Mario Golf is still gonna be more work for less profit than MT Aces. They don't have a Wii U game to take assets from unlike Tennis, and even if they did they would still have to spend time creating new golf courses.
And even with that, probably it's more cheaper to do a new entry for Mario Golf than Golden Sun (it's common knowledge that it cost a lot of money to do a RPG game).
I mean, I obviously want a new/remake Golden Sun entry, but I just think Nintendo will prioritize any Mario entry for Camelot. My hope was that Nd Cube would assume the Mario Sport entries, but welp, they didn't (and they have like 100 workers to do a worse Mario Party entry each time...).
But hey, I really think Nintendo realized the popularity from Golden Sun with the poll and, posibly, with the reaction from Isaac being an Assist Trophy. IMO they only planned 3 or 4 spirits originally (Young Isaac, Adult Isaac, Felix and Matthew), and after the reaction, they put all the other characters:
- The Garet one is clearly bugged, it doesn't make sense that a 1 star spirit has the whole map in flames.
- The Jenna and Ivan spirits appear in the Ana shop in the adventure mode. It doesn't make sense an small franchise has 2 characters in one shop in order to buy them, it just screams to me they added them later.
- Isaac mission already has a representation of the other 3 party members, why are they being featured as a separate battles? It would make more sense to only battle Isaac and its Mii interpretation with some boost on its attacks.
So who knows, maybe Golden Sun will shine again before Mario Golf. I guess we'll have to wait.
Well, at least Takamaru's game is playable in the West these days. All that's left is for his fans to campaign for him more seriously. And ignore the folk complaining about swords.
Curious how Nintendo tend to include Takamaru all the time since the Wii (Captain Rainbow, Samurai Warriors exclusive "remake", Nintendoland, localizing the game in the west, appearing in Smash as an Assist trophy, featuring him in Mario Maker and Mario Maker 2...), but they don't do a new game. Or they are planning a new entry, or some directors have fond memories of him and just put him everywhere until some newbie productor get his attention lol
Also it doesn't help that the last Mario Golf game sold worse than the last Golden Sun.
We don't know that; we don't know how many copies sold DD and the 3ds golf entry.
To me, the only really surprising thing about Lucas in Smash at this point is that all these years later, and after all the fan demand, we still don't have a localized Mother 3. It seems like such an obvious, low-risk, high-reward project for Nintendo, especially with all the free publicity the game has gotten via Brawl/Sm4sh/Ultimate, yet we still have nothing official over 13 years after that game released.
One of the things I've always imagined about Isaac in Smash is that his inclusion could spark enough fan demand to ensure a new Golden Sun release. Unfortunately, if the Mother series is any indication (never mind others like F-Zero or Kid Icarus), Nintendo is perfectly willing to let a series rot even if they're enjoying the limelight of Smash. Not to say I wouldn't be happy with Isaac in Smash without a new Golden Sun, but I'll hold out hope that we get the dream of a game announcement alongside Isaac DLC so we can have the best of both worlds.
Localizing Mother 3 is just killing themselves nowadays. If they edit the controversial things, the mother community would criticize them a lot. If they don't edit anything, the media would eat them.
The game has several "hot topics" (the transgender sexuality, a posible pedophile scene (even if it didn't really happen), etc.) that it's very very controversial. They won't take the risk.
Also, if you really want to play the game, you have already done it. Yeah, it's piracy, but... it's the only way to play it.
