What was Nintendo's golden decade?

[Omegajak]

What was Nintendo's Golden decade? I was born midway of Decade 1 which I see as the foundation for a lot of my pre-determined notions about gaming. (buttons and D-pads no better way to play.) So when I started understanding more about myself and could competently read, and form opinions I'd say Decade 2 is the best. In all honesty nintendo set industry standards on a lot of their iP's like Super Mario 64 is to this day consider the penultimate 3D platform experience.

The amount of time I sank into Super Mario Sunshine out of pure boredom is ridiculous. No child should be that enthralled by a world that does not exist but, I feel some of my cultural background made me gravitate towards that game. Also all the GB-GBC Pokemon games, that were absolutely delicious. Pokemon Crystal to me personally is what every new Pokemon iteration should aspire to me. Not only did it acknowledge the past it approached the future. You can no be a girl, I didn't even think about that possibility as a kid but when presented to me it made too much sense. My only question in Pokemon now is the lack of focus on customization OF THE PEOPLE. Yeah you can dress up your Pokemon but they don't stay dressed up in battles. Do I have to be a trainer? Can I be a journalist? I'm not asking for some big mmo but I know it's not hard to have occupational choices in a DS cart (there's lots of memory in those things even more so now with 3DS carts.)

Star Fox needs a new adventure we need something other than Andross to want to take over the Lylat system, and not just aliens invading to make everyone mindless drones I mean renegade mercenaries, an emerging republic, separatists. The charming thing about Star Fox was the questions you asked about the dialogue between the characters their relationships outside the battle field. Like Wolf and Fox use to be best friends but they had a falling out and Wolf went on to create the StarWolf Fighter series which is as far as wiki and manuels are concerned is the superior ship so why are they so easy to defeat?

While I'm on the subject of Nintendo's lack of forward thought, let's discuss OoT and MM, people claim OoT is the true masterpiece, but I would argue a masterpiece can only be called that when compared to something similar. If you do that with OoT against MM. MM beats it in every regard. The palette, the sound track, the characters which are reiterations a lot of aimless characters were given purpose and more life in MM. There was more personality, people knew each other by name even if they were directly related to one another. Lest we forget, of course the biggest change is the tone. Sure Zelda games are pretty bleak in terms of plot when analyzed but MM takes dispair to a whole new level. One of the saddest points of the game is when you realize the Deku mask you receive is of the Deku attendants is actually the soul of the dead Deku Scrub tree you see at the very beginning of the game. (If you didn't already guess that was his son in the first place.) That level of...mental distraught is almost maddening.

Decade 3 has a lot of safety and play to the crowd kind feel to it. Which I don't understand why Nintendo is doing because it's not like casual players remember Super Mario Bro's 3 or Super Mario World any less to the now catered to them New Super Mario bros.

Oh and before I forget to vent it. Metroid Other M was a solid Metroid game. That game is exactly what it looks like when Nintendo is trying too hard to analyze it's hardcore crowd. Which I think the Penny Arcade series Extra Creditz is right: that game could have benefitted story-wise on small banter between characters during the points of isolation and adventure.

Nintendo needs to go back to it's hay days of just taking a fun quirky idea and just running with it. Kirby's Epic yarn is a fantastic example but Kirby in himself is often the safest bet you can make in terms of Nintendo IP's. So I discount him usually of being the constant progressive IP because it's so easy to make a cute accessible imaginative world with Kirby as your focus point. I'd even go so far to say that there could conceptually be no such thing as a bad Kirby game his Mythos is so well designed it's hard to put him someplace he won't fit in.

but yeah anyway walls of text.jpg. Decade 2 wins.