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's everybody being, oh, what's the. Who's the best artist from San Francisco? Oh, what's a good place to get food in San Francisco? Oh, thirst trap. And I'm like, I gotta get out of here. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, anyways, yeah, it's a blue sky, everybody. The stream after this is gonna be Mike and Andy playing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nothing, because it's gonna be me and Mike reacting to the IGN list of top 100 PlayStation.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, you're doing that on the stream?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yep. We need time to break that down.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Okay. I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And also, I didn't see. I didn't see a shit list on the schedule.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so I was just like, we gotta do this now.

[Tim Gettys]

Gotcha. Now we're not. Gotcha. Gotcha. And then, of course, if you're a Kind of Funny member, you can get the Greg way today. And you'll be able to watch the live recording of the Kind of Funny podcast with Kevin Coelho making his return to Kind of Funny, talking all about his first couple weeks as a father. Still a terrifying sentence for me to say, but I'm excited to hear all about the fun details of that. Shout out to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by ORA Frames, but I'll tell you all about that later. But now we gotta get into it. The topic of the show. We're grading Nintendo's 2024. But before we do that, boys, I've been telling you for a while that your boy had a crazy idea in his head.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, no.

[Tim Gettys]

I was like, I love the Nintendo Switch Lite, but the screen doesn't have enough O's in the led.

[Andy Cortez]

What?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No way.

[Tim Gettys]

So even though Kevin Coello was not with me, I installed a new screen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No way.

[Tim Gettys]

On my Nintendo Switch Lites.

[Andy Cortez]

What?

[Tim Gettys]

So it is now a Nintendo Switch Lites OLED Edition, and it is amazing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No way.

[Andy Cortez]

How did you.

[Tim Gettys]

Whoa.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, my God.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, dude, burn your fucking retinas, man. This thing's even brighter than the Switch oled.

[Andy Cortez]

What conjured you to do this? And what was the process?

[Tim Gettys]

Y'all could see this if you would like. So. Well, actually, let me. Let me see this real quick, because what I want to say is, I did this myself. I totally had to unscrew it all and undo microchips and shit.

[Andy Cortez]

Why don't you get the blue one?

[Tim Gettys]

This is the one they sent me a long time ago, back when it. When it first came out. And I did a perfect job getting it all done, except for this top part.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, don't worry, we don't look.

[Tim Gettys]

I clipped it in just a little wrong. So now it's like in sat a little. You see that, dude?

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, it's so nice of the case.

[Tim Gettys]

It's fine though. It's fine. Anyway. There you go.

[Andy Cortez]

It's so nice though. And then also you could just USB C that into your TV with HDMI 5. See that recently. HDMI 5 or Turbo HDMI, whatever the hell.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It just goes straight into your TV now. Oh my. This is such a beautiful little device. Look at this little switch.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do you mean? USB C into your tv?

[Andy Cortez]

This is crazy. So the switch, obviously the switch live was like, oh, you can't dock it into your thing or whatever. But the Newer HDMI Turbo Max 5 or whatever the hell they call it, if you just USB C into hdmi, it works. It just works.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Holy cow.

[Andy Cortez]

And it charges the switch at the same time.

[Tim Gettys]

Wait, I'm actually not familiar with exactly what you're talking about because. I know. So without going too, too far into this, too deep into tangents here, Taki Udon T A K I Udon, oh my God. Has a company called R2. And that is where you can get these different products that he puts out that are amazing, that just allow you to do a whole bunch of different fun video game upgrades and things like that. A lot of retro inspired things like that. Right. And so maybe like four months ago he put out a YouTube video just being like, hey, there's been a major breakthrough in the OLED technology, but also just understanding of the Switch Lite of being able to open up a new stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right. It just sounds like you're talking about something like a huge medical break, cancer, new breakthrough in the world of medicine. It's going to be life changing for some people.

[Tim Gettys]

It is. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, talk you down is the one who tweeted this out, Tim. Yes, he tweeted out. That's so funny because I. Somebody in chat was like, Andy explained more. I was like, oh, let me look this up. And it's this guy you're talking about. Tak Udon.

[Tim Gettys]

It's okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Tweeted out on November 29, 1080p HDMI output on a stock switch Lite with Super 5 HDMI? Yes. You could charge and play at the same time.

[Tim Gettys]

Super 5. It's okay. See, I'm happy to ask some questions here, Eddie, because this is where the tangent goes. The Super 5. That's what he's working on here. So it's like this. This OLED screen is called the super something. Otherwise, like, he has different products that he's working on to make the switch. Do a bunch of different things, including switching out to OLED screens. Get themes like, no, not, not. Not quite that.

[Andy Cortez]

That takes a lot of technology, being.

[Tim Gettys]

Able to do HDMI from a switch light just straight to the. The tv. And then the other thing is overclocking a switch so you can make it run in 4K.

[Andy Cortez]

What?

[Barrett Courtney]

There's an explode.

[Tim Gettys]

It's crazy stuff, y'all. There's some crazy stuff going on.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like Doc Ock shit. Like, that's what he was doing in Spider Man 2.

[Tim Gettys]

So it gets progressively harder to do some of the more advanced stuff. But to just do a OLED screen replacement, this is non touch. That is one of the downsides of this thing. But there is a touch version. There was another breakthrough quest.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, my God.

[Tim Gettys]

What in the world? This thing was about $50, which I was surprised. I thought it was going to be more than that. And that comes with the screen and an entire, like, toolkit for every tool. You'll need all the different screws, no soldering. But that's the thing. If I was trying to do the advanced HDMI stuff, I would have to. Oh, at least I think the. The tutorial was, like, an hour long to do the crazier one with the touchscreen, and it was 20 minutes long to do the one I did.

[Andy Cortez]

I've never soldered. I feel like I'd be good at it, though.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm happy. You're also somebody that, like, judges whether or not you want to do things by how long the tutorial video is. Yeah, If I see one longer than 10 minutes, I'm like, it's not worth it.

[Tim Gettys]

I was watching it, and I'm like, you know what? I think I can do this. And if I destroy this switch, that's on me. Like, I will accept. And I was gonna be honest with you guys. I was gonna be like, I'm a bad person. I'm only a halfway bad person because I almost gave up halfway through. They say it's very, very easy. And while it was, it was still very difficult for me. I cannot recommend this to any dum dums out there of just like, oh, for sure. It's the easiest thing ever. It's not. It required a bit of force. There was a couple times I'm like, I'm about to crack this thing in fucking half. So some things were a little less smooth than others. But at the end of the day I now have an OLED switch light and this thing is sick as hell and I absolutely love it. So I'm very, very excited that that's an opportunity. But I wonder if Nintendo will ever do it themselves. Probably not. It seems they're going to regress with the Switch too. I, I think there's a zero. No, I think there's a 10% chance that that thing has OLED.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That it launches with OLED.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, no, there's, there's zero.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe like a secondary version. Right. Because they have to have the version without the OLED.

[Tim Gettys]

I still have a 10% hope that they. But I also don't think they do. Like we need to just start talking about oled that it does not raise the price of these things that much. Just it seriously just.

[Andy Cortez]

No, but it's, it's another mark. It's another purchasing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Let's think is they can, you know, like why release at a launch when a year later you can release a version that costs $50 more?

