My Thoughts E3 2012: Day Two – Part 1

Day Two shall be split into two parts due to various reasons. So part one will just be about the Nintendo Conference and part two will be the rest of the day from IGN. Hope you enjoy!

Nintendo Conference

I thought that the beginning of the conference was really good as it was engaging, interesting and funny. By watching all of it made me wants to know more by the second. Okay, onto the juicy stuff!

Pikmin 3 – Looks like a cute strategy game. Never played the other games so I didn’t really understand what was going (backstory), so I can’t really comment on that but it still looks good.

Miiverse - Nintendo’s version of PlayStation Home just with a lot features from Home which is missing.

New Super Mario Bros. U – Never played a Mario game before so it didn’t really get my attention.

Batman: Arkham City Armoured Edition – The game looked awesome. I thought the use of Wii U in this game was used very well e.g. Remote control Batarangs using the Gamepad’s motion controls. This has added another reason why my opinion should be stronger about getting the Wii U.

Scribblenauts Unlimited – Looks like fun. Hmmm… I wonder if you can imagine a… a cat with a pop tart body flying through space farting out a rainbow???

Then a whole lot of third party games came along including: Darksiders II, Mass Effect 3, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Trine 2: Directors Cut, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge and Aliens Colonial Marines.  

One thing I must say though if you didn’t see the whole conference you must see this part because you shall laugh your head off. I won’t ruin it for you just watch it.

Wii Fit U – Doesn’t interest me but it looked good.

Sing – ‘Mamma mia, here I go again, My my, how can I resist you?’ Wait one minute… are we talking about the game?? You can definitely guess I wasn’t interested.

The conference then went onto the 3DS.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Coins everywhere, gold enemies, gold Mario. This game just made me want it to be real life.

Paper Mario: Sticker Star – The game looked okay I guess.

Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Same as the one above.

Back to the Wii U again.

Lego City Undercover – The game looked awesome. All it needs to do now is to make it online and eventually come to other consoles. Also, I loved the cheeky Mario end part it made me giggle.

ZombiU – I absolutely hate the name but the use of the Gamepad I thought worked really well while playing. However, it’s nothing special in my eyes.

Nintendoland (There will be 12 minigames. Legend of Zelda Battle Quest, Animal Crossing Sweet Day, Donkey Kong’s Crash Course and Luigi’s Ghost Mansion were announced) – This game looked interesting as it looks like the game will probably get positive feedback afterwards.

Great conference, in my eyes it was as good as the Sony conference but it didn’t beat the Microsoft conference.  So I think that this year Microsoft takes my imaginary trophy. YAY!!