The Weekend Wrap-Up
Wow, slow weekend. Well, no worries, I’ve got a few treats in store.
- IGN has a retrospective of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, one of the Zelda titles I have regretably not yet played, along with its sister title Oracle of Seasons and The Minish Cap.
As much as I like the old-style Zeldas, I really ought to find a way to get ahold of those.
- GameSpy has an interview with Lacey Chabert, the actress playing Princess Elise in the upcoming Sonic the
HorndogHedgehog.GameSpy: When you were working out the details of your contract, were you like, “I want a Sonic t-shirt, a copy of the game, two coffee mugs?.”
Chabert: No, I don’t think I get anything. I’m going to have to go to Toys R Us and buy a copy myself.
Wow, that’s pretty weak. Cheapskates.
- Perhaps I missed it when it came out, but reviews of Big Brain Academy seem to be rather scarce. Downplayed, perhaps?
Well, whatever the case, N-Philes has just added one of their own.
On a related note, I downloaded the demo not too long ago, and had a pretty good time with it, with what there was.
- Looks like Circuit City is having some Nintendo sales.
GameCube
-Supermario Strikers, Mario Baseball, Pokemon XD anyone $24.99 save 50%
-ALS Gamecube carrying case $9.99 save $10.00Gameboy Advance
-Pokemon ?Fire Red?, Pokemon ?Leaf Green?, Zelda ?Four Swords?, Mario Kart ?Super Circuit?, and Super Mario World ?super mario world 2?. anyone $14.99 save 50%DS
-BD & A pen stylus 2 pak $4.99 save $5
-Mad Catz accessory Kit $9.99 save $10
-Free DS carrying case with purchase of DSNot much going on for DS, but I could really go for the rest, save the Pokemon titles, which I’m not adverse to, but are simply a lower level of priority for me.
- Wow, talk about a “Breakfast of Champions!”
Go Nintendo got to attend a special press event in NYC which showed off the upcoming Yoshi’s Island
2DS, and have a special themed breakfast.Man, that sounds good. I wish I could’ve gone, for the food, folks, and fun.
…I think I might’ve just infringed a copyright.
The whole event sounds like it was a lot of fun, though.
- GN links to a clip from IGN Weekly in which they have an interview with Perrin Kaplan from Nintendo about the Wii.
Most interesting part, to me, is that if you need to delete a downloaded game from your Virtual Console, you don’t have to repurchase it, as it will record it as having been bought by you. Snazzy.
- Joystiq shows a modified PlayStation 3 billboard, and comments on how advertising their shortage-facing system is only going to raise the ire of the public.
Personally, I agree. It’s kind of an adding-insult-to-injury sort of thing.
- Kotaku, meanwhile, snipes Best Buy’s notoriously faulty consumer help information.
- Wow, that is one hot piece of Samus fanart.
- Press The Buttons links to a The New Gamer piece about comfort games.
I agree with Burnout 3, as that’s great relief. A number of Mario games work for me as well.
- Toastyfrog has an interesting piece that looks back at one of my old favorites, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link as a part of “Metroidvania Gaiden.”
- Like Star Wars: Clone Wars?
Want more of it?
Then you might be in luck.
The show is planned as a continuation of the Emmy-winning “Clone Wars” that aired in 25 episodes on the Cartoon Network from 2003 to 2005. That series used limited animation. The new version will use 3-D computer graphics.
Nothing against 3-D, but that’s too bad, I rather liked the stylized Star Wars look.
LBD “Nytetrayn”