Fire Emblem Engage Was The Best Game Of The Nintendo Direct

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Today's Nintendo Direct started with a bang, and then continued to shrivel up into a corn cob. I don't much care for Breath of the Wild, so while I hope you all have a grand old time with Tears of the Kingdom, that means I hope I hate it. A new Fire Emblem was a great start for the Direct, but then it was just a flurry of games I've either already played or don't want to play being ported, roughly six million farming sims, and Miyamoto has a Pikmin 4 t-shirt, which he brought in lieu of gameplay. Let's rewind the clock to the start of the Direct (which was an hour later for me, an honest Brit who definitely didn't watch the Twitch stream out of respect for the queen), when Fire Emblem Engage was first revealed.

I suspected, as many did, that Zelda would be the 'just one more thing' of this Direct. When we first saw the extended gameplay sequence, it arrived via a 'just one more thing' set up. Zelda is clearly Nintendo's big upcoming title right now. Mario's off making movies, driving karts, and playing golf rather than preparing for his next mainline adventure, while Pokemon tends to have its very own Presents as Scarlet & Violet's release date draws nearer.

Related: Wind Waker's Sprawling Ocean Is Still The Best Open World Ever MadeZelda was expected and, as I already may have mentioned, I don't much care for it. We all knew it was coming as the ending note, but the opening gambit was far less predictable. Some may have called Fire Emblem, but I did not. That it was the last great surprise of the Direct can be set aside for now - we're going to see a few complaints that Nintendo didn't make all of our dreams come true, especially if Sony's State of Play fares better in a few hours, but amongst all the noises and the