While Nintendo is doing good at making fun games, they're restricting themselves too much to certain few big names and ruining, and I genuinly do mean ruining, the few they try to experiment with too much

ie metroid

Everyone hated Federation Force when it was announced

Nintendrones said "WOW U R SO ENTITLED LIKE GIVE IT A CHANCE OMG ITLL BE GOOD SHUT UP"

And then it was garbage

As a result, they pulled a Squeenix and threw in a teaser for a new mainline Metroid game at the very end

In the loosest form possible

When I refer to SE here, I'm referring to what they did with the TWEWY iOS port where they teased a new TWEWY product, got a lot of people hyped, and then disappointed them with a phone port only to tease that there MIGHT be a TWEWY2 down the road

It's manipulative and wrong to do to your customers, especially since in SE's case it shows that there's been no follow up to that teaser yet

Other big titles that get nice niche followings just straight up die or get blanded into obscurity

FZero is gone

Fire Emblem is turning too kiddy and it's causing a divide in the community from what I've heard

Metroid is basically dead

Animal Crossing is essentially a one per generation title, from GC to Wii to 3ds and now likely Switch

Thus not producing enough to tide fans over there

Zelda, Mario, and Pokemon are all they're really good with

And Pokemon has turned increadibly iffy lately

Animal Crossing is fucking great though

From what I've heard, it is

It's not my sorta game, so I have no opinion personally

Uh

What else does Nintendo even have?

They do next to nothing with Yoshi and not enough woth DK despite how good those games are every time

Barring Donkey Konga

Kirby is steady but very far behind

And what I specifically had in mind with the bland comment

It started as like, the game they wanted to use to basically teach kids how to play games

And mever really evolved past a simple platformer

A very simple platformer

It looks like with Kirby Lagann they're trying new stuff out, but they're not moving fast enough and still stuck to the 3DS' inferior tech to experiment with

With the only Kirby game on the Wii U being Canvas Curse 2

I've never really been excited for Kirby honestly

They can be super fun

I love Super Star Ultra

They just need to move more into campy action fun like in the Meta Knight's Revenge story and less just "here, fuck around in a few maps for a while"

That'd help it out tremendously I'd say

Otherwise it'll just be the same game pretty much every time

Which doesnt help when the one on the Wii and the original actually ARE the same game

From what I understand

If not the NES one, a different one

I always try to take an hour nap and it ends up being 4 hours long