Nintendo Voice Chat Podcast Summary
Handhelds
- Article up going through all of the Nintendo handhelds
- Nintendo been updating handhelds every 1-2 years
- GBA and DS were supposed to coexist but that didn’t happen
- Bozon feels more could have been done with GBA before moving on to the DS
- TMNT game that came out on consoles wasn’t good but one on GBA was a lot of fun
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop
- An average but fun game for Wii
- Had to cut a lot of corners to put it on Wii
- Cut out the ability to use camera
- Daemon still has fun mowing down zombies
- Average but totally average and playable game
- Short game - under 10 hours
- Will probably be a rental for most people
- When you use certain weapons zombies just wait to be killed
- Game is really easy - might have scaled back the difficulty
- The point: Daemon had fun playing it, could have been a lot worse, could have been a lot better
- Zombies pop up out of nowhere
- Using the RE4 engine but doesn’t look as good as RE4
- Craig thinks it’s strange to use the RE engine for Dead Rising - different kinds of designs
Blue Dragon Plus
- A lot like Heroes of Mana
- RTS feel
- CG work is amazing - around 30 minutes
- Level up after each battle
- Don’t get to finish level until you kill anything so it’s weird to have level ups
- Really fun but basic
- Review coming up tomorrow
Magician’s Quest: Mysterious Times
- Animal Crossing clone
- Set up village, go to the shop, etc.
- Can see stuff coming from a farther distance because of both screens
- Some slow down and frame issues
- It’s a cool game
- Wireless, chat, event days, competitions, catch bugs/fish,
- Magic system to communicate with NPCs
- There’s a fart spell
Moon
- Game sold very few units in launch month (NPD numbers)
- Can’t say exact number
- Didn’t sell 1500 units in launch month
- Daemon finds that shockingly low
- Brand probably worked against it
- No marketing for the game
- It’s the kind of game you really want to support
- Could be better but it’s a great game
- Hurts more that Renegade Kid has done 2 titles, now the second game didn’t sell very well at all
- How will they convince publishers to give them money to work on the next game?
New Play Control! Metroid Prime
- Came out last week
- 480p widescreen
- GameCube already ran with progressive scan but not widescreen
- Cut-scenes are cropped (widescreen on Wii) - minor issue but noticeable if you’ve played the GameCube version
- Craig would much rather play this game on Wii
- Much better than doing lock-on stuff on GameCube
- Advanced controls are PC-like
- Basic lock-on is like GameCube game, more advanced - cursor doesn’t automatically lock-on to character
- Everything done in Metroid Prime 3 applied to NPC! Metroid Prime - makes it a much better game
- Still holds up 6-7 years later
- Looks better than Dead Rising
- Voice-over at beginning of the game - really cheesy - apparently European version had it
Overlord: Dark Legend
- Not a port of the original
- Play as Overlord
- Kind of like evil Pikmin
- Group of minions do your bidding
- Daemon impressed
- Looks really good
- Pointer controls to control minions - works really well
- Daemon had a lot of fun playing it
Overlord Minions
- On DS, skeptical of Overlord Minions - Gave it a kiddy style
- Overlord doesn’t make an appearance - only 4 minions
- All touch-screen controls
- More of a puzzle game
- It’s okay but not as impressive as Overlord: Dark Legend
Gauntlet
- Might be canceled
- Craig knows for a fact it has been in development for a long time
- Originally was a tech demo
- Was impressive to Nintendo but weren’t willing to put money into developing it fully
- Eidos came in and gave money, then finished the game
- Has been finished for at least a year, Eidos has been having some problems
- Warner Bros. calling the shots
- It was flawed but fun
- Game still in limbo
- Craig is guessing the game will find itself in some other company’s hand
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix
- It’s good
- Another match-3 game and gems are hexagonal
- Gems can replenish from any side of the playing field
- Very addictive
- Still has RPG elements
- Tons of stuff to do in the game
- Game a lot bigger than the first Puzzle Quest
- Doesn’t run all that smoothly for some reason
- Will enjoy it if you liked the first Puzzle Quest
Peggle DS
- Turned out great
- Like Pachinko mixed with pinball
- Tun of luck in the game but also need to be skillful with choices that you make
- Also an addictive game
DICE news
- Nintendo announced first DSiWare game - Moving Memo
- Create own animations and share them
- Can be edited by other users
- Upload them to a website
- Didn’t say if they would charge for it or not
- DSi comes with 1000 Nintendo Points in Japan, haven’t announced that yet for NA
- Developers haven’t been sent out DSiWare dev. kits - only a few people have kits
- Picross 3D coming out next month in Japan - will probably release in US later this year
Valkyrie Profile
- Another turned base strategy game
- Only have 4 units in party - each one mapped to different face button
- When you attack an enemy, any party members in vicinity will join in on the attack
- Daemon impressed with it
- Comes out March 17
My Pet Shop
- No one should care about this game
- Would still choose it over Petz: Horses 47
Reader questions
- Nintendo releasing the blue DSi in NA probably to appeal to women - Craig prefers the black DSi
- Other sports that should be in Wii Sports Resort: Frisbee golf, javelin, candlepin bowling, batchi ball, horseshoes
- Should start out with Chrono Trigger as first RPG experience out of Chrono Trigger, DQV, The World Ends With You
- THQ probably not publisher of Scribblenauts
- Fully charged DSi runs for about 6 - 7 hours - full brightness and using Wi-Fi - little less than DS Lite
- Software that justifies buying a DS: Elite Beat Agents, Lock’s Quest, Moon, Call of Duty titles, New Super Mario Bros. Picross, Zelda, Mario Kart, etc (list goes on too long)
Link(video): http://s.wiimovies.ign.com/wii/audio/article/956/956762/Nintendo%20Voice%20Chat%20Episode%2038.mp3
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