Snowboard Riot

- Craig threw a controller while playing (out of frustration)
- Has worst rubberband AI he has ever experienced in a racing game
- Offensive weapons on one button, speed weapons on the other
- He can’t beat the first level
- 1000 points - Craig says you don’t want to spend that money

LONPOS

- Basic marble puzzle game
- Try to fit pieces together
- Use Wii pointing to guide where to put pegs
- Twist wrist to rotate pieces
- Doesn’t support widescreen - all stretched
- Craig doesn’t recommend this game either - skip it

- Deadly Creatures (later this week, probably Friday), Tenchu (tomorrow), House of the Dead: Overkill (Weds/Thurs) reviews coming - all surprisingly good games
- Tenchu looks really nice on Wii
- Final version of Deadly Creatures is very polished - sounds like they fixed many of the bugs

Rune Factory

- Really fun
- Bozon is 5 hours in right now, having a blast
- One of the best console Harvest Moon games since N64
- Direct feed footage up, hands on
- Game has been out in Japan for awhile

New Play Control! Pikmin

- Matt really likes it
- It’s 8 years old and Nintendo’s charging $30 - Matt says it’s overpriced - Thinks it’s a $20 game
- Widescreen mode is a real widescreen mode
- Visually some textures don’t hold up
- Zoomed out Pikmin is still one of the prettier games on Wii
- Control advancements are awesome - feel really good, makes the game a bit easier
- Line management more tricky now with Wiimote - have to point in direction where you want Pikmin to line up
- Matt can’t wait for Pikmin 3
- Average review score for the game is a 7.5 (based on 2 reviews), don’t agree with it

Boom Blox sequel

- Matt thinks the game will be great
- Only thing they’re still lacking is online multiplayer mode (which is a debatable inclusion)
- Ton of WiiConnect24 support
- New physics
- Coming out in Spring
- Not doing Wii MotionPlus

Tenchu

- Matt thought it would be lackluster but it’s surprisingly good
- Review score will be better than you think
- Wii owners looking for traditional software should pick it up
- Has some flaws but Matt still had fun with it
- Cat mechanic is cool

Jungle Speed

- WiiWare game of the month
- Unlikely winner for game of the month
- Game all about identifying cards
- Presentation is very nice - good interface

SimAnimals

- Good game burried in there
- Game doesn’t run well, framey, ugly, controls are frustrating
- DS version turned out pretty well
- Mostly for kids - shallow learning curve
- SimAnimals DS good for kids

- Big Bang Mini - Great game, very innovative, difficult, flashy levels - Matt likes the style

Nintendo Minute

- Denise Kaigler responded to comments from question of previous week
- Basically said it’s up to us (listeners/gamers) to spread word about Wii online functionality

- Wii Fit + Wii console sold very well in January
- In third week of January alone over 300,000 units of Wii Fit were sold (US)
- Iwata was hyping up E3 - teased E3 software specifically, but did not say it is hardcore software
- Rumored leaked photo from Kid Icarus leaked - Factor 5 still hasn’t responded to calls
- Latest round of DSiWare was recently released - overall impression of DSiWare - not a must-have lineup but it’s enough to get people excited about the future

My World, My Way

- Pretty cool - not mind-blowing but a cool little quirky RPG
- All tile-based
- Can use points to leave random battles - spend points on tweaking the rules

C.O.R.E.

- Very generic
- Straight-up FPS
- Has multiplayer
- Now can tell where shots are coming from
- Uncreative FPS - does everything that others have done
- Not a stinker but it’s not very innovative
- Rarely more than 2-3 enemies to fight at a time
- 30 FPS and below

- Can now email podcast questions to nvc@ign.com

Reader questions

- No set release date for The Conduit - 1st half of 2009
- Next Nintendo press event won’t be until after GDC - Iwata will probably talk about DSi at GDC
- Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World has sold just over 95,000 - NPD numbers
- Out of The Conduit, No More Heroes 2, MadWorld - MadWorld will see the most retail success according to Craig - Matt bets on The Conduit selling the most - Will be playing The Conduit the most
- Re-releases of Pikmin 1 and 2 won’t take away anything from Pikmin 3 - Pikmin can introduce some people to the series - re-releases won’t be a negative thing
- Status of Sword of Legendia unclear
- Usually can’t test online functionality with the community for reviews of games
- FF: Tactics Advance 2, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, Disgaea all good tactical RPGs
- Matt not sure if EA Hasbro scrabble game for DS can play competively on one DS but can play wireless
- Craig will start creating Super Mario Galaxy for the DS (joke)
- LIT coming out for 800 points next Monday

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I wish I had more money.. then I could get Deadly Creatures and Tenchu. Ths just makes me feel like I'm missing out on something great..

man. i didnt think theyd say deadly creatures and tenchu were good. i gota get those games now =/

Whens GDC?

Looking more and more forward to Tenchu. Deadly Creatures, not so much.

added a better summary

I knew others would think CORE as a generic doom/quake like FPS with the way they made its theme still looks cool.

I want tenchu and Fatal Frame 4. i ´m starting saving money to buy them

- Deadly Creatures (later this week, probably Friday), Tenchu (tomorrow), House of the Dead: Overkill (Weds/Thurs) reviews coming - all surprisingly good games

^ So this is when the reviews will be available? These days in brackets?

im surprised deadly creatures and tenchu got such good words on its gameplay. God, I hope these games sell somewhat well.

And i still cant figure out which will sell better:
Conduit or Madworld????


:/