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Nintendo's first 2024 Direct has just arrived, and even though it's a Partner Showcase and not 1st party, it comes with it's own set of reveals and announcements.

Let's begin with the Direct:

• Grounded, a game where a bunch of characters are reduced to a minuscule size and must work together to survive in day-to-day stages, like backyards. Coming April 16th
• Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, players take control of a character named Lilac, in a world that has come to a demise when the world's magic became corrupted, battling creatures known as homunculus, which upon defeat can join the player. Coming 2024
• Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure, a puzzle game where the player moves in grids to traverse the world and dungeons.Coming this summer.
• Unicorn Overlord, a strategy game that sees a young prince fights alongside five nations to liberate the world from an Empire's dominion. Coming March 8th, with a demo available today.
• Monster Hunter Stories, originally released on the Nintendo 3DS returns in a fully fledged HD remaster, with full voice acting, to re-experience this 3DS turn-based RPG with brand new graphics. Coming this summer.
• Epic Mickey Rebrushed, a remake of the original Epic Mickey released back in the Wii days, which sees Mickey using a magic paintbrush to escape from a magical wasteland of rejected and forgotten characters. Coming 2024.
• Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, a "definitive edition" for the 5th installment beloved RPG series, with a brand new storyline, new demons and locations. Coming June 21st, 2024.
• Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection, a package that includes the original 2000s Battlefront and Battlefront II games from the Star Wars franchise, with the ability to play with up to 64 players online, with brand new playable characters like Kit Fisto and new maps. Coming March 14th, with preorders starting today. This collection will come to other platforms as well, like Steam and Xbox.
• South Park: Snow Day!, an action game from the South Park franchise, with options to customize your character to join the main cast, and play online co-op in the snow-filled streets of the town. Coming March 26th.
• Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream, a new entry in the Sword Art Online series, where the virtual world has gone haywire and past and present collided. Save the world in a single player story or battle online with up to 20 players. Coming 2024.
• Gundam Breaker 4, choose from over 250+ base kits to customize your own mobile suit known as Gunpla, to then use in a variety of combat missions against enemies and acquire new parts to create the ultimate Gunpla. Coming 2024.
• Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, a brand new entry in the Super Monkey Ball series after a decade, with over 200 stages and optional motion controls, being able to blast through obstacles or make your own shortcuts to get to the goal, with 4 player local coop or up 16 players online in either Race Mode, Banana Hunt, Robot Smash and more. Coming June 25th, 2024, exclusively on Switch at the moment.
• World of Goo 2, a sequel to the physics-based puzzle cult classic indie title released more than 15 years ago on the Wii. Coming May 23rd as console exclusive to the Switch.
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, a new entry in the Fantasy Life series, travel to the past to restore an isolated and wasteland island into its former glory, and choose between different "lives" to make certain tasks, and up to 4 players can play online. Coming October 10th, 2024.
• Another Crab's Treasure, travel the depths of a polluted sea in a "souls-like" adventure, taking control of a crab that can use a whole variety of things as protection, like cups and cans, to survive and use shells that grant special abilities. Coming April 25th, 2024.
• Penny's Big Breakaway, play as Penny and her yo-yo in this exciting 3D platformer, from the creators of Sonic Mania. Perform tricks and transformations to get through the different ordeals you stumble upon. Coming out today.
• Suika Game Multi-player mode Expansion Pack, a paid DLC for Suika, where players can choose between the original gameplay, Time Limit or Attack modes. The DLC is available today, as well as the original game with the DLC in a bundle.
• Pepper Grinder, an action platformer where you can dig and travel through terrain, pulverizing enemies in the way. Coming March 28th, with a demo available today.
• Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!, a remastered version of the Pocket Card Jockey, where you breed horses and use cards to power up the horses in races. Coming out today.
• A quick glimpse of other titles coming to the Switch is shown:
  • Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley (March 7th)
  • Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (April 23rd)
  • Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board! (April 26th)
  • Kingdom Come Deliverance – Royal Edition (March 15th)
  • Contra: Operation Galuga, a remake of the original NES Contra coming March 12th
  • Pentiment (February 22nd).
• More titles are coming for Nintendo Switch Online based on Rare's IPs:
  • Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (SNES)
  • Killer Instinct (SNES)
  • Blast Corps (N64)
  • Snake Rattle N' Roll (NES)
  • R.C. Pro-Am
• Endless Ocean Luminous, explore incredible undersea regions with up to 30 players online to plunge into the depths together, with over 500 species of marine life to encounter, including near-extinct and mythical creatures. Coming May 2nd, pre-orders available now.

And that's a wrap! What did you think of this Partner Direct?
Share your thoughts in the comments, while we look forward to the next main Nintendo Direct and Metroid Prime 4's proper announcement.

PS: Additionally, it seems like Nintendo Switch Online for Japan will be getting Mother 3, but as always, only exclusive to Japan.

