E3: My Views on Nintendo's Showing

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Monday, June 01, 2009

Hello everyone! I feel like writing even though I can't, but I feel like writing my thoughts about E3. The only show I got to watch all the way through was Nintendo's so that is what I'm going to talk about (that and I really like Nintendo).

 The Good Stuff

Metroid Other M: It looks awesome, defianatly edgy. As long as everyone's concerns about Team Ninja without Tomonobu Itagaki don't tarnish an otherwise awesome looking game.

Mario Galaxy 2: Yoshi! A super, super game that I couldn't put down is getting a much deserved sequal. Hopefully this isn't just a rush job to satisfy all the hardcore...never mind it will still be awesome.

SquareEnix Support: I love Kingdom Hearts for better or worse, so new screens of a DS game is always welcomed. The Crystal Bearer looks interesting, utilizing Motion Plus is well...a plus. Bad puns aside 3rd party support is good news for Nintendo.

Wii Sports Resort: This one with undoubtbly go either way with people but I for one think this game will be awesome. Archery looks sweet, basketball looks exhasting, and the Motion Plus should be demoed very well. The thing I'm acually looking forward to is playing against someone. In Wii Sports there isn't much to do, tennis has a major flaw with player movement, golf is janky, and I hate the boxing. The only thing is bowling, but that is more of something to do together. Overall a good party game.

Mario RPG 4: Never really got into Mario RPG's but this one looks hilarous. Hope I'm right.

 Golden Sun: Another game I never really got to play but my friend was mega pumped when it was announced, so I put it here.

 Borderline

New Super Mario Bros. Wii: It has a sort of 4 Sword's feel. The only thing it really needs is online support so you don't need to organize a party to play this game. With that problem comes how many copies are going to get sold, with a party game like this only one person is going to get the credit for all the progress that is made (which makes Xbox Live and the sort better then what Nintendo's got going on). Fun sounding, but ultimatly up to how Nintendo handles it.

Red Steel 2: Such a terrible game gets a sequel, but this time gets a new friend in Motion Plus. Only time will tell.

The Conduit: Wow! A good looking shooter for the Wii! If only the Wii had dedicated online support...

DSi/Facebook: Cool, but Facebook should make an App like the iPhone has.

Things That Missed or Just Weren't There

Vitality Sensor: What is it? What does it do? Other then put people to sleep, absolutely no idea.

Pikman 3/Sin and Punishment 2: Where are there? They was announced last year...

Zelda Spirit Tracks: I was going to say Zelda in general, but I guess an announcement here fixed that. Other then that, any announcement involving Zelda was brief and provided no details as to how Link spirits tracks...

No news on new DK/Kid Icarus: Just kidding about Kid Icarus (unless that's what Retro Studios up to), but I swear I heard something about a new DK game, oh well I guess.

No Online Service/Friend Codes: I was hoping that an announcement about removing friend codes would be what the people would want. Alas, no. No news of a online service to maximize multiplayer game. No news of removing friend codes. No way of playing with friends without actually seeing them.

So there it is, my thoughts of Nintendo's E3. Overall very good, spots of badness, but poeple should be a little more confident of Nintendo's efforts going forward (unless they just dislike them, or they want to be part of the hate the most popular console wave). Hope to see more of Zelda and the likes at Tokyo!

  ~Tom

 

 
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