COMPLETE Nintendo Direct Roundup – Zelda, Pikmin, Kirby, & Great Day for Farming Sims
Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct offered tons of exciting titles for many different genres, including some ones we weren’t expecting.
No matter your favorite style or genre of game, yesterday’s Nintendo Direct had something for you to enjoy. There were farming sims, horror games, boxing games, farming sims, action games, and farming sims!
We already did a deep dive into the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom teaser, so let’s go over literally everything else from the Nintendo Direct.
So Many Farming Sims
This latest Nintendo Direct brought us 4 new sim games, most of which have some farming elements. But each title feels very different, which is great.
Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life looks like a combination of The Sims and Stardew Valley. Fae Farm is a farm sim with magic to use to boost your crops and fight off evil fairies.
Rune Factory 3 is more about raising animals and monsters over just crops to help you in battle. Harvestella is a life sim RPG about saving the world and is certainly upping the stakes over the rest of these sim titles.
Pikmin is Back!
Miyamoto did a little bit of trolling during the Nintendo Direct when he brought up Pikmin Bloom. It’s a step-counter mobile game like Pokemon Go, but with pikmin. Collect, grow, and feed your pikmin to get them to bloom.
Pikmin 4 is also coming soon, although we don’t really get to see anything about it. This one puts the tease in teaser.
Get Up and Move
Since the days of the Wii, Nintendo has been about getting players out of their chairs. Fist of the North Star Fitness Boxing is absolutely the most standout title in this group. Using the JoyCons as a sort of rhythm-based fighting game. Seems fun.
Wii Sports is getting golf, which we all were expecting to happen at some point. Nintendo loves golf.
Just Dance 2023 is the latest edition of the series and will probably be more of the same, but just with Bad Bunny or something.
Some Classics Coming to Switch
There are so many classic titles coming to Switch I won’t be able to give them each a little blurb. So, please enjoy this info-dense block of text.
The Switch virtual console will be getting Pilotwings 64, Mario Party 1-3, Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2, 1080 Snowboarding, Excitebike 64, and Golden Eye 64.
Many games are being ported over to the Switch, such as It Takes Two, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, Factorio, Resident Evil: Village, RE:Biohazard, RE:2, and RE:3 cloud versions, and Radiant Silvergun.
Plus, several titles are getting full remastered editions. Front Mission Remakes, Tales of Symphonia remastered, Life is Strange: arcadia Bay Collection, Kirby: Return to Dreamland Deluxe.
RPGs Abound!
It wouldn’t be a Nintendo Direct without a ton of RPG titles as well. Many of these titles are new such as Fire Emblem: Engage, Octopath Traveler 2, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, Various Daylife, Atelier Ryza 3,
THEATRHYTHM FINAL BAR LINE is a new rhythm game with Final Fantasy music, but also DLC for other titles as well.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 update adds a new character. Plus FFVII Crisis Core is getting a remake, Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song is also getting remastered.
And Tons More
Bayonetta 3 got an extended trailer that wasn’t shown during the Nintendo Direct.
There were a ton of other series getting attention as well including, Mario Strikers and Mario Kart 8 updates, TUNIC looks absolutely adorable, Splatoon 3 new splatfest, Ib looks like a trippy exploration game with a super unique art style.
Raincode is a new game from the makers of Danganronpa, Sifu seems like a really interesting aging mechanic where you get stronger as you die, but die too much and you die for real! (not really). Endless Dungeon is a rogue-like dungeon crawler. Lego Bricktales is a puzzle building game. Disney Speedstorm is a new racing game, and Fall Guys Season 2 is coming soon.
I’m pretty sure that’s literally everything. There are a few obviously exciting titles from this Nintendo Direct, but a lot of smaller titles I’ll be keeping my eye on. TUNIC, Lego Bricktales, and Sifu all seem like they could be for me.
