Shocking coffee spilling early morning revelations occur as Nintendo offers up the first video glimpse of Mistwalker’s The Last Story – also known as one of two Japanese Wii RPG’s that need a fancy North American date.
Despite the long wait for footage, the game’s still carrying a 2010 release date for Japan, and you can catch a peak at a very fluid looking battle system after the break.
Soldiers scramble through the ruins of a forgotten yet familiar city, finding footholds in crumbling buildings as swarms of genetic mutations fly across the skyline like scurrying schools of fish darting through deeper waters. In the foreground, futuristic helicopters and mobile infantry patrol broken stretches of freeway, filling the screen with missiles and bullets as Isa and Kachi make a desperate break for freedom.
Exactly why Isa and Kachi are on the run is unclear, along with the motives of the shadow organization pursuing them – staffed by ominous assassins who speak with the comfort of established relationships that forever remain a mystery to the player.
Wednesday’s IGN posting with words from Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida offered the net brave new levels of comment fodder on the subject of Sony’s 3D aspirations in comparison to Nintendo’s E3 3D upheaval.
I usually tune Industry nonsense out, but choice bits here included –
“I have hope that they have a broader perspective with 3D,” Yoshida said. “When you listen to what they are saying about the effect of 3D perspective to the games, they are saying the same message we are, but they don’t have to bash some small part of what the other company is doing.”
and;
“I think as an industry we should preach this new perspective, from a very large cinema screen to a small portable, because that helps advancing the games and the game industry,” he said. “We’d like to work together to promote 3D.”
That Nintendo has “bashed” on 3D glasses technology seems questionable, since so many people seem to agree that the glasses are a major drawback. That the comment is blown out of proportion in typical Interwebz style is also a given. Admittedly it is hard to avoid when one company seems to suggest that another is breaking the prime directive and derailing the future.
The quotes have also drawn renewed attention to the uphill battle Sony may be in for in marketing 3D as a major feature of the PlayStation 3, especially if surveys suggesting that nearly 70% of Japanese respondents have no interest in making the upgrade anytime soon.
We can bat the ball back and forth on that for months to come, but what’s really stuck in my back the most is that anyone from Sony could speak such words with a straight face at the exact same time that the company can ascend a stage and market motion controls as if they just invented the one and only “real deal” – or the premise that they are more accurate and responsive than the competition.
Seems typically hypocritical to me and probably not worth the mentioning – after all, if we stopped to point out every silly thing a company representative said, we’d have to build some sort of daily post infrastructure using glib write ups that leave the actual games discussions behind – can you imagine?
From my inbox to your ears comes this year’s reward to those gamers who sacrificed food and clothing to get their fix and feed the Big N, myself included – I hadn’t been paying attention and was surprised at the email.
Anyway, lesson learned – it pays to fill out surveys in the middle of the night because Nintendo’s reward for Platinum Status (600 Coins) this year is a 3.9 by 4.6 inch tribute to Super Mario that I feel will look very awesome in my living room. The choice between this or a calender took exactly 0.01 seconds to make.
Let me know how many of you are expecting one of these in the mail now – now being sometime between today and December that is.
As polished as the 3DS presented itself at E3 last week, it’s been floating around lately that Nintendo has gone on the record saying that the 3DS’ design is not 100% final – so the question begs to be asked, what would you, the gamer who ultimately buys the thing, change?
When the original DS was announced under the codename “Nitro” it had a very different look from the final launch design, some say for the better, some for the worst. Nintendo is very good about getting feedback on their consoles and either changing them before launch, or soon after releasing revisions that cater to fan needs and wants.
Way back in the dark days when I wondered when Sin & Punishment 2 would release and how much of a push Nintendo would give it, there were a few people who said –
“What do you expect them to do for a niche title? Give it a television ad?”
That was fair game back then too, because there was zero chance of something like that happening. And yet, if you continue on after the break, you can catch the television spot reminding you that the game releases this Sunday.
Incredibly strange amazing days – if I actually see this on tv during the week my head might explode. Has there ever been an ad for a Treasure game on television before?
Also, touche Nintendo, touche – though you should have asked me for a quote for the spot too.
On the list of weekend surprises that go down in history, add Nintendo sending an email to remind me about the imminent arrival of Sin & Punishment 2 – Star Successor – June 27! Dig it!
The Big N even entitled the email “prepare to be punished,” but chances are many of you have the same email and I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. Still, I’m elated to see the push for a long awaited Treasure title, including the game’s website, which you can check out here.
I’ve vehemently hated the wait for this release, but this is one hell of a sweet game to get just as the E3 buzz is calming down.
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