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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass hits stores on October 1st, and to honour the occasion Nintendo has created a Phantom Hourglass e-card, complete with an exclusive video of the game in action. They’ve also created a handy-dandy countdown widget on their Zelda.com site, suitable for MySpace pages and personal blogs alike. Two doses of Zelda goodness to keep you going until the big day.
Phantom Hourglass E-Card [Nintendo]
I’m perfectly content to go keychain-less, as I generally wear skin-tight leather pants everywhere I go, but I may have to revise my policy for a pair of new import goodies from Bandai and Yujin. On the left we have the mini Wii-mote projector, one that throws a spotlight featuring the Nintendo character of your choice—as long as it’s from Super Paper Mario, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess or Wario Ware Smooth Moves—upon anything your heart desires.
Only slightly less thrilling are the new The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass sound drops, featuring familiar sound bites from the Nintendo DS game.
All are available for pre-order at National Console Support. Yay for plastic!
Screw critics and consumers. What does Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto think about The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass? That guy is a perfectionist and no doubt would come down hard on something that wasn’t quite up to par. The game’s producer Eiji Aonuma dishes: Of course, he checked the fundamental parts at the beginning. Then, I asked him to play an almost finished version. Some time later he called me and all he said was that it was fun and he thought it’d sell well.
Whew! Good, because the last thing you want to do is piss off Miyamoto. He’ll eat you! Big Phantom Hourglass Interview [VGB]
It’s been a while since we had a Phantom Hourglass vid up! In fact, it’s been too long. So here’s the first of the clips leading up the western releases in October. Yes, sorry, it’s incredibly small (argh, the SQUINTING), but it’s also bursting with new footage.
Nintendo have announced a release date for Phantom Hourglass in Europe. And it’s in 2007! October 19, actually, which is less than a month after the game’s US release. Leaves European Zelda fans in a pickle – do you wait 2-3 weeks and grab it locally? Or do you import to shave a week or two off that wait? Unless your English isn’t the best. Then I guess you just wait for the local release. For English-speakers, though…decisions decisions.
Nintendo’s annual Camp Hyrule festivities have commenced, giving The Legend of Zelda fans an understated opportunity to hang out anonymously and safely online with their peers. Plenty of poorly designed Flash-based games with camping themes await them, along with a heavily moderated bulletin board and loads of other goodies. Surprisingly, the site is barren of any mention of the next Zelda game, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the Nintendo DS.
The meatiest section of the site is, of course, the Sweepstakes area, giving registered My Nintendo members a chance to win a full-size Link statue. Go on! Annoy your parents, wife and/or girlfriend with an unwieldy giant elf-boy replica. They’ll loathe you for it.
