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Nintendo Directs never explain how to attack with words smh

In fairness they did mix in stuff like “also, here’s a gun (but it counts as a gauntlet weapon)”

target audiences for a nintendo direct are people who just woke up from 50 year coma and aliens who crash landed on earth yesterday

Eh I mean it's an entire direct on one game, I guess they've got time for people who are somehow excited for the pretty anime game but don't know wtf a Fire Emblem is. I usually skip these and just watch the ones where they shotgun blast trailers at you.

I mean they also have to advertise the game to people who have not played a FE game as well. They need to add more members to the Nintendo cult somehow

In this groundbreaking title, pressing the directional pad will move your character forward. Experience motion like never before.

Nintendo Directs can suck all of the hype out of even the coolest games.

I definitely had this playing in my head like it's the more in-depth breakdown version: bsky.app/profile/bren...

They've acknowledged that most Nintendo fans can't read so they have to talk to them like a Miss Rachel video

Ok though, I would love to play a game like that.

Once you see a Nintendo Direct you start to understand why all the minor characters in Pokemon talk like that.

A big reason I watch the JP directs now is because they feel WAY less infantilizing than the commentary in the English language ones

I absolutely love the way they do it lol makes me so excited like a child playing a new genre or something for the first time 😂😂

This is funny cuz it’s true but also Nintendo recognizes that everyone has a first game. New players need to be onboarded for the health of the industry. I honestly feel their approach only seems weird when contrasted with the hyper specific catering to the “hardcore” others engage in.

They do love to make every vox pop extra slow, as if it's illegal to ask voice artists to speed up a little when dubbing

And I mean like little kids. They want to make sure 7 year-olds are engaged. There are kids who might be watching that segment for whom that's the most complicated game they've ever seen.

Nintendo Direct is kind of terrible.

I'm more pissed off about the fact the direct gives away MAJOR PLOT POINTS. Absolutely insane.

I know this is an older post but… Like dawg, they really spent like 3 minutes showing off how link can jump with the press of a button now.

I think it’s indicative of how they try to design their mainline games around simple actions

[explaining mechanics older than the internet] if you encounter any obstacle taller than stairs during your adventure you can try jumping! (ℹ️) “Jumping” will momentarily lift your character off the ground, offering a new way to explore the environment. You can do this by pressing the “A” Button.

it's also a relaxing farming sim (somehow)

like if you're watching this ur already deep in the fire emblem sauce. or you played 3H. 3H sold like 50 million copies. be serious nintendo

i thought this direct was actually solid for me who hasnt been following much of the game's teases or new info drops but i knew going in that half of it would be "How 2 Play Fire Emblem" and its so funny that they keep putting in these fucking tutorials in the middle of presentations

"When you fight an enemy hydra, you may want to get up on its back. This will allow you to attack without the risk of an enemy counterattack."

But look! He’s riding an ostrich!

Is a dude swinging a sword on bird-back not thrilling enough for you!?

The trick of this is that the out loud part is for the babies and dullards and the people who know FE get an entirely different John Hinckley Jr-type message (we put Chocobos in this one)

Yeah. My nieces and nephews watch all the directs that pop up in Nintendo today on their switches

I don’t know what age you would classify as a kid. I was watching directs via my 3DS in middle school.

I think it's to help the kids understand what's going on so they'll ask their parents to buy it. I remember the toy commercials I watched as a kid had a similar cadence, just with a lot more WhoooaAAaaA and camera shake because they had to pretend an immovable object was exciting

it drives me nuts that they use similar wording and inflection for Rated T Blood And Guts games as they do with Rated E Googoo Gaga Babies games. like who is their target audience here lol

They expect the adults to buy them anyway They need to hook the kids who wander

they gotta explain it because the naming is so confusing. Why does the guy I need to attack from a distance have 'close-up attacks'? The should call him a 'stay-away guy' so I know

thanku, but darn you need the switch 2 for it

"Hrm... swords beat spears, but spears beat axes... this calls for some sort of Triangle Strategy" [GARBLED SNATCH OF THEME SONG] [SQUARE ENIX LOGO] [NINTENDO LOGO] [NINTENDO MARK OF QUALITY]

Looks like they're advertising the game by showing actual gameplay. Took 40 years but the industry got there

They got so addicted to hand-holding that they put tutorials into the damn trailers

why does the narrator guy in this sound like he’s in an official tutorial for setting the timer on my washing machine

On one hand, someone has to do it. But on the other, ugggghhhhh....

