Sonic and the Black Knight

THIS IS NOT FAN ART OR FAN FICTION!!! THIS IS REAL!!!
Sonic and the Black Knight takes on after the style of Sonic and the Secret Rings. You know, going into story book tales. Well, this not being Arabian Nights but King Arthur, there are many differences. A sorceress named Merlina actually summons Sonic to the world of King Arthur, where King Arthur is evil and corrupted!! Thus, the Black Knight. However, I find this un-original. The Black Knight is Ike's (from Fire Emblem) arch foe. So, this isn't that original....
Anyway, as always it's up to Sonic to set things straight. First time director of Sonic series Tetsu Katano was getting to the end of the development for Sonic and the Secret Rings, when they were asked to start thinking about the next Wii exclusive Sonic project. It seemed to Tetsu, that they could do some amazingly cool (and strange... at least for Sonic) things with a sword. Thus springing off of that game into this.
Thankfully, this game will not have some of the strangeness of Sonic Rings. In Sonic and the Secret Rings, you didn't get to steer Sonic. You just got to move him laterally along the track, make him jump, etc. However you could choose different paths. But the path choosing was rare. You now use the analog stick on the Nunchuk to steer him and with a simple flick of the Wii-mote, you slash through enemies. However, for the guys at Nintendo Power, the demo they played seemed extremely realistic with the sword.... Even for a DEMO!! A simple slash can swipe through most regular baddies, and you don't even need to slow down (nor do you get slowed down by the slash)! But when you face a harder adversary, you can have more advanced sword play. He can do quite a few moves for an animal with a sword. Thrusts, parries, and even a super cool (and lethal) buzz saw move in mid jump (oh, imagine the awesomeness on the screen, and the thoughts going through the baddies' head when they see him doing this at them)! Of course, swords have more uses than slicing baddies (or at least, now it does!). In the demo that the NP staff saw (and the screenshot I saw) Sonic can stick his blade into a wall, and slow his decent to avoid injury. How cool is THAT!!??
Now, the creators said that they didn't want to just add a sword to the old Sonic. They wanted this game to let Sonic come to knighthood. And only by being a full-fledged knight does Sonic even have a CHANCE of beating King Arthur! Because Sonic is not the most chivalrous character around, Sonic's sword, Calibur, serves as a mentor to Sonic (you) as you go along. Also, throughout each stage you have the chance to help people along the way. Like, getting someone out of wrongful imprisonment. If you do things like this, you'll get knight points. At the end of each stage you will get your good and not-so-good deeds tallied up. Not-so-good deeds include killing innocent bystanders. In other words, your knight score takes a hit (and if you do it on purpose, stop being Sonic, go work for King Arthur in his corruptness!). It is also good to do these deeds because you get the ability to buy things from great-ful townsfolk. Special items and the like, that can get you extra bonus' in certain areas. Speed, strength, etc. You can also trade items via WFC, so you are not totally lost if you have a friend with the same game who has an extra one of the items that you are looking for. There are 200 items in all, so there's gotta be SOMETHING that you'll want (and something that you'll want AND not be able to find!).
Nintendo Power also assures us, that even though this game is still in development, the game is STUNNING (the screenshots are amazing too)! They also showed me how many things have been changed to fit the Arthurian setting. No more rails, but you can fire a Ballistae (a huge crossbow) that has a rope attached to the arrow, that you can grind upon to get over a gap. Rings now come in cloth sacks instead of computer monitors, among other things. But, what seems better than all that, is that in some places, the game will go sidescrolling platforming awesomeness action, that relates back to the blue blur's 2-d, 16-bit origins!!!!!!
There is no more slowing down time or ultra speedboosting in this game, but there are other things like those super moves that I THINK I might be able to explain. One has you do a bunch of slices. Where you slice one enemy, rocket to the next, slice it, so on so on until you have to stop the technique or you run out of power in your special meter. Other special features from the Wii debut are also returning, but there is so much that I cannot type fast enough.... ok, I could, but my fingers might fall off. I guess you'll just have to wait for 1) More information. Or 2) The 2009 release. Until then, I'll be your friend in gaming,
CPU12 The Nintendo Freak
Good Luck.

