Well I am actually writing this intro before a Direct was even announced (today is September 10). Because it’s pretty clear we’ll get a Direct this month at the same kind of time as every September in the last 8 years, and I assume 13 or 14 for the date of the Direct (*Edit: okay it was 14, let me update the title*).

There are rumors going for this one from Pyoro, one of the only “leakers” that has actually been somewhat trustworthy so far. Namely a DK game that SEEMS to be Mario vs DK-related… hopefully it’s not one of the Minis games and actually a return to the original MvD, which was a take on Donkey Kong 94. Then one for an F-Zero game, which he is heavily hinting at being F-Zero 99 (please no). And one that seems to be hinting at a remaster of the 2 Trace Memory games (the Wii one never came out in America), or at least a Wii game and a DS game that are linked somehow. And there’s no other leaker saying anything credible. Would be funny if this Direct was the one where Pyoro lost his credibility.

My true expectation is, of course, that even a bad Direct has one or two cool things, so in the end I’ll probably have some thing to be happy about here.

Well, let’s go and watch this Direct! These are live reactions as I’m watching the Direct.

This was shown off at the recent Nintendo Partner Direct, thought I think it was shown off in other places before. I was pretty curious about it as it looked pretty interesting. I realized pretty quick that it used Jump characters, specifically from Jump+, though none of them I was particularly familiar with outside of Spy X Family. I wondered what “Captain Velvet Meteor” was though, as that wasn’t a Jump character. This video from 10 years ago is literally all I could find (of course made by one of the devs of the game). So basically Shueisha gave their licenses to a pretty small studio to make a game using their characters… That’s certainly not something you see every day.

So I picked this up and it was a nice quick weekend game alongside Frogun.

So let’s go and see if it’s good!