I remember the ending sneaking up on me because I expected it to have at least another hour of content, but it ends after just 3 or 4 hours. The stuff that is there is good in my opinion. The on-foot controls aren't great, but you can get used to them, and I think it adds variety to the all-range levels.
They weren't real Beanie Babies so the hardcore collectors only interested in making a buck or two (or $20,000) didn't care about buying them.
At least they released Star Fox 2 and included Star Fox content in the Switch version of Star Link: Battle for Atlas.
That's what I don't like about Nintendo in general. They've got so many first party IPs and sit on most of them harder than Square-Enix does with theirs. Then Nintendo then also reminds you of all the first party games they could make with Smash Bros.
Because games like Mario Kart wouldn't sell over 30 million if there were releasing alternatives like F-Zero, that's the logic.
Part of this is because a good chunk of current writers are literal film school rejects. Writing for video games has always been a low bar, it's just that in the past, games got away with it by at least having entertaining stories, not necessarily well-written ones. Then last generation, a bunch of these failures began to infect the game industry with their ideas that were too retarded for film. They could only really thrive in an industry that didn't have to be written well to be good, except games these days are trying to become more story-driven so you can't even avoid the shit writing anymore.
money, my good sir. money.
The timeline stuff only officially existed when the Hyrule Historia was published, and BOTW was the only game to make reference to it, Skyward sword made no mention or reference to it in game. The only Zeldas that were connected canonically were Zelda 1 and Zelda 2, OOT and MM, Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons, Windwaker Spirit Tracks and Phantom Hourglass(but the last two were bad), and Link to the Past and Link Between Worlds.
Okay, good. Because I'm not a fan of it.
Or them re-releasing old games under the guise of them being "HD".
afaik, connecting all the titles (with two timelines splitting from OOT) used to be nothing more than an autistic fan theory and was widely laughed at. Then Nintendo released that book with the "canon" explanation, which was somehow even more autistic and nonsensical, with three timelines and a bunch of games totally re-arranged in order compared to fanon. As mentioned, there is no way to construct anything like the official timeline(s) from anything in the games themselves. Kirby games probably have stronger continuity.
Wow nice we have a Great Ape War Denialist here.
This is unironically true
It doesn't just feel like games have this problem, but fiction in general. It all feels so narcissistic and caught up in huffing one's own farts, something renowned animation director Hayao Miyazaki complained about a scant few years ago. Couple this with how nearly everything is focus-tested and combed over with "sensitivity readers" to prevent offense and how risk-adverse so many industries have become, and it all feels so hollow compared to the fiction of yesteryear.
