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I missed about twenty minutes of Nintendo's live feed, but here goes:

The new Golden Sun looks... interesting. Which beats last year where I had no idea what they were talking about.

I may have no interest in Golden Eye, but I know at least a half-dozen boys who are probably giddy over this, and it looks quite interesting expecially for a Wii game.

Disney: Epic Mickey would be way way more impressive to me if it didn't look like "Oh hey, that Kingdome Hearts thing was good, but... um... we can cut Sqeenix out of the look entirely and make more money on it. Yay disney!"

Ok, I'm all for Kirby, but if you name another game 'Epic' something... I may have to hurt you.

Dragon Quest! Coming to the US July 11th, and with interesting Mingle-esque social modes.

And, August means Metroid Other M. Which I know I've seen at GameStop promos already.

Donkey Kong remake, which, admittedly, looks cool. But... there are only so many 'OMG my childhood!' games that I can want. And he knows that judging by his comments, he knows that.

3DS... which I know nothing about yet... how are they going to swing these promises about 3D? Because unless this thing is a hologram generator..... I.... don't know? ....is this going to be...

Ok, I am making no sense. I think Nintendo get's my 'WTF I Guess it works by magic?' award for this year. I mean, it all sounds lovely. But I can't even imagine how it will actually work. I guess those people on the demo floor will be able to see more.

OMG, Pit!! Kid Icarus on 3DS. Which looks f-ing amazing. Even if magical 3D toy is nothing, I hope this is ok on DSi. However... that is what I call... another sequel to an old franchise. Hrm.

They appear to be massively pimping the sleep-mingle mode from games like TWEWY and Nintendogs, it's built into the system now. Which mean you have to leave the damn thing in sleep instead of turning it off all the time. It sounds awesome, but ... they'll need a TWEWY-type amazing game to make it worth it to me.

Sadly Iwata-san makes the wifi communication sound a little than I think he intended.

Massive pile of 3rd party companies. Including Atlus of course, and Squeenix, Tecmo/Koei, Ubisoft, Activision... etc, etc. And... wow... I think it's terrible of me that hearing Japanese producers talk about it makes me actually respect the possibilities of this console a lot more.

Ok, adorable commercial. But again with how what is awesome in Japan... is kindof wierd to america. Good work guys. >.>
Ok, mazzez of girls with 3DSs linked to them. I can not even imagine how this works. But anyway, I'll wait for the on-site live blogging.

Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - why did I miss the start of the presentation, damnit.


Ok, so... impressions: Nintendo pissed me off last year. A lot. This year, they did not have nearly the attitude issue that I felt last year. I still feel very luke-warm about how old the game franchises that they're reprising. Still, at least this conference felt like it was directed to the world. Like they had ideas for different kinds of gamers. I have wierd relationship to Nintendo because they are just so damn Japanese. I'm feeling a bit of that, about 3DS, and I can't entirely explain it. But I know that it /will/ work in Japan. I just hope that it will work here too.

Watching the Nintedo.com feature video about Zelda now, for which I am so so so excited.
Except that I will apparently have to buy Wii MotionPlus for it. Damn you Nintendo.