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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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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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We’ll be posting tons of Wii U (and 3DS) video content throughout the rest of the week, but if you’re looking for the first live demos of titles, you may want to consider watching GameTrailers’ “All Access” stream.

Immediately following Nintendo’s E3 2012 media briefing today, Reggie Fils-Aime will be on hand for an interview with Geoff Keighley. The site will additionally be showing demos of Wii U games.

All of this will take place between 1:00 and 2:00 PM. GameTrailers is teasing this hour as something “you do not want to miss”.

“After the Wii U is fully revealed, ALL ACCESS is back live for instant reaction from our experts. Plus, we’re joined by Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, and Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime is live with us for another classic interview with Geoff. Plus, stay tuned for the real live demos of new Wii U games on our stage! We cant’ tell you more, but believe us you do not want to miss this hour.”

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

Posted on 13 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in Features, General Nintendo | 0 comments

This is my obligatory “Here’s what’s going on at E3 just so you know” post.

So, just one day into the pre-E3 shows and we’ve already seen the effects of last year’s presentation by Nintendo. I don’t know if it’s just my imagination, but it seems like as time goes on, more and more people are waiting for Nintendo’s “OK” before they start trying out new things, as though they’re using the big N as a guinea pig for them to invest in new ideas. This year it was probably the most prevalent, save for perhaps the year we saw Move and Kinect revealed.

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