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There's something about Nintendo discourse about new or upcoming games (like the upcoming Star Fox 64 remake) that just really rubs me the wrong way, and I don't say this to be like, a super defensive fanperson about Nintendo who will slice you into fillet if you dare to talk bad about them. I think really, a lot of it boils down to, "I don't like seeing people not only trash a game, but act like everyone who buys that game or even just expresses any interest, no matter how healthily they do so, is part of some greater problem and should be ashamed of themselves," magnified by the fact that Nintendo games are the most well-known to everyone so the discoures becomes inescapable unless I just blackout from all online platforms for a while. Obviously, this excepts games that have horrible messages (like pro-naziism) or made by people who are known to be awful (like Domina, whose developer went on a raging tirade against trans people in the patch notes, on the game's forum, and on Twitter; or Hogwarts Legacy, because lol JKR) -- *those* are the things that I feel are much worse spends of money (along with things like Chick-Fil-A and donating money to the political campaigns of known bad people and political parties), but our general behavior when it comes to games we simply don't like or have anti-interest in is to just not make much noise about it. Of course, the people who are super defensive Nintendo fanatics don't really help and I think that's why their detractors just decide they don't care who feels hurt as long as they get their feelings about the new Nintendo game out. At any rate, we're not interested in SF64 remake ourselves, if they at least remixed the level designs and game mechanics then sure, but since the Direct stated that the old level designs are kept...we'll just turn our attention to other games instead.