E3 2012 must see vid with Iwata and Non Specific Action Figure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx38Q2nEJBk

This video is a must see. I just love non specific action figure. It's one of the best things Nintendo's PR team have come up with since Nintendo Week. After watching this video I couldn't help but smile and give two thumbs up of my own! Yeah!!

Paper Mario Sticker Star E3 Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U2cTOnhMmU

Here it is though you can now download the video off the eShop as of today. I haven't connected today so I'm not sure whether it's in 3D or not.

In any case it's Paper Mario so you can expect it to have a certain level of goodness about it. I like the fan that's featured in the trailer and I also like the big Goomba sticker, which has this glitter effect. It's reminiscent of all those Panini soccer stickers we used to collect as kids. Nostalgic! (I don't miss buying those stickers though!!!)

Wii U's Nintendo Land

There are loads and loads of videos featuring the various aspects of Nintendo Land on YouTube so I won't go into them. I am quite interested in the Donkey Kong and Zelda themed games and I'd love to try them.

The Zelda one for example reminds me of Dragon Quest Swords. I liked that game even though there were control issues. I'm expecting a better experience from Zelda; Skyward Sword had great controls after all.

Rayman Legends E3 trailers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmVtkqypEBw
Here's the E3 trailer for Rayman Legends that shows the "asymmetric gameplay" we keep hearing about. This shows it off very nicely actually. 2 guys platforming, 1 guy doing a cursor-like character with the touchscreen. Have a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52gwzOHXSTQ

There's also this famous level with the rhythm action and guitar rockin' out action! This is what kind of won me over.

I wonder how single players would go through those levels? Particularly the rhythm action one? How are they going to implement that I wonder? We'll find out the whole deal with this soon enough.

Heroes of Ruin demo and E3 trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2PSk8L-50

Here's the trailer that was featured at E3 though if you already have a 3DS and the means to connect it online you can see a lot more videos of it on the eShop. A downloadable demo of it was recently made available too. I had a go of it and it seems decent enough. The dialogue is stuffy and boring but the beast character I was playing as was pretty cool and he had a cool voice. I also like the quick access to healing, equipping and selling via the d-pad. The main gameplay is solid enough, nothing too special but it's ok.

This of course is one of Square-Enix's endeavours to make games that would appeal to players in the west. I wonder if it'll turn out well.

Pikmin 3 the Real-time action-management game

Here's the trailer anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxWIvaD2XQI

I have to say that the New Play Control version of Pikmin 2 is great with Wii remote controls and that's a dead cert that this sequel will be a great game.

We see new stuff like Rock Pikmin and extra leaders whom you can delegate tasks to, adding an extra sense of depth to the action.

Miyamoto described this game as a "Real-time action-management" game. I always have a hard time describing this game to people who haven't played it. Whenever I say "strategy" people immediately start thinking of those PC strategy games or those Final Fantasy Tactics styled games.

Of course this isn't new to me or many other fans. The Pikmin series is 10 years old now can you imagine! I do remember buying the first game during the Summer months after the Gamecube launched. It's a series that never really got hugely popular but did have a good lot of fans.

The theatrics on stage with Miyamoto blowing the whistle and doing funny puppet stuff with a stuffed red Pikmin was fun enough. The way Bill Trinen walked out like a Pikmin and the way Reggie said he felt like a purple Pikmin was strange. Nintendo's PR entertainment always threads this fine line. It's very hard to describe how you feel when watching it.

There's one area where I have to commend them and that is putting a 3 in the title instead of some ridiculous subtitle. I hate titles with subtitles.

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon E3 2012 trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm_mwNj06Uo

It's a pity that this sequel has a subtitle instead of a number. This game has been a long time coming hasn't it? Not sure when it'll be out. In addition to the above footage I've seen videos of people playing and it looks like there's very little stylus usage! Thank goodness! I'd hate there to be after the bad controls of Kid Icarus Uprising.

I'm looking forward to this game because it's an adventure game at heart and that's the type of game I like to see on 3DS because, say in the case of Ocarina of Time 3D, the gyro controls really make the game. I've almost forgotten that feature it's been so long. Luigi's Mansion 2 (force of habit) is one game I'm sure I can purchase confidently.

New Super Mario Bros U E3 trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4pJnV5OxPI

This is just what we want isn't it? That flying squirrel suit is cool but still a bit strange that we don't have the raccoon suit. We don't see it in the trailer in any case.

