The Attractions of Nintendo Land

Today it's time to start showing you the first part of all 12 mini games that are available at Nintendo Land.

Every game is dedicated to one classic nintendo game and its characters.

Let's start with:

Yoshi's Fruit Cart

Your Mii drives a cart that looks like Yoshi and it's your task to collect all the fruits on the field. To contol the cart you have to draw a line on your contoller, but the position of the fruits can only be seen on the TV screen. Your cart has limited fuel so you should use the shortest way. The easiest way to orientate ist the pattern of the field so you can guess the fruits spots or barriers or pits. In the higher levels the fruits need to be collected in a certain order. It's very funny and you'll find yourself scoring higher and higher.

The next one we'll pick is the one of Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong's Crash Course
You're driving a vehicle and try to get Pauline (The girls Mario had to rescue in the Donkey Kong Arcade). on the TV screen you see the hole cource and on the controller you can only see the part, where your vehicle is located. By turning the pad you control the gravity so you drive forward or backwards, but if you drive too fast, you will crash. An easy way to finish the course unharmed are friends sitting around giving tips about the parcours. high concentration and calm hands lead to a good score

Now it's time for one of my favorite characters: Link from the The Legend of Zelda series

The Legend of Zelda - Battle Quest

Up to 5 players can play this game - 4 Miis dressed as Link use their sword with the Wii Mote and the player with the pad uses a bow. Their lives count as one, so if every player is hit once and you have 5 hearts, then the quest is over. You walk trough a dungeon and have to clear it. Your archer attacks the enemy archers to protect your "swordmasters" and activates distant switches.

Now it's a green plumpers turn: Luigi in

Luigi's Ghost Mansion

The player with the pad controls a ghost and the other 4 players control Miis, who try defeat the ghost with their flashlights. But the ghost has also one way to defend itself by frightening the others, when he comes from behind On the TV screen you see the hole house and the Miis have to work together by talking about the ghosts position. The ghost only sees a small area and can only win, if he frightens all Miis before they recover. The players also have to watch for their battery levels, because without light they don't stand a chance against the ghost. As ghost it's very funny when you sneak behind the others. For the others the cooperating part is very funny if you can trick the ghost.

Within the next days the rest will be shown in combination with a small prize winning game.
The fuuniest comments or mails will win some WII U merchandise, so start commenting or mailing for WII U goodies.

Only 1 day left until WII U RELEASE

Hello Everybody

Only some hours left until the release of the new console by NINTENDO, the WII U.

I will use this platform to show you all 3 versions of this console and the launch line-up and also a small preview of all 12 mini games of Nintendo Land.

Wii U Basic Package:

Wii U Console 8 GB - White (299,00€ recommended retail price)




 

Wii U Premium Package:

Wii U Console 32 GB - Black (349,00€ recommended retail price)

Additionally included:

Nintendo Land + Wii Sensor Bar +  Console stand + Controller stand

Wii U Zombi U Package

Wii U Console 32 GB - Black (399,00€ recommended retail price)
Additionally included:
Zombi U + Wii Sensor Bar +  Console stand + Controller stand + Wii U Pro Controller












That's all for the console bundles, now let's follow with an excerpt of the launch line-up:

New Super Mario Bros. U
Nintendo Land

Zombi U
Assasins Creed III
Batman Arkham City - Armored Edition
Darksiders II
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed
FIFA 13
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Just Dance 4
Zombi U
and others

Games that will be released within the next months will be Rayman Legends, Pikmin 3, Monster Hunter Ultimate

Within the next days I'll give some more detailled information about Nintendo Land and its 12 mini games.

Have fun with your WII U.

Wii U is on the run

Last week on November 15th there was an event in Berlin to show the Wii U to an invited group of people. This event was part of the Wii U experience Tour.

The Wii U will be released on November 30th in Europe.

At this event some of the launch titles were shown, so one could get in touch with the new console and the new way of playing coming with the new Wii U Controller.

The perfect game to show many opportunities of this controller is Nintendo Land, which is also part of the .... pack. The game is like a theme park with different games which are based on classical Nintendo games like Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, Donkey Kong, Luigi's Mansion...
The mini game I liked most was the one with Yoshi - your Mii rides on a Yoshi vehicle and has to collect fruits on a green field. On the tv screen you see hole area with all fruits and all obstacles and on the controller screen you have to draw a line to determine your way with the Yoshi-bike, so guessing the positions of the targets is your task. If you look at the pattern of the field and compare both screens you can assume the right positions.

 

Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed was also presented in the press area, it reminds me a bit of Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing. You can control the vehycles via Wii-Mote or by using the Wii U controller, I took my favorite Knuckles and drove vs. a friend of mine, he took the main character from Crazy Taxi - he used the Wii U Pad and won, because it's easier to control.

I made a little joke: OMG, I lost vs. Robert de Niro,... the taxi driver.

Maybe I will be able to present some more details about this game next time.

I also played the new New Super Mario Bros. U together with someone, who used the whole event to explore as much as possible, especielly the names of the stages. We managed to clear 2 worlds within one hour and it was very funny, because in some moments we needed someone to use the pad to create platforms to get on higher areas to gather coins.

That's all for now, in later entries I'll present some pictures of the event and some more facts about the games.

And for sure the last entries from my trip to Japan will follow.