E3 2014: Get Ready to Play

Good evening everyone and welcome to The Magical Mystery Blog.

E3 has blown our minds away this year and frankly, mine is somewhere in the Milky Way. With so much information on games, it’s made gamers pumped and geeks like myself, excited. So let’s get down to business and see what E3 has given us this year:

• A new Starfox game is in the works.

• The indie game, Destiny is a game like no other in which you play as an origami bird and fish. Your goal is to get these two together by matching patterns in various levels. This game will be released for the Playstation 4 sometime this year.

• Far Cry 4 exploded in E3, revealing settings and the new villain. We’ve also been shown screenshots and concept art.

• Dragon Age: Inquisition will be debuting on the PC, as well as older and newer systems on October 7^th, 2014. For this game we have seen characters that would be in our parties and the environment we would play in.

• Pac Man as well as the classic game screen have joined Super Smash Bros Brawl for Wii U and 2DS and 3DS. Lady Palutena will be stepping up to fight as well. You can also include your own Mii in the Brawl and customize him or her to how you please.

• Ubisoft refuses to make a female assassin a protagonist and has given us a glimpse of their new game: Assassin’s Creed: Unity. In this game there will be a four player co-op, giving you the chance to play with your friends. It will be available for the PC, Playstation 4, and Xbox One on October 28^th.

• A new Legend of Zelda game will be released next year on the Wii U. This September, Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors will premiere on the Wii U in which you can play as multiple characters such as Princess Zelda, Impa, Midna, Link, and many others. 

• Bayonetta 2 for the Wii U will come with the first Bayonetta game and include tons of Nintendo costumes you can dress the sexy heroine in.

• Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright will be released August 29^th, 2014 for the 3DS.

• Yoshi and Toad get their own games for the Wii U. Yoshi’s game will be Yoshi’s Woolly World, a game similar to Kirby’s Epic Yarn. Toad’s game will be Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker in which you treasure hunt in various levels.

• Speaking of Mario related games, Mario Maker is a game that will allow you to build your own levels. It’ll be premiering on the Wii U in the future.

• Little Big Planet 3 is getting a new game for the Playstation 4 this November. Sackboy is no longer alone; his friends Toggle, Oddsock, and Swoop are joining him to fight off the villain, Newton.

• Splatoon is a multi-shooter paint ball game that's sweeping the Nintendo world by storm. It will be released in 2015 for the Wii U. 

• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be getting a sequel entitled Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. This will be an Egyptian adventure where you fight alongside the gods Horus and Isis. There is no release date at the time, but it will be available for PC, Xbox One, and the Playstation 4.

These games have fellow gamers and geeks filled to the brim with elation. It’s only a matter of time before we can purchase them and when we do, it will start a new journey that will create tons of gaming memories.

Are you excited to play these games in the future? What one are you dying to get your hands on?

Kingdom Hearts III: The Next Act

Good evening everyone and welcome to The Magical Mystery Blog.

E3 is getting closer and closer with every passing day, which means right now there is one thing on many video gamers minds:

Kingdom Hearts III.

So far we have received brief clips of the future game that is supposed to end the classic series of a boy who wields a keyblade saving Disney movie worlds. While we don’t know the release date (hopefully which will be revealed at E3), we do know a few things about it:

• The graphics will be far different from the last games, giving us a more clean and crisp look of the characters. The scenery will also look brighter, but with more depth.
  
• It will be available for the PS4.

• One of the worlds we will be returning to is Twilight Town.  There may be a return to Hercules’ world, based on the notion that one of the gameplay demos reveal Sora, Donald, and Goofy fighting the rock titan.
  
• From what it appears, the Disney character summons (Ex.:Genie, Stitch, Dumbo, Tinkerbell) have been replaced with Disney rides. In this clip we see Sora using classic Disney rides (Big Thunder Mountain (Big Magic Mountain) and Pirates of the Caribbean or Peter Pan’s Flight (Pirate Ship) to fight heartless and the rock titan. We also see him using a pair of guns to fight off the heartless; those guns could symbolize Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin, Toy Story Midway Mania, or another Disney shoot ‘em up ride.

• Kairi and Axel now wield keyblades. I highly doubt those two will be left out, especially being keyblade wielders.

• In one of the earlier clips, we saw Sora pick up Master Eraqus’ keyblade on the shores of Destiny Island. In the most recent clip, we see two people talking to each other. These two characters are theorized to be Xehanort and Eraqus as teenagers, based on their silhouettes. However, the one silhouette could be Zexion because he also wore his hair to the side.

• Kingdom Hearts III is supposedly the game to end the franchise. But is it really the final game? In the recent clip we see the words ‘the next act opens’ appear. If this is supposedly the last game, wouldn’t it say ‘the final act’? However, it’s been rumored that this game will tie everything together. We even see Sora from Dream Drop Distance staring at Vanitas and Xehanort. Or is that a dream sequence from that game?

However, we will have to wait for Kingdom Hearts III. It has just been announced that Shinji Hashimoto, the execute producer of Square Enix, claimed that Kingdom Hearts III will not be featured at E3. Until more news about Kingdom Hearts III emerges, we will have to wait with excited hearts, and tons of fan theories.

What would you like to see in Kingdom Hearts III?