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[Mushroom Men] We are Men Made of Mushrooms (OUT NOW!)
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Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars is a 'video game' for the Nintendo Wii made by Red Fly Studio (also making the Ghostbusters game for the PS2 and Wii) and published by Gamecock Media Group.
According to Wikipedia:
The story revolves around a civil war between three-inch high Mushroom Men in a human world. According to the game's designer Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi for the Nintendo DS will be a side-scrolling platformer as well as a prequel to Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars, the Wii version, which will be a full 3D platforming game
That doesn't really answer much, so here is the gist. Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars is a 3d action platformer that revolves around several different groups of mushrooms. You control Pax a member of the Bolete tribe. You must traverse different worlds using skills you acquire along the way, and by crafting weapons made out of objects found on the ground.
Story!
The story begins when a comet passes close to the Earth, raining down a strange green dust in its wake. The space dust is harmless to humans and goes unnoticed, but they failed to notice that flora and fauna including mushrooms, cacti, and kudzu gained sentience. In order to survive, the newly conscious mushroom people soon formed into tribes, and war inevitably followed. The story of The Spore Wars on Wii also chronicles the life of the main character Pax, a lone bolete mushroom who is trying to find his place in mushroom society
Tribes
Bolete - The Bolete are the innocent aboriginal tribe of the mushroom universe, a shamanistic society with heavy emphasis on creative production and the well-being of their general populace. They are good melee fighters and they would prefer to live at peace with the land and their fellow mushroom men. They are the protagonists of both games.
Amanitas - Of all the poisonous mushrooms, Amanitas are the most lethal. The Amanitas are extremely pale and very thin. They ride spiders and use small spiders as attack beasts.
Morel - The mysterious Morel brotherhood delves into science and advancing their spore powers more than any other mushroom species. Their weapons, built primarily for defense, are technically advanced, though they are not war-like at all.
Lepiota - The evil Lepiota use poisonous spore powers as well as dark magic to enforce their aggressive religious beliefs. They build shrines in antique human hardware like old jukeboxes and automobiles
Reviews!
Nintendo Power (8/10)
More to come as it actually gets reviewed
Videos!
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39551.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39553.html
Hopefully I actually add more as reviews and screenshots get posted. I am hopefully getting the game tomorrow so I can give my impressions.
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A quick search of their website would say no, but they are publishing Velvet Assassin, which sounds familiar.
edit: and something called "Pirates & Ninjas dodgeball" which is bound to be awesome
It was not awesome.
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I will wait a few weeks before buying this though. If ign gives it an 8.5 or if gametrailers gives it an 8.0, i'll probably buy it.
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Dementium: The Ward was a fun DS FPS that pushed the DS pretty well.
Regardless it's pretty ridiculous to dismiss a game because of the publisher. If you think videos and previews of this look awful (which I'm sure you do) then that's a legitimate complaint.
I think it looks pretty sweet, I like the ideas behind it and gameplay looks like it could be fun. While the graphics are not amazing, they're surprisingly not terrible either, mainly because it looks like they've picked a style that translates well to lower polycounts.
I'm happy to be proved wrong, though.
Me too, to begin with it was really "meh," just another announcement, interesting art without much hope of developing into anything. As more media has come out though it's become more polished and I've kept an eye out for it. I guess we'll see when more reviews come in, but I might get it anyway.
Those screenshots like two posts up? Yeah they freak me the fuck out.
I refuse to read Game Informer. Now I don't fault game companies for having preferences on which system they prefer, but the blatant refusal to even acknowledge what is going on in the Wii world, topped with the automatic poor reviews for anything that crosses the Wii just turned me off to them.
The Wii and Nintendo have their problems, but that sort of biased unprofessional attitude is why so many gaming magazines are going under.
Either way, I am looking forward to this, and hope to pick it up this week.
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Well no, it's because of the internet.
Why buy that when you can get a biased unprofessional attitude for free?
Really? He reminds me of
You find that freaky?
Heh, true.
GI still should die in my opinion though. :x
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Can't read the Internet on the shitter. EGM and Game Informer serve me nicely on that front.
I still get Nintendo Power though since it's the only consistent source of decent Nintendo information anymore...and you can read it on the toilet. :P
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Have you considered using a laptop?
Oh wow.
Laptops (and even larger, coffee table-style books) can be a pain in the ass to be resting on your leg after a while (I'm talking taking mammoth dumps here).
You could just rest the laptop on the counter or floor. It's a bit more awkward then a magazine, but it allows access to better reading material then Game Informer.
Don't really know of too many gaming sites that have interesting articles, really. Plus there's just something nice about print that I can't put my finger on.
Urahonky: I don't own a DS.
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Last I saw, it is still the first place to get all the new info. I was really surprised when my little sister was telling me stuff I didn't know about yet, and I check the internet a lot. While the internet might have an announcement with one screenshot, Nintendo Power will have a full preview with screens that show up on IGN months later.
If you haven't read it in a while, it was redesigned a few years back to be much more mature and critical. You see the full spectrum of review scores.
(checks) Yup, here we go:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6199374.html?tag=result;title;1
Looks like they held onto that horrible, horrible name though.
Yes?
Kinda looks like "No" to me.
Anyway, sorry to derail. I'm curious to see if Mushroom Men turned out well.
http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3171651&p=44
I didn't know Les Claypool did the music for this. It sounds like the atmosphere is what makes this game interesting, not the gameplay.
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It's about what I expected from a fledgling studio.
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Especially platformers, they have always been 5-10 hour ordeals...people just make more of an issue of it now.
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also, most of us were children then that sucked at video games.