Wiikly news report 12/13/2009

Posted by Sparky_the_chu 15 years ago

 

Well here I am with the wiikly news report! Starting from now I’m also posting on eka’s portal, so for the ones who are new to this sort of thing, this is a report I’ll do every week to cover news about the wii, to inform people a bit more about titles coming out, since a lot of good titles have been ignored in the past solely for the fact that people didn’t even know about them :3

I’m gonna cover the previous two weeks this time, since, due to the FA downtime I decided to postpone the report :3 so let’s start!

VC RELEASES OF THIS AND PREVIOUS WEEK:

USA
-Solomon’s key (arcade)
-Combatribes (SNES)

EU
-Alex Kidd in Shinobi world (Master System)

WIIWARE RELEASES OF THIS AND PREVIOUS WEEK:

USA
-Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 4: The trial and execution of Guybrush Threepwood (point and click adventure)
-Copter Crisis (flying game)
-My Zoo (Zoo sim)
-Christmas Clix (puzzle game)

EU
-Rubik’s puzzle galaxy: RUSH (puzzle game)
-Pallurikio (platformer)
-Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 4: The trial and execution of Guybrush Threepwood (point and click adventure)

GAME RELEASES OF THIS AND NEXT WEEK:

USA
8th of December:
-Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

EU
No releases this week…looks like we’re moving into the silent time X3 January will have a few VERY interesting releases though >:3

NEWS

A new scan and details for Zangeki no Reginleiv has been released (action/RPG):
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/28719/
- Norse mythology influences the story
- Game is like a rail shooter (rail sword-slasher)
- Swords, bows, warhammers, javelins in the game
- Many of the enemies are very big
- Enemy example: Frost giant, towering 90 feet

New Wiiware game announced: Phalanx is the remake of an old SNES shooter, wich looks really fun >:3 here’s a trailer and a few details:
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/28843/

New screens and the boxart for Sakura Wars: So long, my love have been released (strategy/RPG):
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/28921/
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/29249/

New screens for Tales of Graces have been released (Action/RPG):
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/28923/

New screens, video and details for Pokepark: Pikachu’s great adventure have been released (adventure):
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/28979/
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/29037/
- Game allows you to explore PokePark
- Big/varied world
- Blaziken’s Punching Rocks minigame: Shake Wii remote, destroy rocks thrown by Blaziken at the right moment
- Empoleon’s Snow Rider minigame: Head down an icy slope, time attack setup
- Dusknoir’s Classic Running minigame: Race that involves running/destroying objects throughout the course
Absol’s Tsugi Tsugi Hurdle minigame: Race that involves leaping over obstacles (like Dugtrio)
Bastiodon’s Panel Crush minigame: Need to throw balls at panels to earn points, speed of the balls will increase slowly
- Password system in the game to receive in-game items
- “78872252,” the first password, nets you a Surfboard item to use in the Marine Slider minigame even if you don’t have a water Pokemon

New videos and screens for Final Fantasy: Crystal Bearers have been released (action/RPG):
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/28997/
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/29132/
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/29399/
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/comba ... tasy/59716

A new trailer for Phoenix Wright Wiiware has been released:
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/29204/

New GREAT wiiware game announced: Megaman 10 will be released on wiiware in a few months!! So here are the first scans, details and the first two robot masters!
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/29204/
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/29374/
- Mega Man is looking for a vaccine-making device to fight the 'Robotenza', which causes robots to overheat and go crazy
- play as Proto Man right from the start
- third playable character yet to be revealed
- computer-themed stage with mouse pointer enemies that draw boxes to throw at you, color-changing disappearing blocks, power treadmills and more
- lava level, vertically oriented, lava pools, block shaped enemies that can duplicate themselves, conveyor belts that push you down
- Sheep Man: turns into 4 clouds that hover above and attack with lightning, earn Thunder Wool for lightning attacks
- features an easy mode
- New ice boss is in charge of the glacier stage
- Glacier stage has snowmen (heads explode), ice blacks (break when shot/touched)
- Sewer stage has slug-like Mets
- Stadium stage has enemies related to certain sports (baseball-throwing robots, soccer ball platforms, soccer goalie mini-boss)
- Desert stage will obscure your vision, sandstorms may throw you into spikes/walls
- Yashichi will refill Mega Man’s life, weapons energy in full
- Obtain items in the between-level shop similar to Mega Man 9
- Different difficulty modes
- Easy mode: Difficulty analogous to Mega Man 2’s difficulty
- Hard mode available as well
- Numerous modes, achievements/challenges, online rankings, DLC
- No female robot masters in the game
- Developers have made their own bosses
- No sliding/charging shots
- Releasing in March 2010

New screens for Diatomic have been released (puzzle game):
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/29335/

A new trailer for Pallurikio has been released (platformer):
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/debut ... ikio/59513

New videos for Tatsunoko VS Capcom have been released (Fighting game):
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/g-lig ... o-vs/59584
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ptx-4 ... o-vs/59583

New videos for Monster Hunter 3 have been released (Action/RPG):
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/groun ... nter/59604
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/under ... nter/59605
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/big-c ... nter/59636

