Seriously, there's video of over FIFTY games!
Nintendo recently started their Touch! Tour event in Japan, and today released on the internet many videos that are airing at the event. There are seven videos, showcasing well over 30 different games across the company's three platforms (or pillars, if you like it that way). Highlights of the videos include updated looks at Fire Emblem GC, Star Fox Assault (newly titled... again), Geist, Odama, and other titles we haven't heard much of anything from since E3.
These three titles in particular are looking a good deal better. Star Fox Assault looks absolutely stunning in single player. Fire Emblem is looking much improved from it’s early video at E3, and Geist appears to be taking an even more cinematic feel and also supports slightly improved graphics. nSpace has also removed the game’s obnoxiously fluorescent HUD colors, thankfully. Odama, the quirky military pinball game from Yoot Saito, is looking even more insane than before.
On the DS front, we get our first glimpse of Touch! Kirby, a game in which Kirby appears to be constantly rolling, and the player must use a “magic paintbrush” to form bridges and platforms that Kirby can use to progress through the levels. While it seems similar to Yoshi’s Touch and Go, Kirby plays much faster and is much more action orientated than Yoshi and Baby Mario’s DS outing. The DS video also shows an updated version of Animal Crossing DS, which has more of a 3D perspective now, with a moving camera.
As for Game Boy Advance games, one of the videos contains various commercials for upcoming games, and the other two are full on game footage. Most of the footage has already been seen, or is of games only releasing in Japan. There are a few exceptions, as we get our first glimpse of Mario Party Advance, and our first video glimpse of Yoshi’s Universal Gravitation (a platforming game staring Yoshi that utilizes the rotational sensor game cart).
Below is a list of links to all the videos available. They play through a Macromedia Flash plug-in, and take a fair amount of time to load even on a decent connection speed:
- GameCube Video 1
- GameCube Video 2
- GameCube Video 3
- Nintendo DS Video
- Game Boy Advance Video 1
- Game Boy Advance Video 2
- Game Boy Advance Video 3
Thanks to the Gaming-Age Forums, we can offer you a list of most of the games that appear in each video:
Gamecube Videos
Video 1
- Mario Tennis
- Mario Party 6
- DK Jungle Beat
- Fire Emblem
Video 2
- Star Fox Assault
- Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes
- Geist
- Odama
- Advance Wars
- Chibi Robo
Video 3
- Naruto
- Powerful Pro Baseball
- Various EA Games
- Killer 7
- Resident Evil 4
- Other 3rd party titles
Nintendo DS Video
- Yoshi’s Touch and Go
- Super Mario 64 DS
- Nintendogs
- Touch! Kirby
- PictoChat
- Pokemon Dash!
- Goemon
- SaWaRu Made in Wario!
- Pac-Pix
- One-Line Puzzle
- Prince of Tennis 2005: Crystal Drive
- Animal Crossing DS
- Feel the Magic: XX/XY
- Princess Peach DS
- Mario Kart DS
- Jam with the Band
- Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits
- Advance Wars DS
- Harvest Moon DS
- Metroid Prime: Hunters
- Various other titles
Game Boy Advance Videos
Video 1
- MaWaRu Made in Wario (commercial)
- F-Zero (hilarious commercial)
- The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (commercial)
- Advance Wars 1+2
Video 2
- DK: King of Swing
- Yoshi’s Universal Gravitation
- The Tower SP (appears to be similar to Sim Tower)
- Mario Party Advance
- Various other games
Video 3
- Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
- Powerful Pro Baseball
- DragonBall
- Goemon
- Mega Man Battle Network 5
- Many other 3rd party games