Okay, I was dead wrong about this Nintendo Direct. And I certainly have hyped myself up here too much; my expectations were too premature. The main reason was that I was truly expecting Nintendo to start the 40th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda with this Nintendo Direct, but instead they are still going with the Super Mario Bros. anniversary for now.
Specifically, they are adding even more FOMO events to the Donkey Kong Bananza DLC. I've recently managed to finally catch up with the newer 3D Mario games, having completed both Super Mario Odyssey and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, where now would be the perfect time to get into Bananza, but all these mobile game shenanigans really are a downer. The leaked challenges for the Nintendo Switch Online games are even tied to this as well, with some Donkey Kong-focused time-limited event, the "DK Challenge".
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is looking good and will launch on September 17th. Like its predecessors, it's getting a Special Edition, the "Dagdan Collection", with a world map, an artbook, art cards, and a steelbook. Nintendo used to do a lot of these for Nintendo Switch games, but not in the recent years. I think the last one was actually for Tears of the Kingdom three years ago...
Monolith Soft is cooking, but not with the Ocarina of Time remake, but with Nintendo Switch 2 Editions of the entire Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy. And with a new Xenoblade game, called Xenoblade Genesis. I still have to catch up with the series as a whole and may use those Switch 2 Editions to do so, but there's only so much time...
Anyway, the big finisher was a teaser trailer for the Ocarina of Time remake. I've been a doubter at first, then I've embraced the idea of Monolith Soft developing a re-imagining (which seemingly isn't the case), and now we have this. More on that in a separate post.
But it looks to me like the 40th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda got postponed to the September Direct. There is also the chance that they may not celebrate the anniversary at all, but with this remake and the movie coming, I doubt that they will skip it. They probably just want to keep it closer to the movie. So, most of the things that I said yesterday are still a possibility, it's just not going to happen (yet).
But the announcement of the Ocarina of Time remake would have had a lot more impact if this wasn't leaked in advance. Now it was just a confirmation of something that the internet has been speculating about for months. And it was nothing more than that, leaving me somewhat disappointed about the whole Nintendo Direct at the end.
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