The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Mario Party: Island Tour Dated For North America

I hope they will be on the eShop.

These would make fantastic Christmas presents!

With all this Nintendo news and surprises, I'm shock that there not a Nintendo direct for it.

Anyways both are on my holiday wish list now.

This is the first time nintendo has mentioned Mario party 3DS since The nintendo direct.

My birthday is December 4th. Zelda is my birthday present to myself.

^^

@Trikeboy You must have been really happy with Mario Kart 7, then.

I hope it is harder than the original link to the past. (I played Links Awakening first and got all the seashells which was a reasonable amount of difficulty).

I finished a link to the past the first day I got it. (Christmas Day).

I don't care what difficulty Between Worlds is, I just hope (as I'm expecting) it to be fun
Obviously it's going to have a significant amount of difficulty.

Just ALBW for me! It looks awesome from what I've seen. I'll wait and see how Mario Party: Island Tour does with reviews, but I got bored with MP9 pretty quick.

@ultraraichu Seriously, I would have loved a Nintendo Direct! Nothing better than getting the news as it happens. I hate waking up to see everything already revealed.

So 3D World, Link Between Worlds, and Mario Party all on the same day? Ouch.

@ultraraichu @DerpSandwich - It makes no sense. That last ND about a month ago had almost no "news" whatsoever, just some youtube trailers, and today is busting out all over. It's a crazy insane day when a 3DS Zelda game release date news has barely any comments on it.

@rjejr Nintendo can be very confusing sometimes.

Man, Nintendo is on a roll! This is gonna be one heck of a Nintendo Christmas

Oh... I forgot there was a new Mario Party in the work...

You're using the old artwork though. Link now officially looks like this in the new game:

Is it just me or does Mario Party belong on a console and not 3ds?! Does it have online? Cus if it does and acts like AC:NL and one person disconnects the whole game resets then its a horrible way to play a game. Even if one dc happens that would suck!

As for Zelda I can't wait to play it. Going back to its roots is so much better then continuing those average to ol ds offerings!

November 22nd is going to take a huge chunk out of my wallet, Zelda, Mario Party, and Mario 3D world all in one day, wow

Is it strange to anyone else that my priority is a new Mario party over zelda

@Spoony_Tech I don't know about other people but I liked MarioParty DS more than MarioParty 8. Still great games though!

Yay! I'm so glad Mario Party is coming out this year! Wow there are way too many good games coming out September-December.

I am also shocked that Nintendo didn't do this via a Nintendo Direct... If they want people to watch them then they need to put this sort of news in them. Not like the one from a few weeks ago that didn't really say anything. So backwards.

November 22 is my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAHO!!!!!!! I'll be grabbing Zelda with my birthday cash!!

Getting both of course~

I'll be picking up both, hope theres some online capabilities in Mario Party though

Any more XL Zelda bundle news?

Sweet!

@Unrandomsam

Absolutely calling BS on this! Unless, of course, you aren't referring to the original and you mean something along the lines of "Your first time playing it was one of it's rereleases and anytime you got stuck you jumped on the internet for the answer"

Granted, we were 9-10 when it first came out, but I used to have sleepover parties with 4-5 kids and we'd all put our minds together to get through the game and it still took weeks. That is, admittedly, because there were maybe 2 or 3 times where we literally spent days trying to figure out what to do next. And there was no internet. If you couldn't figure it out, you didn't move on.

It's nowhere near the difficulty of the first 2, and less difficult than Link's Awakening after it, but it struck the perfect balance of fair difficulty.

Are you telling me in one day, you managed to find the book of mudora and know to bring it to the desert palace to open it, find the flippers, find all 3 medallions, figure out where to dig up the flute (trying to think of the parts that weren't marked on your map for you), beat 12 dungeons including the castle, etc.? Just the way the overworld map was created threw a wrench into getting around sometimes. I remember specifically in the dark world, to the right of the castle, there's this obscure little area you have to hookshot across and man, did it take us a while to figure that one out. I also vaguely remembering being incredibly relieved to get inside the Ice Palace because there was some difficulty with that.

Ah, the memories on this game.. Kids, LBW is for us, the grownups who grew up with this beautiful series. We developed a crush on her with LOZ, second guessed if she was really that pretty when AOL rolled around, and then realize we had indeed met out soulmate when Lttp popped up

In the same news, the 3DS is still going to be fantastic and the Wii U still isn't going to have games (that appeal to the hard core and actually make a difference in sales).