You want fireworks? Look no further than the Wii Shop Channel, where vibrant bursts of classic gaming action and fresh WiiWare content will help fill your living room with a flurry of ooohs and ahhhs.
I hate Nintendo's PR so much. Add another classic two-liner to the pile.
I'd be oohing and aahing if they released a game I want--not because of the game itself, but because it's been so long since I've cared that I'd be stunned and surprised.
For an added holiday-week blast, fans of the WiiWare hit FINAL FANTASY® CRYSTAL CHRONICLES®: My Life as a King can enhance the action with new Add-On Content.
So basically downloadable content is filling in as this week's third game now.
Anyway... Hey, look, it's all our same old arguments going on again. But hey, why wouldn't they be? If most of us felt that we had games we could entertain ourselves with, maybe things would be different.
Personally, I've gone ten consecutive weeks without buying a game. (Nothing against Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, Metal Slug, Samurai Shodown, or Alex Kidd in Miracle World, but they don't exactly catch my eye--some for reason they they look semi-average, others for reason that they're in collections.) This is as opposed to 2006, which had 9 games I wanted in less than the same timeframe, or to 2007, which saw me buying 36 games.
That said, I continue to hang my hopes on VC because the rest of this awful generation sans DS and PSP has been a miserable failure at capturing my attention. Of course, I usually don't run into current-gen threads with paragraphs and paragraphs of rant (unless the thread was made expressly for the purpose of doing just that, e.g.
the current-gen progress report thread) because I recognize that I can't exactly change the course of Capcom and Konami/Hudson and Square-Enix and Namco and every other third-party who owns at least a few properties that I like. Criticism and complaints aren't going to make Konami bring back Goemon, or convince Scamco to translate Tales of Innocence and Tales of Rebirth, or prove to Square-Enix that there's a viable market for making some more classic-style Final Fantasy games without any of their current frills. I'm pretty defeatist at least in that sense, assuming that not much can be done about companies who toss however many millions of dollars into figuring out what they want to accomplish.
But VC is primarily dependent on one company, namely Nintendo, and the costs to put up classic games are next to non-existent when compared to the costs of creating new games from scratch. Beyond that, I'm clearly not a lone voice of criticism here, so perhaps there's some slight chance. :/
Anyway... I saw some discussion about WiiWare slowing down with quality. Well, yes--but that's okay. Those are new games; they take time to create. And even putting that aside, one awesome thing about WiiWare is that we know greatness is coming eventually. We know there's Bomberman in the works which can interface with its retail relative, and a Shantae sequel, and Mega Man 9 in 8-bit graphical glory, and Alien Crush with leaderboards, and a new Adventure Island, and (as a WiiWare release at least for America) World of Goo in all its quirk.
But we know nothing about what VC will be bringing with time, other than Earthworm Jim, Clayfighter, Boogerman, and Star Parodier (and Hudson's two non-Star Parodier releases for July, but they don't matter in the face of Star Parodier). This is pivotal to understanding why I--along with borghe, Iam Canadian, I, and others--continue to rail against VC's current status: we literally have nothing else to judge by.
Now, if Nintendo planned things in advance and could tell us, hey,
at yet-unannounced points over the next 52 weeks we'll be releasing Final Soldier, Gley Lancer, Warsong, Pulseman, Gradius II, Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Vectorman, Super Fantasy Zone, Shining Force II, Ys Book I & II, Dragon Slayer, Adventures of Lolo 3, Castlevania III, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Adventure Island 2, Adventure Island 3, Adventure Island 4, Super Adventure Island, Super Adventure Island 2, Yoshi's Island, Earthbound, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Super Mario RPG, and Super Mario Kart, then whenever a bad week came up, perhaps some of us would be saying "oh well, just have to wait it out" instead of looking at current trends and concluding that it's never going to get better.
)... played it through to level 99 (max level) with two characters.
