Metroid

August 26, 2010

Nintendo Invades Penny Arcade Expo With Metroid, Kirby, Donkey Kong, DRAGON QUEST IX And New WiiWare Game

The upcoming Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in Seattle will give consumers their first-ever chance to play upcoming Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ games. Visitors to Nintendo’s booth (#352) will be able to get their hands on games such as Donkey Kong Country™ Returns, Kirby’s Epic Yarn™, GoldenEye 007 from Activision Publishing, Inc. and NBA JAM from EA SPORTS™. Fluidity, a new game for Nintendo’s WiiWare™ downloadable game service, will also make its debut at PAX.

Nintendo’s Fluidity combines an amazing physics engine that realistically models flowing water with innovative puzzle game play. Using the three forms of water – liquid, ice and cloud – players will solve challenging puzzles across multiple chapters of an illustrated magical book called Aquaticus. The game offers detailed tutorials that introduce basic game mechanics, but the complexity quickly ramps up as special powers are acquired and enemies are introduced, testing players’ reflexes and ingenuity.

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Tags: Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest IX, Kirby, Metroid, Penny Arcade Expo, PR, wiiware.

Filed under Corporate, News, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Press Releases, WiiWare & DSiWare by Stephanie on Aug 26th, 2010. Comment.

August 8, 2010

Metroid: Other M Impressions

Metroid: Other M is out this month and is it looking good? Oh yes! But how does it play? Well, Cort at GoNintendo has written some impressions. Here’s a quick excerpt:

“I frankly don’t remember all the names and details, because I was a bit preoccupied absorbing the experience and trying not to fail miserably that I couldn’t stop and write it all down. What I can answer for you is what exactly Other M feels like to someone like me: a gamer with medium to good skill, doesn’t care for first-person anything except my own real life eye sockets, and a fan of old school Metroid… Bottom line is that my skepticism going into the session was completely washed away in less than an hour. This game is going to have a lot of fans, and I am now one of them.”

More impressions here.