When I arrived at NOA this morning, I discovered Nintendo had created a Mii of... me. And some other people. It was a little weird! But now they've gone and chased us away from their nice clean headquarters, and we're all sad. Sad like junkies suddenly cut off from a wonderful drug.
But I managed to swipe copies of Elite Beat Agents and FFV Advance before they kicked us out, so I guess the last laugh is on me. Or maybe not, since we're not allowed to talk about how awesome how terrible pretty much anything about Zelda until the end of the week. Four days! That's, like, forever on this Internet thing.
I think I'm allowed to say that I'm really, really impressed. Maybe? If not, forget I mentioned it.
Today marks the longest amount of time I've used the Wii controller (nearly six hours straight), and I have to say I really love it. The nunchuk attachment is the incarnation of a controller concept I've always wanted to see but never thought I would: the lazy man's controller. When you're slouching through a ten-hour gameplay session, it's really kinda weird to hold your hands close together in your lap and far more natural to just let them fall to side, which the nunchuk allows. I do think playing more traditional games with the Wiimote is going to be a little intimidating for casual gamers, but compared to a PC game where practically every QWERTY key is mapped to some function or another it seems pretty simple.