Nintendo sends glorious papercraft with Glory of Heracles

by JC Fletcher on Jan 14th 2010 1:59PM

Nintendo got Paon's Glory of Heracles into my house the same way the Greeks got soldiers into Troy: with a Trojan Horse. Although this horse was in a box, so the elaborate ruse really didn't play into my acceptance of the item. And thankfully, the cartridge didn't murder me after emerging. As has become the company's custom of late, Nintendo cutely packaged its review copy of Glory of Heracles with the cartridge hidden away inside the papercraft horse.

Along with the horse and the empty game case, Nintendo sent a scroll -- a letter from the immortal Greek demigod himself, exhorting us to retrieve the cartridge and help him regain his memories.

Embark upon a grand looking-at-pictures adventure in our gallery. Does anyone else find it hilarious and kind of adorable to imagine Nintendo PR staff carefully cutting, folding and gluing a bunch of papercraft horses?

Glory of Heracles items

Tags: glory-of-heracles, paon, papercraft, pr, rpg, trojan-horse

Reader Comments (3)

It's great to finally get some news on this game. I hadn't seen anything on it in awhile an was starting to get worried. Also, the trojan horse idea is totally awesome. Not as awesome as some of the other things Nintendo has sent, but still...... Speaking of which, is this game actually made by the big N? In any case, I'm having a tough time deciding between this and Might and Magic. Decisions, decisions........

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Great information in this post and the horse and the empty game case, Nintendo sent a scroll -- a letter from the immortal Greek demigod himself, exhorting us to retrieve the cartridge and help him regain his memories.

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Hey JC, It is very funny to imagine the Nintendo PR staff cutting, folding and gluing all of those paper toys, especially to me since I was actually the guy hired to not only design the toy, but also to build them all as well. It was a daunting task I can assure you. 30 paper toy horses doesn't sound like that much until it's time to print, score, cut, fold and glue them. :)

Anyway I wanted to say thanks for the nice comments on my paper toy. You and your readers might be interested in my online paper toy community, NicePaperToys.com. With 2000 members and growing daily, it's the greatest place for paper toys and the people who love them.

And here are some more pics if you care to see them.
(btw, I "borrowed" a few of yours for show. I gave a credit to nintendo.joystiq.com. I hope you don't mind. Please let me know if I need to remove them. Thanks!)