Yeah the game is an insta-buy though as a fan of quality I will of course be playing with a discerning eye :)

New Super Mario Bros 2 Trailer! Raccoon Mario flying, coin theme, economics?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8xe2AUY4c
Here's the official E3 2012 trailer for the game. Very nice to watch and we're going to be getting it very soon in August.

I like the Raccoon Mario flying footage except for the fact that he flaps his arms now. That's weird. Before it was his moving tail that made him fly while his arms were out straight. It was the same in the cartoon show.

The coin theme is... interesting but I'm not so sure about it. Everywhere is coin heaven now. It'll definitely have a negative effect on the value of the coin unless there's a unique take on the scoring system.

Nintendo's E3 press conference was on today

It was exciting as usual to sit at the computer getting ready for it with a chat window in another tab with snacks to eat, like as if it was the Late Late Toy Show or something.

It was lacklustre this time apart from the immediate announcement of Pikmin 3 and the trailer for the new Mario Bros games on Wii U and 3DS. There wasn't much else that was exciting about the conference.

A lot was missing actually. It doesn't explain everything that carries over from the Wii, such as the Virtual Console for example. I'm shocked Dragon Quest X wasn't featured at all. They just wanted to focus on social media and third party developer accessibility for the most part I suspect.

Next up is all the stuff about 3DS.

Nintendo Direct from yesterday, Miiverse, pro controller, remote control etc

This went on for half an hour and heavily featured the Miiverse and social media features of the Wii U. That part was incredibly boring and irksome. I like the non specific action figure though :) in reaction to this I'm only going to make Miis that have non specific characteristics.

The other part of the social media thing I liked was that tiny clip that of a new 2D Mario. People online like Sean Malstrom have featured a gif of that clip on their blogs stripped of any social media stuff.

That tv remote control functionality seems okay and I hope they feature a button that switches between TV and AV channels.

They also announced a pro controller which looks almost exactly like an Xbox 360 controller. I guess that'll replace the Gamecube controller option that the Wii had. It'll surely be a better controller too because of the dpad and stuff.

Now the analogue sticks are official and they click like a Playstation's L3 and R3 buttons. My favourite part of this was the clicking sound effect they put in when they were demonstrating it :)

Nintendo pre-E3 2012 presentation is on live today at 11pm Irish time

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/2011/watch_our_special_nintendo_direct_pre_e3_presentation_live_49788.html

There we go, the link to all the info you need. It's a live streaming thing and it's world wide. This'll surely reveal some important Wii U stuff before the big reveals tomorrow. I won't be able to see it live myself but I'll catch up. Make sure you tune in!

Edit: Sorry I made a mistake about the big reveals. It's not tomorrow it's Tuesday.

Square-Enix's uninteresting prepress release

Ok so they have a brain training game of all things coming out for the Wii later this year and a load of smartphone distractions.

There might be hope for Rocket Slime... I mean... there's no mention of Dragon Quest X in these press releases. Let's hope for the best.

E3 2012 Nintendo conference time

It's this day next week! Here's the main website for it:

http://e3.nintendo.com/

It shows the times and dates for all the goings on. Of course this screen will be gone as the site updates so here's a screenshot:

Now remember in Ireland we're 8 hours ahead so the presentation for example will be 5pm over here.

About all the Wii U leaks and mini excitements lately

Between the trailer for a new Rayman, the analogue sticks and several other ifs and maybes about the features of the new console, I just wonder what they're all for since next to nothing's been announced officially.

The most cynical notion of course is that these leaks could be just some mini marketing stunts to get us all interested like or to keep our interest. Hardly surprising if true.

Another notion — and it's one that I like to entertain — is that there's going to be so much information about the new stuff this console has to offer that all this stuff that's being revealed now is going to seem insignificant and may be swept under the carpet in favour of all the potentially megaton announcements!

We still know absolutely nothing about the Wii U

I've been seeing that there's not much excitement about the new console. Well there's nothing confirmed about it. Just leaks and rumours and none of them are interesting at all. If this was a new Playstation there would be tons of excitement. Excitement from morons who won't question whether the next thing will be worth it or not but excitement nonetheless.

Well the big event at E3 is in just a few weeks. Nintendo has said almost nothing about it since last year so this will be an explosion of new information.

The general opinion about the console has been the same as it was since last year; just people going "er.... I'm not really sure about this thing".

Will it change?

What I want to see in E3 2012 (Part 1): ROCKET SLIME 3D

Please announce it for Europe! I bought Dragon Quest VI last year and loved it, I bought Boom Street a few months ago, I want this too!