Games Gotten Too Easy?

[Kosheh]

We explained that Mario could shoot fire balls with the Fire Flower power-up, but then they wanted Mario to start with more weapons like a sword or a gun.

lmao


This is kind of a clickbaity thread title, but it's kinda true - a lot of people overlook Nintendo's selection not because they're easy (in fact, games lately like DKC Returns, Mario 3D World, etc. get pretty frustrating later upon trying to 100% the game) but because of the goofy, childish presentation and ridiculous advertising of many of the system's newer titles. With that childish presentation, comes the assumption of "oh, this game looks SO kid friendly - check out these characters with their big eyes and big feet. it's probably easy"
Of course, you could argue "what are you talking about, Kosh, Metroid Prime Hunters is pretty manly" - well, when you have posters that look like this



and a commercial spot like this

It's easy to see why people would overlook a title like this at first glance, unless you actually play video games and realize it's a pretty sadistic game, and when you have one awesome, moldbreaking game on the console, it's not easy for Joe Gamer to see E3 coverage and say "Man, I really need to buy a Wii U for this one title"

Instead, the game with the cool-as-fuck advertising, a Hollywood score and an assist dog are going to wow you more once you're not buying videogames with Mom's money.

As silly as it sounds, maybe Nintendo should make like their different development teams have actually varied names, as opposed to "Nintendo EAD" and "Nintendo Software Technologies" - with one of those more mature titles (Zelda, Metroid) being under a separate "banner" so more people will flock to that, instead of people having a whole stigma against the company because it's literally videogame Disney.

(like, imagine Disney and Marvel today - that kinda transparency needs to exist. Really left-field example, but imagine if Platinum Games was a subsidiary of Nintendo. Something like that needs to happen)



basically: nintendo's advertising game needs some work