10 Dead Franchises Nintendo Actually Brought Back

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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're taking a look at 10 Nintendo franchises that were

00:14surprisingly resurrected thanks to the Switch.

00:23Before we begin, we publish new videos all week long, so be sure to subscribe to Mojo

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00:32Luigi's Mansion Series

00:43This may sound hard to believe now, but Luigi didn't get much attention outside of being

00:48the token Player 2 character.

00:50Even after the praise the original Luigi's Mansion received at launch, and the years

00:54that followed, it took well over a decade for us to get the sequel, Luigi's Mansion

00:59Dark Moon.

01:06The second game was less than stellar, and the 2018 remake of the first game was widely

01:11scrutinized for its gyro controls.

01:14Nintendo would give Luigi one more shot with Luigi's Mansion 3 six years after the sequel,

01:20and good lord, was it a turnaround.

01:23Luigi's Mansion 3 sold gangbusters for several years, selling roughly 13 million copies within

01:30less than four years.

01:32If the HD remaster of Dark Moon is anything to go off of, Nintendo must have renewed interest

01:37in the series.

01:38Although, there's no telling now when we might see Luigi's Mansion 4 or a remaster

01:43of the original game.

01:56Pikmin Series

02:04The Pikmin series had a rocky dormancy throughout the 2010s.

02:08Even though Pikmin 3 launched with little fanfare on the ill-fated Wii U in 2013, Shigeru

02:13Miyamoto came out two years afterwards to announce Pikmin 4 was nearing completion.

02:19Then, silence.

02:21The most we saw of the IP was a spinoff on 3DS that few bothered to play, as well as

02:26a Pokemon Go clone in Pikmin Bloom, and a switch port of Pikmin 3.

02:32At this point, many believed Pikmin 4 might have been cancelled, until it miraculously

02:37resurfaced in 2023.

02:46Within the span of nine months, Pikmin's long-awaited fourth game managed to sell three

02:51and a half million copies, and it would become the best-selling title in the entire franchise.

02:56Perhaps this means we won't have to wait too long for a fifth entry?

03:07Mario & Luigi Series

03:18The Mario & Luigi games once saw resounding success, starting with Superstar Saga on the

03:23Game Boy Advance and continuing with DS Sequel's Partners in Time and Bowser's Inside Story.

03:30Once we hit the 3DS years, it all went downhill.

03:33Dream Team failed to impress anyone, neither did Paper Jam, and the remakes of Superstar

03:38Saga and Bowser's Inside Story failed in revitalizing the IP, especially since they

03:43came after the Switch was already out.

03:46With revenue tanking, developer AlphaDream was left with no other choice but to file

03:51for bankruptcy and close its doors in 2019.

03:54Fans were distraught, believing that their favorite RPG series was truly dead.

03:59Then, in June 2024, Nintendo made the shocking announcement of a new installment.

04:12At the time of writing, not much is known about Mario & Luigi Brothership, however,

04:17we do know that this will be the first game in the series to be rendered entirely in 3D

04:22and the first in the series to be made for a home console.

04:25Exciting times we're living in!

04:37Another Code Series

04:48While many were too busy playing the many Mario games made for DS, very few ever got

04:54to experience the Another Code games.

04:57Only two games were ever made in this series, and they were both made for the DS, only to

05:01be forgotten and stranded there for the years that followed.

05:05So it was astonishing to see Nintendo and Arc System Works remake both games and bring

05:10their stories forward to Nintendo Switch in 2024.

05:23Not only were controls reworked along with brand new visuals, but Another Code recollection

05:28even rewrote and added scenes to make the story a bit tighter than they were back in

05:33the day.

05:43Endless Ocean Series

05:53Endless Ocean found itself earning the status of cult classic for those who were always

05:58playing their Wii consoles back in the 2000s.

06:01There was something super calming about diving into the ocean and learning about underwater

06:05life.

06:06The soundtrack alone is bound to put you in a zen-like state.

06:09We'd see a sequel in 2010, although that was the last we had seen of it until 2024.

