April 1st Round-Up

Apr. 2 7:33 PM by Lynxara

I honestly think the best of the April Fool's gags for today was the one Chris Kohler reported coming from his copy of Wii Fit:

"Today is April Fool's Day! Why don't you try telling a lie to some member of your family!"

That's the spirit of the season, baby.

For a look at what other outlets were doing (or not doing) for April Fool's, just jump behind the cut.

The distinguished competition at DS Fanboy and Wii Fanboy both published long list articles about things nobody should post April Fool's jokes about. Their spin was "we would be pissed!", but I think they just came up with a list of ten things you could do to create an April Fool's gag that nobody would believe and wouldn't be funny.

The best of the inevitable Fake New Game Announcements that April 1st brings has to be The Tanooki's "announcement" of Pokemon Opal. This got all of the little details right, from a convincingly shopped packshot to a fake press release that sounded incredibly authentic. The main clues that the gag was, well, a gag were the flagrantly unrealistic release dates. Good job.

The award for most elaborate joke absolutely has to go to IGN, who wipped up a fake trailer for a Legend of Zelda movie that... well, okay, honestly, it looked like a Sci-Fi Original or high-end student film moreso than anything you'd see in a theater. Still, the production values hit a sweet spot for a good April Fool's gag: something you'd have to be really foolish to believe, and yet it was just convincing enough that it might sway a few born suckers. There's a self-congratulatory editorial up now discussing the making of the spot, which is actually pretty interesting. The spot's also embedded below if you haven't seen it yet.

Comments

that fake trailer is actually pretty cool

 

I bet there will actually be an Opal version or something like that coming out - I mean, heck, Nintendo's been doing that since the first generation of Pokemon. Remember Pokemon Yellow version?

 

I thought one of the biggest giveaways that the Zelda trailer was a fake was that Zelda's costume looked almost exactly like her in-game version. I've rarely seen a Hollywood movie adaptation where the costume designer was content to use already established character designs. Even the original Star Trek movies had to change the uniforms, and they used the same actors as their source material.

 

Master Hibb, I said the exact same thing about putting Link in his bright green game outfit. It looks so ridiculous in live-action -- the X-Men movie knew not to put Wolverine in Yellow Spandex, no self-respecting production company would really dress their heroic hero in that kind of "Halloween costume" green. (Ditto with actually making Ganon a pink pig-man, for that matter.)

 

Also that Ganondorf was about the best cartoon/videogame-turned-movie villain since Skeletor in the Master Of The Universe movie.

 

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