[Andy Cortez]

And with recen, after seeing the 240 or maybe 160p display that the little alarm clock Alarmo has, like maybe we're going, maybe we are regressing in terms of technology because that thing is the most dog shit display I've ever seen in my life. It is real bad. But on the flip side of that, one thing I am excited about is yes, this display looks like garbage but we are essentially getting an 8 year newer LCD screen.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

So it's like one thing to kind of, you know, relax you and calm me down about man, there's probably not going to be any oled is that we're going to get an eight year newer version of an, of an LCD screen.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, I'm hoping talking uh, fixes the problem. If Nintendo doesn't for me, right off the rip. Oh my God, I would be there. He's there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Day two. There's been a major breakthrough guys. We've cured it.

[Tim Gettys]

But anyway, this thing is very, very cool. Very excited about this. They offer it in like all the different colors of the Switch Lite so that. Because like this, this little gray you see here, that's part of the screen too.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's cute.

[Tim Gettys]

So it's like it matches even the New. The Zelda one. It's all gold.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, so you could have gotten that in blue, too.

[Tim Gettys]

A little boring.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You didn't think about, like, mixing colors?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you up too. That would have been cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gray and blue.

[Tim Gettys]

No, that's gonna look weird. I'm basic when it comes to this stuff. There's been a big kind of, like, divide in the, like, retro gaming community recently about what retro handhelds should look like. If they should look like, you know, sleek and modern and all black or all white or whatever, or if they should all be Famicom, super Famicom themed or gamecube themed or colorful because it's, you know, supposed to be part of the experience of it looking like an old school gaming device. I'm firmly on the fucking minimalist side. I'm a basic.

[Andy Cortez]

I love when we have the options, though. Like, the options, trust me, this whole week of Black Friday voting or not voting of Black Friday shopping, right? And it's just Warrior 64 putting out a shit ton of links of all these cool retro handhelds. And it's like, I don't need any of these, but some of these look really cool. The A Neo brand, whatever that is. And it's like, I need to hit up the homie Bob Wolf and be like, look, I don't need one. But if you were to try to say, andy, you should get one of these things or whatever, I got a.

[Tim Gettys]

Games cast for you early 2025. Prepare yourselves. You're getting the full Tim Gettys breakdown of him going way too deep into these things the last couple of weeks. Okay, Yeah, I got. I got answers. I'm gonna give you an answer. Answer for horizontal and vertical.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Tim Gettys]

All right. So strap in. Strap in. But that's not what we're talking about today. Today we're talking about what Nintendo's given us lately. 2024. I broke this down. Y'all have to run a show here. I have a bunch of key events, notable releases, Nintendo Switch online updates, and then Nintendo directs for everything that they have announced.

[Andy Cortez]

This is very impressive.

[Tim Gettys]

So just. Just to give you guys some reference, because I know going into this that I have probably put in the most Switch time this year compared to you guys. Like, I feel like just the games that were here spoke to me more than y'all. And I was just talking to you. Bless you. Said that like, you don't even. You're not even sure if you picked up your Switch this year. You know what I mean? And that's. I'm excited to have this conversation. So I kind of want to start just top level with what you think of Nintendo 2024 personally.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

To you personally, it's one that like, I'm not mad at 2024, but it definitely does feel like the least Nintendo like blessing aimed Nintendo year that there's been in a very long time.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like I am surprised about the fact that it feels like I've not picked up my Switch much this year. But that's also because the games that they're, that they've been putting out feel like, I mean we talked about this a lot, Tim. It feels like it is the Horsemen, right? The Four Horsemen. We're toward the end of the, it feels like we're very much at the end of the Nintendo Switch lifecycle in the software speaking to that. We got the Paper Mario Thousand Year Door Remaster slash remake that I guess I did pick that up and I played a little bit of that and I enjoyed, enjoyed the time I had with it. You know, we got that, we got Mario versus Donkey Kong. We did get Zelda. That goes to Wisdom, which is a big one.

[Tim Gettys]

Right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But even those like those Zelda games don't necessarily speak to me as much as like the big 3D ones. And so for me it's been kind of a chill year. I'm not mad at it, but I'm also like, yeah, it didn't really speak to me as much.

[Tim Gettys]

Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

The best thing about Nintendo's 2024 was the Pokemon Nuzlocke. That kind of funny threw like, let's be real, that's the best thing that no, like I, I am very close to Bless, where I've barely picked up my Switch. I played the shit out of Echoes of Wisdom for the first six hours. And then something immediately kind of came, you know, interrupting that experience. And I talked to Tim about, man, I have a lot of flights coming up, what should I be playing? And I was so close to taking my Switch. I didn't want to have a whole lot of stuff on me and I knew in my mind it was like, I have the Switch and I want to play through Echoes of Wisdom because I've really enjoyed my experience with Echoes of Wisdom. If that shit was on my Steam deck, it would have been a no brainer. I would have played through that. But my Steam deck had about five other games that I could have been putting in work for, for the backlog. So the Steam deck won the competition as to what's going to be in my backpack. And the Switch stayed home for the for the rest of Nintendo's 2024, it's been a lot of stuff that I just has never really interested in me anyway. Mario RPG stuff or not Mario rpg, but Paper Mario along with brothership. Two genres of two games that I've never really vibed with anyway. And a lot of it for me has just been kind of waiting for the next thing. We are in that weird period where as such a techie like myself, which. And I played a decent amount of Mario Party over the break and I loved it. Like, God dang, it was a great time.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Jam Reed's fucking awes.

[Andy Cortez]

But holy shit, when that game loads up, I'm just like looking at it like, dude, this is gorgeous. Like when. When Nintendo cooks visually.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

It is next level type shit. It looks so good. It's rendered beautifully. And you just kind of wish that everything else got that love. And now I'm just excited and even more stoked for whatever the next thing is going to be.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know. You know what it is for me because I think Jamboree is the perfect example of a game that like came out on Switch this year. I played it. I fucking love Chambery. Probably my favorite Mario Party. Oh, actually that's a. I'll. I got to think more about that of like Jamie versus Super Mario or Mario Party Super Stars. But I think Jamboree I'm putting above it.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's easy to say it's the best new Mario Party.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Because Superstars is the greatest hits type thing. I think that's a really good Superstars.

[Andy Cortez]

No, you're right.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes. Yes. Superstars. Yep.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But I think that's also indicative of Mario Party Jamboree. Probably like one of my. One of the best Nintendo games of the year for me. But also I think is less exciting because we've had so much Mario Party this generation. Like it feels like it's almost like it's. It's hard to complain because I've gotten everything that I've wanted already out of Nintendo this generation. I've gotten two Zeldas. I've gotten my 3D Mario. I've gotten my Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Right. I've gotten my Mario sports games. There's not really much more I can ask for for the Switch. And so this year I think the releases are good for the fact that yeah, we finally got a Paper Mario thousand year door remake. Right. We've gotten things that we've wanted, but it is. All right, cool. It's. I feel like we're Almost out of steam at this console. The one thing I will say though, if I'm talking about my Nintendo game of the year, it's a game that's not on Nintendo console. It's Pokemon TC Pocket. And I think that's in the equation. That's one that fucking. I put in probably some of the most hours I put into a game this year so far. Just in that. So.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I mean, have you missed a day of opening packs?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like one or two?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah. I'm not.

[Andy Cortez]

I think I maybe did because of the weird trip stuff. But like I'm. I'm still ripping them.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And I. I think I have two more cards to complete the one to get the MEW or whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I love that.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm just trying to get them card points because it's. It's like random ass cards that aren't even.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Crazy. But I just. It's like I think I need muck and one other dude always muck. It always comes down to muck, man.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And you know, but like you said, it's kind of an interesting one where technically it's not Nintendo, but with the. Where the finances go and stuff, it does end up playing into Nintendo.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They made some bucks off it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. But it's like you don't see the Nintendo logo when it boots up and there was like at least three logos.

