2023 will be an extremely important year for Nintendo with the arrival of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Octopath Traveler 2 and many others. Enough to give grain to grind to the first Nintendo Direct presentation of the year.
During more than forty minutes of show, Nintendo revealed its plans for the first half of 2023. It must be said that the Japanese company has its work cut out for it in the coming weeks with two huge releases: Octopath Traveler 2 and The Legend of Zelda : Tears of the Kingdom. But beyond these two behemoths, the publisher also intends to capitalize on the life cycle of its games already published, with many DLCs, games playable in Nintendo Online or its Extension Pass, and remasters of legendary titles to discover. just below.
You can see the replay of the Nintendo Direct for this month of February 2023 from the youtube page official from Nintendo. You also have the option to watch it right here:
What games were featured at Nintendo Direct?
We will start with the end today because Nintendo has obviously reserved the crispy announcements for the last part of its show. It is of course on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that everyone had their eyes glued to a new story trailer that walked us through the storyline of this sequel in a bit more detail. Breath of the Wild. We find extremely impressive images of this new adventure where we find Link once again struggling with an ancestral evil trying to destroy Hyrule. Our adventurer will have to rescue Princess Zelda, during a still quite enigmatic journey, which will take her to the skies, the new central destination of this new episode. Of course, the game is still planned for the May 12, 2023.
On the news side, the Nintendo Direct announcements were extremely numerous. These are a whole bunch of small licenses that will be back in the coming months. We can especially talk about Professor Layton who is making an unexpected return to the world of the living. After a few failed comeback attempts with, among others, the infamous The Layton Adventure: Katrielle and the Millionaire Conspiracy our big hat investigator is finally coming to Nintendo Switch. We will find him in his new adventure Professor Layton and The New World of Steam which was presented to us by a short trailer.
Finally, the third major announcement concerns the imminent arrival of Metroid Prime Remastered on the Nintendo Store. The famous FPS from the Metroid license is once again at the center of attention almost twenty years after its release, with a completely revised version for the Nintendo Switch. Both veteran and new players will enjoy its updated controls and fully HD graphics. The good news is that the game is already available on the Nintendo Store. Among the other announcements, we can remember the arrival of a collection of Gameboy Advance games in the catalog of the Nintendo Online Pass Extension. Something to bring back good memories to the oldest players among us.
In addition, we also had the opportunity to hear about some smaller games. Information from this Nintendo Direct also covered the release ofOctopath Traveler 2, which is already available as a demo on the Nintendo Store. A good way to discover the first pages of this adventure which risks falling directly into the category of classics. Pikmin 4 also made an appearance and will be released on July 21, 2023, just like Fashion Dreamer announced for 2023.