#and then the northern hemisphere posts and spring and shit and it’s the same but now im lying in some leaves getting eaten by bugs

[incandesang]

u know ur losing ur mind when u wake up to catch ur 7am bus to work and u go ‘oh it’s lighter out!! that means spring is soon!! which means iwtv is coming out 🥰🥰’

😐😐🥲 help

[nintooner]

Nintendo Direct thoughts 😎

Love the updated look of Yoshi’s Tropical Island, it’s cool to see N64 boards not being completely flat (let’s just hope Toadette and Bowser won’t be swapping spots every five seconds like in the original lol)

And Bowser kicking Toadette’s little stand thing is funny – there seems to be a lot of personality to the animations in this game and I’m loving that

I was hoping for Western Land because that’s my mum’s favourite board, but it wasn’t meant to be 😔 I’m still very happy with what we’ve got (It’d be cool if there was DLC later on though!! There probably won’t be, but it’s not completely impossible!)

It’s SO COOL to finally see a 3D Kirby game!!! I’m really happy that HAL ended up finding a way to make 3D Kirby work, they experimented with it a bit with Blowout Blast and now we’ll get to see that evolved into a full game! And I think this is the first time they’ve had copy abilities in 3D?? Rolling around with Needle looks really fun, and I’m sure all the abilities will be super fun in 3D

I love the recent Kirby games, but I was hoping that they’d go a completely different direction for the next one, just to spice it up a bit, and I sure got that wish!!

I love the setting as well – a super colourful post-apocalyptic type of thing... Perfect for Kirby, while also having some unique settings you normally wouldn’t see in a Kirby game! At first glance I actually thought it was Mario Kart, because the escalators reminded me of Coconut Mall lol. We don’t typically have Kirby exploring these sorts of abandoned buildings!

I wonder if it’ll have something to do with Shiver Star... 🤔 We all know how Kirby loves its lore, as well making deep cuts in its references to previous games, so I wouldn’t be surprised! Even if it’s just a reference in a pause screen description!

The setting really reminds me of Planet Robobot, but kind of the opposite? Instead of a natural place being mechanised, it’s a industrialised sort of place being abandoned and overrun by nature... I’m sure the antagonists of the game are gonna be really really interesting, whoever they may be

Now I’ve got two things I’m immensely looking forward to in Autumn next year (Spring for northern hemisphere): Moominvalley season 3, and Kirby and the Forgotten Land... it’s gonna be a good good time for me lol 😄

Brewster, baby!!! Just goes to show that you gotta be patient sometimes lol, people were complaining about the lack of Brewster in ACNH for ages

I’m glad ACNH is still getting updates, there was kind of a drought of updates there for a while, I’m excited to see what other big updates the game gets!

Ninji in Mario Golf...... I love it

And a snow course!!! I remember being a bit disappointed when you couldn’t play the snowy holes of Bowser Highlands from the story mode in regular gameplay, it’s always just the lava version. This isn’t those same Bowser holes (...😳), but I’m still happy!

Will someone play N64 Mario Tennis and/or Golf with me online 👀👉👈 I actually didn’t play much Mario Golf N64 as a kid (unlike Toadstool Tour), but I played SHITLOADS of Mario Tennis N64 (along with Power Tennis)

And now, the elephant in the room

I don’t know shit about celebrities, but those Mario movie casting choices seem... interesting 🤔 I understand that Charles Martinet’s not gonna be cast in a main role in a huge Hollywood movie, but still, it’s kinda sad because I literally can’t imagine anyone else voicing Mario (assuming that he’s an animated cartoon character and not live-action)

I’m willing to give these actors a chance though – maybe they’ll actually do a good, if very different from what we’re used to, job (As far as I can tell, Mario’s the main one that people have significant issue with)

It does kinda annoy me when big celebrities are cast in animated movies/shows over voice actors (not that it’s always bad – not to bring up Moomin again lol but I’d say that Moominvalley is an example of doing it right) But when it’s done wrong, it just seems like they care more about the marketability of the movie than actually making it as good as possible

And finally, I’ve never played a Bayonetta game, but it’s one of those series that I just appreciate from the sidelines, so I was still very happy to see it show up at the end there

Bayonetta is an icon of our times and I love her (even if I don’t know much about her)

All in all, a pretty incredible Direct! Lots of great stuff! Though I may be biased due to Kirby lol