[Andy Cortez]

That is fascinating.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That is true. That is true.

[Tim Gettys]

But whatever. Still, I love that game. Yeah. It's weird because I have played quite a lot of Switch this year, but even with that, I do feel like it's not the best year they've ever had. Absolutely. But I do think it was a great year for them for the reason of it being incredibly consistent. Like they had a major Nintendo release pretty much every month and I feel like this was very much them kind of like going back into the past of what are some opportunities for us to kind of like branch out and do something a little bit different that's really going to serve the Nintendo audience. That's there because to your point, bless. We've already gotten a lot of the big heavy hitters and we kind of don't want heavy hitters locked on Switch one hardware. Like, I wouldn't want them to announce a new Donkey Kong 3D adventure game on the Switch 1.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Right. I want them to hold off and if they do that, do it on Switch 2. If we get another Mario Kart Switch to like 3D Mario, like, the list goes on for like some of these bigger heavy hitters. Especially having two full Zelda experiences so far on the console. But to get a new 2D Zelda, I mean, that was such a surprise. To get Paper Mario Thousand Year Door remake, which I know it's pretty easy to look at any of the big three and be like, oh, they just put out remakes and specifically Nintendo, who are kings of ports and like just putting out games again and again and again. But I think Paper Mario Thousand Year Door is worth talking about and giving praise to in a different way. Because not only was it a game that is beloved from Nintendo's history, that was in retrospect, locked on the GameCube, a system that did not sell that many systems in comparison to future Nintendo systems. And despite getting amazing reviews and being held up there as no matter who you talk to, if you're a Mario RPG fan, Thousand Year Door is in the conversation for is it the number one? And I feel like for most people it is the number one. And it's between this and Mario RPG which we got last year. But on top of that, going back getting this game and the way that they remade it, like when we played Metroid Prime Remastered and it was like, wow, this feels like a modern ass game. That was a game that came out in 2001, but they put just the right amount of love to keep the spirit of the game and the feel and the look and the colors and all that stuff. But they remade it in a way that whether you call it remaster, remake, whatever, it felt like exactly what it needed to be. Thousand Year Door took that steps further and this game is gorgeous. And this is exactly the soul of the original GameCube game. But I mean it looks like this, you know what I mean? Like, that to me is so impressive. So it's not just like, oh, Last of Us 1 getting remade again or like Horizon and things like that where yes, it definitely looks better. And having that have all the new, the haptics and all the fancy new PS5 features like, yes, there's value there. But this I think is more akin to a big new Nintendo title as opposed to, oh, just another like a Luigi's Mansion 2 HD that we also got this year.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I mean when you're going from a different, when you're changing aspect ratios, that certainly that adds a lot to the remake remaster portion of it. But yeah, I agree, like, I didn't. I never fully played through Metroid prime remaster, but looking at those new assets and looking at how it wasn't just an HD ification of it. Like it looked freaking phenomenal. What would. What could Nintendo have done to either? Like if. If Nintendo had, you know, not so great of a year this year, what should. What could they have released this year that would have been like, oh, that would have been amazing.

[Tim Gettys]

See that. That's my thing is I.

[Andy Cortez]

Are we talking about the Wind Waker Zelda stuff?

[Tim Gettys]

You know that's just even more remakes though, right? Like I feel like that that would just enhanced this year to be more of what it was. Which at the end of the day I do think this was a great year. I just think it's a great year for Nintendo who when you compare it to other great Nintendo years, it's not that great. It's. It's. I'd probably. If using the kind of funny scale, I'd give this year a 7.5 where I. I would give it an 8. Being great because of how consistent it was because of giving us quality games and kind of getting a little bit more weird and getting deeper into some of the franchises we haven't seen. Like even things that don't necessarily speak to me. But the EMIO game that they put out and just the Endless Ocean and the another code recollection like they were going to like DS franchises that mean a lot to people. They were like kind of shocked we're coming back. And like that's what I want to see from the twilight years of a Nintendo console is like, yeah, let's actually go back and get into some of that stuff. In addition to a brand new fantastic Mario party, trying something different with some new games like Super Princess Peach and Mario Luigi Brothership. Going back to a franchise that people have been wanting for a long time to get a new entry in. I think what could have made this year good is or better Andy is if those games are actually standout, stellar titles themselves. And I think that's kind of where they took the biggest hit. But the last thing I want to say of like why I'm higher I would say than it sounds like you guys are is as a lifelong Nintendo fan and somebody that studies Nintendo as a brand, I feel like we're finally at a point that the third party titles of consequence that like we would want that we know can actually work on a Switch are there on Switch Day 1 by getting Prince of Persia lost crown on Switch. That's awesome. Getting Marvel vs Capcom collection on Switch. That's awesome. It wasn't even on Xbox like Switch had. There was like an expectation this year that I feel like Games were coming to it even if they were older games coming over. That I think are a really good sign for the direction Nintendo is going for Switch 2 of Yakuza coming out this year on Switch and the designer saying that it's selling like hotcakes. That is a sign of like, oh, I imagine that Yakuza games are going to be on Switch going forward. Switch two, that's good. You know, I feel like there's just a lot of really smart calls made that are laying the groundwork for an even more stellar future.

[Andy Cortez]

And that sort of set the ground that. That's setting the groundwork also for the future because of the ability to play modern titles hopefully in the future, you know, like, because right now you are. You're limited. Right. Unless the game can look like Prince of Pearls of Lost Crown and has to be not the most, you know, visually stunning current gen title with crazy particle effects. The fact that it was able to get some sort of third party love and then in the future having hardware that can be more capable is really.

[Tim Gettys]

Really exciting and third party love. I think a very important thing that was a first this year for all intents and purposes is PlayStation and Xbox support. Getting Lego Horizon Adventures from PlayStation Studios and getting grounded implement from Obsidian over at Xbox like the switches, third party support this year while again we're not getting Assassin's Creed Shadows, I guess nobody did, but we're not getting Call of Duty. We're not getting those, those big, big things. I mean we know we're going to eventually get Call of Duty on Switch too. But I feel like the third party support of games Nintendo gamers actually would care about or want to play that are speaking to that family audience. This was a good year with a lot of solid wins.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I think to Andy's earlier question as far as like what they have done to like make this a great year. I think on the opposite side of the coin I would say the Switch to like. It's one of those things where I. It almost feels like this was a year where they meant for the Switch to. To come out in the fall and for like that launch slate to be there alongside like the other stuff that feels a bit more just supporting the library of the Switch one to kind of see it off in a good way. But the Switch to coming out seemingly sometime further out next year makes I think this year's slate of games stand out more as like a. Oh yeah, it was like kind of a down year and off year. Not a bad year, but one of Those ones where it is kind of a necessary one.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, if I was to give this year a number, I'd probably. I'm between a 6 and a 7, so I'd probably say a 6.5. But it's a 6.5 in the way that I'm like, it kind of needs to be like, it's kind of necessary for this to be a 6.5 year. That way you can save up the big guns for next year, hopefully when the Switch 2 comes out and really make that the banger that it needs to be. Like, to Tim's point, do I want a big 3D Donkey Kong to come out right now for the Switch and then have that be a thing where the Switch 2 comes out and that one gets lost of time or something like that happens? Like, probably not. But again, you do have the Zelda echoes of wisdom that I think fit the bill of something that can kind of see this console off in its final year and then hopefully you see that stuff get ported over to the Switch to by the time that comes around.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And you know, I guess Andy, like the one thing to me that would like that it was possible potentially that would fit on Switch 1 is Metro Prime 4. Right. If that were to come out this year and be amazing, be what we need that game to be like, that would have been the thing of like, oh, this was a banger Nintendo year. Like hard stop. But that's not the case. However, this year I do want to give a shout out to how Nintendo did its directs of we had a lot of Nintendo directs where we had eight Nintendo directs this year of some form, shape or form. Whether it was a Pokemon presents or talking about the museum or talking about the amusement parks or indie worlds or partner showcases, whatever, there was a lot of stuff that they set up and delivered on where it's like announcing games and then them coming out this year. Like their June event was fantastic. Looking back on it of them re announcing Metroid Prime 4 Beyond for 2025, we got echoes of wisdom. We like there was just a lot of stuff in there. That's when they showed Mario and Luigi brothership. And for those games to actually be coming out in in a timely fashion I think is good for Nintendo. It shows a healthy Nintendo that have a vision and plan. And I'm just happy that they haven't run out of steam so many years into the Switch's life.

