Nintendo Press Conference E3 2010!
Nintendo Press Conference All Credits goes to this guy! Last year the Nintendo presser was considered to be a disappointing with games hitting for the casual market and doesn't appeal whatsoever to the main targeted audience. But this year, with Microsoft presser being terrible and Nintendo taking the reverse role of being the best conference so far. The Conference has been nothing but a pletho...
Nintendo Press Conference
All Credits goes to this guy! Last year the Nintendo presser was considered to be a disappointing with games hitting for the casual market and doesn't appeal whatsoever to the main targeted audience. But this year, with Microsoft presser being terrible and Nintendo taking the reverse role of being the best conference so far. The Conference has been nothing but a plethora of games and exclusives and the 3Ds. Most of the games featured on the Nokia theatre, actually pumped for games to be released in this holiday season, plus it wasn't awkward or boring, I had a blast watching this presser and hopefully will buy half of those games.
The presser conference begins with Reggie welcoming everyone to the theatre and revealed the new Legend of Zelda game, called Skyward Sword. Then Miyamoto shows up on the video screen, talking about this exclusive game and everyone was pumped. We see his translator after, playing the game and coming across a monster plant which he's having difficulty beating it, as Miyamoto tells him to use the motion plus to shield Link by pretending to shield yourself. After attempts of not failing to kill it, Miyamoto, suddenly teleports from the video to the stage in an awesome fashion and handed the controls. The game looks like it has improved graphics and the motion plus seems very sensitive, seeing that the way, he interacts with the shield and sword. After killing the monster plant and walking around some open-world area, he opens a Fable-esque wheel to show the new weapons; a beatle-like gadget that is use to sight-see things and pick up items and a whip that whip-lashes to enemies. He switches to the bow and unfortunately was too sensitive or broken due to people using wifi? I could hardly believe that but the game will be scheduled next year and be playable at their booth.
Reggie enters and talks about the new sports games that are coming to the Wii, first revealing NBA Jam and then a Mario Sports Game, called Sports Mix. Featuring volleyball and basketball in a Party-esque game with Mario characters playing sports at a beach and a stadium. After, Reggie rambles about how game analyst and journalists are wrong that people only buy the Wii console and not the games, showing the statistics and people actually buying games more than any console combined. Hard to imagine but when people are playing Carnival Games and dumb Party games for the Wii, its that audience that shows how high the sales charts is. He elaborated on another Wii game featuring Mii sport, calling it Wii Party featuring board games, balance boat and house party, with a fun-happy family included. Also thirteen party games and 70 other games, it goes to show that games like Wii Play will be show every year. Just Dance 2 was then shown and blah blah blah.
He then showed, last year's announcement, Golden Sun DS with actual gameplay, called Dark Dawn with potentially good gameplay and graphics, arriving this holiday season. After that, we see a video of a bunch of ''so called'' gamers praising the best shooter/multiplayer game and was showed to be, the new Golden Eye Game for the Wii and hopefully will not be as terrible as Conduit. Plus, I would want to this game to have a stellar split-screen multiplayer that would remind me of those Goldeneye 64 days of playing this game and then switching to Perfect Dark, all night long to holiday. Adam and Warren comes up to the stage and demos, Disney Epic Mickey, setting a unique art style and platforming gameplay and features. The demo takes us to Wasteland where you play as Mickey and a feature that utilizes Mickey's paint to dynamically change the world, having some sort of morale system to choose the faith of this world. Oh yeah, the art style reminded me of Fantasia and how the style they created implements with the paint tool and your decision in this world - with two worlds to jump to, Action and Travel Zone. The one featured in this demo is Travel Zone with Mickey in a 2d sidescroller in his first debut appearance, the steamboat/train black and white cartoon. Reggie announced another game, which revealed to be a Kirby game setting in a unique and artistic direction. The gameplay consists of a 2d background with, Kirby pulling yarn in a nostalgia-esque experience that looks translucent and promising. There are also, two player co-up like New SMB last year with mechanics to co-operatly do and a fucking kirby mech! This game will be released this fall, and Reggie had pulled two Epic Mickeys/Yarn!
