Since my lack of posting we've missed an update on Nintendo Direct on 21st June, So here we go!
During the Nintendo Direct, Nintendo dropped in a big mention of the 3DS XL. This is the second console in the 3DS series and offers a boat load of new features. (for full information check previous posts) The release date for Europe will be July 28th
New Art Academy is set to launch on July 28th along with the 3DS XL. Art Academy will use the XL's bigger screens to allow you to create more accurate designs. Just like its predecessor the idea of the game is to teach you how to become an artist (by using the DS screen). You can use a load of new materials to create your art from pastels to paints. You can now share your art via Street and Spot pass allowing you to claim instant fame in the world of art (Kinda). There will be new lessons coming with the game allowing you to create many new masterpieces, you can also create your own lessons and send these to your friends. Additional lessons should be available to download after launch to keep you gameplay fresh. New Art Academy allows you to display your art in a virtual gallery so those dreams of having your art hanging in the louvre can be realised!
Also on July 28th
Freaky Forms Deluxe will be hitting our screens. Freaky Form allows you to create characters (or Formies) which you can then use to wander around the world. As your formie you can interact with the environment and talk to other characters who will give you tasks and missions. Completion of these missions end in you winning new creation options and unlocking new challenges. You can also add scenery to the formie world as you go so each game is truly unique. In Freaky Forms Deluxe a new RPG (Role Playing Game) mode is added where you will explore dungeons with your Formies and try to complete quests. You can battle other formies and gain special abilities by beating bosses and opening treasure chests. Your formies can be shared with others by streetpass and a new QR mode which converts your formie into a code that others can scan to receive your creation. A multiplayer option is also available.
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New Super Mario Bros 2 more details were released about the new Coin Rush mode. In this mode you will play through 3 randomly selected courses, all with a reduced time limit. Your objective is to make it through these courses collecting as many coins as you can as fast as you can (all time left is converted into coins). You can then share your high scores with friends via Street Pass and challenge them to do better than you. Oh and by the way you only have 1 life!
additional coin rush software will be available after launch, and get this, Nintendo is actually asking US what we want in the game *Faints in shock*.
Mario And Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games (not much of a catchy title is it?) will be coming along with The London 2012 Olympic Games (Who knew?) and will be released alongside a free application available in the e-shop:
Mario And Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games Virtual Card Album (Again their ability to create fantastic names is bewildering!) This will see you running around the country during the time of the Olympic games to try and collect sets of cards. There are more 70 cards in all and you start of with just 5 of them. In order to get the others you must connect with other players by using Street Pass, Vist Nintendo Zone Hot Spots, or unlock them with Play Coins. Some cards are rarer than others meaning rare cards are harder to find (that's going to be the Nintendo Zone Hot Spots.) Once you complete a set you will receive a special bonus card for your album. But Beware you only have until September to fill you album up.
A new inazuma eleven game was also mentioned:
Inazuma Eleven Strikers which is good news for all you football fans out there. In game there are new special moves with improved cut-scenes and better graphics.
Going back to your DS that is sat in the corner going "Why don't you play me any more". You have a chance to make your old consoles happy with the release of
Pokemon Black and White 2. They will be out in autumn. They are set 2 years after the events of the first B and W games and feature a new starting town with new starting characters (a first for Pokemon).
Along with the game new software is being released on the e-shop.
Pokemon Dream Radar and
Pokedex 3D Pro. The first allows you to use your 3DS system as a kind of hunting scope, where you move around your home searching for Pokemon through the 3D camera. If you find some you can try and capture them and send them into you Pokemon Black and White 2 games.
Pokemon Dream Radar allows you to capture Thudurus, Landorus and Tornadus in their new Therian forms!
Pokedex 3D Pro lets you view data about over 600 Pokemon all in full 3D rendering.
The last Pokemon related game mentioned was Learn with Pokemon: Typing Adventure. This is a fun game for kids and adults that encourages you to improve your typing and spelling.
The first Professor Layton game coming to 3DS is
Professor Layton and The Miracle Mask. We know is that the game is set after the spectre's flute but before curious village, and the fact that the main plot revolves around a mask that is supposed to grant the wearer the ability to wish for anything. In the new video we see a plethora (that's a big word for a Thursday night) of characters get turned to stone at what seems to be a regular town carnival (well the professor Layton kind of regular). People are also seen to be floating away at what seems to be the command of a white cloaked figure wearing a mask. With over 300 new puzzles and the promise of some flashbacks from Hershel Layton's past, I cant wait to get this game and race my friends to the end.
A BIG announcement was that a new
Super Smash Bros game is in the works. Unfortunately not much was given away about this title so I think that we may have to wait a while for this one.
After a quick reminder of the QR codes in
Mario Tennis Open. that pretty much wrapped up the eurpoe version of Nintendo Direct.