 

[JuanMena]

No Metroid Prime 4!?

Excited for Monkey Ball though.

If I'm not mistaken, that Mickey Brushy game was a glitchy mess in the Wii, no?
So... I'm concerned about the "faithful recreation of the gsme" statement.
Contra seems like it belongs to a PS2 game.

 

[Kazmar]

Yay SMT V: FES Golden Innocent Sin Royal Apocalypse The Song of Life!

 

[DragonMals]

Lmfao this direct had nothing interesting to me... Not even the new Monkey Ball was interesting considering what they've done to Banana Blitz HD and Banana Mania.

oh yeah and the mother 3 being Japan esclusive

 

[James_]

Alright, I'll throw in my opinion:

I though this Partner Direct was actually pretty good!

...but I think that's mostly because I'm either interested in or a fan of the games that were announced.

For those who aren't fans or aren't interested in the games shown, then I can definitely see why this Direct was mediocre or just plain bad for them. Plus, the Direct was mostly ports and remasters, and they took an entire minute to show off multiplayer in fucking Suika Game. Oh, and it's paid DLC. So yeah.

I will say myself some of the games shown didn't really pique my interest either, but-

Monster Hunter Stories?
Epic Mickey remaster?
Star Wars Battlefront?
World of Goo 2?
Fantasy Life i?
Penny's Big Breakaway shadowdrop?
Super Monkey Ball??
FUCKING POCKET CARD JOCKEY???

Yeah, I'm pretty happy.

(Picross S+ is also coming but saying anything good about that will make me look like a filthy casual.)

Also, the fact that they're finally rereleasing Mother 3 again on NSO, but it's still Japan only, is really fucking funny. And sad.

 

[Scarlet]

Surprising amount to be excited for to me. Monster Hunter Stories coming to new consoles is great (plus confirmed Steam launch!), very much looking forward to the new Fantasy Life, an entirely new Monkey Ball, and Pocket Card Jockey coming back too after only being accesible via Apple Arcade for a while now.

Bunch of my friends are super hyped for Eternal Ocean too, so maybe I'll check that out. Interesting that Bandai Namco also announced Elden Ring's DLC on the same day though, that kinda sideswiped all my hype lol

 

[spotanjo3]

Terrible games. I am so glad I sold Nintendo Switch. I am stick with PS4/PS5/PC.

 

[James_]

Terrible games. I am so glad I sold Nintendo Switch. I am stick with PS4/PS5/PC.

I am stick

oh my GOD

YOU ARE STICK

 

[DragonMals]

oh my GOD

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YOU ARE STICK

This response made my day

 

[limpbiz411]

my wallet is safe until october when the new fantasy life drops

 

[Xalusc]

Pretty good Direct tbh.
Hype for Battlefront remasters, Epic Mickey, Fantasy Life, Megaten, Crab Soulslike, Monkey Ball and that deep-sea diving game looks pretty cool too.

 

[Flame]

Terrible games. I am so glad I sold Nintendo Switch. I am stick with PS4/PS5/PC.

Stop being a stick and branch out to other systems.

my wallet is safe until october when the new fantasy life drops

Roberto you stole my wallet again?

 

[julianuf]

Man, was so excited for Endless Ocean. Came in expecting a remaster/port of the two games, which would be fucking awesome.

But no, it's a new game! Hype!

And then they go on to highlight randomly generated areas, and my excitement just died. What I really liked about the original was exploring the maps and the wildlife. Now it feels like it'll just be random RNG trial and error to try and collect everything. :/

Then they show multiplayer, which, idk. Maybe if I wasn't already disappointed I might have reacted differently.

Le sigh.

Here's hoping it's still a good game and this trailer was just garbage.

 

[Ryab]

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Nintendo's first 2024 Direct has just arrived, and even though it's a Partner Showcase and not 1st party, it comes with it's own set of reveals and announcements.

Let's begin with the Direct:

