Tabla de contenidos para December 2017 en Mania

This month is all about Super Mario Odyssey - the amazing new game everyone is talking about. We’ve been playing it non stop since it came out, but there’s still so much to discover. What’s your favourite capture so far MANIACs? Write in and tell us! EMAIL Dom: dbayley@nextmedia.com.au CAPTION COMP! What do you think he’s saying? Cut out and send in your captions for your chance to win an awesome mystery prize! LIKE US! FACEBOOK.COM/MANIAMAG MANIA 207 CAPTION COMP Locked Bag 5555, St Leonards NSW 1590…

SUPER STATS: BORN: 11TH AUGUST 1976 FROM: HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT FUN FACT: BEFORE BECOMING AN ACTOR, WILL CONSIDERED GOING TO CULINARY SCHOOL! MANIA: HOW DID YOU GET INTO VOICE ACTING? WILL: “Luck! I was on a TV show called Boy Meets World and a producer named Bruce T imm was working on Batman Beyond. They were casting for a young Batman and Bruce’s wife was a big Boy Meets W orld fan, so she told him to bring me in. I auditioned and got the part!” MANIA: DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE ROLE? WILL: “It’s tough to pick, but probably Batman Beyond just because it was my fi rst role.” MANIA: WHAT’S THE BEST THING ABOUT PLA YING A SUPERHERO? WILL: “When my nephews were…

BUILT TO FIGHT Don’t let his appearance fool you! Ferdinand the bull might look like a hulking beast bred for fighting, but he’s the sweetest animal you’ll ever meet! He prefers smelling red flowers instead of charging a red cloth! A BULL IN A CHINA SHOP When a nasty bee sting causes Ferdinand to make a ruckus in public, he’s sent away to Case de Campeones, a farm for bulls. Bulls who are bred to fight that is! Uh-oh! FARM LIFE Adjusting to his new life on the farm is hard for Ferdinand. He’s stuck living with other bulls that have spent their lives training to fight, and a group of horses who think they’re the best thing to ever exist. All he wants to do is sniff some nice…

Switch Contains Secret Golf Game! The Switch contains an emulated version of the NES game Golf, which can only be unlocked by performing a specific hand gesture with the Joy Cons on July 11! This is a tribute to former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who programmed the game and was a super good dude! Final Fantasy 15 Comes to Phones! Final Fantasy 15: Pocket Edition is bringing the game to mobile devices with a completely new art and play style! The Pocket Edition has simpler graphics and controls, but tells the same story with the same characters, so you can play the latest Final Fantasy without a PS4 or Xbox One! Mario Party’s Best Minigames Are Coming Back! Nintendo has announced Mario Party: The Top 100 for the 3DS, a…

Knack 2 Platform: PS4 Style: Action/Platformer Publisher: Sony Price: $54.95 Gameplay: Knack’s back, and this time his game is waaaay better! While his first adventure was a little boring in places, Knack 2 is full of exciting action and cool level designs, with fun combat and AWSM platforming bits! This is a much bigger game than before, with large levels and heaps of upgrades to unlock as you go. Knack’s a pretty good fighter, and we love the way you can switch between a big version of the dude and a little version to solve puzzles! The whole game is playable with a mate now too, so if you have a friend around or a family member you like to play with, Knack 2 is a good choice! We’re pretty…

Flower  iOS, Adventure, $7.99 This amazing game lets you control flower petals on the wind, tilting to fly through the sky and gather more petals! It might not sound super exciting, but it’s really cool and relaxing and beautiful – it was one of the best games on the PS3 and it RULES on our phones too! SCORE 9 /10 Tales of a Tiny Planet  iOS/Android, Physics puzzle, $2.99 This is a neat little tricky puzzleplatformer where you guide some tiny planets through a heap of different levels! You need to dodge spikes and time your moves just right to avoid peril! This is a good, fun little game with a lot of challenge across 60 levels! SCORE 8 /10 Ticket to Ride: First Journey  iOS/Android, Boardgame, $2.99 Ticket to…

BODYSURFER MARK BRBOT TELLS US ABOUT AN AWSM SURF STYLE WHERE YOUR BODY IS THE BOARD! MANIA: What is bodysurfing? MARK: “It’s basically surfing a wave without the use of a surfboard and just your body.” MANIA: Are there different styles? Do you have a favourite? MARK: “There are a few different body positions to use to ride the wave. Styles are generally dependent on the type and size of the wave you are bodysurfing. My favourite is riding across the waves with my lead hand forward; this makes you go faster.” MANIA: Do you need any type of equipment? MARK: “Unless you’re an Olympic swimmer, bodysurfing fins make bodysurfing so much easier. I use a brand called Dafin. To help you bodysurf you can also use handplanes. They give…

