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Snoopy WWI Flying Ace -- Wii/360, Gameplay Trailer
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Apparently the game is coming out on the 360 and Wii sometime in 2009.
I have to say the trailer looks pretty awesome ... like a cartoony Warhawk with WWI planes?
Apparently the game is coming out on the 360 and Wii sometime in 2009.
I have to say the trailer looks pretty awesome ... like a cartoony Warhawk with WWI planes?
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Wii/360 though.
You had me at sandbox-style, DKR-esque flight mechanics.
You lost me at platforming.
But you really lost me at Nazi Charlie Brown shooting a pistol at you. Cartoonish WWI dogfights are one thing, but seriously, Peanuts characters pointing guns at each other from point-blank range and shooting to kill? I don't even know why that pisses me off so much, but it seems like incredibly poor taste to me.
I think that was just a regular person.
Also, they're technically not Nazis.
You better be able to fly his doghouse at some point. Man, this makes me want another game like WINGS for the Amiga back in the day. Best WWI flying game ever.:^:
The whole idea of gunplay and killing in the Peanuts universe is to antithetical to the gentle, good-humored spirit of Charles M. Schulz's work that it isn't funny.
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It's like you read my second post and re-wrote the first paragraph!
The bad guys are carrying dogcatcher nets around and everyone's who's shot down bails out with a parachute. It seems pretty clear that no one's going to get shot, and guns are going to be as much of an actual killing implement as Leonardo's swords in the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons.
In the original strips, the Red Baron would riddle Snoopy's doghouse with bullets all the time. I think it's possible to just enjoy the game without extrapolating any violence that doesn't actually take place.
It's okay, it's not really Charlie Brown.
That looks an awful lot like somebody shooting a gun to me.
Look, I have no problem with the flight sequences, Snoopy's "Sopwith Camel" getting shot down was a pretty ubiquitous thing. But it was all imaginary. Snoopy fired his machine gun by pointing his hands out and making machine gun noises. Everyone always parachuted to safety. It's a big jump from that to someone pointing a gun at Snoopy from a couple of feet away, firing, and Snoopy only being saved by the glass between them. It doesn't fit with the tone of the franchise in any way, shape or form.
And the TMNT analogy is a bit flawed, as TMNT was a dark property that got softened up considerably for children, this is an incredibly warm and fuzzy property that's being taken in a darker direction after the death of its creator.
EDIT: If they do indeed turn out to be toy guns, argument (mostly) withdrawn.
I will be buying this game.
You can see the freaking plunger.
At one point in the trailer Snoopy has three of them stuck to his head.
That. THis game looks awesome, I hope there is more flying then platforming though. Kinds reminds me of Crimson Skies. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, where the fuck is my Sequal to Crimson Skies??? This'll have to hold me over.
And hey, when someone pointed that out, I edited my post.
Also, I would call Charlie Brown "light". There were SO many dark overtones, but kids just don't catch them.
"All right, that grumpy bastard is gone, let's make the Peanuts FPS with extra gore we've wanted to do for years!"
You just HAD to remind me of this comic.
Wasn't there a wallpaper with the second panel?
I WILL NOT BE DOING 3DS FOR NWC THREAD. SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE OVER.
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I was seriously just imagining this game yesterday.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
I've honestly wanted a game like this for years. I've said it before, but come on. Lt. Surge was in a war. It was probably Vietnam. How fucking awesome would it be to play a Vietnam FPS or third person shooter where you partner with Pokemon? Skulking through the jungles with your trusty Houndoom at your side lighting foliage on fire in an effort to flush out the enemy, and all of a sudden three Viet Cong pop out, guns raised, and a squad of Kecleon drop their camo from where they were hiding and they all rush forward, ready to kill...
Lt. Surge was also the Lightning American I really don't think the first games translation is accurate.
Also Pokewar would be so dull considering grown adults just move to the left when defeated.
And you must be crazy if you can't see the appeal of shooting down adorable pseudo-Nazis as Snoopy.
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The platforming looks kind of eh, the flying looks fun, and I'm confused as to why there are adults in the trailer. It might be kind of good, I'll wait and see.
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Maybe you should have paid a bit more attention in history class, sir.
But yeah I'm not happy about seeing adults either.
I'd say it's a cross between Warhawk and Nuts & Bolts. Got the colorful graphics and some platforming of N&B coupled with the crazy dogfights of Warhawk.
"I tell you, kid, electric Pokémon saved me during the war!" The man was totally in Vietnam, man. He probably has PTSD. No wonder his Gym is trapped.
And grown adults move to the left when they're out of Pokemon and not out for blood. On the battlefield? They'll fucking kill you.