WiiWare thread

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/how-final-fanta.html

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/nintendos-takas.html

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/nintendo-will-b.html

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/nintendo-to-beg.html
^^^ er?

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/finalfantasy.html
^^^ oh word

not excited about "pay to play"

personally I don't give a shit about online play anyhow but since the games are $10 less and the console is $150 less that's a lot of pay-to-play to make up the difference. also, you know, they have to stay in the black, unlike xbox, which is run like a charity.

what's giving me goosebumps is hearing that SqEx has done the math and is actually planning on supporting the Wii and the WiiWare concept

like, not just dipping a toe in the water

Dr. Mario looks like it may be worth a download, especially with online play...

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/03/wiiware-impre-5.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwMibfhAM4

Not too excited about any of the other new titles Kohler has written about so far today.

When are these coming out in the US again?

huh.

That's where I'll start, as it's the newest feature. The rules are the same as traditional Dr. Mario -- move the multicolored pills so that they match up with the similarly-colored viruses in the jar, and match a column (not a row!) of four of them to kill them all.

rows work too, noob! at least in the o.g. game.

stoked for next tuesday's madness

So, which ones will Wii owners here be purchasing?

Or, what are your reasons for not buying any?

Dr. Mario and Lost Winds look mighty tempting.

are you going to buy the final fantasy one where you can spend $10 of real money on a new suit

so this exists now. anybody taken a look yet?

Soon as I get home.

I got Lost Winds but haven't played it much. So far it's kind of like Cave Story + Okami. That is, it's terrific.

I bought the Final Fantasy one. And like a complete tool, I went ahead and bought a bunch of extra stuff for another $14.

...and it was worth it! I played it all day and was having fun the whole time. The length of the days are just about perfect, just long enough to let you get what you want done, just short enough so that a "turn" is only about 3 or 4 minutes.

Lost Winds seems pretty terrific thus far. It's like if the waggling in Twilight Princess made any sense within the game. Right now I'm downloading that trivia thing to play with the missus. Only drawback thus far: I had to transfer a bunch of VC games to an SD card to download just these two games. I don't see how anybody could have more than three or four WiiWare games active at any time.

This eurogamer article makes Boom Blox sounds bloody amazing.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=139278

Does anyone have super smash bros. brawl?

Lost Winds turned out to be very short. I guess I can still hunt down the remaining whatsits.

the game show sucks

Do they update the questions occasionally or is it repeat nonsense?

i guess there are 3000 questions so you could get repeats if you played it enough. i won't play it enough though

Just generically sucks, eh?

it was fun with my wife, but I don't see it getting much of her gaming time as long as that Rock Band mic works.

next week, we get gyrostarr. it's like a tempest/n20 type game, but with 4 dude multiplayer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfAtObNL80

looks fun as fuck.

also...dr mario, for anyone who still thinks dr mario is fun.

So I just got back home from summer hell, and I have bought Dr. Mario. It is my first excuse to use my friend code. Anyone wanna play? My code is...

6761-1075-6761

If there is a friend code thread, feel free to link me to it, please.

i've been enjoying the strong bad game.

Apparently they've just released an enhanced version of the gba bit generations title Orbital, now called Orbient - Art Style. Looks like tonight will be the night I finally purchase my first official wiiware title!

what a perfect way to mark rosh hashanah!

wow, loved Orbital. DOTSTREAM NEXT PLZ

The quality of this video isn't the best, but you get the idea. Very chill.

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/cave-story-title-490px.jpg

oh yes

wait wait whaaaat

it's true!!

One of the best news items to come out of this, ironically buried in all the other announcements! Really curious about Pixel's involvement.

I highly recommend this weeks Art Style release, Cubello. Took me a few games to figure out, even after watching the tutorial, but it's a great little puzzle game for just six dollars. My wrist actually hurts now, cause it's one of those, just one more try type of games. The art and game play is again very simple. just one button this time(!) plus aiming the wii remote, but gets pretty frantic, like higher levels of tetris or lumines, but with you having to think and react faster since the playing field moves in three dimensions. The music and the presentation are really fantastic. It would be cool if you could unlock some extra music tracks, but so far it doesn't look like it. You can unlock an endless mode though, which is nice (if it had online leaderboards that would be even nicer).

I might have to get Cubello; Orbient's been pretty damned good thus far.

my life as a king is so stupid but i can't stop playing. it seems deliberately designed so that there are no truly efficient solutions. i've rezoned those stupid mage academies like three times. Z S was the extra content really worht it?

http://aksysgames.com/bittripbeat/

bullet hell pong??? love the blippy music.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44771.html

pole's big adventure: Y/N?

http://www.ncsxshop.com/images/products/large/1207/arkanoid_ds_paddles.gif
can you use this to control bit. trip: beat: Y/N?

explain what the hell this is please:
http://www.betterclix.com/WiiGameDownloads/?gclid=COvNxtGvuZgCFQazsgodtBOGaQ
Please note I am NOT endorsing here. just curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7f7OZpuffM

this looks interesting as well, SMG vibe graphically http://jett-rocket.shinen.com/index.php

what's preferable, Blaster Master (on VC) or Blaster Master Overdrive (wiiware)?

ArtStyle: light trax is out today in N.A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvJcnVr-9dg

bit.trip.runner came out last week (gonna pick 'em both up now)

that better come to EU soon, i replayed Dotstream recently and it was just as fun as the first time around

I got bit.trip.runner. last night and that game is fantastic. Very challenging, super fast, a great, tight jumping and ducking mechanic, pleasingly retro visuals (especially during the bonus stages) and great music. Extremely addictive too! Highly recommended for anybody with a Wii and a spare 800 points.

anyone who passes up Cave Story on WiiWare should be killed with fire. playing it on the Classic Controller and its amazing d-pad makes the experience a MILLION times better than on the shitty-ass PSP.

oh yeah? I read that it was kind of a buggy conversion someplace.

(have only played on the PC)

I also read that it was buggy - but on playing it, if there are any bugs, they're not noticeable.

bit.trip.runner is infuriating
ie. i suckkk at it

so the WiiWare version of Toribash came out in the US today & THIS GAME IS FUCKING CRAZY! Here's a video (half speed) of a round of an online match I won...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9v3l4u-H2E

Fans of Bushido Blade take note! This is a turn based fighting game / physics puzzle & probably the weirdest thing available on Wii - even weirder because it has online multiplayer and leaderboards.