Nintendo just changed E3 2019 with nostalgia and new ideas.

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• Nintendo just changed E3 2019 with nostalgia and new ideas.

After mediocre but exciting press conferences from Microsoft and Square Enix, and a few whiffs from Bethesda and Ubisoft, I wondered, along with many others, "Is E3 a tiring event?" After watching Nintendo's online-only, Nintendo Direct Opening Speech from E3 2019, my confidence in E3 has been restored. Nintendo has brought huge guns to E3 2019, with more details on games we already knew about, along with release dates, and surprise announcements that tap into nostalgia for not just old games. But also classic movies. About 97% of these games will be released in 2019, and before the holiday season. Of course, this remaining 3% comes mostly from The Legend of Zelda sequel The Wild Breath, which was announced as in development alongside a flashy trailer. We also know that Animal Crossing for Nintendo Switch will release on March 20, 2020 as Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Finally, in 2020, Square Enix will offer a 3D remake of its cult RPG, Seiken Densetsu 3, the third game in the RPG Mana series, under the name Trials of Mana in early 2020, exclusively for Nintendo. switch.

Miner is sweet, sweet nostalgia.

Nintendo spent much of its 45-minute speech announcing games that are lavish remakes and all-new entries to legendary franchises, like a Panzer Dragoon remake, a Sypro trilogy remaster, a new Contra game. , Rogue Corps, and a strategy. Game based on the franchise The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics. (The latter is tied to Netflix's new preformed film series of the 1982 film of the same name.) In addition to these announcements, Nintendo took this opportunity to deposit two collections of classic retro games in stores on its virtual store on the same date: the Konami Contra Anniversary Collection and the Square Enix Mana Collection. This latest collection of games brings the original Seiken Densetsu 3, first released in Japan in 1995 for the Super Famicom, to the West for the first time as you guessed it: Trials of Mana. Of course, I wouldn't want to mention Nintendo's latest 2019 nostalgia drug: its remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. This magnificent reprint of the Game Boy classic has not only appealed to long-time fans, but also brings a new gameplay to Build-a-Dungeon. This allows players to create their own Zelda dungeons by combining plays from existing game content, possibly with the ability to share them with friends. With these announcements, Nintendo reminded its visitors that the Nintendo Switch is the best place for long-time nostalgic video game fans (like this guy). However, the company clearly respects these fans with not just phone reissues, but new remakes and fresh takes on these classic franchises.

No More Heroes 3 by Grasshopper Manufacture (Credit: Nintendo)

A dash of new ideas and stories.

Of course, Nintendo could have stopped there and made me happy, but the company is going even further in 2019 with new games, both in new franchises and old ones. Games like Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Marvel's Avengers: Ultimate Alliance 3, both released exclusively for Switch in July, will take these worlds to the next level. Similarly, Pokémon Sword and Shield will elevate the legendary series to a whole new level that it has never experienced before, namely the best Pokémon game to date. Then you've got Daemon X Machina, a new mecca of the action game franchise, and Astral Chain, a new action-beat-em-up game from Platinum Games, which tells the summer of new story ideas never before seen. Naturally, both are exclusive to the Nintendo console. We haven't touched on the topic of Luigi's Mansion 3 yet, which brings many new ideas to the series, such as two-player cooperative play and up to eight players competing, internally or online. Not to mention a haunted hotel to explore instead of another house full of ghosts to suck on. Finally, we are looking forward to the release of new third-party games from Nintendo for 2020, such as the top 20 game Empire of Sin. Nintendo uses its unique position with the Switch as both a portable console and a home console to satisfy as many gamers as possible, which no other console can do. Remakes and re-releases have long been exciting gamers with new ways to play games they loved or never had the chance to do on the go. Meanwhile, the new games give existing players something completely new to master and potentially attract new fans. In the end, Nintendo has regained my trust in E3 as the annual event where game publishers and developers are doing their best to excite gamers for years to come, far better than even Microsoft. He was done with his tease for the next xbox. Well, I'm happy to have the Nintendo Switch as the only gaming console this time around. E3 2019 is the biggest gaming event of the year. TechRadar reports live from Los Angeles, bringing you the biggest announcements of the week, the game's epic trailers to the shocking release date. Follow our expert analysis of the speeches and what we see at E3.