[Andy Cortez]

Gotcha. Yeah, I'm just at a point where I'm waiting for the next thing. I think when Donkey Kong comes out. I'm excited to try that out next year and just sort of see, you know, what the differences are. And I'm kind of excited to see to actually pick up that console again because it's currently just under my bed, you know, collecting dust. Will I get to Zelda by the end of the year? Who knows, Tim? Who knows?

[Tim Gettys]

Who knows?

[Andy Cortez]

Who knows?

[Tim Gettys]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And like, I feel like they put out quite a few games that are forgettable, not in the worst way, but forgettable in the way of like, all right, Mario versus Donkey Kong isn't taking over the world, right? Like Nintendo World Championships isn't taking over the world. And like, we have those games that are going to speak to the people they speak to, right? Like Roger McCorney is going to play Mario versus Donkey Kong. But games like these kind of come and go as far as, like, I think the general conversation that we're having, and especially Mario versus Donkey Kong, I feel like is one that it is a. You know, it's like a. Oh, here's a game for, for y'all, for like the fans of this thing, but something that we know isn't going to speak to the fucking ecosystem of the, of the Nintendo Switch.

[Tim Gettys]

But again, that's something that, as a Nintendo fan, I love, I love, I love that. It's like there is support for. When a console has seen support for all the biggest hitters, like, to get some love for more obscure. But like, you know, there's people that grew up with the GBA and grew up with the DS and grew up with these different consoles that like, have the nostalgic ties to these games, Roger being one of them, right? Like, so. So that's great. Even though this isn't for me.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, it gives me hope though, right? Like, seeing stuff like this makes me go, man, I hope they make another. I hope they make a Dr. Mario or like, shit, that's like, on the fact that they have games that are on this level that they're like, yeah, make it for. I was going to say for like our main console, but they don't have a handheld console anymore. So make it for our console and like, you know, the people that play are going to play it. I love that they're able to have those tiers to it and I hope, I hope this stuff works out for them. Right? I hope Mario versus Donkey Kong is one of those ones where they see enough sales for where they're like, yeah, that's worth it. Let's continue to support games of this size.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm still so salty about Mario Golf because like this random Little Small Mario vs Donkey Kong game look still looks so good. And it looks like, oh, dude, the crew. It looks like the devs from any other of big Mario games just said, here, have our template file. Go ahead and make a video game. Like, why did Mario Golf look so garbagey three years ago? Or whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh man. And then, yeah, we got a lot of third party love. Like I was saying things like Pentiment and grounded continued indie support with things like Balatro. I do want to give a shout to the expectation that they've maintained that like big indie games are going to come to Switch. Right. Like, I feel like they did such a good job year one of kind of cementing that and having games like Hollow Knight be so closely tied to Switch. Celeste as well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do you think Pentiment and Grounded coming to Switch and being like the like part of Xbox's thing of, hey, we're going to bring some more games to other platforms this year. We also got Horizon, the Lego Horizon game coming to the Switch. We had. We've had Xbox Games and PlayStation games make their way to a Nintendo platform. Tim and Andy, for you guys, like, what do you think that looks like on the Switch 2? Do you think that this is a sign of things to come? Do you think Switch is going to be the console where it is? Hey, everybody is putting stuff out.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I hope so. I really do. I mean, I think that there's a lot of unknowns that need to be figured out before I can like believe in that. Because we've seen Nintendo time and time again. Now come out and be like, hey, here's the the Wii U. Or here, like here's the Wii even. And look at our third party support. And then here's the Wii U and here's our third party support. And then we're getting Batman Ark imports, right? Like it's years after that was at all relevant. And so we've just been burned a couple times. And even looking at the Switch, I feel like there was a, a major attempt and then pullback from companies like EA or 2K even of just like we're going to support this. And then they didn't see the success that they needed to so they kind of pulled out. But in recent times, anytime that Nintendo financially has Talked about the Switch 2 existing, they have. They showed that the. The slide with all the different third party logos.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And there's more than ever and it include everyone we would want from. From software to Square Enix to Capcom, Ubisoft, everything in between. And that gets me excited because I do think that all Nintendo needs to do with the switch 2 is be competent technically. And I think it's going to be easier for them with things like AI upscaling and all this stuff that we know that they're working on for Switch 2 to be able to hit that lowest common denominator between PCs, Xboxes, PlayStations and Nintendos in order for all the third parties to be like, yeah, it would be stupid to not put our game on. If Nintendo continues the success they have, which I expect them to. A system that sells software.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

A big telltale moment for me will be a possible Monster Hunter Wild. Like of course there's been nothing said about anything like that. We know that the game doesn't. In these past sort of betas we've seen it doesn't run particularly amazing even on the current genetic consoles. Hopefully optimization will make that a bit easier. But. But that a handheld Nintendo product being, you know, and a Monster Hunter game go so hand in hand together. I know Rise did really well on the Switch and I think that will be like a big moment if we're able to see a competent enough Release on the Switch 2 for Monster Hunter.

[Barrett Courtney]

Wilds and it'll look similarly to Arkham Knight.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that's. I mean again I, I'm. I'm really hoping for just optimization out the ass along with hardware that can somewhat support that situation. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Because that's not where we're at right now. Right. The Switch just, just period. It's just not working like yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Like we saw them, you know. Mortal Kombat had its great week of just great memes of crazy looking characters with weird lighting and everything just looked off.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. It just. I. We are closer now and again a lot of unknowns. So we'll have Nintendo can come out and just be like hey, the Switch 2 has four screens and a hula hoop that you use to control your character. You know what I mean?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like I love Hula hoop.

[Tim Gettys]

So much can happen. But I. If things go the way that I expect them to, I think that it is undeniable that we are closer to Nintendo having parity with the mainstream consoles than they've ever had in terms of technologies that just a base level. Like we expect this thing to be able to do 4K. That will be the first time that we've had a generation of a Nintendo console that is at the same league as the other guys in a very long time. Right. So that alone I think is just like, all right, cool. They're still going to be at the bottom end. Like, I'm not saying that it's going to be better than in any way, but like as long as it can keep up with, we're in a much stronger place than we are now at the very least.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I wonder how they think about it, right? Because I think, I mean the best case scenario would be if you can get a Switch to. To be strong enough to be able to play an Elden Ring competently. Oh my God, that'd be so sick. But I like, I'm in a place where I don't expect that though, right. Like I feel like even the third party stuff that comes to Nintendo platforms is like the more I guess, translatable titles. Like I don't know if I would want to play a big like a third person action game on my Nintendo Switch. I would play an Astrobot if PlayStation wanted to bring Astrobot, which is a weird one to pick because that's such a PlayStation thing. But like a game. The way in which we're talking about Horizon coming over or Pentiment coming over or Grounded coming over like the pick and choosing of. Oh yeah, these games would translate well to the platform. I. Right now my expectation is set that like that'll still continue to happen. I don't know. I guess it is tough for me to believe that in the Switch 2 we could get wider support from like more bigger AAA types of games.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm on the complete opposite side and I know that, I know that I'm.

