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New Zelda Skyward Sword trailers
Sep 29th
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Tutorial Video
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Romance Trailer
Great Wii games
Sep 6th
The Nintendo Wii is coming to the end of it’s life. Therefore it is very affordable at the moment. Here are the games (in no real order) that make it worth parting with 138 of your British pounds to buy Nintendo’s little white box.
2 ) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
3 ) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
6 ) Donkey Kong Country Returns
10 ) New Super Mario Bros. Wii
17 ) Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
21) Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure
23) Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
29) Sin and Punishment: Star Successor
30) Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicals
31) Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicals
32) House of the Dead: Overkill
34) House of the dead: 2 & 3 Return
37) Kirby’s Return to Dreamland
Do you like the sound of these games? Click on them to find more information about them.
Happy Gaming!
I found an item! :D
Aug 28th
This is a short bit of filming I did a while back for a vlog I was going to do about me buying Twilight Princess and then playing it constantly till the very last second. Unfortunately, I never got round to making the video and I have now completed the game and am on my second play though. So it’s never going to happen really.
Anyway, this is what I did. Thanks to my dad for holding the game box on a piece of string and spinning it around for me. I used an old lamp for the yellow lighting and used some white string to suspend the game box in the air. I used photoshop for the banner at the end 
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Lego Wiimotes!
Aug 28th
Yo, internet!
I was in a supermarket when I noticed this strange contraption. It’s a Wiimote made out of Lego! Naturally, I had to get my ipod out and document this amazing discovery XD
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Skyward Sword release date
Aug 17th
It was officially confirmed by Nintendo that the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword will be released on the 18th of November in Europe and the 20th of November in America.
The date of release is the same throughout Europe.
That is all, only a short news report. Not much to say really but it’s great to have an official date for the games release.
The Legend of Zelda: The significance of certain animals in Japanese culture
Aug 15th
Link is his wolf form in Twilight Princess
In Japanese culture, most animals are used to symbolise human emotions, feelings or actions. I first became familiar with this when I saw some tsubas (a part of a Samurai sword) at Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery. Animals such as foxes, hares and fish were used to symbolise the person using the sword, and to remind them of tales of old when in battle to make sure they remember the morals of which their culture is built.
In bygone days Japanese grain farmers used to worship wolves and provided them with food near their dens so that they would protect their crops from animals such as wild boars and deer. Talismans and charms with images of wolves on them were thought to protect against disease, fire and other calamities. The Japanese view of the wolf has not changed. In Twilight Princess (the Gamecube’s swan song and a launch title for the Wii) the main feature that sets this game apart from the rest of the games in the series is that the latest incarnation of Link, the playable character, earns the ability to change from a man into a wolf. This view of the wolf well symbolises the character of Link, but Link’s wolf form also has some western influences as well.
Traditional Japanese culture is gradually blending in with western culture when making Zelda games, due to the need to localise the stories and to make them playable and understandable to the vast majority of gamers in the world. In the western world, the wolf isn’t respected as much in our stories and folk tales. A few examples of this are in “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The boy who cried Wolf”. These stories stereotype the creatures as being dark and evil. In Twilight Princess, Link turns into his wolf form when he is in the Twilight, where reality is taken over by an evil overlord.
So as you can see, for what seems like a simple twist in gameplay actually has quite a few cultural references behind it.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011 trailer)
Jun 14th
This is the new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. This is the first trailer we’ve seen so far that gives us a rough idea of story and plot, as the previous trailers focused more on the integration of Motion Plus into the gameplay.
Enjoy, and please let me know what your thoughts are for this new addition to this classic series.
Wii U – E3 2011
Jun 8th
Yesterday at Nintendo’s E3 gaming conference in America, one of the oldest and biggest faces in gaming showed to us their new games console. The presentation at the conference was very poor I’ll admit, and we didn’t actually see anything of the console it’self in the show, all we saw was the controller working along side other Wii controllers, leading us to believe that this is a new controller for Nintendo’s current system, the original Wii. Now of course, a day after the conference and after a load of questions being asked towards Nintendo, we understand that this is a new console, with HD graphic capability (giving the console the capability to run in 1080p) and also has backwards compatibility with all original Nintendo Wii games and is compatible with all Wii controllers.
There isn’t any Gamecube compatibility being mentioned so it’s games and controllers aren’t compatible. I can understand this as the original DS was compatible with Gameboy Advance games and now the 3DS is only compatible with DS games. The backwards compatibility is a good feature but they don’t want to go two generations backwards in their consoles game library. In my mind, the Wii U may have a virtual console or e-shop where you can download classic titles. The Gamecube may well be added to this online service.
The graphic capability for this console seems fairly convincing. This is a being played off the Wii U’s game engine…
The controller it’s self is returning to the traditional way of controlling games, but giving it that little twist, by adding a touch screen, a camera, gyro-sensors and a microphone. All these, Nintendo claim, will change gaming all over again, just as the Wii’s motion controls did. I’m not aware of how conferable the controller is, but people are saying that it is “surprisingly nice to hold” so I’ll have to take their word on it.
Nintendo are claiming that this screen will allow a player to do more things at once. I have my doubts, as they said the same about the DS, yet the bottom screen is hardly ever used at all in most of the games. But, by the look of some of the demonstrations they are running, it looks like they will use it to it’s full advantage.
Hope you’ve found this informative, please tell me what you think of this console as both a step forward for Nintendo, or a direction you want videogame consoles to take in general. More to the point though, will you buy it?
Rayman Origins – E3 2011
Jun 7th
Yesterday at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, they unveiled an exciting new game that really stood out for me. This is the play though of the new Rayman game that was played live at the conference.
Rayman Origins, conceptually, reminds me a lot of Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Nintendo Wii. A 2.5D platformer with challenging and varied level design with a unique art style.
Normally, it is only Nintendo who makes platformers like this, and 2.5D platformers on none Nintendo consoles tend to be slightly darker, like Little Big Planet for Sony’s PS3. They arn’t dark games in plot or story, just their art style is normally full of more browns and whites doesn’t feel all that colourful. That’s why this game to me jumps out, as it is full of rich colours and it’s art design is fantastic. A lot of care and effort went into this game, and it shows.
The music is also very well done and both adds and amplifies the atmosphere of each level. Even the small touches in game design, like the falling Tetris blocks are just a poem to anyone who has ever enjoyed a videogame.
I’m not sure what consoles this will be on, but the game is being played on the Xbox 360 for the presentation. I’m sure it will go multi-platform, but it hasn’t been confirmed.
Hope you enjoy the playthough and my opinions, please comment to tell me your thoughts about the way Rayman is heading and if you share my view and wish for more colourful platformers like this one.
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Resistance 3 – E3 2011
Jun 7th
Resistance 3 was shown off at E3 yesterday at Sony’s presentation, with this very exciting trailer.
There isn’t much I know about this game, apart from that it was developed by Insomniac Games and Sony for the Playstation 3.
Enjoy, please comment and tell me what you think of the new game.