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Nintendo wins E3. For me at least.


On 06/11/2014 at 06:42 PM by Captain N

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E3 has been saved!

Yesterday we all saw the reason we (or I) give a damn about E3 and boy was it awesome. An I was tweeting like a madman yesterday if you follow me on twitter. Here is the video but as usual, watch it and I'll show you my favorite announcements:

                   

Now that you've seen the awesomeness here are my favorite announcements:

                    

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker: Just one thing to say right now and it's finally! Toad has his own game! I'm glad he finally has his own game, well Captain Toad. It looks really great and I don't know why but it does remind me of Wario's Woods in a way since that game was puzzle based and in the Captain Toad game, you have to solve some puzzles to go through the level. Not sure if it'll be retail or digital game but it was a real surprise to see Toad finally get his own game. Now we need a Waluigi game.

                     

Bayonetta 2: I was already interested int he game but it looked really awesome. But what really sold it for me was that they are including the first Bayonetta game with this. That is awesome since I never tried the first one plus adding Nintendo costumes was a nice touch. I was really close to getting the first Bayonetta game on the PS3 this week but glad I didn't get it since I'm now getting 2 games for the price of 1.

                     

Hyrule Warriors: We finally got a release date for it and that's cool and all but wow, they added Midna and Zelda in the game and that is just awesome. I'm really digging Zelda's new design, she looks badass yet has a regal appearance to her. And Midna, she is just awesome. I hope they add more characters to the game, like Ganondorf and maybe Toon Link. Really excited for it and I hope they give it an online co-op thing.

                    

Xenoblade Chronicles X: This game just looks awesome because of the tranforming mechs. When I first saw the opening I thought it was a Metroid game because the music sounded likeMetroid Prime 3's menu music. But it looked really great, and it's coming out next year too. That way I can beat Xenoblade.

                    

Mario Maker: I'm not sure how many people are excited for this but I am really excited for this because creating things always appealed to me. Plus now we can create our own Mario levels. Not only 8 bit Mario but NSMBU stlyed levels too, hope we get some SMB2,SMB3, and a SMW creator mode. In fact this game could become a Minecraft styled game for the Wii U.

                     

Splatoon: It looks really cartoony and it looks really neat. Not sure what else to say about this but it looks like a neat twist to multiplayer shooter games, it's not violent but it looks fun. One thing I can say is that the demo had alot of fish.

                     

Yoshi's Wooly World: Tell me the first thing you don't think is go awww when you see this. It looks really great and it was nice to finally see it in action. I love it that they are giving 2 player co-op but it would be nice it there was an online co-op mode in tthere but if they don't do that, it's okay. It would be neat if they had a Yarn Kirby cameo in there.

                     

Kirby and the Rainbow Curse: My brother was hoping for a new Kirby game on the Wii U, a 3D one but what he saw was even better. A sequel to Canvas Curse! My brother was really happy with that and he's really excited for it. It looks cool. Everything is made of caly, infact I started calling Kirby Klay Kirby. It looks great and it was a very neat surprise.

                    

Amiibo: Sounds like amiigo. Anyway there was already news about Nintendo NFC figures before by Iwata but who would of thought they would use it for Smash Bros? There was a rumor about it but we finally have it. The idea is pretty cool and loving the figures but the bigger questionis how much is this going to cost? I mean the Skylanders figures are like 7 or 8 bucks and now we have Nintendo ones so they are obviously going to be like 10 bucks or so. Hopefully not because I plan on getting all the Smash Bros ones they have. I'm really hoping for a Rosalina and Zero Suit Samus one. I just hope they don't make any rare or limited edition ones. But heaven forbid if they make some out of all 718 Pokemon...

                    

Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire:  I don't know what to say but wow these remakes look really awesome. I love all the new changes they are adding and the new starter Mega Evolutions. I'm digging Mega Sceptile moslty because he was the starter I chose in Ruby and Emerald and that he is a grass and dragon type now but Mega Swampert looks really cool too. Can't wait for this, but now I'm not sure if I'm more excited for this or SSB on the 3DS.

                     

I think this was the game everyone was waiting for and dear Arceus did it look incredible. It looks like a mix of Wind Waker with, IDK what else but looks cartoony, alomost either 80/90's cartoon style with some anime style thrown in there. Heck I don't know what I'm talking about but it looks amazing and get this, there are sources saying that that wasn't Link in the trailer? But wow, the portion of the world that we saw looks amazing. I cannot fucking wait for that, fuck everything else in 2015, and I don't think I've been this excited for a Zelda game since Twilight Princess. I'm really excited for it and 2015 cannot come any sooner.

Surprise Smash Bros Announcements:

                      

Palutena for Smash Bros: I am really happy we got another female character and it's Palutena1 I loved her commentary in Kid Icarus Uprising and she was hilarious when she talked to Pit. Loving her moveset too. But I wonder if Pit had to fight Palutena, would he fight her?