06:24Endless Ocean Luminous revived the IP on Nintendo Switch, and it sadly did not fare well in

06:30the review process.

06:31Critics weren't too pleased with the game's focus on exploration and basic controls and

06:35mechanics.

06:36Well, it was still cool to see Nintendo give one of their forgotten IPs another chance.

06:47Big Brain Academy Series

06:56Much like Endless Ocean and Another Code, Big Brain Academy didn't get much of a chance

07:01to shine after the glory days of the Wii and DS.

07:04We got the original game on DS, the sequel Wii Degree, and then there was a board game

07:10at one point.

07:11But that was all we got, really, so it was surprising to see Nintendo give the IP another

07:16crack 14 years later.

07:25Big Brain Academy Brain vs. Brain brought the series to Switch with a handful of minigames

07:30both old and new, and the focus on multiplayer led to some fun nights with friends to see

07:35who was the smartiest.

07:37Er, smarter-est.

07:38I guess we need to go train our brains some more.

07:48Pokemon Snap Series

08:00Once upon a time, Pokemon Snap was nothing more than an N64 game only us millennials

08:05would cherish.

08:06Look, we couldn't help it.

08:08There was something wondrous about riding through environments and seeing Pokemon in

08:12their natural habitats instead of fighting.

08:15And after decades of wishing for a sequel, we eventually thought that day would never

08:19come.

08:20Imagine how pleasantly shocked we were when New Pokemon Snap dropped in 2021, and it was

08:26vastly bigger than the original game.

08:37You had more locations to explore, more Pokemon to photograph, more items to use that could

08:42help you discover new Pokemon, more secret routes.

08:45It was kind of an overload of improvements, but we loved it regardless.

08:56The Wars Series

09:06This series has undergone many different names, starting with Famicom Wars, then Game Boy

09:11Wars before finally becoming Advance Wars on GBA and Battalion Wars on GameCube.

09:18This turn-based strategy series saw continuous success until Nintendo suddenly stopped making

09:23them after Days of Ruin on DS.

09:26We didn't even get a new game for the 3DS.

09:34Thankfully, Nintendo hired WayForward to remake the first two Advance War games, launching

09:42OnePlus 2 Reboot Camp in 2023.

09:46Not much has been said about the sales, but longtime fans were thrilled to be able to

09:50play this long-forgotten series in some capacity, and it even came with multiplayer.

10:02Metroid Series

10:10Other M was such a disaster in how it handled Samus as a character that it very well killed

10:15the franchise for some time.

10:17Federation Force really didn't help the situation either.

10:20The awful spinoff notwithstanding, we went well over a decade before we finally got a

10:25brand new Metroid game.

10:27We got a remake, a new game.

10:36Metroid Dread was the revival we were so desperate to see.

10:40This was what everybody knew and loved about the franchise, a 2D action platformer filled

10:46with secret areas and deadly enemies to fight.

10:50Samus was back in full force, and a year and a half after Dread launched, we got a remaster

10:57of Metroid Prime.

10:58In other words, the franchise is back and bigger than it ever has been.

11:14The Famicom Detective Club Series

11:21The Famicom Detective Club Series is one of Nintendo's older and most obscure IPs.

11:27The reason because of its obscurity can be easily pointed to the fact that the series

11:31has only ever had two games, both having only gotten remakes in 2021 for the Switch.

11:37So when the trailer for Emeo the Smiling Man suddenly appeared on Nintendo's YouTube

11:41channel, many were confused yet intrigued.

11:45An M-rated horror game from Nintendo?

11:48Excuse me?

11:58Turns out Nintendo is ready to tell another chilling and horrifying tale in the Famicom

12:03Detective Club Series.

12:05Emeo will be the first new title in the franchise in 35 years, and it launches on August 29,

12:132024.

12:14The wait is not long.

12:24Is there a dormant IP you would like to see Nintendo revisit?

12:27Me personally, where is Rhythm Heaven?

12:31Where has that been all these years?

12:33Let us know down in the comments below, and don't forget to subscribe to Mojo Plays

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