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...to the surprise of no-one. I'm easily whelmed, and besides a brief post-Pikmin lull to talk about games they'd already announced, this Direct was all killer no filler.

People seem to be memeing about all of the farm sims, but I saw three of them that I would genuinely consider playing. Rune Factory 3, which looks like a 3DS port, is way more up my alley than 4 or 5. I really like the low-poly look. Literally the only way to fuck it up is if it's not 60fps.

The 4 player farming sim looked really good too, like a goofy party game. And fuckin Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life? That might be my first Story of Seasons game, if I don't pick up Mineral Town first. The idea of an aging population, including your main character, was super ambitious back in the day. I feel like they never really touched on this in the future Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games, and I really want to try it out.

They finally gave a release date for the Life is Strange remasters, which is one of the things I wanted. The Zelda tease was fantastic, you can see how Sheikah Slate powers have been integrated into the new setting and the new sky setting looks stunning. You can transition between the sky environment and Hyrule below, and it looks relatively seamless. I'm really looking forward to Tears of the Kingdom.

Besides that, I was generally along for the ride. New Theatrythm, I hope they upload a demo so I can give it a go. New Octopath, though I'm not a big fan of HD-2D. I hope that surprise launch they did for that other Square RPG is an okay play, and the Tales of Symphonia remaster is great. Here's hoping it remasters the Gamecube version, because the Chronicles release used the Japan-only PS2 one that was way worse.

New Kirby port, new Pikmin - someone in the official thread complained about the Pikmin Bloom coverage, saying it was like having your child kidnapped and then having the kidnappers contact you 20 years later showing your child working as a prostitute, seconds before they announced Pikmin 4 - and that Fire Emblem game looks cute. Doofy protag design for sure, and frankly I would have preferred a goofy musou, but a dumb fanservicey All-Stars game with Marth, Lyn and other Fire Emblem mainstays looks like a fun throwback title. If you play Fire Emblem and/or aren't a cantankerous weasel who's still ass-blasted about Awakening being too easy and the other one removing the touching minigame, how did you like the Engage announcement?

Like at the end of the day, I genuinely feel like that Direct had a lot of good stuff in it. I'm sure there's some stuff I don't remember off the top of my head, and yet look at how much I've written about this Direct already. It was fun to watch, a bunch of new stuff got announced that I was happy with, I got some of what I wanted from the Direct from the start, and they dropped Tears of the Kingdom's title and gameplay. I'm happy.