Super Mario Galaxy 2 on May 23rd!
Sin & Punishment 2 on June 7!
Metroid Other M on June 27th!
And a bunch of other stuff too. It's quite hard to type properly with streams of big news flowing in like that. Anyway, full article here, along with a new trailer of Super Mario Galaxy 2.
http://nintendo5star.blogspot.com/2010/02/guess-who.html
Fans of Phoenix Wright games, pay attention :)
I said I'd be on a trip from February 16th to the 19th, and now I'm back!
I went to Kuala Lumpur again, but now that I don't have any competitions to take part in there, me and my family were freed up to move around and visit tons of places. Our stay was at an inn just a few minutes' walk away from KL Sentral, the main transportation hub to most of the city. Most of the buses and trains depart from the central station and branch out towards my main destinations- the major malls around KL.
Highest priority of all was Midvalley Megamall, because it had the latest version of Taiko no Tatsujin in its arcade. I wouldn't miss a chance to play it for the world :) Over the course of 3 days we went back to Midvalley Magamall thrice, and I played a total of 15 rounds of Taiko(yeah, I'm obsessed :P). I recorded a gameplay video from the arcade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMG6qDX7ZhY
I was also told that I was the first person in the country to clear Ryougen no Mai, the current hardest song in the entire series. How true that was I don't know, but that was my high score for it. True or not I felt pretty good of myself :)
I visited the Kinokuniya bookstore at the Suria KLCC mall. Being a Japanese bookstore, it had most of the things that most bookstores in Malaysia have, but with one exception: an entire section of the bookstore dedicated to Japanese books and magazines. A LARGE section. The anime and gaming shelves were stocked too, Pokemon guidebooks, game and anime artbooks, Famitsu magazines, CoroCoro....all in Japanese. Man was I excited. I got this from the bookstore
I'm a huge fan of Ponyo, and this just takes the icing off the cake! Now I have the DVD of the movie itself(in Japanese), the official soundtrack CD, and this artbook. Yesss!
Nearly 200 pages of sketches, movie stills, staff interviews, and the emtire movie scrpit too! What a find it was.
We went to four malls in total, Suria KLCC, Midvalley Megamall(three repeat trips), The Gardens Mall and 1 Utama. All of them huge and took hours to walk through the whole thing. Now that that's out of the way, here's some of the other stuff I bought. I didn't buy any games, because I already have most of the games I was looking forward to, and the next batch won't be released until next month at least.
A small Pikachu plush. It's the type that has a zipper on its bottom so you can turn it inside out into Pokeball form.
Two more PVC Pokemon figurines to add to my ever-growing collection
Random plush. This isn't the best shot of it, it looks better than this, and a lot pinker. Must be the morning sunlight that makes it look pale.
Yet another Pokemon jigsaw puzzle. I've to keep myself from buying any more though, I only have so much wall in my room!
A large plush of a chick wearing a bee cap. More random plushies for my room XD
Two adorable coin boxes that aren't cuddly, but should be.
This trip has been so surreal...I gained much experience, together with sore feet and hands(I blame Taiko and the long waits for trains while standing). It was refreshing, but really, what trip isn't?
You thought I was going to say Valentine's Day? Not for me, Chinese New Year falls on the same day this year, and it's way more important for me. I went to so many relatives' houses you couldn't imagine it! If you want to know about the celebration Google it :) I'm not making a long blog for CNY because I know most of you here aren't Chinese.
....Also, I'm going on a trip from February 16 to 19, and I'll be back the following day. Why am I going this time? Well, there's this arcade I really want to go to....Lame reason? Not when Taiko no Tatsujin is concerned.
See you all on the 20th~!
First new scans from CoroCoro on the new 5th gen Pokemon have been revealed! Their names are on the blog title.
The silhouette I posted days ago was Zoroark, and Zorua is the Pokemon that evolves into it. Zoroark is the main star of the 13th Pokemon Movie, 'Phantom Ruler Z'. Now 'Z' has been replaced with the Pokemon's name.
