Yoshi's Story

But they're fairly simple, very simple in platforming and mechanics.

I think it was Yoshi's Story on the 64, which was like a four-hour game, very easy, upset a lot of people, a lot of parents when they didn't get their money's worth.

But this one is trying something quite different.

It is continuing the trend from...

I think so.

The closest thing that comes to an exception are, like, Paper Mario and, like, Yoshi's Story because of their pre-rendered slash flat aesthetic.

But even then, like, Paper Mario...

while obviously is able to get away with this the most, even then I'm still going like, oh man, I would love to see Paper Mario given like the thousand year door treatment because it could look, it could gain so much just from, you know, having actual like sharp edges for a paper game based around paper.

I called it a duality in my tweet when I was pointing this out with the firmware update, but there is this pattern emerging of how modern Nintendo is kind of juggling going full force back into the red ocean of power and graphics and look what our systems are capable of on a technical level, yet they still are trying to inject a little bit of the whimsy, experimental, weird side into things.

And it makes me wonder what that may mean for future Switch 2 games.

I mean, we were talking about how some N64 games Mine is like Paper Mario and what was the other example we gave? Yoshi's Story.

A lot of them don't have that visual identity.

I was obsessed with it.

And this game dominated my N64 along with Yoshi's Story.

So I remembered very well.

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You brought up Paper Mario.

Paper Mario, Yoshi's Story and Kirby 64 were are like 2d games and that was like what the hell is wrong with this company why are they making a 2d game yeah on this on this 3d console

yeah people often refer to it as like 2.5d or whatever where it's like

right so we had we had an era and then of course there's the xbox 360 era where jrpgs were were like frowned upon for some reason right oh that's an old genre why would anybody do that anymore and as soon as indies exploded it's like yeah we're gonna make platformers those are some of our favorite games yeah we're gonna make our own version of a zelda game we love zelda and and so i think that indies getting so popular and and being able to be a bit more experimental i don't want to suggest that it is easier to produce one of those games no but like you can be more experimental and that's i would also