I dont do nostalgia. What Nintendo does is provide very polished versions of genres most other major publishers ditchedhttps://twitter.com/BootlegGirl/status/1308484584254963713 …
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You like 2D platformers? Barely anything in the indie scene measures up to mario or kirby Tactics: fire emblem Adventure: zelda
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I mean look they actually straight up invented platforming with Super Mario Bros and that game absolutely deserves to be remembered as a work of genius (eccentric genius, even, mad science)
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Making a little virtual world with this progressing pseudo-narrative environment that felt like a place and told a story was HUGE It blew people's minds And it was this massive technical accomplishment
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Like it was this really big deal, years later, for the guys at id software to replicate SMB's hard-coded algorithm for doing the side scrolling environment via software code in MS-DOS It was a task people had just thought was impossible
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So as objectively evil a company as Nintendo is I can't begrudge them the name they made off of that, or any of Miyamoto's work It's like how the original iPhone, as much of a clumsy prototype as it seems today, was legitimately leaps and bounds cooler than any other phone
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