Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary

May 19th, 2009 Posted in DS, News, Wii, Written by Valay | No Comments »

Punch-Out!!

- Matt thinks Craig overrated it
- Title Defense mode changes everything, made Craig bump up the score
- Playing through the regular mode Matt saw presentation elements he liked and disliked
- Interface not up to Mario Strikers
- Matt didn’t do Title Defense but he would have scored it a bit lower
- All about patterns
- Craig thinks that Mr. Sandman in Title Defense mode is just as hard as Mike Tyson in the NES game
- Lack of online functionality is a missed opportunity
- Feels like Punch-Out!! remade but no major gameplay changes
- Great for nostalgia/if you haven’t played it before
- Stuck with core gameplay then added presentational stuff around it
- In-game visuals very fluid - For Bozon, almost forget you’re not looking at 720p stuff
- Balance board is terrible
- Bozon thinks it’ll sell well
- Actually marketing the title

Boom Blox Bash Party

- Recommending it
- 8.5, editor’s choice award
- Great sequel all around
- Packed full of content
- Level editor a bit more seamless now
- More options in editor mode
- Connecting to EA’s servers are quick
- No online play, Matt hopes it’s in next time around
- For this game Matt is pleased with the user-created options
- Can rate levels
- Fun game
- Can theoretically play this game forever
- Hardcore and casual gamers should buy this game
- Easy for anyone to pick up
- One of those games that can only be done on Wii
- Has a few flaws (no online, technical limitations, some textures)
- Highly recommended

Secret game

- Nothing earth shattering but it’s cool
- Still good for the hardcore
- The hardcore Nintendo fans will appreciate it
- Mind might not be blown but again, you’ll appreciate it and it’s good for the Wii audience
- It’s like, if you have a Wii, buy Mario Galaxy, buy Boom Blox, and then this is another one which fits in with that family
- If your name is Matt Casamassina it’s good for you
- Something they want to talk about
- Don’t want to overhype it though
- It’s a smart move

Third-party games

- A few game announcements here and there coming up next week
- Some more details on some big games which have already been discussed (the usual suspects)
- 1 or 2 that we haven’t heard about in awhile, IGN will show, some big ones
- All the stuff next week concentrated on the hardcore
- Craig has an exclusive for a darkish game on the DS - it’s a sequel
- Lots of exclusives/videos

Art Style: Pictobits

- Puzzle game
- Surrounding presentation about 8-bit Nintendo
- Tiles that you remove basically pixels in 8-bit Nintendo sprite
- As you’re playing, you’re playing music to that game
- Unique because you’re not sliding tiles around
- Taking tiles out of bin
- Paint them back into play
- Crazy and addictive
- Gets super hard

- Wii MotionPlus device embedded with jacket

Virtua Tennis

- From what Bozon played it’s framey
- Haven’t played with MotionPlus yet but doesn’t have the presentation
- EA’s game is better

- Need for Speed: Nitro coverage coming soon (way better than you think it is)

Magician’s Quest: Mysterious Times

- 7.5
- Animal Crossing clone

Reader questions

- Starting to hear some good news about third-party E3 games
- Silver Star Chess is bad
- EA Sports Active a good workout but it’s tailored for women
- Matt, Bozon would be happy with Galaxy 2 from EAD Tokyo over a new IP
- Don’t know anything about the Bethesda Wii
- Will have some stuff on High Voltage’s new game soon
- Punch-Out!! Wii sales will be better than Excitebots
- There’s a lot of times when games won’t need Wii MotionPlus, some devs won’t put in the effort to implement it - More games will be supporting MotionPlus than the balance board
- Devs too lazy, not informed to include WiiSpeak support in their games
- Not sure why games such as Soma Bringer, Fatal Frame, etc. are releasing in North America - Matt heard Tecmo was asked to change controls/glitches in Fatal Frame, didn’t want to do that - Nintendo still not giving out official statement about the game
- Haven’t heard anything about online in Wii Sports Resort but they don’t really know - Shouldn’t be expecting it based on history of Nintendo games
- Haven’t heard anything about Metroid Dread either
- Don’t know if Metroid Fusion sequel will happen
- Might see No More Heroes 2 at E3
- Matt can’t say anything about his Miyamoto blog post - he just thinks “he will have something crazy”
- Red Steel 2 will be more focused on sword play
- Best case for Nintendo at E3: Live up to predictions/hope - Show Mario/Zelda/Pikmin/Something crazy new from Miyamoto that is Wii MotionPlus centric
- High Voltage Software’s project is a new IP - they have multiple games

Considering what they said about the Secret Game, it has to be Kid Icarus. Hardcore Nintendo fans, good if your name is Matt Cassamania, and not earth shattering considering it's been talked about for a year. That would just be my guess. Although I don't get the relation with Galaxy and Boom Blox.

Otherwise some interesting tidbits.

My thoughts exactly.

I don't understand their beef with Punchout...

I didn't get Kid Icarus vibes at all.

And I thought the new Boom Blox had online functionality?

Maybe the relation with Galaxy and Boom Blox is made by the fact that the new game is as good as this two.

Why I think that this secret game is Kid Icarus?

-You always see Kid Icarus like a character wearing roman clothing, or something like that. The Image that we saw is what?

Kid Icarus is coming!

@edit: ok, it is not a roman clothing.

You can download and share levels, but there's no actual online play, which is what they're getting at.

it would make a lot of sense if it was kid icarus but for some reason i dont think it is

Sadly, "I didn't play half the game, but I'll rate it anyways" is something I've come to expect from the gaming media...