phantom_leo said:

This is very weird, but it WORKS...

You have to cross your eyes and then get them to relax while focusing on the middle image.

It gives a good idea of what the 3DS is going to look like, although (obviously) the technology WON'T have you crossing your eyes.

Lies. I see nothing.

Foolz said:

^Sorry to hear that Bugs.

Aspro: okay Killzone 2's opening is very similar to 1, but with controls that work! (Not fantastically well, but they do work!)

Also the dialogue is even worse.

There's so much forced swearing in that game. It should sound natural, like Overkill.

Okamiden soundtrack

Sorry Bugs for your loss.  I always use interflora for international flower delivery, it's usually reasonable for international.

Yoda, I tried embedding Giantbomb and Gamevideos flash vids in the same way as youtube and neither worked.

You may not need a controller to play Kinect.

But you do need this

http://www.atomic-accessories.com/

You guys have to seriously read the vitality sensor article. I thought it was just a pulse reader, but no, it shoots infra red light into your finger and can detect the haemaglobin levels in your blood. It shows how it can be used with a game too.

Also:

Iwata said:

Iwata on 3DS hardware specs, battery life, and SD card usage...


          First, about the specs, this time we have designed the hardware so that developers will not think that they cannot make the software that they would really like to make (on Nintendo 3DS) due to spec limitations. Another thing I'd like to discuss is about its capability of generating 3D images. For many years, Nintendo has been trying to make it happen. And the reason why we have come to believe we can finally make it with Nintendo 3DS is the availability or the good combination between the graphics capability of the 3D LCD, its resolution and the ability of the hardware to generate 3D images which can deliver the realism of the 3D world. More specifically, we needed a certain level or higher of LCD resolution. With the LCD, we needed a certain level or higher 3D projection capability. We needed hardware which could generate a certain level of the realism when it creates the 3D graphics. I understand that a number of you were able to have the hands-on experience of Nintendo 3DS today. The level of the 3D expression that you've just experienced has been realized by the combination of these factors.


          The Tag Mode of Nintendo DS has already been fun, but there were certain limits as to what it could do with Nintendo DS. While we understood that it would be good if Nintendo DS players could easily pause game play at any time in order to do other things, the specs of Nintendo DS did not allow us to do so. Above all, we needed to improve the system, such as how we could add much more memory and what needed to be done on the CPU and so forth. We intensified the hardware so that a number of new ideas that were impossible before can now be the reality. For example, we shall be able to make new proposals about what you can do by easily pausing the game on play.


          Another concrete example is AR (Augmented Reality). While 3D image production ability is suited to AR games, doing so requires a certain type of processing capability. So, taking into consideration various factors, we have come to the current specs.


          As for the battery, it is inevitable that Nintendo 3DS will be a device which requires more frequent recharging than Nintendo DS. This is why we are going to include the cradle, which is a dedicated battery charger. Perhaps we may need to dispatch to our consumers a message, something like, "Please place your Nintendo 3DS on the cradle as soon as you return home with it."


          As for your final question, Nintendo 3DS, in fact, embodies storage (NAND memory). However, we'd like to use it mainly for the system. Our consumers' needs widely vary depending on who plays with Nintendo 3DS. Some won't need the expanded memory at all. Some will download much software onto Nintendo 3DS. If they download many titles, the SD memory card that we will include shall not be big enough. We wanted to make the system, so that, when Nintendo 3DS owners require additional memory, they could do so simply by inserting a new bigger-sized SD memory card. We have designed the system as if the hardware's internal memory can be expanded simply by adding a new SD memory card. The owners can save the software on the new SD memory card and activate the software from the SD memory card. The ability to be able to do so can sometimes contradict with the maintenance of tight security. We would like to brush up on that aspect before the launch.

I'm pimping this game for the niche nerds.

Out in Europe and Austrailia by 15th October, USA in January.

IGN said:

A Shadow's Tale is enchanting to look at. The trailer alone (embedded below) is enough to send you weak at the knees. Originally known as Lost in Shadow, it's out in Europe months before America, giving us a rare chance to gloat. The game plays with perspective, light and darkness in strikingly inventive and innovatively beautiful ways, casting you as a shadow boy severed from your living body. Thrown from the top of a sky-piercing spire down to the very bottom, you must make your way back to your body by climbing up to the top, only able to move in the immaterial world.




                                             You can see railings, platforms, pipes and other miscellaneous objects in the foreground, but you can only interact with the shadows that they cast on the walls and floors behind them. Before long you're almost ignoring the foreground completely, thinking in the shadow world's terms and only redirecting your attention to physical objects when you suspect that manipulating them might open up a new path. Pulling levers in the shadow world affects the material world, shifting a piece of scenery or opening a door.

Pointing the Wii remote at the screen, you can examine the real world for moveable girders, pipes and machinery that you can rotate

What first seems like a simple platformer with a bewitching aesthetic twist soon develops a character all of its own.

Ico is an obvious source of aesthetic inspiration for A Shadow's Tale, from the architecture to the colour scheme to its deliberate air of mystery. The journey to the bottom of the tower right at the beginning of the game is a cart ride across a seemingly endless bridge, reminiscent of Shadow of the Colossus' opening scene. A Shadow's Tale doesn't suffer from comparison, though; it quickly takes the art style and the gameplay in its own direction. It's a tasteful homage, not an imitation.




                                                                                                         Every ten floors or so, the landscape changes, moving from factories filled with angular girders and hydraulic machinery to residential areas where you're scaling washing lines and rooftops. The game's striking, eerie sound direction is as crucial a part of A Shadow's Tale's atmosphere as the visual style, setting creatures' otherworldy screeches and the clunking of moving levers and scenery against an echoing, insubstantial backdrop.




                                                                                                         It's difficult to say much else about A Shadow's Tale without spoiling the tense, gradual experience of scaling the tower, but it's a much more substantial game than it initially appears, and it doesn't end once you get to the top. The different floors are layered with secrets and memories that you can only access by revisiting them. It's got the Metroid skill of hinting at hidden treasures whilst keeping them tantalisingly out of your reach.



A Shadow's Tale is masterful at crafting a sense of tension, not just through its looks and sound but through a growing sense of desperation as the levels get more and more difficult, making the prospect of dying and being sent back to the start both scarier and more immediate. The increasingly weird shadow creatures and ambiguous storyline craft a deeper sense of unease that builds as the game goes on, making you ever more apprehensive about what you'll find higher up the tower.





                                                                                                         Read more: http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/112/1126687p2.html#ixzz11mKUrNvG

I can't take any review calling that game beautiful seriously. It's visually awful with almost PS1 era geometry and textures and nonsensical level design. Art style (which I don't see here beyond the coloring) can make up for a weak system but not for sheer incompetence. Another review, 6/10. It's not like the Wii is starved for platformers, buy one of the many good ones instead, retail or WiiWare as even some cheap indie stuff seem better produced. Or just save your money for Donkey Kong Country Returns and Kirby's Epic Yarn.

Yodariquo said:

Dvader said:

I killed Dracula last night Steel. No so bad once you get the pattern down and Alucard becomes a huge help.

Now back to the far far far superior SOTN.

Still stuck on Stage 5.