A Boy and His Blob remake coming to Wii

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noname2200 said:

thetonestarr said:
I never got anywhere in the original. I didn't play it much, mainly because I was too young a gamer when it went out of date.

I accomplished only a few things - wandering into caverns below, somehow traversing into new fields and whatnot, etc. And I never had enough jellybeans left to do anything with by the time I figured out how to get to new places, so I would give up.

I hope this one retains most of that, but at least simplifies it to a degree. Maybe gives you 10% more beans? Or has some sort of dialogue with which you can figure out what the blazes to do. I don't know, I just know it needs something.

I have absolutely no doubt that this game will be much, much simpler than the original. Most gamers today can't handle the difficulty of the average NES game, and I don't mean that as a put-down: we clearly had no lives back then, or we would never have had the timethese games demand to master them.

 

Also games had to be hard or you'd finish them within an hour or two, sometimes within minutes!  Being hard but maintaining that 'I can do it this time' complusion is what gave you such long gameplay then.

I'd expect this to be made for today's audience and especially the Wii's so don't expect it to be super difficult.  By the same token I expect it to be much longer.

I never even heard of the original but it looks like a great concept for Wii.  I'm envisioning the blob being something like Wiki in Zack and Wiki where you transform him and then use the Wiimote in interesting way to make use of him.