Summary
- Tomodachi Life fans are delighted by the announcement of Living the Dream.
- However, other communities were hoping the trailer was for their respective anticipated games.
- One frame in particular crushed the dreams of two communities.
The recent Nintendo Direct was expected to play second fiddle to next week’s Switch 2-focused Direct. Though this will likely end up being the case, we did get a couple of cool reveals from the event, namely Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.
The latter is sure to delight Tomodachi fans, who have waited twelve long years for a sequel to Tomodachi Life, which was released in 2013 on the Nintendo 3DS. However, the trailer’s ambiguous opening had the opposite effect on several fandoms, who thought their time had finally come.
Hope, The Great Destroyer
The long wait for Hollow Knight: Silksong has become somewhat of a meme for the community, who, against their best judgement, decide to invest wholehearted energy into believing a release date for Silksong will be announced at every possible gaming showcase.
Considering Team Cherry’s announcement that Silksong will appear on Game Pass, it’s far more likely the game will appear at an Xbox showcase rather than a Nintendo one. Still, that isn’t enough to kill the hope of Silksong fans before every event.
With this in mind, you can see how the opening frame of Tomodachi Life’s trailer, which depicts two palm trees on a beach, could have spiked the hopes of Silksong fans who see Hollow Knight around every corner. In a Reddit thread authored by Fishy_Smelly_Goody, they described the frame as “the single worst thing that ever happened to me.”
The top commenter on the thread, RW_Artificer, summed up the voice of a generation when they said, “Hard day to be a believer. I’m going silksane.”
Would you believe the noble Hollow Knight community were not the only victims of this frame? A post on the Mystery Dungeon subreddit by kyhyt displays the same frame, with the caption reading “I am so desperate when I saw a beach for a second, I thought it was an Explorers remake.”
They are referring to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky. Although the original Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games have been remastered for the Switch, the beloved Explorers series has yet to receive the same treatment.
Although Mystery Dungeon is far more likely to appear at a Nintendo Direct than Hollow Knight, Spike Chunsoft released Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island last year, so they are unlikely to announce another Mystery Dungeon so soon.
It’s truly the hope that kills you… but, without the hope, the payoff isn’t half as good. Imagine how elated the Hollow Knight fans will be when Hornet does appear on that screen, in 2030 or whenever.
