Is it bad that smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers sounds about exactly what I’m equipped to handle right about now?
Like zoning out to some seriously tepid nostalgia-slop sounds good.
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d00ery@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
As a PC gamer I would never condone such a statement about my console brethren (and sisters), but lol.
The new Super Mario Galaxy Movie is out today – as expected, it is a bare-bones story supported by a cavalcade of Nintendo cameos and bright action scenes. Dubbed “a bland screensaver of a movie” by the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, expect smooth-brained entertainment for Nintendo enjoyers.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Last time I checked Mario Bros was supposed to be happy and fun and simple not an art house intellectual experience.
I wonder if a lot of the reviews are just the bitterness that it’s going to be a 1.5B movie and that ‘real cinema’ movies do pitifully at the box office these days, very rarely to they even make $100mil
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
i mean a lot of those ‘real cinema’ movies do pitifully at the box office because they’re fucking creepy glimpses into fucking creepy writers’, directors’, and editors’ minds
Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 hours ago
Fun being key here, not just a slideshow of colored images.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, its Nintendo specific.
- Former Nintendo Game Enjoyer
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Hard disagree. Nintendo first party games (the reason to buy their consoles) are always top-notch.
The ones I’ve bought on Switch 2:
- Mario Kart World - wonderful game with excellent driving mechanics. Open world and lots of fun.
- DK Bananza - endearing game with a heartfelt story, great music, fun gameplay. Really enjoyed my time 100%ing this game.
- pokemon Legends Z-A: good game overall. Nothing groundbreaking but fun.
- Pokemon Pokopia - I’m absolutely obsessed. Heartfelt story, hits so many nostalgic beats, tackles a difficult subject of humans destroying the environment. What happens to our Pokes when we humans have to leave them behind? Amazing game with deep breadth, excellent quality of life that builds upon typical sandbox games, and the music is so nice. When I first heard the Pokémon healing melody adapted into one song, or when I reached a destroyed Palette Town and heard all the original Pokémon Red/Blue musical beats embedded in the overarching musical theme, I was so moved. Very touching game, too. One of the best Pokémon spin offs I’ve played, and this game is canon.
Still waiting on more first-party games that are on the horizon - the potential Ocarina of Time remake if the rumors are true, Pokémon Winds/Waves, and the new 3D Mario game.
Any other game I haven’t picked up because I would rather play it on PC.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 hours ago
lol
They literally make games for the lowest common denominator and everything on the Switch 1 and 2 is so much worse than anything they’ve ever made prior to these system. They look nice, but they are pretty brainless to play, geared toward young children, the elderly, and people who have never ever played a video game before.
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
“They literally make games for the lowest common denominator and everything on the Switch 1 and 2 is so much worse than anything they’ve ever made prior to these systems. They look nice, but they are pretty brainless to play, geared toward young children, the elderly, and people who have never ever played a video game before.”
Sounds to me like you haven’t played any of the new Nintendo first-party games that are highly revered. Tears of the Kingdom as an example, is a gut-wrenching and dramatic game. I prefer the older Zelda games (having grown up on them starting with SNES), but I would be laughably naive to deny that the latest two Zelda’s have been ground breaking. Mario Odyssey is charming and fun, and one of the best platformers I played (top title goes to Astro Bot on PS5 for me). The Xenoblade games are top tier. DK Bananza is endearing, touching, and incredibly fun. Pokopia, I already commented above - one of the best Pokémon games to have come out (given that GameFreak churns out games so quickly and refuse to innovate). Pokopia was developed by someone else, and boy does that game put the other Pokémon games to shame. Lots of other examples, but I’m tired of typing on mobile.
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 10 hours ago
Ok, but... I have young children and parents who I would like to be able to play games together. As far as I can tell, other than Roblox and Lego Party, literally nobody is catering to that market.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The smooth brained entertainment comment was just referring to the Mario Galaxy movie.
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
“Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, it’s Nintendo specific.”
Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 hours ago
Man, I remember when the DS was the thinking person’s console of choice. Oh the art you could draw on it and send to others. Oh the traces of goatee.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That sounds like almost an exact description of the first Mario movie.