So, we are finally getting some WiiWare...

[Toaster]

Re: So, wii are finally getting some WiiWare...

Wii are all in it, so wii might as well make the most of it.

[Red Dragon]

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Back to talking about LostWinds or WiiWare please.

[DarkwingChuck]

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New WiiWare game announced. LIT is a 3D "horror puzzler" by WayForward, developers of Shantae and Contra 4.

[Valkysas]

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that's a damn good pedigree right there.

[DarkwingChuck]

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WiiWare launched today in Japan. Wii Fanboy is rounding up impressions from various sources. Check it out. But far more interesting is a newly announced WiiWare game: Vamps on a Plane!

Ok, it's actually called Last Flight but it's like Dead Rising except change zombies to vampires, photographer to food critic, and mall to plane. Not coming until Q1 next year though.

[Kire]

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Hey, I'm up for anything that will get my Wii all bloody.

[JPS]

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Now we need an RPG Maker for Wii, all those doubts I had are coming to an end with all the third party games coming out soon.

[Kire]

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what 3rd party games?

[DarkwingChuck]

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FFCC: My Life As a King sounds good. It's got microtransactions though, for new costumes and buildings that bring other races into your town. Hopefully they don't go too crazy with that, it's already the most expensive WiiWare game.

Star Soldier R is just two levels that you can play for 2 or 5 minutes with no real point besides the high score rankings. Not worth 800 points when you could get one of the many full length shmups on VC.

Dr. Mario has a cool feature where you can play online against friends who haven't downloaded the game themself, similar to DS single card play.

Pokemon Ranch seems rather pointless but if I had a Wii I'd probably give it a shot. I just really like the origami look of the pokemon.

what 3rd party games?

These ones.

[DarkwingChuck]

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First footage of Lost Winds

Looks pretty cool. Gives me a Kirby's Canvas Curse vibe. Even though I never played that.

[DarkwingChuck]

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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1 coming in June.

[Red Dragon]

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Let's all wave our futuristic candy bars!

[DarkwingChuck]

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Looks like while High Voltage is planning to do big things for Wii with The Conduit and their Quantum 3 middleware they're also doing some great small things for WiiWare.

Gyrostarr is a graphically impressive, 4-player scrolling shooter. The levels are procedurally generated letting them fit 50 levels in a game less than 40 MB. It can be controlled with the waggly Wiimote or traditionally with mote and nunchuk. It'll be a WiiWare launch title for 700 points, 100 less than the two level, 2-5 minute time limited Star Soldier R.

According to High Voltage, "Gyrostarr challenges you and up to three other players to fly through a twisting, turning techno-plasma canal in space, collecting energy to penetrate an alien portal and warp to the next conduit. Without that energy, your space vessels will smash head-first into the unforgiving anti-void." Naturally, each track is guarded by different enemy spacecraft, all of them out to gun you down and "feast on your collected energy."

"When playing together, players need to cooperate if they want to successfully complete the level, but that doesn't mean they can't try to double-cross each other to get choice weapons, increase their score, or just irritate," notes High Voltage. "The ship positions are staggered down the track, but when one player collects a pickup, his ship moves to the back of the pack, ensuring that everyone has a chance to be in the lead and grab the next one."

[Kire]

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Yeah, buy our game, dammit!

BTW, you don't want to be using the motion controls, trust me.

Originally Posted by Kire
what 3rd party games?

These ones.

What's so funny is the only one on that list that I'd even consider "good" is RE4, if you hadn't played it already. Guitar Hero is better on 360 (sound, downloadable tracks), and anything with Mario in it doesn't count.

[Red Dragon]

Re: So, we are finally getting some WiiWare...

What's so funny is the only one on that list that I'd even consider "good" is RE4, if you hadn't played it already. Guitar Hero is better on 360 (sound, downloadable tracks), and anything with Mario in it doesn't count.

THAT'S OUR KIRE!