Famitsu posted a report about the Pikmin short films and Shigeru Miyamoto’s appearance at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Read on below for a summary of what was shared, courtesy of NeoGAF’s “StreetsAhead”.
-The films were screened in 3D at the event.
-The films are ‘Late-Night Juice’ (2 mins), ‘The Treasure Inside The Bottle’ (8 mins), and ‘The Rough Day’ (13 mins).
-Miyamoto showed off some of the storyboards he made in Flipnote 3D at the event.
-He joked that with the time he put in making these short films he probably could have made about 2 games.
-He was reticent to use the Rock Pikmin idea at first, but with the mechanic involing breaking glass/crystal in the game came to the conclusion that rocks breaking it would be easiest to convey.
-Rock (and probably Flying) Pikmin don’t appear in the films since they were made at the same time as Pikmin 3 and they hadn’t finalized everything about those types yet.
-He mentioned that he’s working on the Star Fox game for Wii U.
-They’d like to release the Pikmin 3 demo on Wii U and the films on the 3DS at the same time.
Club Nintendo Japan was recently updated with another new reward. For 200 points, users can obtain the “Animal Crossing Pocket Diary”.
The diary features covers based on the Animal Crossing series. It includes 148 pages to write in, weekly/monthly schedules, a transparent cover, and an address book.
Natsume isn’t done releasing games on the Virtual Console. In a new “State of the Farm” report, the company revealed that additional GBA games are in the works for Wii U. Specific titles were not mentioned.
Natsume said:
There’s still more to come with Lufia: The Legend Returns GBC arriving in the near future, and we’ve begun work on some GBA games for Wii U as well! We’re giving lots of notice on those, BUT we aren’t naming any specific titles yet. Expect to see them launch in about six months!
Excitebike Arena will be included in the first DLC pack for Mario Kart 8. Check out a trailer above!
Woah Dave! should be among the smallest games available on the 3DS eShop. The game only requires 62 blocks of space, which is an extremely small download.
Woah Dave! launches this Thursday in North America.
Image & Form shared the first gameplay screenshot from SteamWorld Heist over on its blog today. You’ll find it attached above.
