In spite of a lot of ports and remakes being announced, Nintendo’s latest Direct had a lot of content.

    • Sonic Superstars
    • MythForce
    • Super Mario RPG
    • Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
    • Batman Arkham Trilogy
    • Silent Hope
    • Pikmin 4
    • Pikmin 1+2
    • Metal Gear Solid Master Collection, Vol 1
    • Vampire Survivors
    • Star Ocean: The Second Story R
    • Super Mario Bros. Wonder

If Sonic Superstars runs at 60 FPS on the Switch, it will be going on my wish list.

MythForce may have been the biggest dark horse game of the whole Direct. It’s being billed as a Saturday morning cartoon game, and it’s a roguelike set in a world that looks exactly like Masters of the Universe.

Super Mario RPG was a nice surprise, but some of the visual charm from the original game seems to be lost in the remake.

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon is game I’ve played and reviewed on 3DS already. It would be more exciting if Nintendo was also porting the original GameCube Luigi’s Mansion to the Switch as well, and selling both games as a bundle like they are with the first two Pikmin games.

Hopefully, Super Mario Bros. Wonder will bring innovation back to 2D Mario platformers in gameplay, level design, art style, and with the soundtrack. New Super Mario Bros. U was a painfully derivative game.

There are officially too many farming sims on the Switch. Two more were in this Direct with Palia and Fae Farm. Two more cozy games where you can go fishing and get to know the locals. Palia is free-to-play and didn’t look great. Fae Farm looks mildly interesting.

Detective Pikachu Returns’ visuals look downright ugly. It looks like a GameCube game. Pokemon fans deserve much more than they’ve been getting with the series’ visuals the last few years.

When you start seeing this many old games and ports being brought to a system, that usually means a new console is on the way sooner rather than later. It’s very possible we could be seeing a new, more powerful Switch in 2024. No word in this Direct on Metroid Prime 4 either. It’s likely being prepared for the next console.

The current Switch will be seven years old this next March, and given that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has difficulty with pop-in and maintaining a stable framerate, maybe it’s time.