A new Dragon Quest Game, titled Sentinels of the Starry Skies for the DS with 120 quests, 300 monsters, 900 items and infinite amount of treasure hunting is only promising to Japan. Also three friends to tag along you and a new feature called tag mode which when you close your ds and seeks other players. But it is coming to America in just 26 days, around August! Metroid the Other M, by team ninja with new gameplay revealed - the gameplay is a third person shooter(yeah we know already) but utilizes a system familiar to Super Metroid with how the camera looks in that trailer, it looks rather disappointing due to its third person-ness, I'm already missing the first person aspect from the first two games and it comes out in August the 31.
Retro Studios then revealed a fucking new DONKEY KONG game which looks like a nostagia presentation to Donkey Kong Country for the N64 with side-scrolling and Diddy and Donkey helping each other in a game that would be potentially awesome to play. Called Donkey Kong Country Returns, a dumb name but I like it, will be released this holiday.
After that they talked about the new DS handheld, 3Ds and agreefully says that putting 3d glasses is a dumb idea, and announces that the new 3ds will not have glasses use and you could take it anywhere. Showing people with glasses and a video of the timeline where 3d was introduced to the use of 3d glasses now in theatres and in games. Then Iwata pops up with the modeled 3ds and presents the features and new things on this handheld - with 3.5 inches display on the top screen, fully capable 3d, graphical improvements, slide pad or analog controller, motion sensing and two camera lenses which will take 3d pictures as the crowd applauded. This will be on the show floor to witness, later - it was announced that three companies; Disney, Warner, Dreamworks will feature movies played in 3ds - How to Train your dragon and etc. He then proceeds to talk about social connectivity and how the online would be freee or something.
Then he talks about Project Sora, a project announced earlier this year(or last year?) and was later revealed to be the new Kid Icarus game called Uprising with everyone fucking applauding. The game looks pretty neat, with an action-oriented gameplay plus Icarus flying and was voiceover by two annoying voice actors/actresses who narrated the upcoming story to the revitalize Icarus that everyone had been bitching about a new game for years - demo will be shown on the
showfloor. That exciting announcement comes another, starting with Nintendodogs with cats and then proceeded to the third-party category as a plethora of companies are listed to feature games as everyone was going wild with these announcements; Dj hero 3d, Kingdom hearts, WTF Saints Row?, Madden 11, Resident Evil Revelations, Assassin creed, RIDGE RACER, Metal Gear Solid and yeah, a PLETHORA of games shown as everyone was wooing at these amazing games coming out...
After the show is starting to end as talking heads of developers praising the new 3ds and such. As another video shows Iwata, Miyamoto and Reggie in some quirky place where they are sucked into a dimension, hilarity ensues and then Reggie's suit being torned (probably went to destroy his suit or was destroyed before while everyone is watching that) and as the finale ends with hot and sexy booth babes - an army of them asking everyone to sit down while they have some sort of fashion show and then said that there are game booths that popped up from the ground as Reggie wants the press to not go to the Sony presser and play Zelda. Hot girls showing in third dimension... what?
Well, that's the Nintendo Conference and its considered to be the best presser for me, even though the Sony presser is coming up next, this one was actually entertaining and most of the games shown here are actually worth playing and not hitting on the casual games more than the previous one. It just jaw-dropping to see that much exclusive games being shown in this conference and how Nintendo didn't forget about the main target audience, they should be aiming for. Kid Icarus, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby and Goldeneye's announcements surprised me as well as the fans who praised for these games in past years, hopefully these games would be the best games of this year, if not for Nintendo pumping up the audience with surprise exclusives and hardly ever been leaked out with games before the presser, that's why Nintendo is good at announcing these games is because of that and how hyped up everyone is when they show it on the press conference. I will gladly look forward for these games and see more amazing games, that Nintendo would offer!!!
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