Garbage Galaxy What was the biggest WTF reveal from Nintendo this year?

[Mekanos]

N64 version:

XBLA version:

Both of those are in both versions? In both 64 and 360 you have the expressions and the honeycombs.

 

[Dinoman96]

Both of those are in both versions? In both 64 and 360 you have the expressions and the honeycombs.

Yeah but the character faces/expressions are notably worser looking in the 360 version.

 

[Mekanos]

Yeah but the character faces/expressions are notably worser looking in the 360 version.

Well, the fact that I didn't even notice until you pointed it out means I'll take Notes/Jinjos staying collected over ugly health bar faces anyday, lol.

 

[Seven]

Definitely Advance Wars for me; I've long since given up on that series so when I first heard the AW sound effects during the E3 Direct I was doubting my ears until the footage was shown.

 

[AndroidOS]

The Mario casting is certainly a bit...weird, but it didn't entirely surprise me. I'm sure getting Sora in Smash took a bunch of hard work, but with all the other characters they've put in the game, it's not the surprising that they're willing to go to those sort of lengths. Game builder garage just feels like the natural next step after Labo.

I think the biggest surprise was definitely Metroid Dread coming "back" after all those years. It's not so much the fact we got a 2D Metroid, but more the fact that it's the same game rumoured years and years ago.

Definitely happy about the return of Advance Wars too, can't wait for that game!

 

[xsquiddox]

Metroid Dread for me personally. I followed it back when i was a young teen when i was deeply into the ds ecosystem. And seeing it being revived after so long certainly got a emotional reaction from me. Still can't believe it's real and that i am finally playing it after all these years. Especially with metroid not being Nintendo's biggest seller this sounded like a almost impossible thing.

And who thought Mercury Steam of all things would make it? And succeed im glad they learned so much from their lord of shadow games personally i loved them but i can see why alot of ppl didn't. Both samus returns and this deserve high praise.

 

[rAndom]

I'd say Metroid Dread as well. I thought that if we ever get a new 2D Metroid it would be a remake of older ones, not a new entry, and not certainly titled Dread. I thought all their efforts are on Metroid Prime 4 so a new 2D entry, and with really great production values at that, is certainly a big surprise.

I'm not much surprised about Chris Pratt though. Sure, I didn't see it coming, but my expectation is the Mario movie would have big names for the main cast for sure, and it certainly did.

 

[Tangerine_Cookie]

I'm gonna go with Advance Wars because I wasn't expecting them to just revive the series like that out of the blue.

Dread was a pleasant surprise, but there had been talk of a new 2D entry since Samus Returns happened, so it wasn't that out there. Advance Wars, though? Absolute wtf moment.

 

[carlosfilho]

I was expecting a 2D Metroid to be announced, but when the name "Dread" appeared i freaked out. Bringing this project back after so many years was completely unexpected. Then there's the Advance Wars announcement, wow. The E3 Direct was one for the ages. About the film casting, i'm not too familiar with the actors and i barely watch recent movies or tv lately, i've watched GotG so i know who Chris Pratt is, i know Jack Black of course, i've heard good things about Anya Taylor-Joy's acting, never heard of Charlie Day before... My reaction was simply "ok, they're bringing a famous actor to voice Mario instead of Martinet, that's not great but whatever", so i didn't quite get all the uproar that followed, so it wasn't such a WTF moment for me.

 

[k samedi]

Genesis was a surprise for me but Dread was even bigger. I’m also surprised by how much Nintendo is pushing it. Great to see Metroid getting the recognition it deserves.