The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild helped Nintendo have a strong presence on social media. Yesterday, as the company’s Treehouse stream began, the company earned 20,000 mentions in an hour. Although mentions trailed off later in the day, Brandwatch counted 73.3k mentions of Nintendo.
Zelda: Breath of the Wild saw 75,000 mentions. As for Pokemon Sun/Moon, there were 5.8k mentions.
Here’s another look at Nintendo’s E3 presence on social media:
Footage from the E3 demo of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice is starting to come in. Check out some off-screen gameplay below.
Over in Europe, Nintendo is holding a sale on Super Smash Bros. for both Wii U and 3DS. The discount is 35 percent off, but those with a Nintendo Account can bring that up to 41 percent.
Here’s the rundown from Nintendo:
In addition, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U is 35% off on Nintendo eShop until 23:59 UK time on 21st June, and users with a Nintendo Account who have subscribed to Nintendo’s promotional emails at the moment of purchase can get an additional 10% “Just for You” discount on the reduced price, for a 41% discount in total.
Nintendo’s E3 2016 website contains a special page for Zelda: Breath of the Wild, including a fact sheet. We’ve gone ahead and attached that below.
STEP INTO A WORLD OF ADVENTURE
Forget everything you know about The Legend of Zelda games. Step into a world of discovery, exploration and adventure in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a boundary-breaking new game in the acclaimed series. Travel across fields, through forests and to mountain peaks as you discover what has become of the ruined kingdom of Hyrule in this stunning open-air adventure.
Features:
Explore the wilds of Hyrule any way you like – Climb up towers and mountain peaks in search of new destinations, then set your own path to get there and plunge into the wilderness. Along the way, you’ll battle towering enemies, hunt wild beasts and gather ingredients for the food and elixirs you’ll need to sustain you on your journey.
Nintendaan has provided some off-screen footage of the demo booth opening for Zelda players at E3. Though the video is short, it shows off many of the controls for the game. Check it out below!
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Alien: Isolation (PS4) – 8/8/8/8
Battleborn (PS4) – 8/8/7/8
Battleborn (XBO) – 8/8/7/8
Caligula (PSV) – 8/7/8/7
Coven and Labyrinth of Refrain (PSV) – 8/8/9/7
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone (PS4) – 10/10/8/9
Henri (3DS) – 7/8/7/6
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Wii U) – 8/7/7/8
Mighty No. 9 (PS4) – 8/8/7/7
Mighty No. 9 (XBO) – 8/8/7/7
Mighty No. 9 (Wii U) – 8/8/7/7
Mighty No. 9 (PS3) – 8/8/7/7
Mighty No. 9 (360) – 8/8/7/7
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns (3DS) – 8/8/8/8
Umbrella Corps (PS4) – 9/9/9/9
Although most of his time has been devoted to discussing current projects, Tetsuya Nomura, producer of The World Ends With You, took a moment in a Famitsu interview to address a potential sequel to the DS RPG. Unfortunately, the news is not necessarily good, with Nomura stating that, while the series is popular overseas, that making a sequel would not be easy (but not impossible). In order to do it, he would like to assemble a team capable of delivering a game just as good as the first.
Even if it were to happen, Nomura’s statements suggest that it is at least not in development at the moment.
Seems that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be truly open to players. According to Eiji Aonuma, in an interview with Polygon, players can skip the story and even go straight to the final boss if they go the right way.
“Users may not actually get the full story depending on how they play this game and how they strategize and solve puzzles. Users are able to go to the very end goal without revealing why Link woke up the way he did and where he did. Whether you want to reveal the storyline and find out why Link woke up, or you want to just go straight to the goal, that’s an option totally up to the user […] Anybody who can go straight to the goal without doing anything else — there’s two possibilities. Either they’re a really good gamer, or they could be somebody that’s a little bit crazy. But it’s not impossible. I created the game like that.”
Though Aonuma suggested that this was not the best or natural way to play, he also suggested the game would be good for players to race each other in.