Man, how long has it been since we got excited over a new Pokemon? It's been 4 years, 4 long years...
Scans are too big to fit on the cramped blog space, see them here. Or on Serebii. Arrgh, I guess everyone's found them some way or other anyway :P
Remember a while back when I said I'd cover Routes 47 and 48? 'New Johto' :P I like that name. I couldn't find any shots of them at the time of blogging, but now I got my own camera and unloaded a bunch of screenshots of both routes and the Safari Zone(not inside the Safari Zone itself though, since the areas in there are all customizable). The new routes are beautiful :)
Here are all the shots I got from 'New Johto'. Enjoy!
Or, rather, a silhouette of a 5th Gen Pokemon.
I have no idea what the Pokemon looks like, but the silhouette was released on Pokemon Sunday today. Here's what it looks like.
And let the speculation fun begin.I was late at writing this blog and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and No More Heroes 2 have passed me by. Thankfully there's still a sackload of games to be buyin' this year....good lord, I've never been this excited for games since the DS launch year.
5. Pokemon Ranger: Tracks of Light
Couldn't find a boxshot for this, and I can't really copy any other pictures easily, so what the heck. Essentially this is Pokemon Ranger 3, and just like Ranger 2, it looks like it will fix another set of flaws in the Ranger series, making for an even more fun game. Ranger 2 introduced a less demanding/less impossible way to capture Pokemon by giving them a HP bar instead of a specific number of loops, and also added tons of sidequests and partner Pokemon(you're not just stuck to one). This one has much improved graphics(look at the shots on Serebii), looks like it has more varied gameplay, introduces a new mechanism to summon Pokemon by drawing a symbol on the screen(epic. This I like), and best of all, multiplayer modes. Its release date in Japan is March 6 this year, so, I'm hyped!
4. Metroid Other M
Not much has been revealed for Other M but the teasers show a lot of promise. Intense action-y games appeal to me a lot too. And it's Metroid! I've been waiting for another one since I finished Metroid Prime 3. Not much to say because...well, there just isn't much info on it at all, but it's still a Nintendo game most people would want on first sight.
3. Trauma Team
The Trauma Center series never did reach mega-popular status, but it's still one of the best cult clas.sics you can buy. This next game in the series takes a more real-world approach at the world of medicine, covering six different fields. Gone are the sci-fi like manmade viruses, the Healing Touch and the famed Dr. Derek Stiles(okay, maybe not, I'm not so sure). It's daunting, but this change could mean even more different ways of tackling diseases and injuries that the original games could never do with limited types of equipment. Also, if you've played Trauma Center: Second Opinion, Dr. Naomi Kimishima from that game makes an appearance, as the forensics doctor.
2. Ninokuni: The Another World
This Level-5 developed RPG is one of the most intriguing things to come by in a long time, mainly because of its partnership with the minds from Studio Ghibli (Totoro, anyone?). This should spell epic for a lot of people. The soundtrack, storyline and animation are almost guaranteed to be masterpieces by themselves, but to top it all off, Ninokuni is an already solid game with 3D graphics, a rarity on DS. It comes with a huge spellbook with touch-screen commands, so you refer to the book when you're casting spells in the game. That was enough to tide me over. Only thing left is a US release date.
1. Super Mario Galaxy 2
Needs no explanation here, as this is more of the same you've come to expect from the Wii's most imaginative, playful, and hands-down best game. I half-expected this to be made up of ideas that got the axe in the original Galaxy though. I had thoughts of Miyamoto and co. coming up with so many crazy ideas that they had to dump some of them along the way before releasing Galaxy 1. Expect even more new crazy areas and level mechanics than ever before, and Yoshi. This is going to be sweet...but as usual, Nintendo are cagey with their details.
Some games I didn't mention....where are Zelda Wii and Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver? For the former, there is too little information for anyone to get excited about. So what if it's Zelda. There still has to be at least some sort of game shots or footage to swoon over or something. The latter? I have the Japanese version already :P I'll get the US version eventually, but I've seen it all before.
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