As a part of video games week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Reggie Fils-Aime appeared on the show to promote various Nintendo products including The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and the new Nintendo console, the Wii U. However, the first thing that Fils-Aime showed on stage was a demo of Kid Icarus Uprising’s augmented reality mode. The mode will use its own cards and will Pit (get it?) characters against each other. But Reggie had another exciting announcement!
Remember a few weeks ago when Robin William’s daughter Zelda Williams was teasing that she was shooting something for Nintendo? It turns out that something was a commercial for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. The commercial stars Zelda and her father (and his beard), and it focuses on the fact that Robin Williams named his daughter after the princess from The Legend of Zelda. Pretty good commercial in my opinion!
If you were hoping that the Four Swords releasing in September for the 3DS eShop would be updated from the Game Boy Advance version, I’ve got some bad news. It sounds like the 3DS release will be an untouched version of the Game Boy Advance release.
Using CG footage instead of in game footage should be illegal. Okay… maybe that’s a little dramatic. However, I always find it annoying when publishers choose to use footage you won’t see in the game when advertising a game. It’s especially egregious in a game like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, where the graphics of the game are such a huge part of it. On top of that, the CG isn’t amazing either. In my opinion, this is a disappointing trailer for such an important game.
Looking for another nostalgic time machine to take you back to the Nintendo 64 days? Nintendo is happy to help with this new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. The trailer was uploaded to Everybody’s Nintendo Channel on the Nintendo Wii, and it has been uploaded to YouTube.