Final Fantasy Explorers, a game that wasn't shown at E3 2014

Meanwhile, in Japan, this appered in a games magazine. It might be fun, but there is some stupid looking bloom lighting in the screenshots.

There's also Fantasy Life, which also has multi-player action and was shown during the Treehouse sessions.

E3 2014 — Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.

A new IP and it's about strategy and shit. Not really into strategy games so I'm not gonna be able to do this one justice due to lack of interest.

E3 2014: Smash Bros for Wii U and 3DS

Quite an event this was, between the tournament and, more interestingly, the reveal of Pac-Man as an addition to the roster.

I got bored of Smash Bros a long long time ago unfortunately so the tournament wasn't exciting to me at all. I doubt I'll be continuing a Smash Bros career when the new games come out for Wii U and 3DS.

I feel the exact same way about Mario Kart. Got bored of that too.

Shantae and the pirate's curse is coming to Wii U as well as 3DS

Wow some news of this game! It'll be out sometime this Summer they're saying and there's a nice new trailer and well... I hope it won't be ridiculously expensive.

Sticks the Jungle Badger

New Sonic character announced for the Sonic Boom universe! She's a cute little thing and she reminds me of Marine the Raccoon from Sonic Rush Adventure, the not-so-good follow up to the better Sonic Rush.

There was a little preview in the form of a session featuring her voice actor and she has some zany funny lines! It's almost reminiscent of Lola Bunny from the Loony Tunes sitcom show though that could be premature of me to say. Looking forward to seeing more about Sonic Boom soon.

Chibi-Robo!: Let's Go, Photo! coming to Ireland!

Horray! When this game was announced for America on Nintendo Direct I felt sad because there was no mention of it on our region's broadcast. Now it's confirmed to come out here! Very happy about this because I'm a big fan of the original Chibi-Robo! on GameCube!

The Mysterious Murasame Castle debuts in Ireland on 3DS VC

Known in Japan as Nazo no Murasame Jo, it's one of Nintendo's other franchises that's usually known only in culturally celebratory articles. Hmm... I wonder if I should make a label for this?

Anyway the game is getting its first official release in Ireland on 3DS VC this week. I can only assume it's gonna be in 60 Hz.

Other cool stuff about Ace Attorney 5

Taka is the cutest bird of prey ever and Juniper Woods is a dote as well with her sunflowers. Her crush on Apollo makes the sunflower thing quite clever.

Playing Ace Attorney 5

Well I'm finally playing it. The language mistakes are pretty bad at times but it doesn't ruin the experience and it remains a pretty good read. I'm more accommodating toward the 3D effect too because of the game's static nature.

Watching Bit Block's Tomodachi Life videos in an attempt to understand more of it

Josh Thomas is doing a little vlog of sorts at the moment chronicling his time with Tomodachi Life. It's quite nice to watch and I'm really able to get a good impression of what the game is gonna be like as he plays.

"Look at Smoking World" is a stupid name for anything

Noticed this 3DS title and had a look at the trailer for same. It's about generic anime characters doing poses and er... heck I dunno.

Kirby Triple Deluxe out today in Ireland!

Horray! This game seems to be as good as the last Wii outing Kirby's Adventure Wii. It's finally out here now so it's there to enjoy! It'll probably be better than Yoshi's New Island too.

An attempt to understand Tomodachi Life by comparing it with Wonder Project J2 for N64

Wonder Project J2 is my unrequited love. I say that because I fell in love with it when I read about it in Nintendo magazines in 1996 and the game was never released in Ireland.

I'm watching an English fan-translated walkthrough by a nice German YouTuber named hasew to make up for all the times I've longed to play the game but couldn't for some dumb reason or other.

As I watch him play I begin to see similarities with the gameplay I've seen for the upcoming Tomodachi Life!

Of course they differ in many ways too; Wonder Project J2 features the darling Josette and a big storyline, whereas Tomodachi Life features the user-generated Miis having all these silly misadventures based on their individual statistics.

They're similar in the way that you spend time with characters from both games in their homes that affect how they'll behave in the outside portion of their little worlds. Then, when you go out and choose an area it'll play out a scene or event in which your characters take part and you'll see the result of what your interaction has contributed.

For the sake of their common concepts and as a tribute to Wonder Project J2, I'm rooting for Tomodachi Life's success in Ireland!

Another Moon Chronicles trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9aA4x8uMIo

Here it is. It's kind of interesting and it looks like it has that N64 graphical feel to it.

Donkey Kong Land 3 is now on the Japanese VC

Unfortunately for them it's the rubbish colourised version that makes all the map screens static and garishly coloured.

But yeah, they have the whole GB trilogy now! I'd love to see them on our VC (except for this GBC remake of course)

Denpa Men 3 out this week

Nice little series of RPGs this is turning out to be. I'll be getting it because I like them even though I need to play them more.

It's Kirby Triple Deluxe month!

Horray! This isn't out here for another couple of weeks or so but they have it over in the U.S. now and they're enjoying it. Can't wait.

Hope the Puzzle Swap thingy comes soon too. I've just finished the Yoshi's New Island jigsaw.

Having a look at the Tomodachi Life hashtag

People seem to responding lively and positively to the Nintendo Direct special and announcement. Seeing Reggie with the Virtual Boy was pretty entertaining and so is the other stuff posted by some dudes who are playing the game a bit earlier for review.

Seeing some nice adverts for the US release of Mario 3 on VC

And why not? It is one of the greatest games ever after all :)

Nintendo are making a big deal out of it which is pretty cool. Not many VC games get that treatment and it's kind of fun seeing how excited Americans are getting over the fact that they can play 2-player through download play.

The rest of us already know about this and we'd like to see the same kind of multi-player thing for GB releases on VC.

Donkey Kong Land 2 for Japanese VC!

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quX1mvugleI

Omg omg keep 'em coming. How about an Irish release of the Land trilogy too? They have to come here. They just gotta.