Hyper Japan was nearly a month ago in London, a major expo that brings together various aspects of Japanese culture. Nintendo UK has been a big supporter of the event and had a booth on hand, also giving attendees what was - at the time - the first opportunity for the European public to go hands on with Star Fox Zero.
Unsurprisingly nostalgia is mentioned a fair bit in the Star Fox Zero player reactions video below, and we see plenty staring at the GamePad for more precise aiming. Though the preview build has been pretty divisive, naturally this video focuses on those happy with what they've seen.
The Splatoon video, also just released, is interesting for the fact that it appears to show actual Wii U converts. As a Brit your humble writer is therefore allowed to be a tad sarcastic about sales of the system in the country, so is pleased to see that that a bump is expected with two attendees stating they're tempted to buy the console. We wish the system had more of the success it deserved in the UK, but Gallows humour is all we have left at the moment.
Splatoon truly is a particularly strong suit for Nintendo and the Wii U right now, with its twist on shooter mechanics being a winning formula with a broad spectrum of gamers.
If you attended Hyper Japan in July let us know whether you had a go of these demos, and how you like - or otherwise - the Star Fox Zero controls.
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For some reason the uk just seems like the most anti nintendo country out there unless shooters are made or sports but at least there are nintendo fans.
The Wario fan is soo cheesy! It makes me sad that he's waiting just like me for a brand new Wario game.......
Few more months and I can finally get the Wii U!
see now, what's not being talked about is that when NX comes out, all us wii u owners will be a leg up in the converts that waited for a better system... not only will we have adapted to the new superior controls, but we'll also have two gamepads! mwahaha
I was there, I played Starfox and thought it was pretty average... I only played the Corneria stage though. Compared to the memories of the SNES and N64 games, it just didnt make an impression upon me. I liked Mario Maker though, I still dont find the Wii U a compelling enough system to buy myself (and I am into neither sports nor fps games).
There was a good retro game stall, and 'The Heart of Gaming' also had a cool section set up.
The rise of the Chav has pretty much decimated any integrity the British gaming population may have once held. A lot of people claim benefit then proceed to buy an X1 or PS4 an a subscription so they can stay at home an not try. The country is a mess an cannot actually afford to 'game' like it used too. Which also means Piracy is very high, because even families with income cannot afford 'every' title their kids pester them for. Why do you think the DS was such a big hit? buy one machine then get 100s of games to keep your child busy for little extra cost, because of the flexibility of R4 cards.
Meantime, Wii U is barely pirated and 3DS has consta updates to try an counter piracy.
The subscriptions of PS4 an X1 gives kids ammo to persuade parents because everyone has Mobile phone subscriptions, even young kids, spoilt rotten because they need to be seen as 'keeping up' an 'cool'. The country got Americanised in the most negative way possible.
I cannot wait to play this! I first played Lylat Wars when I was about 6-7 years old and I've only just managed to finish it 100% My high score is 1367
Yes being a Nintendo fan here is England is very sad 😔
@FargusPelagius
Sounds a lot like America in many places. I, myself am a conservative and dual job wielding American. Sorry to hear your report. I guess hard work is appreciated and greatly needed nomatter where you go in the world.
@VR32F1END
Yeah unfortunately it's bad enough to essentially mean a lot of people simply buy the same games as all their friends, Fifa, CoD, Battlefield, instead of people exercising some kind of, ooo I would like to try that, it looks interesting. Don't get me wrong, some of us do, and not all X1 an PS4 owners are complete robots, but at a root level the bottom of the barrel are adversely effecting the direction video games are going in general, it varies from area to area, but you can tell in the poorer areas, everyone just buys 2-3 games a year and they are likely the same 2-3 games that their mates have bought. If you didn't buy it, then your mate will be like 'why you muppet?', it's barmy beyond belief.
When I was growing up I was one of the few people who actually had a N64, but bloomin norah that Machine could defend itself, we'd play Micro machines V3 on the PS1 (still a brilliant game) and then boom N64 time, bit of Goldeneye to warm up the reflexes, some Gibbing in Quake 2, bit of a tournament in No mercy and then a right good Rommelling 4 player split screen Perfect dark, with 8 simulants, even Unreal Tournament struggled to compare in sheer mayhem. That machine was a multiplayer beast. I can safely say I was actually 'cool' for owning one because it urinated so badly over PS1 an I made sure everyone knew it.
@day Who's to say the NX will even use the GamePad?
@Not_Soos Would hope it's an option. I really enjoy using it.
@FargusPelagius
When I was in the Air Force, it seemed like everybody in the dorms either had a 360 or a PS3. Almost everybody played Call of Duty. Lots of us had a Wii, and most of them were hacked. Lots of my friends knew how to do it, and did it regularly. I'm not saying it was a good thing though. I didn't ever want to hack mine because it was the nice red Mario edition, and it was still getting updates at the time. My jams during that time personally was Mario Kart Wii and Marvel Vs Capcom 3.
@VR32F1END
Haha, yeah same in the U.K, my Friend who is in the Navy told me how a bunch of the guys had Xboxes, but Not a single game had split screen and you couldn't get Internet on the boat, so they were bricks essentially.
I showed him my Wii U an 3DS an he was like, Why on earth do none of the plonkers use these for games! The 3D on the 3DS especially impressed him, he thought it was voodoo. That evening we played on Micro machines V3 and Gran tourismo 4 on his PS2, reminiscing, then we went out an got hammered.
@FargusPelagius
Ah yes. Such beverages are the key to a great evening of Mario Kart. I remember when my roomie and I were drinking and playing MKWii online. It was us and a lot of Japanese gamers. Nothing against them, but us drunken manchildren beat them 1st and 2nd place. No other name in the race had an english letter. We ended up singing America: $&@! YEAH! and launghing hysterically. Good memories.
@VR32F1END
And that is Exactly what 'Games' are for, fun with your mates to pass a little time .
Well there you have it, what else does a gamer want, I have never been an online player on any system, but these games, MK8, SSB, and especially Splatoon have converted me BIIGGG TIME......They are fun, and not to serious to play and very rewarding.
Keep up the good work NINTY...............................
@Not_Soos i'm going with backwards compatability here... plus i think dual screen gaming is here to stay with nintendo.
@FargusPelagius Piracy to the casual Crowrd is not a big hit so there for I doubt Piracy was a reason why the DS was a big hit.
please release the demo for download Nintendo ;~~
@FargusPelagius "The Rise of the chav"...
Hope that you don't mean to say Country Housed and Violent by that, since that would be what we call a "backronym"...
Having said that, I'm getting all kinds of visions of Lonsdale and gold chains...
@Cyber-BLP-- so sega scarred the foundations for nintendo to take root? So out of curiosity what would happen if a person wore in public a bunch of nintendo stuff and was playing a game on ds? (would they get stoned or something?)
@Cyber-BLP-- And don't forget the branded sportswear and/or the Burberry cap... (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Chav.svg/2000px-Chav.svg.png) No wonder you need a drink every now and then...
What's with the switching avatar picks? Haven't decided on what you like? Almost hard to keep track. I know you're not the only one that does it, but you do change quickly, my friend. In fact, all these people changing avatars even makes me consider doing it. And I've been using this one for almost 13 years... (you don't just change a Thanos avatar, you know)
@TheRealThanos I don't plan to ever change my pic tbh and don't see why some people do unless like with the case of splatoon some people traded in for it cause they like it but i would keep your pic i think it match's perfectly and can't help but think its from an old silver surfer comic or something.
@edgedino I believe it is. I downloaded it somewhere in 2002 but it is probably much older than that.
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