You have cleverly used your wits and common sense not to fall for any April Fools’ joke this year. Well done, you! However, that’s not to say we can’t appreciate the lengths that some people went to in order to trick us. At it turns out, two of our favourites are Nintendo based offerings.

The first we like purely for its silliness, opting for the so stupid, it has to be true angle of approach. Think Geek, the online toys and gadgets store gave us Super Pii Pii Brothers. It’s a puerile Wii game in which you must angle a jet of urine into a waiting toilet. Watch out, though: obstacles abound and the lids keep opening and closing. Spill too much on the floor and it’s game over, to your eternal shame.

The game comes with a strap-on belt harness. We particularly like the way it resembles a pair of Y-fronts. What ardours us more, however, is the potential of a two-player mode. If only. If only…

Now, the second gag wins points just for the sheer effort that went into it. A Legend of Zelda movie trailer screams instant April Fools’, but to go to so much effort to make it believable impresses us mightily. This isn’t some hacked together job, this is done extremely well, with visibly high production values in place. Well, high enough for a TV movie, really. Yet the characters are all there and the fact that Link never says a word is right on the button. To spend that much time mocking up a convincing Zelda Story requires a big hand in IGN’s direction.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 10:13 am by James Lyon
Hardware, Video.