Well it seems the 3DS just beat the Vita in the next handheld war even before the Vita was released. In the last week two new Monster Hunter games have been announced for the 3DS. These two games alone guarantee mega sales in Japan, and a boatload of very excited fans in the rest of the world.
Here’s the trailer for Monster Hunter Tri-G
And here’s the ‘concept trailer’ for the next numbered entry in the series, Monster Hunter 4
Both are loading very slow right now. I recommend reducing the quality to 240 if they stagger.
MH Tri-G is released in Japan this year! No news yet on (what I consider) an inevitable US released.
Here’s a shot of how the game looks running on 3DS:
Diehards like myself will undoubtedly get excited by such trivialities as the persistent map on the lower screen 🙂
It’s rare I re-read any of my blog entries (951 and counting!). Maybe I should start digging through them. Who knows, it may make for a good blog entry 😉
It was great! Truly worth the money and a fun trip!
After a drive around the waterfront for a bit we ended up like this:
At which point I had view like this:
And then after not too long the above view was replace with a bunch of fish-bears!
And when I say a bunch, I mean a whole big bunch!
They moved and growled and did bear-y things!
Ooops! I gave away that I did in fact know that they were not bears at all, but sea lions! They hang out on the top of a mostly-submerged holding tank for baby fish, which is there to attract bigger predator fish into the harbour for fishing. Every now and then the babies are released, which makes for good feeding for these guys.
Out boat/car got so close I felt like I could have reached out and grabbed one.
On the way back we saw this:
Click on it to view it full size. That’s a shot of the dolphin training facility run by the navy. You can even see a dolphin in the photograph. They are trained for security and espionage. I thought at first our host was pulling our legs but it is true, and has been occuring for 50 years!
We also drove/sailed past this:
That big cylinder is something I was quite a fan of as a child. It’s the RP Flip naval research vessel. The cylinder is pumped full of water which then sinks and flips the entire vessel 90 degrees to search as a research platform on the ocean. Here’s a series of shots of it working:
(Like the dolphins) it’s almost 50 years old!
The last thing I saw on my way back from the sea lions was an honest to god SEA MONSTER! Now I’ve seen UFOs, ghosts and possibly even an Esper, but I’ve never had the privilege of seeing a sea monster before, so this was mighty exciting. I’d say it was more like the ‘sea cow’ style of beast (such as those seen in lakes) rather than a true serpent (such as occasionally sighted in the open ocean). I only sighted it briefly, when one of it’s front flippers fins broke the surface before the Zalophus californianus unidentified beast dove down again, but I was lucky to snap a high quality image.
