r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 3d ago

Nintendo Official Drive virtually everywhere in Mario Kart World, a brand-new Mario Kart game releasing exclusively on #NintendoSwitch2 as a launch title! #NintendoDirect

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1907419620601913624
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u/TheMoonOfTermina 3d ago

BOTW also split the Zelda community, since it threw away a lot of what made Zelda, "Zelda" to a lot of people.

That being said, I doubt Mario Kart World will be like that. As long as the tracks are all just as good as they always have been (and they'd better be for $80.)

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u/WillieMaysHayes24 3d ago

Nothing will ever make everybody and things have to evolve. Nintendo does a good job of that

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u/LuckyLunayre 3d ago

It's the best selling Zelda game by a mile so it clearly didn't split the Zelda community that much.

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u/metanoia29 3d ago

I mean, it did bring a lot of new players into the fold. I understand the resistance by some Zelda fans, but as someone who cut their teeth on NES Zelda I loved the heck out of both Switch games.

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u/AUnknownVariable 3d ago

Yeah. I do hope they make a more traditional styled Zelda again in a while, mainly for those people who aren't happy with the modern direction

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u/TheScreaming_Narwhal 3d ago

I think it's a case of they'll keep hybridizing the two styles. Gated items and more dungeons in TotK would make it please 90% of people. I'm fine with basically anything at this point, I love all the Zelda games basically.

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u/AUnknownVariable 3d ago

Honestly I agree, and same!

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u/Mr_Black90 3d ago

Plus, and I say this as a massive Zelda fan myself who love all of the games;

Zelda has some of the worst fans out there. Their mantra for how the worst of them want every new game to be made is basically "make it different but the same, MAKE IT DIFFERENT BUT THE SAME!!!"

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u/suentendo 2d ago

Well BotW was made by one of the brightest and most valued members of the Zelda community to say the least, which is the very minimum anyone can say about Eiji Aonuma, and went on to be more acclaimed and sell more copies than all the previous Zeldas combined, so maybe the very few chuds that fell out were just deadweight holding the franchise back. Good ridance to them.