Supreme Leader Snoke tells Kylo Ren “When I found you I saw raw, untamed power! And beyond that…something truly special!” We get a couple of rad shots of Rey’s sweet lightsaber skills and Force powers! We see a flashback to the destruction of Luke’s Jedi Academy while he tells Rey that he’s afraid of her raw power. Are we gonna get to see when Kylo turned bad? “Let the past die. Kill it if you have to,” says Kylo while his finger rests on the trigger of a cannon locked on to Leia’s ship. Is he going to destroy his mum too? We see the Falcon fly through a cave, pursued by TIE Fighters. Does that mean the First Order catches up to Rey and Luke? PORG! PORG! PORG! “We…

BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT AKA: BRUCE WAYNE POWERS: MASTER DETECTIVE, GENIUS, SKI›ED IN EVERY MARTIAL ART FIRST APPEARANCE: DETECTIVE COMICS #27 (1939) WONDER WOMAN: THE WARRIOR PRINCESS AKA: DIANA PRINCE POWERS: SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH, SPEED, DURABILITY; SKILLED FIGHTER EQUIPP ED WITH MAGIC LASSO, BRACELETS, SHIELD AND SWORD. FIRST APPEARANCE: ALL STAR COMICS #8 (1941) THE FLASH: THE WORLD’S FASTEST MAN AKA: BARRY ALLEN POWERS: SUPERHUMAN SPEED, AGILITY, AND STAMINA.HE CAN VIBRATE HIS BODY SO FAST THAT HE CAN MOVE THROUGH SOLID OBJECTS. FIRST APPEARANCE: SHOWCASE #4 (1956) IN BATMAN VS SUPERMAN WE SEE THE FLASH!HE APPEARS BEFORE BATMAN AND GIVES HIM A WARNING BEFORE DISAPPEARING! HE SAYS: “YOU WERE ALWAYS RIGHT ABOUT HIM!…

GET BUILDIN’ Flex your imagination with a unique set of construction bricks and flexible tendons! Bounce, flex, bend, wrap or wear – the choices are endless! It’s the ultimate LEGO expansion pack. Eight master builders will score a prize pack containing a Flexo Bricks standard pack! THESE ARE THE DROIDS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR! From a galaxy far, far away comes the AWSM Sphero App-Enabled Droids! The class Astromech Droid, R2-D2; The orange, white, and one of a kind BB-8; and the menacing First Order droid, BB-9E. You can control your droid with your smart device, watch Star Wars films together, explore holographic simulations, and more! Three lucky winners could receive their very own Sphero BB-8, a BB-9E or a R2-D2! TAKE THE SHOT! It’s no BB-8, but this digital camera…

Project Octopath Traveller Platform: Switch Style: RPG Publisher: Nintendo Out: Early 2018 This new RPG from the team behind Bravely Default is going to be huge! You can play as one of eight unique characters, and all of them get different openings to their journeys and different abilities – for instance ‘Olberic’ can pick fights with anyone in the world, and ‘Primrose’ can make pals and convince them to do stuff! It’s got a cool weird art-style with 2D characters and sprites in a 3D world, and there’s a demo available in the Switch eShop right now! Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Platform: PS4 Style: Fighting Publisher: Square Enix Out: January 30, 2018 The Final Fantasy fighting series, which was huge on the PSP a long time ago, is finally coming…

Cuphead Platform: Xbox One, PC Style: Action Publisher: Microsoft Price: $29.95 Gameplay: Cuphead might be the hardest game we’ve played all year – but we can’t stop digging into it! You play as Cuphead himself, who has to take down a heap of big baddies to save himself from the Devil! Cuphead is an old cartoon come to life, basically – all the enemies would fit right into an old Popeye or Mickey Mouse cartoon! Most of the levels are boss fights, so you need to play them through over and over again working out enemy patterns! We would spend hours fighting the same boss repeatedly, figuring out their patterns and eventually beating them! It’s REALLY hard, even on the easier difficulty, and for some YAKs it’ll be too much…

METROID: SAMUS RETURNS Platform: 3DS Unlock a bonus Chozo Memory Complete the game with 100% of items and view the first ten Chozo Memories to unlock a final extra one right at the end! Hard Mode Finish the game at any time, with any percentage of completion, to unlock Hard Mode! Only tough YAKs need apply! Unlockable Endings Gravity Suit Pose: Finish the game in eight hours No helmet: Finish the game between four and eight hours No armour: Finish the game in under four hours CUPHEAD Platform: Xbox One, PC Unlock old-skool filters Once you hit world three, you’ll meet a turtle by the bay. Have a chat with him and he’ll talk to you about pacifism – he wants you to beat all the run ‘n gun levels…

ONLY ONE LEFT! On the day he was set to receive his first Pokémon, Ash accidentally sleeps in and misses out! There’s only one Pokémon left…Pikachu! Great – but there’s one problem, Pikachu hates Ash! Discover how they originally became BFFs! The very first episode of Pokémon the TV series was titled “Pokémon! I Choose You!” LEGENDARY QUEST On the first day of their adventure, Ash and Pikachu witness the legendary bird Pokémon Ho-Oh as it flies by! With fellow trainers Sorrel and Verity, they set off to find this one-of-a-kind Pokémon! IT’S IN THE DETAILS I Choose You! introduces a new character, old man Bonji. His hat is the same hat worn by the main character in the original Pokémon games! AWSM reference! The Pokémon anime first aired in…

