Comments on: April Releases

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:34:44 +0000

@Nat – Same here, I think I’ll grab both of those. I’m hoping we get a lot of mileage out of MK, though, because the future looks bleak on the Wii.

@Brock – I think I remember the 1UP guys saying Baroque was super hard. I forgot about that. I always get interested if it’s something by Atlus, but I always end up disappointed (see: Contact). I’ve heard that damage modeling will finally be in GT5. Bout time. I’ve heard, though, that it hasn’t been in previous games because car companies wouldn’t let the developer have licenses to their cars if they were getting smashed up. Sounds pretty lame to me.

By: Brock

Brock — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:49:26 +0000

Wait a minute… Oh, I thought you had Blast Corps for the Wii up there and almost had an aneurysm of awesomeness. Oh well. It’s that Blast Works game that didn’t look very impressive the last time I saw something about it. Sigh.

By the way, kudos on calling out the PS3 fanboys with the Prologue dig. I’ve tried arguing with people that they are playing 2/3′s of the price of a retail game for a demo but there is a crazy, twisted logic present in the minds of Gran Turismo fans that won’t let them see this. The only way I’d even concider paying that much for the Prologue would be if I got $40 off my eventual GT5 purchase… which I wouldn’t be doing anyway because Gran Turismo games bore me to tears. Is there even a damage modeling system in GT5? A racing game that doesn’t have damage modeling in this day and age shouldn’t even be concidered seriously, in my opinion.

By: Brock

Brock — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:45:37 +0000

I envy you people who are going to be playing Okami for the first time. That was easily in my top three games of the year from, what year was it? 2006? Such an awesome game. I trust that Ready At Dawn will do a great job of the port and I’m curious to see how the Wiimote controls hold up. That said, I’m not buying it as I already finished the PS2 version and it’s a BIG game (40 hours or so). I want to try the Wii version, but I don’t need to buy it.

I’m not remotely interested in Mario Kart for the Wii. It looks fun, I guess, but if it lacks the co-op driving craziness of Double Dash, I don’t really care. I’ve never been a Mario Kart nut and my son is addicted to Super Smash Bros., so we’re set on that front.

Baroque looks interesting (and it’s an Atlus game) but the core gameplay is really not up my alley whatsoever. It’s a very, VERY hardcore dungeon crawl and it makes the multiple death/restart system of Breath Of Fire: Dragon Quarter (or Dead Rising, whose save/restart system was based largely on BoF:DQ’s system) look tame by comparison. Having just finished off Lost Odyssey on the 360, I’m taking a bit of a break from JRPGs in general.

The World Ends With You looks really neat. I still wish it was called “It’s A Wonderful Life” but what can you do? I tried out the Japanese version and it’s pretty cool, though I didn’t have a clue about what was going on.

Other than that, I’m on the GTAIV bandwagon. I absolutely loved San Andreas and this looks to top it in almost every respect.

By: Nat

Nat — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:05:51 +0000

Okami and Mario Kart Wii are already paid for at our household.

Sadly, they may be our Nintendo Wii highlights for the year. Their future releases look dismal.