Piantas are basically a staple of the series now, and they did not appear in this game. Neither did the koopalings.
If I am not mistaken 3 of the bosses are Koopalings. If they are not, then they sure do look like them.
Also the Big Nosed Hawai things are in the game, in more than one level, they are just background characters, like the Lumas or anything Galaxy related except for Rosalina.
You're so dismissive of everything in the article due to two games having not been described correctly, who's more desperate here?
There's an entire stage that you can only traverse by moving platforms with the touchscreen, good job missing that. Also, the other mechanics are used throughout the entire game, just because you missed them doesn't mean that they aren't mechanics that are in the game and use the touch screen. The leaker never mentioned that the touchscreen mechanics were required or common, either. Touch screen controls were also explained in the manuals, so it isn't some easter egg.
I bought the game digitally, I do not own a manual, so in fact, for me I didn't discover it until the 7th person who played the game (yes, 6 people played the game and had no clue about any of those touch controls) and he just tried it out of curiosity (clicking a coin with the touchscreen and was able to pick it up). It isn't as intuitive as you might think without no knowledge of it.
I don't have the greastest memory and I might have forgotten that level, but which level is completely based on moving platforms with the touchpad? As I remember it platforms are moved by breathing into the microphone. Even so, there are still 80 other levels that do not use touch controls.
Great job completely countering your own argument for me, he said no more surprises for the rest of the year, which the new Zelda clearly wasn't if it was already announced. He claimed that 3ds has "no new suprises" you're taking his phrases as absolutes.
He also mentions that these games will be released by the end of the year, the only game not being released being Mario golf which is extended to 2014
"Nintendo will hold itself up on a few titles until the end of this year. Those will be Game & Wario, Pikmin 3, Wii Fit U, Wonderful 101, Wii Party U, Zelda Wind Waker and Mario, which will be shown and playable at E3 for Wii U. Animal Crossing, Mario & Luigi, Mario Golf, Pokémon, Mario Party and Zelda are also planned for the 3DS."
The release date of half these games wasn't even announced until e3.
I will grant you that I might have been reading too literally into there will be no more surprises for this year, and he only meant for game announcements and wasn't counting on releases.
He said it will be shown at e3 and according to the article author, that had not been clarified yet by nintendo. Not to mention he mention lots of options for miiverse and communities, which Mario Kart TV certainly fits the bill for. The developer direct also makes a distinct mention of wanting this mario kart to be more online integrated than before.
Did you read what I wrote?
"2 very popular games which both were already announced and both had major development time already... He said they would have a "teaser", when they both had "trailers" which are different from teasers and they both had playable demos. The writer misjudged how far ahead the games actually were, he thought they were farther behind and a teaser would have been obvious to anyone if they were, but they were already at a playable demo stage.
It's like saying right now: A trailer of Smash Brothers will be shown at this E3 2014.
Isn't that kind of an obvious fact?
I also knew Mario Kart would have more integrated online and Miiverse integration with 100% certainty
because every single Nintendo IP game on the Wii U has had it."
Also, no, he didn't say the "similar workload to DKC" game would be revealed at E3. He said the best graphics he's ever seen, really huge old popular Nintendo IP that includes spaceship and scanning and is an FPS would be revealed after E3 2013. Knowing you, you will probably say: "It's still after E3 2013", since technically it will always be after E3 2013 until the end of time.
Because you've been ignoring the better half of the article for your narrow minded view of it.
No you're blindly following someone who has been wrong in more than he has been right. And considering most of the things he was right about were completely obvious facts, I don't see what gives him credibility at all.
Consider this:
You believing this leak is like me making a leak right now saying:
Zelda Wii U, Smash Bros and Hyrule Warriors will be shown at E3.
Smash Bros will have a better online and will offer more integration with Miiverse.
There will be a new Mario game on the Wii U announced this year.
A new Starfox Game will also be announced on the Wii U later this year.
Retro will reveal a new game they've been working on.
Miyamoto will reveal the new IP he's been working on. Most of its mechanics consist of using the gamepad in innovative ways.
Some of the old classic titles that people have been wanting for a while will return on the virtual console.
The new Wii U Pokemon game is said to be released later this year.
And then adding random details about some of the games which turn out to be all wrong and by 2015 you will be believing everything I leaked because most of the obvious things I leaked were true. (the things I posted up top, sans the Starfox one which would be kind of like the Daigasso Band Brothers "hard guess")