/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6966079
(Part 2 of ?)

People have gotten over Wind Waker's look and it's pretty well liked now, but doing the toon link thing at THIS specific time ruined it for a lot of the West. I say this as someone who likes WW's look a lot. So Zelda was a series that HAD been cool but now wasnt.

Metroid was the only (remotely known) COOL franchise Nintendo still had but the kids werent familiar with it and it's slow methodical exploration wasn't as popular as the more action oriented stuff it was (not really) competing with. Nobody knew about stuff like Killer 7 or FZero GX back then. Resident Evil 4 finally got it some attention but it was kind of too late at that point. And it ended up ported to the others later anyway.

Nobody says this because it hits on what is probably a sore point for a lot of big nintendo fans, but a lot of nintendo's failures happen when their brand just looks really fucking lame. People don't want to buy or play something they're embarrassed to be seen using. Rule of cool is so fucking important for the Western market. This is the biggest reason the wii u failed too.

A LOT of this can be blamed on marketing. But if the games themselves LOOK really...I hate to use this word but 'cringe' is probably the best fit. If the games themselves have an image problem, marketing wont save them. For a more modern example, Wonderful 101 gets a shitload of praise but niche sales because most people think an action game about weird little peg people is just fucking lame. Mario Sunshine was pretty darn fun but it's a game about cleaning up pollution with a squirt gun, competing against GTA and Halo and GoW right as they all started getting crazy popular.