{"id":82663,"date":"2019-02-15T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/the_zoids_are_back_in_town_on_switch_this_month_in_japan_at_least"},"modified":"2019-02-15T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:45:00","slug":"the-zoids-are-back-in-town-on-switch-this-month-in-japan-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/the-zoids-are-back-in-town-on-switch-this-month-in-japan-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zoids Are Back In Town On Switch This Month, In Japan At Least"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/76126c4296202\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/76126c4296202\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6LVBqNSzYc?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you remember the <strong>Zoids<\/strong> craze from the \u201880s, then you might be interested to learn that a new game is releasing in Japan at the end of the month: <strong>Zoids Wild: King of Blast<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If your memories don&#8217;t stretch back that far, Zoids are large mecha-animals which began life as a toy line and then grew into a franchise that includes five anime TV series and a bunch of games, too. While the western fortunes of the series have taken a nosedive since the &#8217;80s, the robots managed to maintain their popularity in the Land of the Rising Sun and have appeared on several past Nintendo platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/takara_tomy_is_building_a_new_zoids_game_for_switch\">Announced a little under a year ago<\/a>, this new game from Takara Tomy is based on the latest anime and appears to be an attractive 3D fighter with plenty of electrifying over-the-top moves and colour. It includes some pretty devastating finishers known as \u2018Final Blasts\u2019, a Zoid Viewer enabling you to examine your models in exquisite detail and a story mode to underscore the mecha-mayhem. There\u2019s competitive two-player and a legion of Zoids to choose from (we like the look of Death Rex).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Zoids2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3936cbb5c3343\/zoids2.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3936cbb5c3343\/zoids2.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Zoids2\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Zoids3\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/81322fbf369aa\/zoids3.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/81322fbf369aa\/zoids3.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Zoids3\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Zoids4\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8b9d1107904d5\/zoids4.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8b9d1107904d5\/zoids4.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Zoids4\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Zoids5\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ccca3d6fdb46b\/zoids5.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ccca3d6fdb46b\/zoids5.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Zoids5\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The new trailer above goes into substantial detail over its seven minutes. While this is unlikely to get a localisation, importing is an option for any die-hard Zoids fan in the west, as long as you\u2019re willing to miss out on the story (or, of course, you speak Japanese).<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you played any games in the illustrious Zoids series? Like the look of this one? Get your Zoid on in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6LVBqNSzYc?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] If you remember the Zoids craze from the \u201880s, then you might be interested to learn that a new game is releasing in Japan at the end of the month: Zoids Wild: King of Blast. If your memories don&#8217;t stretch back that far, Zoids are large mecha-animals which began life as a toy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}