[Tim Gettys]

I hope you're right.

[Andy Cortez]

I know I'm an idiot for thinking so, but like for me this feels like whatever hardware is going to be coming out in this Switch 2, that a game like Elden Ring can run and will run great on it. I'm not saying GTA 6 or anything like that, but the fact that Elden Ring can Steam Deck run on, you know, 30 frames plus on a steam deck is a fucking miracle to me.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, I mean this doesn't need to be a pizza bet. This is just a bet. Whatever. Whatever you Want to do? Yeah, we will see. We will see Elden Ring in the Switch revealed situation and it will get the same placement that Skyrim did on the Switch. Oh, I like in that initial reveal they showed Skyrim they're the guy on the plane. Whatever. Like Nintendo's going to use Elden Ring as that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like look like this is the bar.

[Tim Gettys]

This is cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hope so, man.

[Andy Cortez]

That's really.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm not gonna bet, but I hope so.

[Tim Gettys]

I think so. I really think so. And like it makes sense for them to do that.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Because I. I mean the way I look at it, the. The sort of striving for more third party stuff that seems to be the last sort of unknown landscape that they have yet to kind of go for. And I think that of course any big company wants more and they're dominating anyway with sales all over the damn place. What's one extra place we can go to that, you know, we necessarily haven't had a whole lot of luck with in the past? And that is just for larger titles and you're not getting a, you know, crappier version of NBA 2K or whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean the marketing art like speaks for itself as far as an Elden Ring Complete edition that has Shadow of the Erdtree and you have a Mario costume that you can put on your tarnished.

[Andy Cortez]

Amazing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can run around as Luigi get murch by Dragon.

[Barrett Courtney]

Like just the red Nintendo Switch shirt. Just like Breath of the Wild.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. We got Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble. First new Monkey Ball hookah for in a very long time. But that goes back to what I'm saying of just like for people that are nostalgic for the GameCube era, like that was they focused on this as one of their big things in their partner showcase.

[Andy Cortez]

I have a random question that has nothing to do with Monkey Ball. Unfortunately for the Monkey Ball sickos out there that are listening. Princess Peach Showtime.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Do we feel like there was a concerted effort to make that for a certain younger audience and if maybe that effort was put elsewhere to be a bit more complicated of a video game, something that isn't just one button to do everything, that maybe the wrong decision was made there?

[Tim Gettys]

I. I think it's a yes and no type situation where I feel like they clearly were going for a specific audience. I just also feel like it's not so much about it needing to be more difficult or more advanced or whatever. I just think it needs to be a bit higher quality. Like, I think that like those Young kids deserve the same level of quality for the game that we expect from the Nintendo games that are a little bit more advanced. But the developers of that good feel, if I remember correctly, like I compare Prince showed Princess Peach Showtime to things like the Yoshi's crafted series or like the. The more the hor Kirby games. And there's like an artistry to those that I feel like the Princess Peach was just missing. So to me that's. That's the biggest downfall of Princess Peach is that it just didn't have that Nintendo magic to it. It wasn't bad.

[Andy Cortez]

There's. I felt like there was a lot of potential there. And what we saw with going to these different worlds and having Peach in these different situations and now she's a ninja, now she's a chef or whatever the. But I. I just. There's a part of me that feels like there's a bit of a crossover between the complexity in what the game was asking you to do and what the quality of the game was. Because when you're experiencing these situations and it is just tap this button to do the thing. It felt really, really dumbed down. And I just. I don't know what that. I don't know what the sales were for this game. And I don't know if Nintendo sees that as a failure of, hey, we, you know, going for that kitty market may not be the play right now.

[Tim Gettys]

I definitely don't think they see it as a failure. I. But I think that they see it. They. I think all the signs for us to know what it was, which was. I don't want to say it's a cash grab because that's definitely undermining like what they did here. Like there's a game here. Like there's a game and there's like a. A clear pitch of like, okay, we're trying to market with Princess Peach. Like that's smart. I think a good call from them. I just feel like it was a bit of a letdown that they didn't go full in on taking it further. Like Kirby's Forgotten Land is one of my favorite Switch games. And that's taking a franchise that traditionally has been a lot kittier and simpler and I think meeting in the middle in a nice way where kids can enjoy that game and then we can enjoy that game as an action game. You know what I mean? So I. I hope that we get another Peach game. I just hope it's a. A different take than. Than what we got there. And then Nintendo World Championships NES Edition I love when Nintendo gets weird. I feel like it's always, man, this is such a great idea, but why'd you do it this way? And that's what this is to me, where I'm like, I got a lot of playtime out of this. I know, Barrett, you got.

[Barrett Courtney]

God, I was so just addicted to this game for weeks and weeks and weeks. And I think it was just because of the perfect time of. There's a vacuum of just, like, not a lot of games at that moment. But yeah, after we did the. This was like, the last, like, real ass gamer thing that we did. Right. Like, I was. And that was my first time playing this, and I was immediately addicted. Just, like, doing those, like, short bursts of, like, speedrun things. Playing, like, the entirety of Super Mario Brothers one and trying to get that down to, like, sub 10 minutes or whatever. And, like, the first dungeon in Zelda one, like, sub five minutes. It was just so addicting. And, yeah, it wasn't, like, the best. Like, there are so many little things, especially in, like, making a game about speedrunning. I think they could have improved. But this was, like, even just in the three weeks I was addicted to this. Like, it's probably one of my most played games this year. And it's. I know it's not, like, the best game for me, but for me personally, it's a contender.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's one. It's one that definitely bums me out that I think I had taken the week off when this came out. Came out, and I finally got it a few weeks ago, and I booted it up once and then just didn't play anymore. Because this is one that I think very much benefited from the zeitgeist of, like, having friends that are also playing it or having people online that, you know, that are also playing it. I would have played the so much with Bear or with Jeff Grubb or whoever else is playing this game. But, yeah, I think this is one of those ones where I'm curious if people are still booting it up. If, like, this is one that, like, you know, speaks beyond the time that it. That it came out in.

[Barrett Courtney]

The tough thing was the no leaderboards. Leaderboards, which I know weird annoyed Jeff Grubb to the ends of days, and I annoy him even more by just pretending that all of my times are better than his times.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, we confirmed it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, dude, I did this one. Just getting the first mushroom in Super Mario Brothers 3. I was like, that's honestly probably the reason I didn't play More is because, like, I did that for probably 20 minutes, and I was like, all right, cool. I think I'm done. I spent all my time getting this one mushroom, trying to get it under three seconds.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I love this. But, yeah, like we're saying just a couple weird missed opportunities for it, and I. I hope we get more things like this. I like when Nintendo gets weird with its passion. Like, the NES remix games were super cool too. So I hope we get more of this. But it was a fun surprise, and I'm happy that it came and went the way that it did, because Nintendo continues to, like, do things that we would never predict and never expect. Then moving on from that, we got again, it's just great third party support for Switch audiences with things like Marvel vs Capcom fighting collection, Epic Mickey Rebrushed, Sonic Shadow generations, Dragon Quest 3 HD 2D. Like, these are all games that we know are going to sell very well on a Nintendo console. Have a lot of lineage there, so good stuff. But on the Nintendo side. Yeah. Super Mario Party Jamboree 82 on Metacritic Sounds about right. It's a Mario Party, but it's a good one. We're out of the days of. Ah. I expect Mario Party to be bad. I hope that it's good. It's like. No, we expect it to be good. So thank God for that, because the Wii U era was pretty bad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, my God. I mean, hey, look, we're on a run. I know we talked about this before. I think you and Barrett aren't as big of a fan of Super Mario Party, but I liked it. And, like, we're on a. We're on an upward trajectory with Mario Parties where they've just gotten better each time. Between Super Mario Party Mario Party Superstars and Super Mario Party Chamber, we just got to work on the naming scheme because I hate that, like, they took super out, and then they added super back in, and now I don't really know what Super Mario Party is versus Mario Party.

