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Nintendo Power’s 20th anniversary

Pulse section

- Note that voices (except for Link) would be a good addition to the Zelda series

Previews:

- ASH, Bomberman Land, Bubble Bobble: Double Shot, Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed, Endless Ocean, Harvest Moon DS Cute, Mario & Sonic at the Olynpic Games (DS), Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer, N+, Nanostray 2, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, SSBB, Zoo Tycoon 2

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword article (cover story)
- 6 months after Ninja Gaiden for XBox
- First chapter is essentially a tutorial, but helps ease player into the game
- Controls initially feel strange, but later you adapt to them
- Enemies leave orbs after they die - red, blue, gold (ki, health, gold)
- Many waves of opponents
- Huge amount of detail - much praise for the graphics
- Coming out in early 2008 - online leaderboards, extra polish

Short interview with Tomonobu Itagaki
- NP: “Any chance we’ll see Ryu in Super Smash Bros. Brawl?”
- TI: “[Laughs] That sounds like it would be really fun. I wonder, is Mr. Sakurai also familiar with ninjas?”

Ninja Reflex
- Six ninja challenges
- Katana, Shuriken, Nunchaku, Hashi, Koi, Hotaru
- 3 difficulty levels for each
- Best with 3 friends
- Single-player mode - various challenges, belt-ranking
- DS and Wii versions: March

Dragon Quest: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
- First-person perspective
- Swing Wiimote like a sword
- Monsters have specific patterns for you to defeat
- Magic in the game
- Hub city - buy items, equipment, mini-games, chat with residents, take on quests

Apollo Justice: Ace attorney
- First game in the series made only for the DS
- Much of the gameplay from the other games return
- Phoenix Wright appears in the game, has somewhat of a big role
- Takes place seven years after Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations
- Ema Skye back as a detective
- Winston Payne, Judge also return
- Perceive System allows you to zoom in on witness, examine their actions - Then yell “Gotcha” into the DS mic, helps you win the case
- Psyche-Locks, presenting profiles as evidence are gone
- Comes out in February

Mega Man 20/20 article
- 20 reasons why NP loves Mega Man
- 20 questions with Takeshi Horinouchi

Nintendo Power Awards
- Go to www.npawards.wordpress.com to vote

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