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Excitebots, Punch-Out, Legend of Stafy release dates announced [NSF56K]
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Press wrote:NINTENDO'S VIDEO GAME LINEUP DEMONSTRATES GAMING DIVERSITY
New Games Announced for Nintendo Systems
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 26, 2009 – While everyone is still buzzing about the upcoming April 5 launch of the Nintendo DSi™ system, video game fans will have plenty of great games and experiences to keep them busy. Nintendo has an extensive, diverse library of about 120 games on the way for both the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ systems. Upcoming Nintendo-published video games for Wii include:
Excitebots™: Trick Racing has elements that make it one of the more unique racing games on the market. It launches April 20 and lets everyone in the family use the Wii Wheel™ accessory in unique and changing environments, play fun minigames and perform crazy tricks in a game that builds on the Excitebike™ and Excite Truck™ franchises.
Donkey Kong® Jungle Beat™, originally made for the Nintendo GameCube™ system, launches May 4 with newly added motion controls. It's the latest in Nintendo's New Play Control! series of games.
Punch-Out!!™ launches May 18 and brings back all of the fun of the beloved, classic NES® game that thrilled players in the early 1990s. Boxers battle as iconic hero Little Mac as they fight their way through a cast of new and familiar boxing opponents on their quest to win the coveted WVBA (World Video Boxing Association) Championship Belt.
Nintendo's downloadable WiiWare service continues to be a showcase for new games, new concepts and new ideas. A selection of upcoming titles includes:
• BIT.TRIP BEAT, developed by Gaijin Games and published by Aksys Games: BIT.TRIP BEAT is what you get when you mix classic video gaming with modern gaming sensibilities. What may seem like a simple "paddle" game turns into a psychedelic trip down memory lane which has you hitting "beats" in rhythm to Chiptune style music. While the game can be difficult, if you crank up the tunes and get in the zone, you'll have a great time. Performing perfectly isn't required to experience all the game's content, but the extra challenge will keep score-hunters coming back in search of each level's elusive "PERFECT" score.
• Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, developed and published by Semnat Studios LLC: Fight your way through 13 diverse locations on your own or with up to three friends in this frenetic and stylish side-scrolling action game. Play as Eduardo and his fellow toaster buddies as you fire an assortment of pastries at all kinds of dastardly food products. Hop onto laser-mounted scooters and fly across the screen in rocket packs, and learn to cooperate with your teammates or simply annoy each other in an awesomely fun way by throwing each other around the screen. The choice is up to you.
• Night Game, developed and published by Nicalis: Exclusively for WiiWare, Night Game (working title) is part action game and part puzzler. It invites players into a beautifully atmospheric world, where they must use real physics to maneuver a mysterious, glowing sphere through vastly different locales. Night Game pushes the boundaries of design with its unique art style, and professionally produced music score. This title is a 2009 Independent Games Festival Seumas McNally Award nominee and from the same developers responsible for Cave Story on Wii.
• Swords & Soldiers, developed and published by Ronimo Games: Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling real-time strategy game, in which three distinct factions battle for the powers of the gods. The goal is to destroy the enemies' castle on the other end of the level, while protecting your own. This can be done by training powerful units or casting devastating spells. The game will feature a single-player campaign and a competitive split-screen multiplayer mode as well as several other game modes.
Great titles are also on the way for the portable Nintendo DS system. Some Nintendo-published video games for Nintendo DS include:
Rhythm Heaven™ is an infectious video game that has been a huge hit in Japan. Players tap and slide the stylus on the touch screen in time to the beat. This fun, stylized game launches April 5.
A new entry in the Personal Trainer series is Personal Trainer™: Walking, which launches May 25. Personal Trainer: Walking tracks users' progress and makes going for a walk a little more fun. It comes with two pedometers that users can wirelessly connect to their Nintendo DS system when they return home.
In The Legendary Starfy™ game, which launches June 8, players dive into a spectacular undersea adventure with Starfy, the legendary hero of Pufftop. Players swoop into enemies like a shooting star, glide over bottomless chasms and transform into powerful creatures to help a mysterious, bunny-eared visitor find his lost memory.
In recent weeks, multiple third-party publishers have announced plans to boost their support of Nintendo systems. Between now and June, Nintendo fans will enjoy games like: The Conduit™, a first-person shooter from Sega that pits players against a terrifying group of alien invaders intent on taking over a futuristic Washington, D.C.; EA SPORTS Active™, a Wii exclusive from Electronic Arts that offers players fun, easy-to-learn exercises and activities that users can do with family and friends; and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 10, the newest iteration of the popular golf game from Electronic Arts that lets players hit the links to prove their driving and putting prowess.
No pictures of Excitebots or Punch Out so far, but press supposedly has them, so we will see them eventually.
Hypnotically inclined.
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Brawl, I suppose. I guess that we are seeing new Golden Sun, Drill Dozer, and Kid Icarus eventually.
