Games Inbox: Nintendo in decline on Switch, too much Assassin’s Creed, and Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
The Thursday letters page suggests remakes of The Witcher 1 and 2, as one reader defends God Of War Ragnarök.
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Faded magic I appreciate GC’s review of Splatoon 3 and the eternal question of how to mark games that are good but almost identical to their predecessors. I hadn’t been following Splatoon 3’s development closely and I assumed that there was some big new gimmick or feature, so to be told there’s nothing but new weapons and maps, well… that doesn’t sound like what I normally expect from Nintendo.
To be honest though, I think they’ve been in decline for years now. I know the pandemic messed them up but when was their last truly great game? Metroid Dread and Animal Crossing: New Horizons were both good, but they were pretty much the same thing as usual. It feels a really long time now since Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and Super Mario Odyssey, or indeed Splatoon 2, and it feels like they need to regroup and up their efforts.
What worries me is that this Christmas’ big game is another Pokémon title. The second of the year and another game that’s probably going to be almost identical to its predecessor and will not have listened to a word of criticism about Sword and Shield. These low effort sequels are chipping away at my faith in Nintendo and their patented magic.
Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 can’t come soon enough but what I’m really interested in is what happens after that? If it’s another five years of so-so retreads then I worry something has gone badly wrong.Shadow
Infinite Assassin’s Creed Wasn’t Assassin’s Creed Valhalla the most successful entry so far? I believe it was, and I’d say a lot of that was due to the fact that there hadn’t been any other
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