Satoru Iwata HOT TENNIS ACTION

In this video, Satoru Iwata plays the latest version of tennis for Wii Sports Club. Why pay when you could just click here to see him in action for FREE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgTuaAuca4

(That's my go at a UKResistance style blog post :P)

Iwata Asks: Canada VS Japan edition!

Oh god just look at this fantastic picture:

CANADA VS JAPAN!

What a wonderful way to illustrate the latest installment of Iwata Asks, which can be found here:

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/luigis-mansion-dark-moon/0/0

I haven't even read it yet! The above picture alone inspires this entry.

To give some clarity, Next Level Games in Canada developed Luigi's Mansion 2 for Nintendo and now they've come together here for the battle of the century a nice chat.

Iwata Asks feature on new Kirby Wii game is really interesting!

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/kirby-dream-land/0/0
This links to Satoru Iwata, the former head of HAL Laboratory, asking the team behind the new game featuring their most famous character. That's awesome! I was really interested in this particular Iwata Asks feature, even more so than the recent Mario and Zelda ones. We read all about the really really long road to getting this game finished and about them talking about Kirby in general, especially Mr. Iwata. I just really like hearing him talk about Kirby for some reason.

Iwata Asks About Donkey Kong Country Returns

I haven't read this feature yet but I did read one part where a Japanese person was talking about their experience about being in England and what it was like going to Rare in Twycross. I find this especially interesting because usually when it comes to video games you read all kinds of accounts where people from the west are going to Japan and talking about their experiences there. I don't usually see it the other way round!

Other stuff about that Kirby's Epic Yarn Iwata Asks feature

I mentioned before on how someone from Good Feel helped make Kirby's Epic Yarn turn out the way it did and now I just read the HAL Lab staff's side of it and about their collaboration. They were really happy to work on the game and glad to see Kirby in a different style. There's even a little clip of one of them playing the new rendition of the classic Green Greens level theme from Kirby's Dream Land on a weird little air piano thing.

Kirby's Epic Yarn was tested on a female

In the Iwata Asks feature we learn that a lady who wasn't that adept at action games had her opinion sought as development was going on. The developers made changes according to how fun she felt the game was as she was playing it.

This is good news. This could prove that the game could be lots of fun and even quite popular when it comes out over here.

Iwata Asks about Kirby's Epic Yarn

http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/kirbysepicyarn/vol1_page1.jsp

Haven't checked this out yet but it should make for another very interesting one. I'd like to hear some stuff being asked of the Good Feel staff who are known to be one of the relatively few developers who care about 2D platform games nowadays. I'll set some time aside over the weekend to have a read.