I'd accept the theory that Nintendo is all nostalgia boots for people if I hadn't first played Pikmin 2 last spring and still felt the soul at work.
There has been an undeniable shift in aesthetics and ethics in Nintendo post-GameCube, and it has not been for the better.
Edit: Also, I have to address this.
Vipershark specified that he wasn't talking about second party Nintendo games, only Nintendo-made titles. At least half of your (Koopaul's) list was developed by second party developers (Good Feel, Retro, HAL, etc.) and not actually developed by one of Nintendo's in-house developers.
There has been an undeniable shift in aesthetics and ethics in Nintendo post-GameCube, and it has not been for the better.
Edit: Also, I have to address this.
Vipershark specified that he wasn't talking about second party Nintendo games, only Nintendo-made titles. At least half of your (Koopaul's) list was developed by second party developers (Good Feel, Retro, HAL, etc.) and not actually developed by one of Nintendo's in-house developers.
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