{"id":17172,"date":"2020-07-14T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T22:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=17172"},"modified":"2020-07-14T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T22:49:22","slug":"could-recent-nintendo-tweet-hint-at-upcoming-mario-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2020\/07\/could-recent-nintendo-tweet-hint-at-upcoming-mario-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Could recent Nintendo tweet hint at upcoming Mario Direct?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the cancellation of E3 this year the annual big Nintendo Direct went with it. Nintendo announced <em>Paper Mario: The Origami King<\/em> in May, but the Big N&#8217;s plans for the back half of the year are largely unknown.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some rumours and speculation that there may br some Mario remakes coming this year with 2020 being the 35th Anniversary of Super Mario. Nintendo hasn&#8217;t revealed anything yet.<\/p>\n<p>Today Nintendo shared a random video of music from <em>Super Mario Odyssey<\/em> on their social media channels. With no context, could this be a hint that some Mario goodness is on the way? Is there a Nintendo Direct on the horizon?<\/p>\n<p>The last mainline Mario entry was <em>Odyssey<\/em> which was released in 2017.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When hearing this track sample of &quot;Fossil Falls&quot; from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperMarioOdyssey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SuperMarioOdyssey<\/a> game, you can just feel adventure calling. Which piece is your favorite from the game? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QuAvYqOBPG\">https:\/\/t.co\/QuAvYqOBPG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vKeUn9FZTh\">pic.twitter.com\/vKeUn9FZTh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nintendo of Canada (@NintendoCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoCanada\/status\/1283142268094832641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the cancellation of E3 this year the annual big Nintendo Direct went with it. Nintendo announced Paper Mario: The Origami King in May, but the Big N&#8217;s plans for the back half of the year are largely unknown. There have been some rumours and speculation that there may br some Mario remakes coming this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1178,1530],"tags":[1386,1845],"class_list":["post-17172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nintendo-switch","tag-nintendo","tag-super-mario-odyssey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/supermarioodyssey-e1594766554681.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-4sY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12603,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2017\/11\/super-mario-odyssey-fastest-selling-switch-title\/","url_meta":{"origin":17172,"position":0},"title":"Super Mario Odyssey fastest selling Switch title","date":"November 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Super Mario Odyssey has made records. 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