Super Mario Galaxy 2 video shows off some crazy tricks and tips
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The video above showcases a plethora of tricks and shortcuts in Super Mario Galaxy 2 that will allow you to bypass certain areas in levels, making it easier to obtain a star. There are a few moves that aren’t too difficult to pull off, but overall, the footage is quite impressive!
Rare: We’re attacking Wii Sports head on
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“In terms of the competition, we looked very carefully at Wii Sports. We didn’t shy away from it – we actually attack it head on, if I’m honest. We looked at Wii Sports and, okay, if we were going to do this better, how much further can we go with this and will the consumer see an obvious improvement?” – George Andrea, creative director at Rare
See, I really like when developers are honest about where their influence is coming from instead of beating around the push or calling something their own product. You heard it right from them: Rare is going straight for the top where Nintendo is sitting pretty, so best of luck to them in making a better game than Wii Sports!
New Metroid: Other M scans
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Thanks to Robert for the tip!
And Yet It Moves for WiiWare Receives Official Launch Date and Pricing
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AVIENNA, Austria – August 4, 2010
The highly anticipated puzzle platformer for WiiWare™, And Yet It Moves, officially receives a launch date of August 23, 2010, and pricing of 1,000 Wii Points™. Indie studio Broken Rules brings the award-winning downloadable PC game experience to the living room, introducing all new levels and game controls using the Wii Remote™ that will have players physically rotating environments to overcome various obstacles and challenges. Experience a new twist on the game that won the 2007 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase, was nominated for the 2007 EUROPRIX Top Talent Award and qualified as a finalist during IndieCade 2008.And Yet It Moves is a physics-based platform game in which players rotate the world at will to solve challenging puzzles. A tilt of the Wii Remote also tilts the world, turning walls into floors, slides into platforms, and stacks of rocks into dangerous hazards when flipped upside down. Players navigate through a paper collage world created with colorful pieces of cardboard and set to distinctive music. With four different environments and multiple unlockable modes, And Yet It Moves will provide gamers with endless challenges.
Famitsu software sales (7/26 – 8/1)
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1. [PSP] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd
2. [PS3] Sengoku Basara 3
3. [Wii] Wii Party
4. [DS] Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride Card Battle Taisen
5. [Wii] Sengoku Basara 3
6. [DS] Metal Max 3
7. [PSP] Ys vs. Sora no Kiseki: Alternative Saga
8. [DS] Inazuma Eleven 3
9. [Wii] Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road Victory
10. [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2010
The Last Story details
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– Quark has earned the trust of his peers because he is skilled in combat and because he does negotiations with potential employers
– Quark and Elza have been traveling together since they were young
– Seiren fights with twin blades
– Seiren drinks a lot
– Seiren is a squad leader, likes fighting, will jump to the front lines of combat
– Yuris uses fire in combat
– Yuris is the most skilled in the mercenary group
– Yuris doesn’t speak much, is unsociable
– Yuris thinks of mercenary work just as a means of survival
– Battle system offers good amount of player choices
– Attack enemies head on and through other means
– “Focus” move is important in battles
– Focus lets you lock onto objects and enemies
– Use Elza’s bow gun for distant attacks or call out commands to allies when an object or enemy is in focus
– Elza’s sword is the basic attack
– Can see special abilities and weak points of enemies in focus
– Famitsu suggests sniping out healers from enemy groups when in focus, sneak up on the enemy by sticking closely to walls or boulders
– Focus on the enemy when you get close enough
– Game switches to a behind-the-shoulder view in focus
– Targeting reticule shown when the game goes behind-the-shoulder
– Trailer hints at using the Wiimote as the reticule
– Example of using focus on an object: Enemies on the bridge, focus on the bridge, Yuris can cast magic at it, then it will break and the enemies will die
– Look around the areas for objects to use for focusing
Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary
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NBA Jam
– Not a Wii-exclusive anymore
– A lot of people are upset
– It had been announced as a Wii-exclusive
– 6 months later, that’s not the case
– Need to buy NBA Elite 11 for the PS3/360
– Comes with a download come to download a different version
– Wii game is the full version
– Craig thinks that you’ll be able to buy the game on the download channels eventually
– Craig ticked off that EA immediately announced that it’ll be online for the PS3/360 versions
– From what Craig has heard, Wii version will still be fully-featured for single-player, still 4-player local NBA Jam and a huge progression by yourself that won’t be in the PS3/360 versions
– Extra stuff on Wii
Metroid: Other M
– Just as many pickups as there are in other games
– Find about 30% of the pickups in a normal playthrough
– That news seems to confirm that it’s more of an exploration-based game than Sam previously thought
– It was said in Famitsu that the devs are really focusing on cutscenes
– Theater mode features all the cutscenes from the game and pre-rendered gameplay
– Really worked on loading times
– Seamless saving
– Sam not sure what to make of all the cutscenes
Link won’t fly in Skyward Sword, nor will Epona
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This information comes from an interview with Eiji Aonuma in Nintendo Power…
“[Laughs] I hadn’t thought of that [Epona as a Pegasus]! You surprised me with that one! Of course, you know, Link does have to travel between Skyloft and the land below, and back and forth, so he’s obviously going to have to do that via some sort of conveyance. That being said, I’d like to reveal that at a later time, so I don’t want to give away too much other than to say that he is going to be traveling between the two. However, I can guarentee he’s not going to be flying around like [Pit from] Kid Icarus!”
Travelling between the sky and mainland will obviously be a huge element in Skyward Sword. I’m just wondering about how players will be able to accomplish that. Link isn’t flying…And neither is Epona. But he’s going to have to descend from the sky without hurting himself somehow!