[Tim Gettys]

Super is new games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Is that what it is?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I think.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, so Mario Party Superstars, The Super.

[Tim Gettys]

Mario Party is the name of the franchise at this point. Oh, and then Mario Party Superstars was just like, all the old Mario Party games remixed.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, but like, the Mario Party or Super Mario Party Jamboree also has old stages in it, doesn't it?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but that's just like, I didn't Super Mario Party as well have one old stage?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Maybe it did. I don't remember.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn. So Super Switch, the new console.

[Tim Gettys]

Well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that you've read into in this way because my, my assumption was that they just didn't want super in the title twice for Mario Party Superstars. They can't call it Super Mario Party Superstars.

[Barrett Courtney]

I mean, they could though.

[Tim Gettys]

They could.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Legally. I don't think you can.

[Andy Cortez]

They released Denpamen this year. They can do whatever they.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Do. I forgot all about that. Go.

[Tim Gettys]

And then, yeah, just, you know, a little quick hit here. Looking at future releases, we got the. The last Nintendo published game coming out this year is going to be Fitness Boxing 3 your personal trainer coming on December 5th.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, hey, day one we're sleeping on it but like that might be the next ring fit if you want. It might be the highest selling game on the console.

[Tim Gettys]

And then, yeah, future releases. We got Donkey Kong country returns with the January 16th release date. Doesn't look great, but I'm happy to play that game again. We got.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm happy you two are excited about it because I'm like, I'm not playing this. This is like the way I look at it.

[Andy Cortez]

It's January. I don't know what's going to be out. Am I catching up on stuff? Probably not. It's something new to just sort of dig into.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

This is the fact that people talk about Tropical Freeze so much that like, just play that.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, Andy, if you're planning on playing this, just play Tropical Freeze if you haven't played.

[Barrett Courtney]

And if you play Tropical Freeze, play it with bless on stream. Let's bring back donktober.

[Tim Gettys]

Dunk it up Donktober in January.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because this is the one that I had this on we and I started it and I was kind of like, I don't need to play anymore.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, that's crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, that's crazy talk.

[Tim Gettys]

Blast. This game is great. But it was great then.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's cool.

[Tim Gettys]

But this game is fixing the problem that we one had. Bullshit. Right? So I'm excited to play through this again, but I'm excited to play through this. Just, you know, like I like 2D platformers way not in oh, this is worth buying a switch for. Type.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me tell you what man, I'm for. I'm further into Prince of Persian Lost Crown. God damn, that's a good video.

[Tim Gettys]

It keeps on giving blast.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because this is around the time where I also had no more heroes and I had the last story I just looked at in Twilight Princess. I was playing all those games instead. All right. I kept looking back at this game like one day I'll get back to Dot Com Country Returns. I never returned to it.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, and Barrett, I got back to nine Souls. Barrett, I'm proud of you.

[Barrett Courtney]

How you liking it?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm liking it more. I'm just so confused with this story. I have no idea. I took way too long away from it. I still don't love the level design. Anyway, that's a story for keep looking at nine souls and I'd be 1000x resist.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, you beat it.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, cool. Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, I'm proud of you. I also restarted Nine Souls now that it's on PlayStation because, you know, that's just where I am at.

[Tim Gettys]

And then. Yeah, we got a couple confirmed dates for some third party things. Guilty gear strive. Come in. January 23rd, February 11th, civilization 7, another big thing. Day and date. Coming to Switch. Like to see that. We'll see how it runs and then. Yeah. Pokemon legends. Metroid Prime 4 coming at some point in 2020.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I keep craving Pokemon, dude.

[Tim Gettys]

I need to.

[Andy Cortez]

I need.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I needed a Pokemon this fall. You want to talk about something?

[Tim Gettys]

We should have got no Pokemon game this year. Like, that's. I think we're talking about. I mean, like, reviewing Nintendo's 2024 TCG Pocket Man. Yeah. But no. No core Pokemon game, which is, like, the first time. I mean, pulling this out of my ass. I'm just gonna say, ever. Like, it really feels like in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like we've gotten a Pokemon game for the last 10 years. Every year, I feel like we were waiting on it.

[Barrett Courtney]

This feels like no game has ever hit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, just thinking it through. Right? It's like we got it on Twitter.

[Andy Cortez]

To say it's true.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

When the Switch life cycle started. I feel like we were waiting for a minute.

[Tim Gettys]

No, because we got let's Go, then we got Sword and Shield.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, let's Go was like.

[Tim Gettys]

But then year two or three. But then I think we got Ultra sun and moon on 3Ds, though. Years that we didn't. I could be wrong about that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You might be right.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm. I'm so excited for a new mainline Pokemon game. I think that's the thing I'm maybe most excited about for the future Zelda stuff or Nintendo stuff.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So 2015 looks like the last year we didn't get a mainline Pokemon game.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn, you nailed it.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

Look, do we count 2023, though? Because that's the DLC. Just DLC for Scarlet and Violet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's why I'm craving it. It's been a while.

[Andy Cortez]

No, it's been a minute was 2020. I guess that's only two years.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I guess the DLC is interesting for both 2020 and for 2023. But I mean they're, they're significant enough that like, while the DLC just gets complicated, but like there were substantial core Pokemon experiences, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They released three Pokemon games in like a 12 month period with Brilliant Diamond Legends, Arceus and Scarlet and Violet.

[Tim Gettys]

And that was bad.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That was like November to November. That was terrible.

[Tim Gettys]

Burnout time, man.

[Andy Cortez]

Those games look so terrible.

[Tim Gettys]

So I'm just.

[Andy Cortez]

I can't wait for whatever the next season is.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, I was so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was, I was playing magic over the break and as I was playing magic, I started thinking about Pokemon and I was like, man, it'd be really great if they made a Pokemon card game. And I let that thought marinate for a good 10 seconds and I was like, oh, shit.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh shit, they made one.

[Andy Cortez]

I was laughing quite a bit recently just thinking about Tim going, oh, dude. Fucking. Everywhere I walked in Vegas, people were playing Balatro. We were like, well, no, that's like just.

[Tim Gettys]

That's poker. So fucking funny. Another thing I just want to give a shout out to is Nintendo Switch Online this year. It was weird because this is the first year in a while that we didn't get like a major new exciting thing in the sense of a new console or a new collection of here, here's Genesis games or Game Boy games, game boy advance N64, something like that. And we also didn't get the, the big like F0 99 or whatever it was called and. Or 35, you know what I'm talking about?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, like the Battle Royale.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, like Tetris 99, Mario 35, like all that type of stuff. But we did get a lot of games that people were waiting for. Things like the Golden Sun Games, the Donkey Kong Land Games. We didn't get Donkey Kong 64, but we really are at the point where.

