Steve Ahlman

Difficult yes.

Will I finish it?

Probably.

This is a lot for me.

You kind of do, only because to a non-Nioh enthusiast, I can imagine this game being completely weird.

and now it'd be like okay so it's a souls like game uh yeah but you also got like a a ghost tamagotchi that you take care of and you're kind of like fighting these like generic oni and also you make these oh man you have it's like a custom created character now so i made like the whitest man in all of japan with like glasses and he looks like me you made yourself yeah a total weeb and i was like this this feels right this feels right i am the chosen one

I have played Killer7 is Great, Killer is Dead, and a couple of others.

This game looks just right up their alley, like absolute madcap Looney Tunes level of...

Like, animation and art style, it really does feel that, like, Suda51 and that team Grasshopper is, like, these guys are true originals.

Whether you like these games or not, like, you cannot say you've seen anything like this before.

Please tell me this is good.

Yeah, and it's sort of more of the same with a fresh coat of paint.

I'm seeing that a lot of these other mainline, either Mario or first-party Nintendo games, they're not developed in-house by Nintendo.

They're typically developed by another team.

And not to say that that team didn't do great work, but it seemed like they had one primary focus, and it was to deliver a certain thing.

And...

Short of those massive 10-pole games that we see on a Switch 2, like a Donkey Kong Bonanza or a Zelda or even maybe this next latest Mario Kart World, it's been rather disappointing.

And this is a broader question, but has there been a quiet downswing of first-party Nintendo games with the Mario and major Nintendo IP that have been...

lacking in quality?

Let's go.