New Fire Emblem

Well, I recently found out that Fire Emblem DS will be hitting Japanese shelves August 7 this year. So I don't know when WE will get to see this amazing game. This new Fire Emblem is a remake of the first Fire Emblem, Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light. However, the title that is being shown in Japan is currently directly translated into Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light. Info on US name has not yet been announced seeing that we are still so far away from the JAPANESE launch date. The Wi-Fi capability will be a little different than what I was expecting. You will take 5 players from your single player game and have them fight with another player in a special vs. map. This means that the players who have beaten the game in Japan will probably WHIP the guys here once we get the game! Uh, oh. That's not good!
Another fact I found interesting is the fact that the game will cost 4,800 yen. My first thought was, "WHAT ON EARTH!!! I THOUGHT THAT 9-10 YEN MADE UP A US DOLLAR!! THIS PRICE IS, LIKE, 500 BUCKS ON OUR PART!!!!!" Well, turns out that I was very wrong. Yuan, Chinese currency, is 1/8 of a dollar each, while yen, Japanese currency, is about 1/104 of a dollar. WHOA!! 104 YEN TO MAKE A DOLLAR??!! Anyway, it would probably be in the end cheaper in Japan. Because that price totals out to about 26 dollars. DS games don't START that way here, especially not monster franchises or big games! So, we will probably have to buy it more expensive, and later. But hey! It's the next Fire Emblem! Or, is it the oldest one??....

Poll results, MarioKart Wii

Hello all!
I was wondering who voted what on the poll! Leave a comment and tell me (except Insanity101, you've allready told me). I have a problem, I don't remember voting on my own poll, so I especially would like to know who voted Fox.
Mariokart Wii releases tomorrow! The game will be so great! Except that I won't be able to get it tomorrow ;( I've always spelled Mario Kart, Mariokart. Did everyone but me know that Mariokart was Mario Kart?
Your friend in gaming,
CPU12 The Nintendo Freak
Good Luck.
(Please look at Fire Emblem post)

New Fire Emblem

I have become a Fire Emblem freak. I only have one game of the series but I am dying for more. I have found out that the first 6 installments of the series were released in Japan, and all had pretty cool titles in my opinion. At least, better than the title The Sacred Stones. ALL the titles are incredible, but the coolest title comes from the first Fire Emblem ever created for Japanese NES owners. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light. This first Fire Emblem, was the game that had Marth as the main character. And this game, is going to be remade on the DS! However, seeing how many of the titles are going these days, this game will not have the incredible title of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light. This game will probably have the wimpy name of Fire Emblem DS. That's something I REALLY don't like. Yes, this will be the first Fire Emblem with online capability, but that does not make it "Fire Emblem DS," It is still Fire Emblem Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light. Just with a few added features! I have to admit, the idea of fighting with my troops in an online battle with another player sounds like the coolest thing ever! However, this might not be the case. Seeing the way a good bit of the DS titles Wi-Fi capabilities are weak, this Wi-Fi will probably be just trading weapons, or comparing best times of getting through levels. Or maybe info exchange, I pray that it is multiplayer functional. I know that the "Blade of Light" is Marth's sword, Falchion. And one of the Shadow Dragons, the last boss, is the Dark Dragon Medeus.
One or two corrections to the first Fire Emblem post. Titania is not exactly super powerful. She is just in her master class while everyone else is not. This means that many of her stats are much higher than say a lower classed knight. She is a paladin. Although you can automatically make some characters master class with an item called the master seal, this would mean skipping a great many level up bonuses to become a master class. Ike, the commander in Path of Radiance, can actually NOT have the Master Seal used upon him. For I have found out, that the commander can NEVER have a Master Seal or any similar item used upon him (or her....). The reason being, that all commanders master class promotion come from the storyline, not the leveling up. Pretty cool huh?
I don't know about you guys out there, but I'm pretty excited about this new Fire Emblem coming soon. However, if they mess up things, I won't be very happy.
Your friend in gaming,
CPU12 The Nintendo Freak
Good Luck.

I found this. . .

I found out the actual number in Japanese Launch numbers for Brawl. In Japan, around 820,000 copies of Brawl were released! Now, that may not sound like quite as much as we might think cause we've heard of the Halo release records. But Japan has about 3/4 if not LESS of the population of America!! In the first day, it sold 500,000 copies, 80% of the stock!! And here in America, we sold around, uh, not official numbers. But it looks like that first days in each country combined, Brawl sold 1.4 million copies!! And then there's all the copies that have been sold AFTER that!! I really hope these sales beat Halo 3 into the dust. By the way, 500,000 beats any record a Nintendo game has had on launch day. The highest in history until now, was Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, which sold 386,234 copies on opening WEEK!! This is also Nintendo of America's (NOA) fastest selling game!! WAY TO GO NINTENDO!! And, we don't even have Europe numbers yet cause it hasn't launched yet!! Halo is going DOWN!!!

YYYYEEEESSS!!!!
Your friend in gaming,
CPU12 The Nintendo Freak
Good Luck.