• Grounded, a game where a bunch of characters are reduced to a minuscule size and must work together to survive in day-to-day stages, like backyards. Coming April 16th
• Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, players take control of a character named Lilac, in a world that has come to a demise when the world's magic became corrupted, battling creatures known as homunculus, which upon defeat can join the player. Coming 2024
• Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure, a puzzle game where the player moves in grids to traverse the world and dungeons.Coming this summer.
• Unicorn Overlord, a strategy game that sees a young prince fights alongside five nations to liberate the world from an Empire's dominion. Coming March 8th, with a demo available today.
• Monster Hunter Stories, originally released on the Nintendo 3DS returns in a fully fledged HD remaster, with full voice acting, to re-experience this 3DS turn-based RPG with brand new graphics. Coming this summer.
• Epic Mickey Rebrushed, a remake of the original Epic Mickey released back in the Wii days, which sees Mickey using a magic paintbrush to escape from a magical wasteland of rejected and forgotten characters. Coming 2024.
• Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, a "definitive edition" for the 5th installment beloved RPG series, with a brand new storyline, new demons and locations. Coming June 21st, 2024.
• Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection, a package that includes the original 2000s Battlefront and Battlefront II games from the Star Wars franchise, with the ability to play with up to 64 players online, with brand new playable characters like Kit Fisto and new maps. Coming March 14th, with preorders starting today. This collection will come to other platforms as well, like Steam and Xbox.
• South Park: Snow Day!, an action game from the South Park franchise, with options to customize your character to join the main cast, and play online co-op in the snow-filled streets of the town. Coming March 26th.
• Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream, a new entry in the Sword Art Online series, where the virtual world has gone haywire and past and present collided. Save the world in a single player story or battle online with up to 20 players. Coming 2024.
• Gundam Breaker 4, choose from over 250+ base kits to customize your own mobile suit known as Gunpla, to then use in a variety of combat missions against enemies and acquire new parts to create the ultimate Gunpla. Coming 2024.
• Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, a brand new entry in the Super Monkey Ball series after a decade, with over 200 stages and optional motion controls, being able to blast through obstacles or make your own shortcuts to get to the goal, with 4 player local coop or up 16 players online in either Race Mode, Banana Hunt, Robot Smash and more. Coming June 25th, 2024, exclusively on Switch at the moment.
• World of Goo 2, a sequel to the physics-based puzzle cult classic indie title released more than 15 years ago on the Wii. Coming May 23rd as console exclusive to the Switch.
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, a new entry in the Fantasy Life series, travel to the past to restore an isolated and wasteland island into its former glory, and choose between different "lives" to make certain tasks, and up to 4 players can play online. Coming October 10th, 2024.
• Another Crab's Treasure, travel the depths of a polluted sea in a "souls-like" adventure, taking control of a crab that can use a whole variety of things as protection, like cups and cans, to survive and use shells that grant special abilities. Coming April 25th, 2024.
• Penny's Big Breakaway, play as Penny and her yo-yo in this exciting 3D platformer, from the creators of Sonic Mania. Perform tricks and transformations to get through the different ordeals you stumble upon. Coming out today.
• Suika Game Multi-player mode Expansion Pack, a paid DLC for Suika, where players can choose between the original gameplay, Time Limit or Attack modes. The DLC is available today, as well as the original game with the DLC in a bundle.
• Pepper Grinder, an action platformer where you can dig and travel through terrain, pulverizing enemies in the way. Coming March 28th, with a demo available today.
• Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!, a remastered version of the Pocket Card Jockey, where you breed horses and use cards to power up the horses in races. Coming out today.
• A quick glimpse of other titles coming to the Switch is shown:
  • Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley (March 7th)
  • Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (April 23rd)
  • Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board! (April 26th)
  • Kingdom Come Deliverance – Royal Edition (March 15th)
  • Contra: Operation Galuga, a remake of the original NES Contra coming March 12th
  • Pentiment (February 22nd).
• More titles are coming for Nintendo Switch Online based on Rare's IPs:
  • Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (SNES)
  • Killer Instinct (SNES)
  • Blast Corps (N64)
  • Snake Rattle N' Roll (NES)
  • R.C. Pro-Am
• Endless Ocean Luminous, explore incredible undersea regions with up to 30 players online to plunge into the depths together, with over 500 species of marine life to encounter, including near-extinct and mythical creatures. Coming May 2nd, pre-orders available now.

And that's a wrap! What did you think of this Partner Direct?
Share your thoughts in the comments, while we look forward to the next main Nintendo Direct and Metroid Prime 4's proper announcement.

PS: Additionally, it seems like Nintendo Switch Online for Japan will be getting Mother 3, but as always, only exclusive to Japan.

For Partner Showcase standards I'm rather happy with this.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

SUIKA PVP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AdenTheThird]

Cool shit, but nothing exciting enough to convince me to buy any of it.
I'll stick to my Xbox and PC, thank you.

Wait.
I meant, "I am stick to my Xbox and PC"

 

[AlexMCS]

Cool.
However I'd have liked to have seen more of the 5-10s games instead of some.. other games... they've shown.

I'll be "getting" MHS, Penny and Epic Mickey. Considering Arranger, Fantasy Life, Pepper Grinder and ZAU.

Time to update Ryuujinx/Yuzu.

 

[pedro702]

i want that battlefront classic collection for sure, crab game seemed fun and epic mickey remaster is always good, that game was great.

 

[Izual Urashima]

Gundam Breaker 4. Especially since it's a follow-up of 3 (and not taking inspiration from how horrible New was) and since it's a multiplat (Steam included).

 

[The Catboy]

PS: Additionally, it seems like Nintendo Switch Online for Japan will be getting Mother 3, but as always, only exclusive to Japan.

Why though?