BEAR 4 HIRE Paddington wants to buy an antique pop-up book for his Aunt Lucy! To pay for the book he decides to get a job! Paddington is voiced by Ben Whishaw, who plays Q in the James Bond film series! WHAT CHORES WOULD WE ASK PADDINGTON TO HELP US WITH? CHRIS: Cutting my hair! DOM: Cleaning my cats’ litter! MATT: Designing MANIA! WHAT’S A BEAR TO DO? A mysterious villain steals the pop-up book before Paddington can buy it and then frames the bear for the robbery. Bad news : Paddington ends up in jail! Good news: Not even the meanest of criminals can hate Paddington! Together they’re going to help him escape! THE GREAT POP-UP CAPER The race is on to fi nd the mysterious thief so Paddington…

MAP OF THE MONTH POTIONS PARKOUR (CREATED BY KSTG FOX) Test your skills on different themed maps such as mineshafts, jungles, a Nether Fortress and more!!! You’ll need some precision button clicks and timing to conquer these stages! To make it even more challenging you’ll be combating the effects from different potions! CRAFTY FACT : Hungry for fi sh? They’re easier to catch if it’s raining! CRAFTY FACT: Endermen won’t become hostile if you’re wearing a pumpkin on your head! SKIN OF THE MONTH STORMTROOPER (CREATED BY ETHAN4000) These aren’t the droids we’re looking for. CRAFTY FACT : It’s rare, but you can fi nd Pink Wool on randomly generating sheep. CHALLENGE OF THE MONTH Can you... Enchant your sword and at least one piece of your armour . 10…

Kahlia, QLD KAHLIA IS JUST LOUNGING AROUND WITH HER PUP, SKEETA! Ashlee, SA ASHLEE’S PET LION IS VERY FRIENDLY BUT DOESN’T EAT MUCH! THAT’S NUTS! A criminal thought robbing Adam Pearl’s house would be easy, but he didn’t count on one thing: Pearl’s pet squirrel, Joey! The nutty crime-fi ghting rodent foiled the would-be burglar and scared him off! FEELIN’ FOWL A postman in New Jersey in the USA came face-to-face with a gang of angry turkeys! These wild birds wouldn’t let him leave his van! He had to be rescued by two police officers who scared the turkeys away . LOL PETZ “LET ME UPDATE MY SNAPCHAT!” “HAWAII HERE I COME...IN 10 YEARS!” TEAMWORK! “PAINT ME WELL BRO!” “I WON’T SAY WHO, BUT SOMEONE MADE A MESS IN HERE!”…

THE DROIDS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR! Sphero Star Wars Droids Stockists: JB Hi-Fi, EB Games, Tech 2 Go, Zing, Apple, Harvey Norman BAT-BRICKS! LEGO Knightcrawler Tunnel Attack Stockists: All major retailers. COLLECT ‘EM ALL! Pokémon TCG Crimson Invasion Booster Pack Stockists: EB Games, Toys R Us, Kmart, Target, Big W and all good independent game stores. GET GAMIN’ Klask – Magnetic Game Table Stockists: Available from independent toy retailers.www.klask.com.au UNITE THE LEAGUE! Justice League 6-inch Figures Stockists: All major retailers. COSMIC CUBES! Marvel Fidget Cubes Stockists: Available in Australia: Toys “R” Us and all good toy stores. Available in New Zealand: Whitcoulls SWEET TECH! LeapPad Ultimate Stockists: Big W, Toys R Us and selected toy retailers. SUPER-SIZED FIGS! Justice League 20” fgures Stockists: Big W and Kmart SPEEDY GAMING! Sonic Forces…

MORE TOP GAMES FOR MINI SUPER NES 1) The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past 2) Super Metroid 3) Donkey Kong Country 4) Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting CHECK OUT THESE CLASSICS : Super Mario World Super Mario World’s designer, Shigefumi Hino, revealed that to get Yoshi to stick his tongue out Mario originally punched him in the back of the head! Ouch, LOL! Secret of Mana Secret of Mana is a sequel to Final Fantasy Adventure, which is a spin-off of the main Final Fantasy series! Star Fox 2 If you beat the first level of Star Fox, you can unlock Star Fox 2. Why is this a big deal? Because Star Fox 2 was cancelled in 1996! Super Mario World 2 Super Mario World 2:…

DANGER This trick is for professionals only! Check yourself before you wreck yourself, YAKS! STEP 1 First off, start with your body in a nice bent riding position and bend the knees as you approach the ramp. STEP 2 Jump up using your legs to land on top of the rail, whilst doing a bar spin with your hands. STEP 3 Then position your body to balance on the rail and make sure your deck stays inline perfectly for the grind. STEP 4 After the grind is completed, you do a combination of tricks at the same time. Take your front foot off the scooter and wrap your leg around the bars. At the same time do a bar spin. STEP 5 Once the rotation of the bars is done,…