Daily Archives: June 17, 2011

Ocarina of Time Remake First Must-Have for 3DS

June 17, 2011   Jacob Blanchard   3 Comments

Nintendo, always a company to stick to its guns, has re-released Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for its new 3DS system. Its release coincides with the celebration of the Legend of Zelda franchise’s 25th year.

Link stoically catches a record-breaking fish

Almost anyone who spent childhood afternoons playing the original Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64 will tell you that it’s the best Zelda game ever. Its open-ended 3-D world, memorable dungeons and fiendishly challenging puzzles were groundbreaking in 1998. And it’s still fun today. The 3DS remake features updated graphics and mechanics that make use of motion control. It introduces the game to a new generation, but also raises a question about the state of video games today. How can a remake of a 13-year-old game be the first must-have for the struggling 3DS?

Link's signature spin attack

Nintendo has always relied on its popular franchises – these days it’s Mario, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Starfox, Smash Brothers. With Mario 3DS’s December release date, this may be the only 3DS worth playing until then. And this is not the first Ocarina of Time re-release. The iconic game has appeared on Gamecube and Wii. It makes you wonder why Nintendo doesn’t create more classics. Nintendo’s flagging Wii and unimpressive 3DS lineup make it seem like that friend in a slump who won’t shut up about the “good old days”.

 

But Nintendo has been through slumps before, and they always manage to bring their franchises back in a big way. But they shouldn’t be slumping after releasing of a 3-D handheld video game system, for crying out loud.

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Fans flock to Stockholm

June 17, 2011   Alexa Diaz   1 Comment

The movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” has convinced many viewers that the fictional Swedish town of Hedestad featured is not at all fictional. Last summer, an elderly couple from the United States unsuccessfully tried to book a trip to this town, but flew to Stockholm anyway, determined to find it.

Not willing to accept that this town was actually non-existent, the tourist harassed the tourist office, demanding directions on how to get to Hedestad. “I told them it didn’t exist,” said Stockholm tour guide Carin Christensen.  They didn’t take no for an answer and headed to the train station anyway.

And this is only one story. Phoebe Hollins, a student from Melbourne, Australia, chose Sweden for her semester abroad just because of the book.

Ever since the publication of the first book in 2005, followed by the three Swedish movies, fans have flocked to Stockholm to visit the locations where the story unfolds, and with a new movie coming out, only more and more people will begin to do the same.

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Rory McIlroy’s Six-Under-Par

June 17, 2011   Alexa Diaz   No comments

At the 111th U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club yesterday, 22-year-old Rory McIlroy took the lead by posting an amazing six-under-par 65. Just behind McIlroy by three shots were Masters champion Charl Schwartzel, and 2009 PGA champion Y.E. Yang.

According to Golf.com, McIlroy said, “I’ve started getting used to these first rounds in the majors. I just need to keep it going.” McIlroy held the first-round lead at this year’s Masters in April and at last year’s British Open at St. Andrews.

More than just golf, McIlroy has shown another level of his character, as he visited impoverished schoolchildren on a humanitarian mission to Haiti recently. “It just gives you a completely different view on the world and the game that you play,” he said of the trip. “It [gave me] a huge sense of just being so fortunate and being able to do normal things every day.”

But he was hoping to do the not so normal on Thursday, when he was thinking about possibly shooting a 62, the lowest round ever in a major. “If I could birdie that and birdie three of the last four coming in, I could have done that.”

Although he didn’t get 62, his entire performance was very consistent and successful throughout. Twenty-one players broke par, but many of the stars struggled with maintaining good scores. To maintain his great scores, McIlroy said, “You can’t be thinking about what’s happened before. You’ve got to be thinking about this week and how best you can prepare and how you can get yourself around the golf course.” Moreso than change his methods, McIlroy thinks he’s simply going to stick to the same routine and hope that it will help him succeed once again.

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