Super Smash Bros Invitational – celebrity match (including Zelda Williams)
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Looks like we know what Zelda Williams meant when she said she’d be doing something special at E3!
Aonuma on the character in Zelda Wii U’s trailer: “No one explicitly said that that was Link”
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Nintendo debuted a first video for The Legend of Zelda on Wii U earlier today. One character was shown, though some have debated if it was Link, female Link, or someone else entirely.
Now Eiji Aonuma has added a little more mystery to the mix. According to the Zelda producer, “No one explicitly said that that was Link.”
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Video: Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – a look at Smash Run
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Video: Nintendo E3 2014 booth tour
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Off-screen Mario vs. Donkey Kong Wii U footage
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More off-screen Super Smash Bros. for Wii U footage
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Citizens of Earth details
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– New Vice President needs to save the world
 – Can’t do it alone
 – Game is about character recruitment
 – 41 characters can be recruited
 – These include your mom, the local barista
 – Everyone in the game is either a potential party member or an enemy
 – Progression is propelled forward by these recruiting quests or quests to investigate the circumstances of an enemy
 – Tasks: “check this out” actions to longer hunts for enemies
 – Gameplay length determined by the players
 – Character collecting is one of the most extensive things in this game, but it’s not required
 – Can go through the game without recruiting many characters at all
 – Can lengthen the gameplay by aiming to fill the roster, exploring all the bizarre character possibilities
Nintendo Treehouse Live @ E3 – Mario Maker with Takashi Tezuka
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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker details
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– Rotate the camera as Toad goes through maze-like levels to reach the top
 – Star is at the top
 – Toad has no real powers
 – He braves dangers, avoiding baddies to collect treasures
 – Treasure includes coins, diamonds, and the star at the goal
 – Toad can’t jump
 – He can run and sustain a hit
 – Toad can regain his health by collecting a Super Mushroom
 – Depending on the level, he has other tricks to help him succeed
 – One of the E3 levels features a mine cart filled a supply of turnips
 – Basically an on-rails shooter
 – Look around in first-person view on the touch screen using the right stick and/or gyroscope and throw turnips to collect coins and diamonds and kill baddies
 – Pluck turnips to grab additional coins and sometimes a diamond
 – If POW blocks are hit, they destroy multiple enemies and/or collect the surrounding treasure
 – Boss level features Toad grabbing treasure and moving upward in a cylindrical-shaped stage with a lava dinosaur in the middle
 – Boss spits fireballs at you from the background
 – Captain Toad must use metal plates and other objects as he climbs ladders and nabs treasure on his way to the top
 – There are also turnips in the ground on this level
 – Some turnips hold multiple coins that can be collected by tapping the A button multiple times
 – Final level is set in a ghost house
 – In this level, the player is asked to go through a series of connected doors to traverse around and up the central structure
 – Captain Toad can kill a goomba here by entering a door on the ground connected to one in the air
 – When exiting the upper door, Captain Toad falls straight down onto the goomba, squishing him
 – Tap outlined segments of the central structure in order to move them
 – Many of the doors are attached to such moving blocks, which must be placed correctly to proceed or to collect treasure


 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 



