Well. That was both amazing and disappointing at the same time.
I am completely indifferent to the tekken fighter. I guess he’s an important enough character to be in smash, but we’ve already gotten 3 other fighting game characters in ultimate alone.
By far the highlight was Metroid dread, seeing as how the last 2D Metroid was fusion on the GBA. I am super excited for them to bring back this title.
Warioware was a neat announcement. I’m glad we’re finally getting one for switch. It’s nothing I’m absolutely stoked for or anything, but I’ll probably get it.
My prediction was actually correct about Mario Party. It seems like they figured out why the Top 100 failed so badly.
Advance Wars and fatal frame were neat announcements, but really nothing more to me.
And then there was Zelda…. I’m at a loss for words as to how underwhelming the Zelda segment was. Only 4 things were talked about.
We literally got no news on SSHD, which sucks.
We had some vague details on AoC DLC which I’m not even gonna bother with because of how crap the base game is.
The Zelda Game and Watch is neat, but kinda expected. I find it super weird that Links Awakening is being put on it considering the remake just came out a few years ago. It’s easily the best announcement of the 4 though, which is really saying something.
The new BotW 2 trailer told us literally nothing about the game aside from the setting and a couple new mechanics. It literally just looks like BotW again, and I’m losing hope that they actually did anything to address the numerous flaws the first game had. They didn’t even show us a title. Just a release year that I could’ve told you before the direct.
By far the worst part is the fact that they basically said that there’s not gonna be ports of WWHD or TPHD, as that’s pretty much the one thing I really wanted.
The fact that this direct was the highlight of E3 is really telling of how not great this year was. It’s far from their worst direct ever, in fact it was actually quite good compared to the last 2 big directs, but good lord this is a severe drop in quality from their E3 2018 and 2019 directs.