This probably stems from them being very Japanese. Trailers for games here typically are very in depth and explain way too much rather than letting emotion and excitement selling you on the game. Not all games and trailers, but a huge majority of them. Japanese folks want to know the details.

but how will the audience ever understand that they can play as Mario in the Mario Kart World game

way too in depth about the surface of game mechanics* I'd love to see pre-release material really getting into the thick of it but most publishers won't dare

I actually hold a lot of respect for the directs advertising games as a inherently straightforward sets of rules that in of themselves need to be explained to an audience. There is nothing deceptive about it whereas I feel like I never have a good grasp on what sony/microsoft are selling me

I find nintendo's approach so much more interesting because it doesn't pretend like the game part is some ancillary part that deserves no time. It can wax and wane depending on franchise but like ultimately the fact they tend to talk about what these games are as games is far more interesting to me

How else are they gonna fill 20 minutes when it can be summed up as "Yeah, it's Another One Of These! This one is like 3 Houses, you guys liked that one, right?"

Not to mention the corporate way they refer to every single game They can never just say Schmeeble's Adventure, it's always The Schmeeble's Adventure Game™️

I think its partially to confirm which features are returning in an established series (Like FE or Rhythm Heaven or Splatoon) and show off what they look like in this game, while ALSo introducing them to new players.

Ever since the Gamecube was a sales bust, Nintendo's had a strategy of trying to appeal to non-gamers. That generation of console was really decided by stupid stuff like which console can play DVDs, and Nintendo's never let that go.

Nintendo Direct presentations are literally approved or vetoed primarily by shareholders, who famously know and understand literally nothing about anything. Nintendo is aware that even very young children are not this dim.

"Someone's/a child's first game" so on and so on. But considering baby's first game is probably not going to be a 50+ hour SRPG, I think we can axe the patronizing tone for the intended audience on some of the showcases.

That's part of the charm

I’ll still take that over the Wii U “double yoshi exploshi” era any day

I kind of like the naive purity of it all.

What is even the point??

This is even funnier

And here's a timeless classic:

“Nintendo switch 2 system”

Oh my gosh it sounds so much nicer and more human

genuinely why is this a thing though

what the fuck

The Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition Nintendo Switch 2 Edition game

It's like how Disneyland calls Space Mountain a "Roller coaster-like attraction".

Oh damn I thought you meant they say "Welcome to Game." They should do that. Whatever game it is. Welcome to: Game.

The Nintendo Switch Family of Systems

nintendo also did this

oh my god. somehow this feels even worse. like we're the only ones trapped in the nexus

see to me this screams lawyer meddling. like a lawyer said "technically we have to phrase it like this in america or we're breaking some sort of advertising law" in a way that no other company cares about

They should do this forever

I will be watching from the UK channel from now on.

the the legend of zelda ocarina of time remake remake game game

ty for linking this, because I've wanted to find it again for a while

LMFAO

Holy shit this is unreal

I haven't noticed it in a while, whereas before it was like needles in my brain. If they're still doing it they stockholm'd me into not caring

the two people who respond best to this inflection they put on are children and investors (who are, basically, children)

I'll take it over the average State of Play trailer just showing cutscenes and not knowing how the game will actually work, but it's still beyond goofy to have the concept of jumping explained in the Metroid Prime 4 presentation

if i had nintendo fans i'd explain like they were children too

I’d argue Fire Emblem is meant for teenagers at least in the way most anime/JRPG’s are aimed at teens but that’s not really the point snskakkssk

THat's because gamers are idiots. That's the lesson they got from the Wii U.