Kirby Mass Attack: Footage of someone playing it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ZdCuzYP1Y

Look at that glorious hectic arcade like action! Those noisy sound effects! The happy music! The fruit collectables! This looks like a very pure type of video game. I can't wait to play it!

One thing though. There's a lot of screen scrawling and that always makes me nervous. I wouldn't take that control scheme out for the world though. Looks like I'm going to have to invest in screen protectors!

Reggie VS Geoff @ E3 2011

This is becoming a kind of pattern isn't it! There always seems to be something sparking between these two guys. I still maintain that Reggie is like Troy McClure and Geoff is like the inquisitive boy from the Simpsons. Sure it doesn't look that way at first but it ends up being that way since all the answers to the tough questions get delivered.

There are three parts to this interview and this is the first part:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-nintendo/715144

Man they're well able to take each other on. I really enjoy Reggie. I don't talk about the man enough!

The games that were featured at E3 2011

I'll talk about the games I liked seeing the trailers of from the show.

First of all the two new Kirby games are going to be a lot of fun, especially Kirby Mass Attack. It looks very arcadey and original! I honestly think non Kirby fans who only liked Power Paintbrush(aka Canvas Curse) will love this game too.

The Wii Kirby looks a lot like the cancelled Gamecube game from years ago. It'll be decent enough I'd say. I'll get it.

Luigi's Mansion 2 is my favourite of the 3DS announcements. I just hope it doesn't have stylus overusage!

The Rolling Western is a bit of a surprise. That game came out of nowhere. It's about an armadillo that rolls up in a ball in the wild west and goes to defeat his enemies. There's a lot of stuff that reminds me of Zelda, such as the Wind Waker font, the noises the main character makes being similar to Link's as well as the overall ability to roll which works the same as Goron Link from Majora's Mask. Might be interesting who knows.

Other stuff looks great too like Super Mario 3DS, Paper Mario, Ocarina of Time 3D, Kid Icarus Uprising, Rhythm Heaven/Paradise Wii, Skyward Sword, Snake Eater, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2.

I also really hope that there'll be a 2D Super Mario Bros for this Wii U at launch! That demonstration Mario Bros Mii really should result in it happening!

Nintendo's next console will be called "Wii U"!

Wow! That show was fantastic! I'm no longer cringing which is great. Nintendo's E3 2011 presentation was great. It wasn't as funny as last year's show (which was funny in an awesome way of course).

So yes it's called the Wii U which sounds like it takes getting used to and it all sounds very exciting yet it's something uncertain and kind of scary. This thing has the potential to play all kinds of games. I'd love to play Four Swords with the controller. It's like a cross between the GC-GBA connection feature and the general idea of having an extra screen in the Nintendo DS.

When the video demonstration of it was playing there were plenty of oohs and aaahs. That's a good sign!

Nintendo's E3 2011 show starting in an hour!

My body is ready for it! Haha!

I'll talk about what I think of it tomorrow and about what I liked and what games got me excited but for now I'm just going to enjoy the show. You do too! Watch it here:

http://e3.nintendo.com/

Thinking about E3 2011 Part 2: Nintendo's new system announcement is going to be REALLY huge

I didn't watch Konami's event last night(5P.M. PST but 1A.M. here) but I do have a suspicion as to what's happening. It's actually the same suspicion I have about Sonic Generations' lack of announcement for a Nintendo home console.

Absolutely no software has been announced yet for Nintendo's new machine and this suggests to me that the reason is that noone's allowed to announce software for it yet. Sonic Generations isn't coming to the Wii because according to SEGA it's for HD formats. The new machine is said to be in HD so it makes sense that SEGA aren't announcing the format. They're simply not allowed to yet. It's the only plausible explanation.

Konami's conference seemed like it was missing some very big Nintendo related announcements and this could be because they're not allowed to announce anything right now.

Will they announce something? Well... going by patterns we can probably expect a brief video clip where Hideo Kojima briefly comments on the new Nintendo hardware when it's announced.

In any case, stuff like this is secretly stockpiling and will be let loose in a huge outburst when the big reveal happens next Tuesday.

Konami's E3 2011 "Pre-E3" show is on in a couple of hours

I never actually tuned into Konami's E3 showings at all unless they were about Metal Gear. Well, Hideo Kojima's expected to have something for it anyway so that'll be worth waiting for. Snatcher for Wii please!

It would also be brilliant if Konami announced all new installments from their classic franchises for a Nintendo system. I'm not just talking about Castlevania either! I'll hang around and check it out anyway. You have a look too if you want on this site:

http://www.konami.com/e3/

Edit: A 3DS version of Frogger has been announced. OK I mean from classic franchises other than the usual suspects!

Thinking about E3 2011 (Part 1)

E3's coming very soon and I haven't talked much about it. Of course this is the only site that actually matters:

http://e3.nintendo.com/

Live coverage of Nintendo's press conference! I hope I'll be able to catch it. Let's see now... the site says it's on at 9am PDT. Irish time is 8 hours ahead of Los Angeles time so I'll have to tune in at 5pm.

It'll be this day next week that it's starting. Nintendo's showing last year was great. The suspense and the big game reveals and the whole thing in general was so fun and entertaining! It was just what I wanted!

I hope it's entertaining this year too.