I wonder why there's still no solid release date for Wii Sports Resort. Especially since Tiger Woods PGA Tour has been confirmed as using it.
Press release actually says that it is partial list. It is pretty much typical Nintendo. New games are announced pretty randomly, and in small groups.
Ah, my mistake. But I guess that means it's coming before June, since PGA Tour uses Motion Plus.
The only definite purchases for me on that list are DS: Rhythm Heaven and Henry Hatsworth. The New Play Mario Tennis and Punch Out will be instant buys if I hear good feedback on the controls, though.
Furthermore, Gamestop leaked Virtua Tennis Wii cover that had new, strange blue controller icon. As box cover so small, you couldn't really see what the icon was about. But box was quickly pulled off from the site. Here is the copy of it:
* company responsible for home ports of Virtua Tennis.
Good show, old bean!
Very excited about Punch-Out, though I'll also hold off until I hear how it controls. And Henry Hatsworth, dammit!
Personal Trainer: Walking. Snicker. But, it'll sell.
EDIT: And I know someone said it's partial, but damn, that Wii list is looking pretty sparse. DS is looking pretty great, though - I'm getting Dark Spire and Henry Hatsworth for sure, and that SMT game perks my interest.
EDIT: And from the other thread: Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity? Hmmmm...
EDIT: Oh, yeah, and Sporky reminds me of that chiptunes rythem game that got announced as well. Intriguing.
EDIT: And Sporky reminded me of something else: why is Soda Popinski not on the cover? :x
Also notice Night Game. This is important. It is by Nifflas of Knytt Stories fame.
This is some really old concept art:
Dunno. My pick list is following:
Anno 1402: New World (Europe only so far)
Another Code 2 (Europe only so far)
Broken Sword: Director's Cut (march)
Conduit
Excitebots
Guitar Hero: Metallica
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
Let's Tap
Mad World
Overlord: Dark Legend
Punch-Out
Virtua Tennis
Wii Sport Resort
Plenty of stuff. Plus I have also brand new X360 to support.
Fingers crossed, if it's a hit maybe they'll move the whole franchise over here like what happened with Fire Emblem and Phoenix Wright.
However, I'm already going to express my disappointment at the fact that all of the boxers will just be carried over from previous Punch Outs. It's highly unlikely that Nintendo will put in much effort and probably won't make very many new, original fighters.
And you're basing that on... what, exactly?
Every single Punch-Out has carried over some boxers and introduced new ones. Hell, the box for Super Punch-Out was loaded with returning boxers, yet the game was crammed with newcomers. It's just as likely we'll get new ones here. But, we'll see.
Next Level Games has working on it for longer than 18 months, so it isn't really rush job. But yeah, I don't really see them inventing lots of new boxers. This is mainly marketed for NES-generation. Of course, I would like to see raging finnish boxer with string vest and fur cap.
I am enraged that Another Code/Trace Memory 2 hasn't been announced for Amurrica yet. I also forgot about Let's Tap—for $30 it looks amazing.
EDIT: Daggonit, beaten!
EDIT: And like Lewie said, I really really really hope that they've got some F-Zero lovin' in the works. Mario Kart was fan-fuckin-fastic outside of some of the item BS.
maybe, maybe not. Next Level is a pretty good studio. They're responsible for the striker series which were anything but cash in titles. I liked the way they spun the "extreme sports" thing, and I expect the same level of detail they put into those games for punch-out as well.
How could the first one have carry overs?
And "Excitebots: Trick Racing" is arguably one of the worst titles I've ever heard. It makes me think of a shovelware Pokemon knockoff ... Spectrobes for the DS is what I'm reminded of.
I wouldn't be surprised if Wii Sports Resort was formally announced at the Games Developers Conference at the end of March, since Iwata is speaking and here's the description of his keynote: "In his keynote address, Nintendo global president Satoru Iwata will talk about Nintendo’s role in creating better tools and bringing opportunities for developers to introduce their innovative ideas to a marketplace that is increasingly willing and eager to embrace new game design possibilities."
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There is actually four Punch-Out games, with two being for arcades.
There is that arm wrestling spin-off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Wrestling_(video_game)
Yep. And the lineup has changed for all four, with the latter three getting carry-overs and new guys.
It is one of those series that are hyped by crazy importers. It's pretty bland series.
puff
Sequel to ExciteTruck? I got here as fast as I could.
I really don't know what ExciteBots is supposed to mean though. Are you racing bots now? Like robots? It says it's 'trick racing', but you use the wheel? I mean, I played Trickstyle, but that was a racing game on hover-boards. I'm kind of confused. And excited though!
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
EBGames is listing two SKUs for the game, one with wheel and one without.
Motion plus controls Pikmin 1 & 2 remake.
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
It's a Wii version of the first Pikmin game. It's already out in Europe.
Well, even if you don't use the wheel specifically, what confuses me is that when I think of 'trick' racing, I think of stuff like skateboards. I don't think...you know, CARS.