Just as it did in Europe, Nintendo launched a Japanese website for the Year of Luigi today. Find it here. The page has the same items as the European one, but with a different design. Japanese fans can also get a look at the special Luigi 3DS XL that will launch with Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.
Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma weighed in on a number of new topics in yet another interview. This time, Aonuma commented on the possibility of Zelda getting her own game, why the handheld Zeldas usually see a top-down perspective, his thoughts on remaking Zelda: Majora’s Mask for the 3DS, putting Zelda in a different era, and more.
Don’t expect new content in Zelda: Wind Waker HD. For this project, Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma says the main goal was to “balance” the experience.
“My main goal in making Wind Waker HD was to stay true to the original and really balance the game. When we released the GameCube version we weren’t able to fully do that and make the adjustments I felt were necessary to optimize the experience. So there will be no new content, but overall gameplay should be improved.”
Tearaway wasn’t the only game Shigeru Miyamoto checked out at this year’s E3. He also got a look at Titanfall, the next-gen Madden, and The Division.
IGN’s Rich George managed to see Miyamoto getting a look at these three titles at the convention:
Packing up to head out of Los Angeles, but thought I would share this cool bit…
— Rich (@RichIGN) June 14, 2013
Mr. Miyamoto always checks out a couple non-Nintendo games at E3. This year included TitanFall, next-gen Madden and Division. Pretty cool!
— Rich (@RichIGN) June 14, 2013
Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime has once again said that the company could choose to hold conferences at future E3 events. For 2013, Nintendo felt that using a Nintendo Direct was the best approach based on the content they had.
“Next year and what we do at E3 next year is going to be an ongoing conversation, based on what the right thing to do is for the content we have. What we are not saying as a result of this year is that the Nintendo press conference is dead.”
“This year, we have a parade of content that once you get your hands on it, you say to yourself I gotta get this game and I mean think about it. We have all of these playable games on our floor and most of them are coming out this holiday season, three are coming in 2014. “
General Zod will be joining Injustice: Gods Among Us as the fighter’s fourth piece of downloadable content. Ed Boon confirmed General Zod’s upcoming inclusion on Twitter, promising a new gameplay video for next week.
Boon tweeted:
Yes, General Zod is the 4th DLC character in INJUSTICE !! Next week we are releasing a game-play video that demonstrates his unique moves!
— Ed Boon (@noobde) June 13, 2013
Again, Injustice DLC should be coming to Wii U this summer, but an exact date hasn’t been announced.
Yusuke Hashimoto and Hideki Kamiya prepared a few comments about Bayonetta 2 and The Wonderful 101 on the studio’s official Japanese blog. Messages from both can be found below.
Yusuke Hashimoto – Director, Bayonetta 2
This game presents a new feature where you can summon demons while repeating powerful attacks, called “Umbran Climax”, new situations as presented in Sky Battles, and it’s not just comprised of overturning bad and good, ‘Angels VS Demons’ theme, but features stages in the spirit world filled with squirming devils and new demons that provide you with an over flowing feeling of ‘climax’.
Please anticipate an evolved non-stop climactic action game in Bayonetta 2
Hideki Kamiya – Supervisor, Bayonetta 2
What was everyone’s reaction to seeing Bayonetta with a short hair for the first time? We’d been thinking about this idea since finishing development on the first game, to bring out a new charm for the fashionable Bayonetta by changing not only greatly altering her costume, but also her hair style.
This lively hair style was chosen from many ideas to match with the now more dynamic action scenes in the new game and we felt that it would fascinate many players and provide them with a new excitement for the character.
I hope you look forward to an even more bewitching and violent Bayonetta than the first game.
Hideki Kamiya – Director, The Wonderful 101
The conception of The Wonderful 101 began with the idea that I wanted to control many heroes at once while playing. These heroes will literally join together to form large fists to fight enemies and ladders and bridges to overcome dangerous paths. I hope that these brave heroes will light a fire in your hearts and bring out the spirit of a hero within yourself.
The joint powers of the heroes that we have shown off so far are just a small selection of what is in the game. From now, we will begin to introduce more and more, little by little, so please be on the look out. The hero who will save the world is you.
Nintendo of Europe has launched a hub for the Year of Luigi. Access it here. You can get the lowdown on the three titles celebrating the Year of Luigi, and there’s a tease of “other activities” that will be taking place throughout the year.
