Posted on 11 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in Features, General Nintendo | 0 comments

I really hate having to write these types of articles. I love Nintendo and it pains me to have to talk so badly of them. But seriously. Come on. The other press conferences this year were as follows:

Microsoft: Bombed.
Sony: Eh.
EA: Terrible.
Ubisoft: Average.

This wasn’t a tough scenario. Nintendo should have been ready to blow this one out of the park. It was a fastball straight down the middle. It was a perfect storm of awesome that had the potential to send chills down the spines of every gamer watching. Instead of going for the home run though, they apparently decided to fake getting hit by the pitch and hobbled along to first base, managing to barely keep the game going, and build little if any hype for the next at-bat.

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Yasuhiro Wada shared the first details on “Project Happiness” in an interview with Famitsu today. Wada dished on the game’s central gameplay, which focuses on the build-up of a shop.

For more information, read the summary below.

– Development began at the end of 2011
– Atsuko Nishida doing graphic design and illustrations
– Idea is to build up a shop, add products and customers
– Wada aiming for the simplicity of classic simulation style games
– Doesn’t want menu and command-based progression
– Wada wants to make Project Happiness so that even if your store gets big, you’ll still be able to see your character moving around, lining up product on store shelves
– Other characters will populate your story
– 30 core characters at the moment
– Start out with 10 characters
– More characters as the store gets bigger
– Choose your character’s gender
– Simple character-making component
– Can change costumes
– Access more costumes as you play
– Wada believes online/network elements are essential to games
– He wants to bring out something that makes players think, “Ahh, there’s this kind of different play style.”

Project Happiness is coming to portable systems next year. We’re hoping the 3DS is included in Wada’s plans.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

It’s more than possible that Theatrhythm Final Fantasy won’t be the only game of its kind.

Producer Ichiro Hazama has expressed interest in merging other Square Enix IPs with the “theat” brand.

Hazama told Kotaku:

“It’s not confirmed yet, but I do personally hope that I can do something related to theat for other titles, for other games.”

Hazama specifically cited Dragon Quest and Saga as possible franchises he’d be willing to work with. The same goes for Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, and non-main Final Fantasy games such as Crystal Chronicles.

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Except they’re missing Scott Moffitt!

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Show will begin in 30 minutes. Stay tuned for news, trailers, and more!

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Iwata’s just about ready to get on stage…

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