Welcome.

Hello and welcome to NBC IGN's Nintendo podcast this week we are talking about the Nintendo direct the first one in a really long time.

Of course, and also why there has to be more Zelda news this year.

And of course we're going to be talking about more.

I'm your host Kisey Friedas and this week I am joined by Brian Altano.

Hello,

I'm a pair Snyder. Hello, and Zach Ryan here specifically for some spicy takes. Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, I mean, don't set me up that way.

I think we're all going to have spicy takes this week. So it's fine, but it's been a while and I'm glad that you're back.

Yeah, it has been a while.

So I guess the first thing we need to talk about of course is the February Nintendo direct.

It was a 50 minute long one. We got a lot of stuff and it started with

the Nintendo Chronicle 2's pirate and myth or in smash. We also learned about it's between three Mario golf super rush and the legends of the Skyward Sword HD.

There's a lot more, but I think those were the biggest announcements.

And I wanted to ask everyone on the cast here and also you at home, what was your favorite announcement? Did you have a favorite announcement?

I did. Yeah, Mario golf was for sure. Sorry, Pear. I didn't mean to cut you.

Go ahead. Yeah, Mario golf was like by far and away the best thing that I think that they showed.

I played just an obscene amount of Mario golf on the 3DS, the last Mario golf game.

And I'm so stoked that it has a story mode. I think speed golf looks ridiculous. Like that's going to be such a like a real friendship killer.

I'm excited for that game. I did a nice like when they announced it. So yeah, I'm stoked for that. I think it's going to be great.

I think that's a general consensus among. I think a lot of us were more excited for Mario golf than arguably the bigger announcement, which was platoon 3.

But I guess we're just all all more so Mario sports fans, even though I know that the Mario sports games have regularly sold significantly less in the Splatoon.

So Splatoon 3 is definitely Nintendo's biggest game that they announced. I assume based on sales.

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