Nintendo used to be reviered as the savyor of the modern video game. Nintendo was on the breaking edge with the first sqorling platform, the first human well known video game figure, and even the winner of the Genis Book of World Records game sold.
Unfortunantly, Nintendo has sliped from the spotlight, and dove into the dispare filled void of "kiddy gameing." Nintendo has seased its original ideals, and it pocketing off of its well known characters from an endless parade of multiplayer sequals. If we make it to Mario Party 567838 by next year, I will scream!
Like a dog that has lost its pride, Nintendo has basicaly sat back whilst Playstation and X-Box fought over the title of most advanced and most best gamed system. Even Nintendo's portable franchise may be in gerperdy by the first 3-D handheld from Nokia.
As the "Next Generation Systems" fought for online, DVD, and Graphic cabability; Nintendo basicaly sat stuned in the shadows of "Nintendo Suck, Halo rules!!!."
The great Titan of video games has shranken to what some may call a pathetic blob of mindless sequals.
But... there is a single ray of hope left in Nintendo, and is 90% the reson I haven't left the system and moved on. This ray of hope, is actual darkness. "Eternal Darkness" to be exact. This game, along with Metroid Prime are the only two works the GameCube has created that it could posably be proud of.
"Eternal Darkness" is the first time Nintendo has ever tried a mature, intertwining, storyline. From blood, to gore, to goth; Eternal Darkness showed me exactly how far a game can go to tell a story. (And hopefully they can go farther.) You see, Nintendo's only true salvation is to shatter its "kiddy" image, get into the fight for technology, and most of all do something no other system has truealy yet done... HAVE STORY LINES!
Eternal Darkness showed me that a game can tell a story, a great story. That games can look and feal realistic. That games can scare you... Not with the "BOO! I'm ugly method!" like most game (Resident Evil), uses; but with the "Oh my God this could really be happining/they hit close to home" method. That game is played quite ofenly by me, and it is in my top favorites. The game is the light of darkness witch Nintendo must fallow to come back on top.
With online cabaility, along with other features, and more mature and consuming story lines, Nintendo may just be able to get back in the game.
(I can't wait to see if there is a sequal to Eternal Darkness, I would bne it in a heart-beat.)
Also, Nintendo needs to advertise their mature games more. Hardly anyone at my school knows eternal darkness ever existed, yet peeps at video game shops deem it and Metroid as Nintendo Game Cube's best work. There has to be a way to share mature games on TV and advertisments too. That would have helped ALOT! :)
