New Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Trailer

By Adam Englebright | November 6, 2009

spirittracks1106 Gametrailers has got a WORLD EXCLUSIVE!!! trailer for the upcoming Legend of Zelda game, the DS title Spirit Tracks. Amongst other things, the trailer reveals that (spoilers) Zelda will be with you throughout the game, albeit in spirit form. The trailer shows her posessing one of those annoying suit-of-armour demons (from the previous DS title, Phantom Hourglass) and you controlling it with the stylus, using its invinciblity to aid you crossing lava and blocking fire. It looks like quite an interesting addition – perhaps like those statues you could control in Twilight Princess. I’ll stop describing it and let you watch the trailer, just hit the jump.

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Ones to Watch: Wii and DS for November 2009

By Joe Fourhman | November 2, 2009

doclouisPO Those of us who made the Club Nintendo Platinum Elite may already be enjoying the first Wii release of the month, Doc Louis’s Punch-Out. The rest of you, read on and see what Nintendo has on their little white plate.

November 3
Academy of Champions Soccer – Ubisoft’s arcade soccer + Hogwarts game is finally out. This one made an initial splash for including characters from Ubisoft’s stable like Jade and Mr. Splinter Cell.

LEGO Rock Band – The multiplatform family-focused Rock Band title arrives. I still think it’s odd that the setlist isn’t true kids music from established kids bands, because what you are getting really isn’t appreciably different from a regular Rock Band setlist. 2009 seems to be the year that Harmonix finally squanders all that goodwill they’ve built up since the initial RB release. And speaking of that, Band Hero is also out this week. Both are also on DS.

Rabbids Go Home – The evolution of the Rabbids into a genuine gaming brand is complete as they get their first non-garbage-minigames game. Actually sounds pretty funny, if you can stomach the oh-so-zany Rabbid marketing. (Also on DS)

November 9
Excitebike: World Rally – Nintendo stealth-announced this new WiiWare title on the October 26th Nintendo Week show. Looks like a fair redux of the NES original, with some very familiar track layouts just at a new 3D camera angle. And it still has a level editor!

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Coming soon, the only legitimate way to catch Arceus

By Joe Fourhman | October 29, 2009

the_or10 Finally, after years of waiting, US Pokemon fans (including Puerto Rico!) will have a legitimate means to catch Arceus.

Nintendo Power revealed the news in issue #248; the Arceus distribution will be at Toys R Us from November 7 through 15. As with previous critter handouts, you’ll just have to show up and download it over the DS WiFi.

Arceus can change its type based on certain held items, which might make it a good pinch-hitter on your team. It is the last final absolute end of the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum generation Pokedex. And if the upcoming HeartGold and SoulSilver releases follow the remake trend and do not add any new types, Arceus could be our last new pokemon for quite a while.

Up until now, odds are that if you encountered somebody with an Arceus… it was a hacked fake. So it will be nice to get a legal version of this rare beast.

Club Nintendo post-play surveys now on 7-day delay

By Joe Fourhman | October 13, 2009

Nintendo has made a slight alteration to their Club Nintendo survey system, and it makes a Bowser-sized pile of size. You now have to wait at least seven days for taking the online Post-Play Survey. Shocking!

Before this change, you could take the Post-Play Survey immediately upon registering the game. In fact, Nintendo’s system sort of encouraged you to do so, what with all the ubiquitous reminders to take the survey and earn a bonus 10 points for your Club Nintendo account. Of course, taking a Post Play Survey when you’ve barely played the game is ridiculous. Now you have to wait… the survey won’t even appear in your To-Do list until a week has passed since registration. Hopefully you’ve played the game once or twice since then.

Incidentally, even though Wii Fit Plus retails for $20, you still get the full 50 point buff for registering it with Club Nintendo. Mario didn’t randomly cheap out on the points. We’re only four months into the current Club Nintendo calendar year and I’m already at Gold status.

Aeropodcast #102: We’re Late and British This Time

By Joe Haygood | October 7, 2009

A big apology for this podcast getting to press so late. Real life has been getting in the way of things for the last week and a half, but things are getting better. And believe me, beyond a technical issue for this podcast, it is well worth the wait. Why is that you say? Well, we had our writer from the UK, Vikki, making an appearance on the show. So for once, we have a really good English accent on the show, although a really bad accent shows up as well at one point.

Features in this podcast include shopping for good, not so cutesy DS and DSi games, and the Xbox 360 and PC Ones to Watch titles, so it was not a fanboy oversight that they were not on the site.

Music is provided by Revolution Void, and mixed as always by Stephen Munn.