[Barrett Courtney]

People really waiting for the Donkey Kong Land Games, Tim.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, waiting on the game. When you look at, when you look at what's missing on the Game Boy side. Yeah, like, I feel like at this point it's the Pokemon games, obviously. Donkey Kong 64, for a couple of you guys.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's the respect on DK64?

[Tim Gettys]

All right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

At least three of us are waiting for it. I'm sure there's a third of us out there somewhere.

[Tim Gettys]

But then getting things like the, the F0 games, even ones that haven't been to America before, getting the banjo tooie it's like they yo shout out Extreme G, Dark Extreme, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I played a lot of Extreme G.

[Tim Gettys]

But yeah, very solid year in Mario Golf. Mario Tennis coming, like, solid year of just like, filling in some of the gaps that we're now just, like, really, really, really running thin on, like, what they even could bring over. And then Nintendo music being another thing that's a perk of Nintendo Switch Online, which I love. I think they've done a really good job of continuing to every single week drop stuff that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Thank God they're doing that because, like, that could have gone wrong where it is, like, every month they hype up, like, one soundtrack coming to Nintendo Music. I like the fact that it's. They know what it is. They know, like, they need to get more stuff on it. And they're doing a good job of, hey, every week it is going to be a random drop of. You got the random F0 soundtrack, you got Donkey Kong Country 2. And that was like the first new one that we got. And I'm like, okay, you know what.

[Tim Gettys]

You'Re doing, you know what you're doing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're making the right choices here.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. So cool. Another, you know, it's Nintendo, so it's weird they're doing it, but I'm happy they're doing it. The app, I think, has improved vastly in the last month over how it launched. So good on them. We also got a Nintendo museum directly and the launch of the Nintendo Museum itself, which I think is very, very cool for people that are able to go check it out in Japan.

[Andy Cortez]

Really try to finagle my way in there. Yeah, they said no. They kicked me out at the door. It's unfortunate. Bless. They wouldn't let me mess up.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm actually going to go through a couple key events here for people that might not know of all the big things that happened to Nintendo this year. Not talking about game releases, but on April 9, Nintendo went through puberty, had a divorce, discontinued the online services for the 3Ds and Wii U. So end of an era there. On July 30, the International Olympic Committee discontinued the Mario and sonic Series after 17 years of partnership.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I keep forgetting that happened.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's so messed up.

[Andy Cortez]

Really hit you.

[Tim Gettys]

That was a reaction that needs to be.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that was crazy because it's the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Only time that Mario and Sonic come together and, like, we should do that more often.

[Andy Cortez]

You're right. No, you're right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it's a tradition, like, every four years. They did it to, like, support some NFT. I'm pretty sure with tradition. Don't with tradition.

[Tim Gettys]

On September 18th, Nintendo and the Pokemon company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Power World developer pocket pair. October 2, the Nintendo Museum opened in Kyoto, Japan. October 9, Nintendo Soundclock Alarmo was announced.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And Andy Cortez bought one. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Bought one. Yeah. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Why?

[Andy Cortez]

Cool. Because I just, I like the sounds. I was excited for a little experiment. I don't know if it's watching me for. It says that I'm like doing a lot of erratic movement around 2:02am I don't know what that's about. Blessing.

[Barrett Courtney]

I think that's you getting into bed, probably cranking it.

[Tim Gettys]

Like erratic movement.

[Andy Cortez]

He was so excited about it.

[Barrett Courtney]

Like the first morning he had it. He came into the office, he was like, do you hear my alarm this morning?

[Tim Gettys]

I was like, no, no, I didn't.

[Andy Cortez]

I just wake up and I just hear like. And it's like chomp chain Choms doing stuff. And then the, you know, but, but the night sounds are real nice to him. It does like little night sounds, like a little white noise when you're going to sleep. And it'll just be like, like. And then you'll hear the Zelda, little crickets and stuff. It's just like, it's a. It's a delight. Worst looking screen I've ever seen in my life. Terrible purchase. I regret it all. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And then. Yeah. Nintendo music launched on October 30th. And then December 11th will be the expansion to Super Nintendo World. Donkey Kong country opening up. So about a week away before Donkey Kong. Did you get to go? No.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh no. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Bothers me, Andy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What did you do? Like, you're just out here just chilling.

[Andy Cortez]

What, on a cool ass tour?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll talk about this.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, what a cool ass tour, man.

[Tim Gettys]

A different games cast.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then did you get the weird Nintendo MMO thing that happened?

[Tim Gettys]

No, it's. Yeah, there's some beta project happening for Nintendo Switch online that we don't have too much details on. Like some people got invited to a secret project.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

It looks like it might be an MMO and Interesting. Weird. It looks like, like it looks kind of like a Mario 64 type platformer mixed with Tears of the Kingdom style building and stuff, so.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh. I didn't look that much into it. Oh my gosh.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean it's, you know, it's. We'll see what this turns into, but it's all right. It's weird, you know, but good for them. Do some weird.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean it's not Nintendo if they're not doing some weird.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, exactly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm excited to see what like the arms of next generation is like.

[Tim Gettys]

Not.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Not arms in the way that like it's one and done, but in the way of what's like the weirdest thing that you can show me that you're putting like you're all into like, what's the new project? Like what's going to be the next platoon? You know what I mean? Like, what's the next IP or project or like most player thing that you put out that's going to surprisingly take the world by storm.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Because you know, they got it really.

[Andy Cortez]

Thought arms is going to be it, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean I was hoping arms because I love we boxing so much. Crazy arms just seem like the evolution. I'm like, there's no way this can't pop off.

[Andy Cortez]

Once we were in there, I was just like, oh, we're just curving the punch this way, man. This is a lot more limited.

[Tim Gettys]

Then. Yeah, we got. We only have a couple weeks left over the year, so not too many potential places for new announcements.

[Andy Cortez]

Boycott got me Arms two legs, the new component.

[Tim Gettys]

How much we would pop off if they announced that, oh, leg did it. Let's fucking go. We don't have too many potential places for new announcements in the next couple weeks. Game Awards obviously is in two weeks and Nintendo in the last couple of years hasn't really had too big of a presence of any, so I don't know if we should expect anything from that. Do you guys think otherwise?

[Andy Cortez]

Nah, I'm pretty much with you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, I'll think they. I feel like they show up at Game Awards every year with like something major, but yeah, I don't know what that would be. And so it's tough to think about. I think the one thing we talked about before was like, what if they showed up at Game Awards with like some kind of teaser for the next console, but they were like, hey, you know, come back in two weeks for the full review or some shit. I think that'd be cool, but I don't expect it.

[Andy Cortez]

I feel like they're really happy on their own rhythm. I feel like they've kind of cemented what their rhythm is now and it comes with expectations. And especially even with them tweeting, hey, new Direct, no info on the switch to. I feel like they've kind of know what to do in order to set expectations.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And go for it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was gonna say Metroid Prime.

[Tim Gettys]

I think potential there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Because that is announced already. It's something that they can talk about, like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Something that they know would get people excited. Jeff would love to have that as a show. I'm pretty sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And then a potential Nintendo Direct. I definitely. There's never been one in December, so don't expect one there. Switch to reveal. Yeah, I think at this point it's next year. I think that's very easy to say. And then. Yeah. I wanted to get a couple of your super chats in here for thoughts on the year. Rami says six out of ten remakes were remakes. Original games were good, but year was just a wait for switch two. Oh, wait. Alarmo was this year. Never mind. 11 out of 10.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Hell yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Rocksteady Nettie says.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wait, what did indie was.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, dang.

