Games Inbox: June Nintendo Direct predictions, Obi-Wan copying Fallen Order, and Fable no-show

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The Thursday letters page thinks Sonic Frontiers is mirroring Shadow Of The Colossus, as one reader hopes for Super Mario Cricket.

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Contrarian Direct So there’s now more reason to hope that there will be a Nintendo Direct next week? The only reason I think there won’t be is why keep it secret? In fact, what is it with games companies and pointless secrets lately? They never keep the good ones, about new games, so why be so secretive about when your reveal event is? These things used to get announced weeks in advance when E3 was still a thing.

Anyway, I’m really hoping that Nintendo will put in an effort and talk about the new Zelda, Metroid Prime 4, and Bayonetta 3. Add in their other games that we already know about and that’s a really good line-up that could easily end up better than Microsoft’s and Sony’s.

Splatoon 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, and Advance Wars (hopefully) is not only the best set of first party games in the second half of the year it’s the only one we know about for sure. This is the time for Nintendo to puff out their chest and show off. The fact that that’s the obvious thing to do, though, is what convinces me they won’t.Terry Gold

Fallen hope Err… so did anyone see the new episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi this week? Not to get into spoilers but it was basically the end of Fallen Order but more boring and a lot stupider. The parallels with the game were already there in previous episodes, as others have pointed out, but this is more like an off-brand fan-made recreation and it’s kind of embarrassing.

I was enjoying The Mandalorian but now it really does seem as if the games are better than the shows and the movies (not