Download the podcast from here or subscribe to the podcast using one of the services below: Also make sure to review us on iTunes.

Weekend AeroProTip: Nintendogs

By Joe Fourhman | October 3, 2009

GAME> Nintendogs (2005)
SYSTEM> Nintendo DS
SOURCE> Nintendogs trading card, 2005

This game is such a classic RPG. Find the party member whose class has a natural capacity for the quest. Grind up on low-level training to improve the skill level. Earn cool new buffs and items for your inventory or trophy room.

Happy Turok Child now knows what to call it

By Joe Fourhman | October 3, 2009

Thanks to the TV commercials, we now know the proper way to pronounce the DS Kingdom Hearts game subtitle is “three fifty-eight days over two.”

Do you have a moment of gaming elation for Happy Turok Child to communicate to the world? Send it to tips@aeropause.com with the subject “Happy Turok Child” and your mail might make Happy Turok Child happy enough to post it! Do you agree with Happy Turok Child? Write in comments!

Ones to Watch on Wii and DS for October

By Joe Fourhman | October 2, 2009

cookinghouse With Nintendo only fielding a pair of retooled games (Wii Fit Plus and another Pokemon Mystery Dungeon) this October, the month is open for a third party bonanza. Let’s see who stepped up to the plate…

October 4
Wii Fit Plus – $20 for the non-bundled version is a steal. Nintendo’s only problem is how they get all the people who bought Wii Fit last year to become aware that this inexpensive pseudo-sequel exists.

October 6
Spore Hero – Anybody still care about Spore? Not even Will Wright cares about Spore. Also on DS, sort of, as Spore Hero Arena.

October 13
A Boy and His Blob – Arguably the month’s biggest Wii game. It looks great, but can it make the leap and appeal to anybody outside of nostalgia freaks?

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Home Depot game must be some kind of Wii minigame record

By Joe Fourhman | September 22, 2009

Even the Home Depot has its own Wii game… meet Our House: Party! available on Wii for the low, low price of $40. Coming from Majesco’s pile of Cooking Mama-related wealth, Our House: Party! promises a staggering 175 minigames. Seriously, that has to be a record-setter. Somebody call Guinness. They’ll rate anything. Unless, of course, this is like those old 100-in-1 handheld game units, where 45 of those games were just all variants of Tetris.

Our House: Party! lets you build and maintain your dream house. To collect the necessary components you have to do a Supermarket Sweep-style mad dash through a virtual Home Depot. Hilarious. You can share your “personalized palace” with other Wii owners online. A similar-but-different DS version retails for $20 but only has an embarrassing 100 minigames. Pshaw!

Press release follows. The word “Party!” in the title is meant to make you feel comfortable.

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First Thirty: Scribblenauts (DS)

By Joe Fourhman | September 16, 2009

scribble-e I think the first word I tried was “TREE.”

I gunned down a ZOMBIE with a MACHINE GUN. I made a CHICKEN, then burned it with my FLAMETHROWER. The chicken turned into food, which I put into an OVEN. I gave myself an AXE and chopped the oven to pieces. A BABY crawled nearby and, well, I chopped it up too.

A MUMMY will chase you, but dropping in a PYRAMID seems to calm it down. I gave my mummy a BLACK CAT to hold. (The mummy will also catch fire from the flamethrower.) You can call forth a BOOK, TOILET PAPER, ICE CUBE, CHAINSAW and LASSO. Some will do things, others will not. You can tilt a FAN on its back and let it propel you into the air. If you write in CLUB, the game wants to know if you meant the weapon or the building. Either will work.

I made an AMOEBA, but it didn’t do anything.

You can ride a flying SPHINX. An OGRE looks different (but acts the same) as a TROLL. If you click on a COFFIN, a ghost comes out. You can pile up several kinds of BONEs, including a SKULL and a SKELETON. If you put them in an open coffin and then click on it again, the coffin launches the contents around the screen. I stuffed an EYEBALL in there as well. You can’t use a LAMPPOST to climb up a cliff, but it hardly matters since you can summon a HELICOPTER.

This was all on the title screen.

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New Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Trailer

Ones to Watch: Wii and DS for November 2009

Coming soon, the only legitimate way to catch Arceus

Club Nintendo post-play surveys now on 7-day delay

Aeropodcast #102: We’re Late and British This Time

Weekend AeroProTip: Nintendogs

Happy Turok Child now knows what to call it

Ones to Watch on Wii and DS for October

Home Depot game must be some kind of Wii minigame record

First Thirty: Scribblenauts (DS)