                       

Pac-man in Smash Bros: I never doubted this would happen but glad it finally did and it was a neat surprise. Pac-man is finally in Smash Bros Wii U.3DS! We finally have all the important mascot characters in one game and that just brings a tear to my eye. I was planning to make a seperate blog for this but thought I'd kist squeeze it in here because I don't want to bombard anyone with the same blog others have obviously made. My brother is really excited for Pac-man too and so am I. His moves look really cool and we saw a Mr. Game and Watch teaser with the Pac-man at the end. Could it mean he's in the game too? But a really great surprise but I know someone here is certainly really happy with this.

So what did you think of Nintendo's E3 press thing? For me they won E3, I'm sure the others have cool announcements too but to me it's always been about Nintendo because they just makes games that I will always enjoy and have fun with. Plus I think they had more varitey. Plus there will still be more announcements later today like an unnannounced 3DS game that people are saying it's either a Metroid game or Majora's Mask 3D, I'm saying it's the later but with Nintendo we never know what's going to happen. Plus Star Fox Wii U will be out next year and Miyamoto demoed 2 new games which looked really interesting. So thanks for reading and later.


 

Comments

Matt Snee Staff Writer

06/11/2014 at 06:53 PM

yeah, Nintendo kicked ass, which they really needed to do.  I'm glad and excited about the future. 

V4Viewtiful

06/11/2014 at 07:14 PM

I'm a little relieved they done so well in their showings.

I'm hoping MM gets a full Wii U remake, that would make my life. All that's left is an F Zero teaser.

Cary Woodham

06/11/2014 at 07:16 PM

Best part about Pac-Man being in Smash Bros. is that he's NOT the 'Ghostly Adventures' cartoon Pac.

Believe it or not, Kirby Canvas Curse is not one of my favorite Kirby games.  Don't get me wrong, I like it and I'm glad there's a sequel.  But I'd rather have Kirby Air Ride 2.  At any rate, life seems a little better when you know a new Kirby game is coming along.

Is it wrong or weird of me to think that the best game I've seen at this year's E3 is Captain Toad?

I plan to post an E3 blog at the end of the week, so I hope you can take a look at it then.  --Cary

asrealasitgets

06/11/2014 at 08:03 PM

Well Nintendo couldnt do any worse from where they were last year, but they did much better than PS4 and Xbox IMO. Nintendo just showed more exclusives that you cant get any where else. MS has another Halo next year? Sunset Overdrive? Fable? Forza? Sony has Little Big Planet 3 and Uncharted? Okay the Dark Souls like game is great, but...what? Indies?
Nintendo always gets bashed fore making more of the same: Donkey Kong, another Mario, another Smash, another Mario Kart etc, but Sony and MS are doing the same here. I'll just wait until Fri to tally my score card, but Nintendo won for me. That's where I'll spend more of my money. 

mothman

06/11/2014 at 08:12 PM

Yeah when Microsoft started their presentation with CoD, Forza and Assassin's Creed my first thought was "if they show a Gears of War game next I'm shutting this shit off"

mothman

06/11/2014 at 08:08 PM

I thought they killed it and after selling 187K Wii U's in a week and 1.2 million copies of MK8 in 4 days I'm hoping things have turned around for them.

With all this good news it gets me so angry when some bozo posts an article with a title something like "paint spewing squids will not save Nintendo".

It was obviously click bait but it was so ill informed and he spent 3/4 of the drivel talking about nobody playing the Wii anymore (not the Wii U) because they are happy with free phone and tablet games. They go on to say that Nintendo only appeals to casual audiences and has lost the core gamers and blah blah blah......

No mention of their recent good news. I swear if the guy had been standing in front of me when I finished his piece of irresponsible journalism, he wouldn't have been standing in front of me for long.

KnightDriver

06/12/2014 at 01:36 AM

Bayonetta 2 comes with the frist one? Cool.

Why hasn't there been tons of Minecraft clones? I can only think of Shovel Knight as having some influence. A Nintendo sandbox world would be awesome.

Amiibo's are customizable? Oo that's cool!

I'm finally pretty excited about a Zelda game.

Alex-C25

06/12/2014 at 09:04 AM

Yep, Nintendo did very well, even with the lack of Metroid, Star Fox or F-Zero.

I can't wait for most of them here and i'm glad to see the the first Bayonetta comes with the first game. I always wanted to play it.

ThatKidOverThere

06/14/2014 at 04:30 PM

I liked how they geve Pac Man cartoony eyes. The Ghostly Adventures eyes were creepy.

Jamie Alston Staff Writer

06/18/2014 at 07:45 AM

Nintendo definitely killed it this year at E3. I was  ery impressed with their laser-focus they had with upcoming games. I walked away from it convinced that the game is far from over for Nintendo. I also now have a growing interesting in buying a Wii-U (though I'm still not quite ready to pull the trigger on that just yet).

C.S.3590SquadLeader

06/27/2014 at 01:41 PM

Really enjoyed just about everything Nintendo had to offer at E3. Gonna have to bite the bullet and pick up a Wii U as soon as I can.

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