[Andy Cortez]

I'd give it a. I'd give it a six only because. And it would have been lower had we not just had this random ass Zelda drop surprise, you know. That was like really awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Rocksteady Nettie says, moved house. The boiler's dead. No heat or hot water. It's cold. Happy to have the crew getting me through. Good luck, dude. That sounds horrible. Stay warm, stay safe.

[Andy Cortez]

Jesus.

[Tim Gettys]

Mellow fellow says try Pokemon Infinite Fusions. You could fuse any two Pokemon. I'm not into this stuff, man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I've been seeing it too, where it's like. It's all very cursed. Very cursed stuff.

[Andy Cortez]

I like it really.

[Tim Gettys]

Combine a drowsy lickitong in a milk tank. It's not good milk.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A tongue, a lickitank.

[Tim Gettys]

And then I tweeted yesterday asking for some people's thoughts on the year of Nintendo. Gary III says something that I think is very important and apt for this year. They're watching Lickitanks, giving it a C. This is the first year in my adult life I haven't bought a new Nintendo game. None of the sequels or spinoffs spoke to me. There was stuff for some folks, but none for me. You can definitely tell that they're holding their good stuff for Switch 2 next year. And yeah, I think that that's it. Right. I do think for a lot of people isn't going to be that strong every year because I think that it's going to be a common consensus that the. I don't even know how you'd call it, because it's not hardcore. It's more just the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like the niche or specific.

[Tim Gettys]

No, the opposite. Like the people. Nintendo fans that just play Mario and Zelda, essentially, you know, or Smash or Animal Crossing even. Like there's that level of like, if it's not that from Nintendo, it doesn't count. You know what I mean? And so yeah, this was a bad year for them with the exception of Zelda.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, that's my thing is somebody in chat earlier was like talking about oh, blessing gave this a higher score than PlayStation which I gave it like a 0.5 higher score. And the reason being is that like, just because I didn't pick up my Switch as much this year doesn't mean that I'm like going to hate on the fact that I think they're feeding a lot of their quote unquote core audience.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like I acknowledge the fact that like Mario versus Donkey Kong is for people. Right. Or the Zelda Echoes of Wisdom was a huge release. I ain't gotta be a big fan of like that type of Zelda game to be able to. To not be able to acknowledge that. Like, hey, no, this is for somebody and this is like a good release here.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And also Nintendo didn't put out Concord this year and so yeah, I mean.

[Tim Gettys]

It is interesting because yeah, I said I would give it a 7 5, but I think personally like to me for this year I. I'd probably give it six.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

You know, but like I do understand like there's a lot of good here and I just really want to give them flowers for being as consistent as they are with game releases coming out because I did not expect that from them. Nintendo at the end of their life cycle are usually piss poor at that. So it's a good sign for the future. Tumeki NZ says while there were no huge games like a Mario or Zelda 3D title, Nintendo still managed to release a steady flow of exclusive content with at least one game almost every month. Overall, give it a B minus. And then we got Fuhazard saying solid lineup this year. It's not 2017 or 2023 level, but it was a great mix of new games, return of old franchises and remasters, slash remakes, enjoying brothership a lot. But Echoes of When Wisdom is my favorite Switch game this year. It's distinct to people not playing their switches or even bothered to try games. I've enjoyed my Switch a lot and I'll have a lot of fond memories of another code, Prince of Persia, Princess Pete, Showtime, A th thousand Year Door, Mario versus Donkey Kong and Echoes of Wisdom. So yeah, yeah, a lot of games there people are vibing with Blame truth. Pretty negative on this saying literally nothing stood out more than a day, especially in the media And I do think that that might be pretty true. Right. I don't think that any Nintendo title this year, like had a standout moment to shine that wasn't just you had to be there, blink in the eye type thing, which is, I don't think the most important thing in the world, but is worth bringing up when previous years have had moments that last.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's my thing is if I'm comparing this year to the rest of the years in this Nintendo cycle or like this Nintendo. Nintendo console. This is definitely like a bottom two, right?

[Tim Gettys]

Like what this and Luigi's Mansion three year 2019, I think it was.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It was 2019 to down year because I was thinking 2020, but like animal Crossing came out that year, but I feel like Animal Crossing was the only thing that came out that year. 2019, I think was fire emblem. The three houses.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So okay, so I think you're thinking of 2020.

[Tim Gettys]

2020. Well, 2019 and 2020, like both, I think. Yeah. So I think those two and this are probably. Yeah, the bottom three. I don't know exactly the.

[Barrett Courtney]

We also had Luigi's Mansion 3 in 2019. We also had Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 in 2019. Legend of Zelda Links Awakening. I'll never forget Andy Cortez reacting to that and him maybe shedding a tear.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, it's a single tear. Like 2020. I remember that having. It was Animal Crossing. It was Paper Mario, the Origami King.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, Origami King Origami.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And then like I think one other thing, like 2020 was. Was dead.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, you're right. You're right. 2019 would be, I think third.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Second 2020.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Like, yeah, I think this year in 2020 are competing, but I would say.

[Barrett Courtney]

This but Also Super Mario 3D all stars.

[Tim Gettys]

Think about it.

[Barrett Courtney]

Bless.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, was that 2020.

[Barrett Courtney]

Think about it.

[Tim Gettys]

I.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What a good time. It depends on how you weigh Animal Crossing, because Animal crossing, that's big for people. This year didn't have an animal crossing really like at all. Like I think the closest thing was probably Zelda. But again, that kind of. That's going to speak to a specific.

[Tim Gettys]

That's what's here that stood out more than a day. It's like, yeah, there was no Animal Crossing or Big Zelda or Big Mario whatever conversation there floors Lava says It's hard to argue it not being Nintendo's best final year for a console ever. While a big chunk of their output wasn't for me. It's been fun to sit back a while and Just watch them ride out the Switch like champs. I'd go seven out of 10, but things like the Donkey Kong theme park music app and weird Nintendo decisions like Alarmo might bump it up to an eight. I feel that. I feel where you're at. And then Rogers Base says meo was my favorite overall narrative this year.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

Great RPG offerings with Unicorn, Unicorn Overlord, Paper Mario, Thousand Year Door, Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance and Dragon Quest 3 HD 2D. So yeah, again speaking to an audience that isn't necessarily our traditional vibe, but they're showing up there. Echoes of Wisdom ended up being one of my favorite top down Zeldas ever. Jamboree is the best mario party since N64. Very solid imo. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Based on what I experienced with Jambury, I'm surprised that the Metacritic scores were 82. I would have expected a little bit higher than that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I thought.

[Andy Cortez]

I thought it felt super solid.

[Tim Gettys]

I think it's the classic Mario Party thing of just trying too much, having too many modes that all the mode, the new modes aren't equal that people didn't love that 20 person whatever it was Battle Royale. So I think that that just brings the score down a bit and then the last audience. Right. And I want to read here Cole Van Hogg says a big fat E for edging me for 12 straight goddamn months. Give us the hardware guys. It's getting annoying.

[Andy Cortez]

I think we maybe look internally at ourselves after this. Thank you.

[Tim Gettys]

Let us know in the comments below what you thoughts of this year for Nintendo. And hey it how excited you are for 2025's Nintendo because I can't explain to you how hyped I am. We got some good stuff coming at the very least. We got Pokemon, we got Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, we got the Switch to reveal and whatever that's going to bring us. And we're going to be talking about all of that here on Kind of Funny. So make sure you subscribe to YouTube, subscribe to the podcast feeds to Twitch, everything you want to do. You're going to want to hang out with us. Until next time. I love you all. Goodbye.