Nintendo Direct announcements

[nocturnal YL]

Nintendo Direct is, simply speaking, Iwata speaking to the audience online:

www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/nintendo_direct/index.html

As an online video that is not live, you are free to watch it at anytime. Today's Nintendo Direct showed:

- 3D Camera gets movie and stop motion functionality
- StreetPass Mii Plaza: new pics including Donkey Kong Country Returns (what, I haven't even finished the first 7...) and Find Mii 2
- Mario Kart 7 with wireless play, "Mario Kart Channel" (an in-game feature for receiving StreetPass info and arranging online matches), daily ghost data and the ability to race with 7 of them at a time, communities (online groups)
- Lots of download software including ThruSpace for 3DS, an exchange diary software, and The Rolling Western
- 3rd party retail software: Fab Style, Kingdom Hearts 3D, new Harvest Moon, Rune Factory 4
- Featured in video: Lost Heroes, a dungeon RPG crossover between Ultraman, Kamen Rider and Gundam; Iwata noted these series had their big time in Super Famicom for some reason
- Iwata then goes to show, one by one in date order, 3DS and Wii software to be sold between November and January
- Super Mario 3D Land sports a blue case, while Mario Kart 7 has a red case
- New Nintendo-published Wii game in January, Kiki Trick ("Kiki" means "to listen"), persumably an audio-based game
- The JP version of RE Revelations is to be sold at the end of January
- Nintendo Club (JP) holds a campaign where participants are to register two 3DS games, and 3000 winners get to have 3DS units themed after Mario, Peach or Super Mushroom
- Any participant of the above campaign can get the not-for-sale 3D Classics Kid Icarus
- Video concludes with Monster Hunter 3G trailer

[Arcadenik]

Is this... could this really be... a new game starring Takamaru?!

[8bitretroshit]

If that's Takamaru then that's some major art style overhaul. Dude fits right into Animal Crossing

Also is that sword sound effect from Rhythm Heaven? It sounds so damn familiar

[Dull Boy Jack]

Mysterious Murasame Castle is a fairly popular game over in Japan I believe. Surely if they were going to do a bit fan service for them and release a sequel at last then they'd include the iconic theme tune from the Famicom game? It'd be like the first trailer for Kid Icarus Uprising not having the Kid Icarus theme tune in it. Don't think it is a sequel, just a game made by a small developer which Nintendo is publishing which is based around ninjas.

Speaking of which, why the hell did Mysterious Murasame Castle never get a sequel .

[Arcadenik]

Yeah, you are probably right. It would be amazing if it actually turned out to be the long-awaited sequel to Mysterious Murasame Castle, though! As for why it never got any sequels, I have no idea.

[nocturnal YL]

With the characters' names out, Arcadenik's initial suspsection is debunked! The main guy's called Sakuramaru/

[Fryguy64]

Potentially a reference then, but not a sequel.