No conference, but Nintendo Direct is almost as good as far as I’m concerned!
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Thanks very much. As stated above the topic for you guys this week is “Your E3 Predictions”.
I made my way through the first twenty levels in the upcoming Mutant Mudds Deluxe, which means the ghost levels were unlocked. I figured I’d catch some footage of it for you guys, and even though it didn’t really go as smoothly as I had hoped, you can probably glean something from it. I also give my general impressions of the game as we go along, if you’re curious how it stacks up.
Nintendo did something rather neat with the first Animal Crossing. Copies came with a number of classic NES titles that could be played directly in-game.
We haven’t seen something like that with future entries. And as far as series creator Katsuya Eguchi is concerned, this isn’t something that will be returning.
Eguchi told Kotaku:
“Please consider it’s not happening ever again. At the time, we didn’t have a Virtual Console system. We thought that playing games inside of a game is kind of funny, and we wanted to do it. But now there’s a Virtual Console where you can play classic games, so we don’t think we will be doing that in future titles.”
Kotaku later asked if he would consider letting people play the old Animal Crossing in the new Animal Crossing games. His response? “That might be interesting.”
Sengoku came out for the Wii Virtual Console in April. An Australian/European release now looks to be on the way as well.
Earlier today, the OFLC rated Sengoku:
SENGOKU, Rating: M, Author: D4ENTERPRISE CO, LTD., Publisher: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
— AusVGClassifications (@AusVGClass) June 8, 2013
Beyond Good & Evil 2 may not be dead. Well, Ubisoft seems to at least remember that it had announced the game at one point.
The company posted the following content on its Facebook page late last week with regard to E3 2013:
“We’re a bit busy prepping for E3. Time to call in some reinforcements. (Points if you remember this classic character!)”
Surely Ubisoft isn’t just messing with us, right…? Beyond Good & Evil 2 has to come back at this point. It’s been waaaaaaay too long since Ubisoft announced the game!
If you were to ask any Nintendo fan about which E3 conference was Nintendo’s worst, most would probably point to E3 2008.
The briefing was completely devoid of announcements for the hardcore audience, and there was very little news in general.
So what was there? From Nintendo, the company announced Animal Crossing: City Folk, Wii Sports Resort, and Wii Music. That’s it.
Arguably the biggest announcement was Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS, but no trailer (or screenshots) was shown.
E3 2008 led to several cringe-worthy moments. Cammie Dunaway made her debut and talked about breaking her wrist snowboarding, while Ravi Drums was banging away on virtual drums like a madman.
At least we got a few memes out of the whole thing!
If you listen to our podcast, you’re probably well aware that we will be attending E3 this year. Laura, Jack, and myself (your regular podcast crew, as it were) will be walking the show floor, playing games, and causing trouble all three days of the show, with the sole purpose of trying to provide an entertaining and informative (risky, eh?) look at what the heck is going on there.
If you want to know how to follow the action, hit the break. I’ve made it easy enough to read through our plans.
