Comment on Day 397 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 days ago
It’s something I feel like more recent Nintendo games haven’t done.
References to past games are still a thing they do quite a lot. Weirdly enough in Super Mario Odyssey they went all in on Donkey Kong nostalgia. 3D world has the Comet Observatory, reimagined levels from 64, Bowser’s Fury brought back Bowser Jr’s paintbrush from Sunshine.
Breath of the Wild is chock full of references, ruins of old places, every land feature name is evoking something, be it a character, an old boss, whatever, music cues from the Temple of Time, Spectacle Rock dungeon, Dragon Roost Island…
Echoes of Wisdom borrowed like 70% of its map from A Link to the Past. Again. They already did that in A Link Between Worlds. Not a fan of that one honestly, I love ALttP, Nintendo please stop nostalgia farming it for subpar games already. I like my maps to feel fresh.
Mario Kart World is almost nothing but references, most tracks are from past episodes, and you can find stuff like SNES circuits on the roads around the official ones. And there are loads of remixes of past games music, from NES to Switch and everything in between.
You’re right. I guess it was a lack of good sleep these past few days and the frustration with trying to find the Mii maker that made me think that way.
On the topic of World, i was playing through it today and noticed what you were talking about. Going through it in the Grand Prix i kept picking up bits and pieces of older courses mixed in there. Mario Circuit was the one i noticed the most but i also noticed a few others too.
jacobydehunter@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
You just made me realise we haven’t had a fresh new map in a Zelda game since 2017 :(
brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 days ago
There’s Cadence of Hyrule, and the map shifts every game!
Okay, that’s a stretch.