April Fools Day is Afoot.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Big Screen

IGN has released a trailer for the Legend of Zelda theatrical release. It looks alright; they prevent Link from talking for the whole thing, the special effects look like butt, and the acting sounds horrendous.

However, that is where this analysis comes to an end. Because at the end of the trailer it says "Coming out April 1st, 2009." Thus proving (in my mind) that this is an April fools joke and a pretty good one (and probably expensive one) at that. It had me going until I saw the credit page and IGN's logo was on it. Watch the trailer here.

Fake News! How Original!

As I stated in earlier posts of mine, I dislike Gamespot now. However, I just had to go to their site to see what kind of April Fool's day joke they were going to pull. I went to the site and the first thing I saw was "Rock Band PSP!" and I thought, "Wow, what a fail of an April fools joke" so I clicked on it and it took me to the homepage. Needless to say, I was confused. It turns out that the whole front page is an irony-laced jab at game news, fanboys, and the Japanese.

One thing that makes a good April Fools day joke is subtleness. This is one thing that the Gamespot joke lacks. When you type in Gamespot.com, instead of the normal text at the top of the window, it says, "Gamespot April Fools Home Page." As if that wasn't bed enough, when you get to the real front page, the first thing you see in their headline box is "APRIL FOOLS DAY! [...] FOOOOOOOOLED YOU!"

The page is filled with a bunch of failed attempts at irony. the only thing I even found slightly funny was the "User Soapbox" with poilite, eloquent discussion about the console wars. Also the "Hands-On: Xbox 360 Paperweight add-on [...] (Also plays HD-DVDs)" was amusing. However, they're so proud about the fact that they tried so hard to be like The Onion that they put a poll on the page asking "Did you for a moment actually think that this page was real?" with options being, "Pfft, NO! What do you think I am, brain damaged?!," "Yeah. Oh, Gamespot, you're such a card," and "Wait. This is fake?" No buys Gamespot, no buys...


Bikinis and Zombies and Swords. OH MY!

I don't think that this movie trailer is an April Fools day joke, but I found it on the front page of 1up.com and had to post something about it. so... Something.

In Other Stuff!

I now have 2 friends who have blogs that you should go visit. I've got my friends Chris's blog where he reviews games. He just reviewed Super Smash Bros. Brawl for all of you interested in reading that. Also, my friend Jeff has a blog about ridiculous things in society and politics and you can look at that here.

Also, I was at the Hy-Vee earlier in the week and found Jolly Rancher soda. I got the Green Apple, Cherry, and Blue Raspberry flavors and they were all decent. Green Apple tasted like a sub-par green apple soda, Cherry tasted like melted, carbonated icee syrup, and the blue raspberry tasted exactly like blue raspberry jolly ranchers. Blue Raspberry was the real stand out of the bunch, but I'm going to be looking for Jolly Rancher FIRE soda to see what that tastes like.

In Conclusion...

I'll have a quick review of the Boston song pack and Still Alive Rock Band DLC tomorrow along with more delicious news. I'm out.