>>716276734 (OP)>Best Water Temple (still kinda shitty, but the swimming was actually a well-executed mechanic that made you say "oh thank god!" after OoT's Iron Boot bullshit)>Best Swordplay (final crystalization of OoT's foundations and WW's additions, even the waggle combat was great, since a waggle is just an analogue for a B-button press in TP)>Best Story (fuck you, fight me)>Best Girls (Fuck you, Fight me)Nintendo peaked in this era. They went swiftly to shit right after. I think I might actually be done with them. Paying something like $700 for a switch 2, with the knowledge in the back of my mind that this console is designed to brick itself if it detects microaggressions towards your Ninendoverlords, is just too much of a fucking bitch move for me to make.
I actually had it in my cart on amazon, they seduced me with promises of overnight delivery, and I almost hit confirm and spent the money, but then I thought "Why? For what? Donkey Kong? Prime 4? They're only allowed to be so good in this Disney Treehouse era of saccharine shit Nintendo makes today."
They've lost their touch. They don't put in the time, they don't apply the polish. They've lost the reputation of being a master class game developer, they've done what Disney did, and subsidized the thing they were good at, so that they could spend more time being litigious greedy monsters on the business end.