the big bombshells the kinds of crazy announcements you always hoped for but never expect i mean after all these years we are finally getting a NUMBER_TOKENd kirby game and it looks really really cool that's something special right there a classic nintendo series going NUMBER_TOKENd for the first time is not something that happens every day and then the big one it is also not every day that a long neglected series gets a new entry a series that has sat for literal decades without getting a mainline title and its fans wonder if such a thing will ever happen and seriously if you want to talk about rarity how often is it that a project enters development heck for years and years only to suddenly come back to life to a metroid fan such as myself the announcement of dread was a bombshell to end all bombshells a moment of pure unbridled bliss a moment good enough to make a whole year and regardless of the series it's always very nice when nintendo delivers a moment like that it's so rare but so special and that leads us to the next section of this review for the quality of a year does not only come down to announcements but also the releases and darn it NUMBER_TOKEN was a solid year it didn't have a lot of massive blockbusters at this point i think that's at least partially because nintendo is rapidly running out of those but the lineup was diverse and the release is consistent the existence of metroid dread was already pretty great but it also managed to stick the landing even winning multiple game of the year awards it wasn't just the return of an old series but a rare example of an old series coming back better than ever being almost universally loved and attracting loads of new fans NUMBER_TOKEN might not have just been the year metroid returned it might have been the year metroid's life truly started but we'll just have to wait and see on that front beyond that bowser's fury was a terrific addition to NUMBER_TOKENd world which itself was greatly improved new pokemon snap was a really delightful sequel bravely default NUMBER_TOKEN reviewed well monster hunter rise was very well received and has been hugely successful warioware was great smtNUMBER_TOKEN was great mario golf was decent mario party was great and had good online skyward sword hd was a massive massive improvement over the original pokemon brilliant diamond and shining pearl were very successful in terms of sales then animal crossing finally got some new content dlc in the form of happy home paradise as well as a major update that fulfilled many of the fanbase's biggest wishes i still think nintendo has really dropped the ball with that game but even if this stuff was really late it was no doubt a welcome addition so yeah really not a bad lineup at all there was something for everyone notable releases coming almost monthly and that's what i love to see consistency NUMBER_TOKEN had a few fun happenings beyond games as well there was the reveal and release of the switch oled model for people like me who were desperately hoping for a stronger switch capable of outputting higher resolutions and frame rates its announcement was pretty disappointing but the existence of the oled is easier to handle when you realize we probably would have gotten a stronger switch if it weren't for the chip shortage and there's no denying that it's still very nice to have a model with
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