The June 2024 Nintendo Direct aired this week, and it was a pretty big presentation. Considering where we’re at in the Switch’s lifecycle, there were quite a number of big announcements.
From Nintendo itself, it opened the show by announcing Mario & Luigi: Brotherhood – a surprise in its own given how many fans thought the series was dead, especially after main developer AlphaDream closed its doors. The news didn’t stop there though, as Super Mario Party Jamboree and Donkey Kong Country Returns HD were revealed as well. One of the biggest announcements of the show, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, will see Zelda herself take the starring role in a new 2D entry. Finally, we’ve all been waiting forever for Metroid Prime 4, and we got our first glimpse of it this week and a 2025 release window.
There’s a lot of other things we could bring up, including third-party content. Highlights include Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (and the first two entries getting the same treatment), Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, Fantasian Neo Dimension, and Ace Attorney Investigations Collection. You can catch up on all of the news here.
What did you think of the June 2024 Nintendo Direct? Which games are you most interested in? Let us know in the comments.
A new launch trailer for Echo Generation: Midnight Edition is here. After it was just recently announced for Switch, the title arrived this week.
Catch up on everything you need to know in the following overview:
We’ve set up a post to gather together notable Switch pre-orders relating to announcements from the June 2024 Nintendo Direct that just wrapped up a little while ago. Retailers have started putting up some new listings following the reveals.
This post will be updated as necessary over the next few days. All relevant retailer links will also be added to our general weekly pre-order post that we post every Sunday.
Here’s our June 2024 Nintendo Direct pre-orders roundup:
System: Switch
Release date: June 19, 2024
Developer: Studio Supersoft
Publisher: Raw Fury
It’s always refreshing when developers make an effort to shake up a genre by injecting something new into it. It often yields unexpected surprises, or at the very least a different experience, which is equally as valuable in an overcrowded genre. Moonstone Island is another game that has taken the bold and ambitious move of throwing half a dozen different gameplay mechanics from assorted genres into a blender to see what comes out. The result is nowhere near as messy as that implies, but more care could have been taken with what was included nonetheless.
Nintendo won’t say who’s developing Mario & Luigi: Brothership, but the company has offered up a sliver of information.
As relayed by Game File, the Big N says that “some of the original developers who worked on the franchise are involved in the development”. Nintendo noted that further information will be included in the credits at release.
Following its arrival on Switch this week, gameplay has come in for Everafter Falls. The farm/life story-driven adventure RPG launched nearly four years after it was announced for the system.
Here’s an official overview of the title:
A whole bunch of gameplay is now in for the just-released Switch version of Moonstone Island. The creature-collecting life-sim has received an hour of footage.
For more information about the game, read the following overview:
