Jacob St-Amour from Link-Cable Writes: "Over the many years that Nintendo has been around making video games, we have received some of gaming’s most acclaimed and renown franchises in all of the industry from the big N. Names such as The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon and most notably Super Mario have helped propel the company in being one of the if not the greatest video game company. Now having said that, these major blockbuster franchises have had blunders of the years, but there is one Nintendo series that tends to remain consistent and a fan favorite after each and every title and that, of course, is with Kirby."
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TG: “Most of us also grew up with Nintendo, likely forming a nostalgic connection with games that have long been crowned as our personal favourites. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker was an experience that shaped my view on open world fantasy, and Super Mario 64 changed my life like it did for millions of others. These titles have earned their place in history, and remain loved to this day for so many worthwhile reasons. We replay them and beg for remasters all while delving into their worlds time and time again because they mean that much to us. It’s a shame then that the company behind them often kicks its own sweet darlings to the curb.”
I never got the love for Nintendo games personally. The annoying vocalizations and ugly character designs do nothing for me.
Don't forget the constant hand holding with tutorials. Learn this new ability by pressing Y, now prove that you can press Y 8 times before you can move on....
Another very weird article.
Nintendo is a great company by almost all possible normal measures. The biggest one being: their own staff is happy, and they seem to be very happy, well compensated and retain rate is solid. They are also financially very stable, profitable, and cash rich, so shareholders love them.
Overall it is an extremely creative group of people, and their mission statement is fantastic as well "to put smiles on the faces of everyone we touch. We do so by creating new surprises for people across the world to enjoy together." The social impact is also massive, not to speak culturally. Additionally, they have a really strong core business, high customer retention rate and loyalty. Nintendo's reputation is extremely good, I think in the US alone they are 9th most reputable company, their customer service is better than the average company. Plus, the press gives them a pass, because they are Nintendo. But there's a reason why they do that, it's not "because they are Nintendo", there are more layers to the argument.
Then, then there's the random negative gamers online...and their "reputation" which is inside their heads. And their western ideas of how a Japanese company should behave or what they should do. But they have no right to ask a company to do anything for them, because they can vote with their wallets.
There's a small vocal community online who dislikes Nintendo for what they are, but then again, there's always a small vocal community that dislikes something.
Nintendo also disagrees with the Western world about IP, but most people call Westerners "hidoi!" when they emulate Tears of the Kingdom and do not experience it the way Nintendo wanted them (even if it is not the best visual way), because it is a matter of principle to them (Japanese are very much against anything close to plagiarism, and there are laws that are tight about creative works copying etc.)
The Western Braveheart "freedoom!" shouters need to understand that it is not an American company, nor they need to behave like one. They can have their own fights based on their principles (against emulation). And they very well may lose the battle with that and change, or find a new audience.
In the end, it is so very simple. Don't buy the products if you don't like a company, but there's no need to paint a picture that is unrealistic about Nintendo either.
I hate virtually everything about their business practices, actually. Suing everybody for virtually anything, shooting down fan projects, games they never let devalue, their online infrastructure and how they handle BC.
They're lucky they make great games, because that's the only thing I feel they do right.
my issue with them, is the complete refusal to have decent tech for us.
and their odd censorship and lawsuits for modders.
I agree. I've never been disappointed with any mainline Kirby game I played. Dreamland, Adventure, 64, Return, Triple Deluxe and Robobot. I love them all.
I love Kirby. He is my pink puff pal.
I'm definitely going to buy the new Kirby game that's coming out for the switch! I'm actually hoping they release a huge Kirby collection similar to what you saw from the DS and Wii.
One of the things that most on here have it actually been talking about is Nintendo's return to consistency, when the switch was first revealed and we saw footage of Splatoon many of us literally thought it was just a port of the first game, for them to make the sequel so close to the original and using all the same basic concepts might show that maybe Nintendo is buckling down and no longer doing Wild exaggerated changes to some of their top franchises.
This is something i felt might happen if they went to only releasing one system. That they would focus on only Core Concepts as opposed to trying to reinvent the wheel ala Sonic Mania or Resident Evil 7 etc
So looking at Splatoon Yoshi Kirby and many more in very much shows me that maybe Nintendo is looking to be more conservative on these Concepts to keep things simple to bring back they're established base.
If they keep this up they're definitely going to have more of my money than they have in the past several Generations. Most of us old school fans are seriously not asking for that much. Like Sonic Mania we simply just want the same concept we got decades ago.