Down with Gamestop!!!! 1.2

Greetings all gamers!
DOWN WITH GAMESTOP!!!!!
Here is another reason Gamestop should go down. This sort of goes along with the first down with Gamestop!!!! post. I was on eStarland.com when I saw on the original Game Boy games a list of "just ins." I looked, and on there was Poke'mon yellow and red. Well, each cartridge costed, believe it or not, 12 dollars! AND GAMESTOP WAS ONLY WILLING TO GIVE ME $11 WHEN I TRADED IN A USED DS GAME!?!!? THAT WAS PRACTICALLY NEW!!!???? DOWN WITH GAMESTOP!! Another reason in this matter. I also saw the original game boy and game boy pocket systems themselves on there. Guess what. THEY COSTED 15 BUCKS!! AND YET GAMESTOP WAS ONLY WILLING TO GIVE ME $11 FOR A PRACTICALLY NEW DS GAME!!???!! DOWN WITH GAMESTOP!!!!!!!!!!
Now, I know what you guys are thinking. "Maybe eStarland prices things wrong?" Well, no. They know the values of this stuff pretty well, I don't think they would overprice things. And still, I originally bought the game for $33. I don't think they would just buy it back for $11 dollars after 2-3 days. So, I say DOWN WITH GAMESTOP!!!!!
Your friend in gaming,
CPU12 The Nintendo Freak
Good Luck.

More Mariokart Wii info

Greetings all gamers!
This time there will be no snapshots, but a good bit of information.
Here is the new/old items arsenal:
Green Shell--When thrown, it will go straight forward. When it does, it will either hit an enemy, or it will bounce off walls. It will only bounce off the walls for a certain amount of time, then it will dissipate.
Triple Green Shells--You will get 3 green shells that will circle around you. I would release them one by one to hit multiple enemies.
Red Shell--Will home in on the person in front of you and hit them. However, they have a brief warning so they can try to protect themselves
Triple Red Shells--Same as the Triple green shell, except these are red shells. Release them 2-3 seconds between launches to get maximum effect on the player in front of you
Spiny Shell--This shell seeks out the first placer, and will hit them with an explosion that could hurt other racers surrounding them. I know from personal experience in Double Dash!! and DS that it IS avoidable. Although, its REALLY hard
Mushroom--Once used, will speed you up for a short period of time. Can be used to clear Bloopers
Triple Mushrooms--You get three mushrooms. Use each of them once you've slowed down after the mushroom you just released
Golden Mushroom--Can be used multiple times. Press the items button to your heart's delight because it only stays around for a short while
Mega Mushroom NEW--From the New Super Mario Bros. game the Mega Mushroom will turn you and your kart huge. Run over all the people you want to!
Lightning--Once used, every person on the track will turn small after being hit by the lightning. (Imagine having a mega mushroom while everyone else is hit by lightning!)
Lightning Cloud NEW--A cloud will hover over your head speeding you up for a short amount of time before shrinking you. Bump into someone to give them the lightning cloud
Banana--Drop it behind you or hold it behind you. If an opponent hits it, they will slip and slow down completely
Triple Banana--You get three bananas. Release the first two, and hold the last one behind you for protection
Blooper--Once used, everyone in front of you will have their windshield inked up for a short amount of time. By the way, if you get one of these and pass into first place, the blooper will ink you!
Bob-omb--Throw this item or drop it behind you. After a short delay, or if it hits someone, it will make a big orange explosion that hurts as much as the Spiny Shell
Pow Block NEW--After a brief warning, every other car is jolted to a complete stop (the reason its called the pow block, is, I think, because you jump and hit the pow block without doing anything. Or, everyone else in-voluntarily hits the pow block before stopping).
Star--An item that will turn you invincible while playing cool music. Will also speed you up slightly and allow you to go over any terrain.
Fake Item Box--This looks somewhat like an item box, if someone runs into it they will be flipped and stopped. Best if placed near a very populated turn, or near a whole bunch of items
Boo--Will turn you invisible and allows you to go over any terrain without losing speed. A boo will steal an item from any of the opponents. Sometimes it will come back with no item.
Bullet Bill--Usually only gotten near the back of the race, a bullet bill will turn you into a bullet bill, and charge along the course at a frightening speed. If you hit someone, they will get hit hard. The bullet bill maneuvers on its own, but you have to be careful. When it goes away, you might fall off the edge of a race. So be ready!
Here is the character Line up. There are 12 regular characters and 6 hidden characters. A total of 18!
Baby Mario (Sadly, baby Luigi is not here from the start. An unlockable?)
Baby Peach
Bowser
Donkey Kong
Koopa Troopa (Why not just call him Koopa? Wait, he's returning?!!)
Luigi
Mario
Peach
Toad
Waluigi (does this guy HAVE to return?)
Wario
Yoshi
+ 6 secret
+ Unlockable Mii
Wait, isn't that more like 19 characters? Or more! If you and your buddies where miis, it would be like, MEGA list! I wonder if weight will have any effect on what karts the miis can use? That would be so cool!
Oh, by the way, the speaker on your remote will also make sound effects for hops and tricks.
Hope you like the new line-up of characters and items!
Your friend in gaming,
CPU12 The Nintendo Freak
Good Luck.