New videos for Silent Hill: Shattered memories have been released (Survival horror):
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/memor ... hill/59615
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/freak ... hill/59756
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/explo ... hill/59755

Data East Arcade has been announced for Wii…it’ll be a collection of old-school games,s omething some of you may want to get :3 here’s a trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/debut ... east/59643

Lego Harry Potter has been announced for Wii. Here’s the trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/debut ... arry/59750

A new video for Rubik’s puzzle galaxy: RUSH has been released (puzzle game):
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/a-clo ... zzle/59772

A new puzzle game has been announced for wii. It’s called Bittos+ and it looks like an interesting twist on the tetris concept. Here’s a trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclu ... ttos/59782

A new video for Sky Crawlers has been released (Flying game):
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/will- ... lers/59794

And to finish things off, here are a few very crazy and random teasers for No More Heroes 2: desperate struggle (action game):
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclu ... more/59724
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclu ... more/59723
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclu ... more/59725

WII GAME OF THE WEEK: Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Genre: Gun survivor

I’m sure all of you remember Resident Evil: umbrella chronicles. Gun survivor game with its flaws, but really fun overall, especially if played with a friend and with a lot of stuff to unlock and many hidden details of the RE series.

This game picks up two main RE games (Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica) to try and improve the experience of the previous games :3 so let’s go into detail!

From the graphic standpoint this game pretty much kicks its predecessor away. The visuals are way more detailed, the lightning effects astounding and more than once I just stared in awe at some of the visuals the game gave to you. The enemies are also improved a lot, modles are smoother and well-made and the use of the textures on certain enemies is impressive.

Now a few reviewers complained about the shaky camera giving you troubles when aiming. I honestly never had too many troubles shooting at things and even the hardest bosses give you a chance to hit them with an easy shot, blocking their attacks. The “shaly camera” just gives more of an immersive feeling, working perfectly with the fast pace of the game and also giving a nice cinematic feel to the gameplay experience.

The gameplay is the same old one…shoot at zombies and monsters! Aim, shoot, recharge, simple as that. Of course you’ll have a nice set of weapons to defend yourself…guns, shotguns, grenades, missile launchers…there is quite the nice choice of weapons. A nice change they made is how you can bring all of your weapons with you, with a customized set of 4 main weapons to use and to replace when you’re out of ammo or when you need something more fitting to the situation. Some of you may think about how this makes the game easier…it isn’t…I played on normal mode and after the first levels the game really knows how to make you waste your ammo, forcing you to be really careful about using them or forcing you to use all of your arsenal on a single boss.

Other noticeable changes are how the lifebar is not shared anymore…both players will have their own lifebar and plants aren’t used right away, they can be kept for later use, wich adds a bit of strategy for the healing system. The gameplay is fun and addictive, especially with a friend on your side. Shooting down hordes of zombies in a gun survivor was never so much fun in my opinion. Add the epicness of the RE series and you’re pretty much done :3

I also like how they made the levels more interactive…if you shoot at the objects on a desk, most of the time you’ll destroy them or make them fall off the desk, also revealing ammo, secret umbrella files and similar stuff.

Like I mentioned earlier I played the game on normal mode…the amount of challenge is just about right and I died quite a few times, especially against the bosses, despite having the health spray, an item that restores all of your energy once you die…problem is you have to find it while playing trough the level and certain bosses and situations will really put you in bad situations. Luckily a few well-placed checkpoints will avoid making the game frustrating (and I can’t imagine how hard mode is X3). So I suggest you to start the game either on normal or hard mode, depending by how good you feel at such games :3

Now, story-wise the game takes you trough RE2, RE:CV and an original storyline based on Leon and Krauzer, wich will explain certain things, like how Krauzer became a bad guy in RE4 (you should unlock the real ending for this one though). Due to the fast pace of the game certain sessions will be skipped, without breaking the storyline though, giving you a clear view of what’s happened in the games…the dialogues during the gameplay are great too and improved if compared to the previous game. The original storyline of Leon and Krauzer will also make certain things more clear, yet add more questions, like a good spin-off must do X3

The soundtrack is just great. The music goes along with the pace of the game and the themes of certain bosses are just plain epic, really giving you the charge you need to take down the threat in front of you…gotta look for the OST now, as I usually do X3

The game, being a gun survivor, isn’t too long, but also longer than the other titles of its genre, plus there is a lot of stuff to unlock (you’ll love the tofu mode). Secret levels, files, enemy info…it’ll probably make RE fans squeal :3

I suggest this game to the RE fans who don’t mind a different take on the series and also want a lil dive in the past games and to whoever enjoys gun survivors and fast-paced games like this…playing with a friend improves things a lot more. This title is way better than its predecessor overall, so it’s something I suggest to all of you :3

Here are a few screens:
http://www.gamekyo.com/Webmasters/Image ... _9_big.jpg
http://www.gamekyo.com/Webmasters/Image ... 14_big.jpg
http://www.gamekyo.com/Webmasters/Image ... 11_big.jpg
http://www.gamekyo.com/Webmasters/Image ... _5_big.jpg

and a couple of videos:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exper ... evil/57808
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/reliv ... evil/58644

that’s all for this week! Have a good wii-gaming time! :3