Japanese Nintendo Conference Now

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Livestream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nintendo3dsconference2011

Text blog in English about the event: http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/09...ence_2011/

This is Nintendo's big Japanese conference for the rest of the year. 3DS focus.

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It started out with a long Zelda SS demo, with Miyamoto. He had a sword and shield again, awesome. :) The game looks amazing...

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Not sure if these are new or not?

-PokePark Wii 2 (2011 Japan)
The other 2011 Wii games were shown as well -- Kirby in October, Itadaki Street in November I think, Mario Party 8, Namco's Go Vacation, etc.

Then the conference moved to its main subject, the 3DS. Iwata talks for a while. Not sure what he's saying. They do announce a new color - pink 3DS for Japan.

Then, lots of titles and some trailers/footage.

-Animal Crossing 3DS (2012 Japan)
-Mario Tennis 3DS (2012 Japan)
-Tomodachi Collection 3DS (sequel to the very successful JP-only DS game)
-Girls Mode (fashion game for 3DS, maybe like their DS one?)

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-Fire Emblem 3DS! What is this one, a remake or a new game? I'm not sure... it's FE though, so I want it. Looked decent. 3d graphics.
-Fatal Frame game for 3DS shown, uses the camera (unlikely to see US release I imagine)
-Some soccer game with NES-ish graphics except sort of in 3d
-some Japanese strategy/cardgame thing
-Dynasty Warriors 3DS

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-Bravely Default: Flying Fairy - a Square-Enix RPG for 3DS, coming next year. Looks quite FF-inspired. This might be the 4 Warriors of Light sequel made into an original title, maybe? The title is quite ... modern Squeenix... too. That is, kind of weird.
-Gundam AGE 3DS
-SD Gundam GGeneration 3D
-Hatsune Miku 3DS (starring a Nendoroid-style Miku)
-RE Revelations

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-Ace Combat 3D: Cross Rumble
-Tekken 3D: Prime Edition
-THEATRHYTHM Final Fantasy (the FF music game) - has songs and visuals from all of the FF games, from FF1 to the new ones.
-DQ Slime Morimori 3 (sequel to the DS game that was released here as DQ Rocket Slime, I think)
-Girls RPG (yes, that is the name) - from Level 5. Very pink logo, no gameplay shown.
-Love Plus 3DS - some footage shown in the trailer earlier. De. 2011, this will sell in Japan but won't (thankfully) be released elsehwere. The idea of a dating sim where the girl basically molds herself to fit the player's whims is creepy, and I think that's what Love Plus is like...
-MGS3 3D
-Kid Icarus - delayed to Jan. 2012. Iwata bows in apology.

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Then - some anime spinoff of Kid Icarus or something? Not sure what that is.... Ah, yes, it's anime shorts by three anime companies based on Kid Icarus, to be released free.

-Monster Hunter 3 G 3DS - The existence of this leaked out recently, and it's a big deal for Nintendo in Japan... Monster Hunter on PSP is the series that really saved the PSP in Japan and made it the big success that it is now. This time, Sony doesn't get it exclusive. Quite the opposite, Nintendo gets one first... very nice. Trailer shown, and one of the developers comes on stage to talk to Iwata about the game too. Dec. 2011 release in Japan.

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-Monster Hunter 4 announced for 3DS, with a pretty awesome looking trailer. This is a complete surprise, and is huge news obviously...

Then it seems to end, but no, there are some Gatchaman/Monster Hunter 3 G ad anime things. Kind of silly stuff, even in Japanese.

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After the Gatchaman stuff, then they showed a Love Plus 3DS trailer. After that, THEATRHYTHM footage, mostly interviews with the creators and composers. At the end of it... what's that, Kingdom Hearts 3DS, revealed with some on-screen footage? Really?

Now, Bravely Default. The trailer shows a long list of Square RPG names, flying towards the screen, before finally going to this one. What are they trying to do, show how crazy their names have gotten? :) There's going to be an AR card for the game too.

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Oh, and there was absolutely no mention of the analog addon thing that's apparently been announced. If it is coming, they aren't talking about it yet.

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Well there's the lineup I've been waiting on. Sounds good, but seriously? "Now there's games for TEH GIRLZ!" Yeah... way to make a gender feel welcome in a way that makes it clear they were NOT previously welcome...

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[EdenMaster]

New Monster Hunter, eh? Hopefully Capcom will be very un-Capcom and release one or both over here.

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I think that most of the Monster Hunter games have been released here (one of the two PS2 games was, three of the four PSP games, and the Wii game), so there's a decent chance we'll see one or both of them...

[EdenMaster]

I thought I'd recalled something about Capcom saying they weren't planning to bring any more MH's to North America, one of a string of horrible PR moves the company made in rapid succession.

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Well there's the lineup I've been waiting on. Sounds good, but seriously? "Now there's games for TEH GIRLZ!" Yeah... way to make a gender feel welcome in a way that makes it clear they were NOT previously welcome...

Yeah, I wouldn't have too high hopes for that one, I bet...

I thought I'd recalled something about Capcom saying they weren't planning to bring any more MH's to North America, one of a string of horrible PR moves the company made in rapid succession.

Huh, I don't remember that, but who knows, could be. We'll probably see one of them come here somehow, I'd think...