Review #2 - Nintendo's E3 Presentation

Hello all :)
Nintendo's E3 digital presentation just took place today and there was a lot revealed from some major series and I'm going to take you through all the major parts, not just pokemon. Nintendo showed a Digital Presentation this year not a press conference but the main part of dolls of characters and Reggie, I found were really creepy so I would of prefered a actual conference but Nintendo not doing a presentation was not surprising after them not doing one last year and only showing a Nintendo Direct.

Let's start with Pokemon first. We all know that Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby are coming this November, which is very fast but so far we've had no gameplay. That all changed today, we were treated to a gameplay trailer that basically confirmed all that was leaked in the CoroCoro magazine, such as the mega evolutions, redesigned characters (the trainers, Maxie and Archie) and Steven Stone being a part of the game. The game its self looks almost exactly like X and Y from this trailer, especially in the battles how ever I got the feeling that the clips in this trailer were very rushed which is quite surprising for a game that is being released so soon. The major new reveal in this trailer is that Groudon and Kyogre do appear to transform into their 'forms' that appear on the box art of the game.
But that was really about it in terms of reveals from Pokemon which overall is quite disappointing considering the game is being released on the 14th of November I believe which is very fast considering it hasn't even been a year since X and Y's release.

The two major releases this year were of the two new games for The Legend of Zelda and then new reveals for the new Super Smash Bros. game.

Super Smash Bros. showed two new fighters and a new gameplay mechanic. The first of the new fighters was the Mii Fighter. These are not generic Mii's they are the Mii's created by the player and there are three varieties of fighting styles for the Mii's. These are the Brawler, the Swordfighter, and the Gunner. Brawlers are fast and have hand to hand fighting styles whereas the Sword Fighters are more melee weapon based, like Link, through using weapons like a sword, and the Gunners are, in a way that Sword Fighters are similar to Link, appear to be similar to characters like Samus in a way where they fight with a 'Laser arm'. As far as their moves it was confirmed that they would have customisable move sets as each type has 12 options for the player to chose 4 moves from.
The next character reveal was Lady Palutena from Kid Icarus. She appears to fight like a mage while being able to move very quickly. However overall I'm looking forward to fighting with Greninja from Pokemon X and Y as a playable character much more.
The game looks very nice from trailers however I was concerned that on the 3DS version the characters have black outlines around them that are quite thick so I was concerned how this will look with fast moving characters. These out lines don't appear in the Wii U version but in a very fast clip from a montage it appeared that the out lines could be removed but this was not talked about in detail so it looks like we'll have to wait for the game to be able to play around with that but I would prefer the 3DS version not to have the out lines as it looks like they could hurt the eyes if they contrast with fast moving characters and lots of action.
The major gameplay mechanic that was revealed was Amiibo, which appears to be very similar to Disney Infinity and Skylanders where a figure will bring the character into the game. However the figures can also store data and any Wii U system will recognise them and this will then download the figure's data and visa versa, which should let this character "evolve as a fighter" as the data will change as you play.
Other games do have Amiibo compatibility coming and today the first was revealed to be Mario Kart 8.
Overall the models themselves look very nice and depending on their price I'm sure some dedicated fans may even buy them as decorative figures as they look to be very high quality.
The release dates were also finally revealed to be October 3rd for the 3DS version and the 2014 holidays for the Wii U version.

There were two games talked about for the Legend of Zelda series. The most anticipated of these was 'Zelda HD' (which doesn't have a title yet). Not many new details were revealed about this game other than the developers showed a shot presumably from the game and then a very short trailer. The shot showed a incredibly vast world including a field and mountains and the developer stated that "you can even go to those mountains in the distance if you walk far enough". They also stated they took their inspiration from the original Legend of Zelda where you are 'dropped' in a vast world and simply have to walk around and explore. In the trailer it showed that Epona, Link's horse, is back however it also showed Link riding her in a short blue tunic without a cap which could show a tunic changing method, similar to that in Ocarina of Time. He was also shown to be shooting a monster with a large bow where it didn't shoot arrows but something larger which glowed which could show that either the items are very extravagant or the items could be upgradable and/or combinable, which could be interesting for the 'exploration gameplay' theme that the developers are aiming for.

The next major feature for the Legend of Zelda series was the details revealed for Hyrule Warriors. In this game you fight an army with allies. There are lots of playable characters including Link, Zelda, Impa and notably Midna who is in her Imp form, riding Link in wolf form. Also revealed through the trailer is that the characters moves are specifically tailored to them for example Zelda uses her Light Arrows and Midna creates an arm from the orange 'hair' (can't think of a better word for it :P) behind her Fused Shadow mask. The release date was also revealed for this to be September the 16th 2014 for the Wii U.

Two other 'major reveals' included Yoshi's Wolly World and Captain Toad Treasure Tracker. Yoshi's Wolly World is a game where the whole world is a 3D environment made out of yarn, not the 'single strand' style shown in Kirby's Epic Yarn. This game is an action game that focuses around Yoshi's exploration and so Yoshi's abilities focus around this and there are also lots of transformations for Yoshi as he is made of Yarn. The next, Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, focuses around the red explorer toad from Super Mario Galaxy who features in his own game that looks alot like Galaxy as the worlds appear to be like singular 'boxes' almost, like in Galaxy.

Other reveals included a new Beyonetta game, a new Kirby game, Kirby and the Rainbow storm, a new Xenoblade game and a Mario Maker game which looks very interesting with the potential it could bring to build stages of both classic Mario and 3D Mario, and this makes very good use of the Wii U gamepad as a tool for developing the stages through dragging and dropping elements onto the main area.

Right, I'm sorry if that was overly long and drawn out I just wanted to try and include the main things especially about the new Pokemon game, even if there wasn't much revealed in the first place, but I hoped you liked my run through/review of Nintendo's E3 presentation.
From PokemonSpriteGirl :)