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Showcase for
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – because this is only two months from release
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Showcase for Lego
City Undercover: The Chase Begins – again because it is scheduled to release in
some areas this week
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Update on Mario
Golf: World Tour – perhaps with gameplay and likely to follow the community
integration first shown in the 3DS Mario Kart
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Zelda – in some
form (although read on to find out – as
I was freaking right guys)
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Update on Batman:
Arkham Origins Blackgate - perhaps with
some actually screen shots or so further details on enemies and locations
Obviously
I was – in most cases – wide of the mark…. Below I have outlined the actually
announcements.
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The two big stories from today's Nintendo Direct were definitely the announcements of a new 2D/3D hybrid Zelda game set in the same world as A Link to the Past and a new Yoshi's Island, but there were lots more to absorb. Here's everything that happened all in one place:
3DS NEWS
As
expected the broadcast kicked off with Mario Golf: World Tour’s online features
and community integrations.
We also got a new trailer and release date for Mario and Luigi: Dream Team – which is coming to Europe on July 12th and North America on August 11th. The new footage showed off some of the game's new features, including controlling a Luigi katamari in the game's dream world.
Another
fresh announcement came forward in the form of Mario Party. This outing comes
with 7 different game boards, all of which have different rules and features.
Some are designed for quick play, others for epic contests. It's got 81 new
minigames, including ones that make use of the 3DS AR cards.
The
first new game of the broadcast was a new Yoshi's Island announcement - the
first game in the series since 2006. It looked bloody lovely and is a fresh
outlook on the formula that gathered critical acclaim around the globe. I love
my downloaded GBA version from the Ambassador program and this will probably
give me even more hours of playtime.
Interestingly
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D will have an optional Easy Mode for those who
found the Wii iteration too difficult.
We
also found out that Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy -- the final adventure
for the professor -- will be headed West. The game is said to feature more than
500 new puzzles.
New
footage showed off how Animal Crossing: New Leaf's Dream Suite works: it lets
you visit other people's towns and wreck them up in a dream world without
losing your friendships over ruined flowers and peach trees. Europeans are also
getting the new Animal Crossing 3DS XL model.
A
full set of Level-5 eShop games are also coming west - Starship Damrey, Bugs vs.
Tanks and Attack of the Friday Monsters: A Tokyo Tale. Starship Damrey was a
first person space horror game which always grabs my attention.
The
best was saved for last, though with Nintendo confirming development of a new
3DS Zelda game set in the same world as Link to the Past. This isn't a 3D remake
- we're talking a whole new game, a 2D-3D hybrid, and it looks massively
exciting. I’ll write a full article on this later so don’t despair about the
lack of details.
WII U NEWS
First
up, Pikmin 3 will be with us in just a few months (August 4th, to be exact, in
the US at least) – along with another new pink bug-eyed flying Pikmin type,
which was hidden sneakily away in last year's E3 trailer.
Here's
one for ultra-long-term Nintendo fans: Earthbound (otherwise known as Mother 2)
will be coming to the Virtual Console later this year.
They
also explained a new system update on USB transfer – Blah Blah Blah
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