I've been watching this game since it was announced. Can't wait!

mewlink64

The video you saw is from a pre-Alpha build. The music you hear in the video is not from the game and sounds nothing like anything in the game, somebody outside of Red Fly mixed that into the video. The game ships at the end of this year, and there is still a lot of work left to do: AI, movement, and combat are all still in development. That video only bears a fraction of the gameplay in Mushroom Men. Keep in mind that Gamecock is merely the publisher (which means they provide funding) and Red Fly is the studio that actually makes the game. We are two separate entities. Gamecock pretty much leaves us alone to design and implement the game as we please. When the game comes out, it's Red Fly's reputation on the line... not Gamecock's. I hope that make sense.

kain

I didn't know they still made ps1 games...
Seriously, looks horrible, R&C and SMG have set the bar too high for this guys to get away with this crap.

ironraiden

no... just no u(.-.)u I don't see this as a success at all... I thought it might have been good... but now I have changed my mind @_@

hrabbit

Wow. The music in that video was very repetitive and boring. The game doesn't look that great either.

gusiskirby

@Toprem: The game looks as good as most Wii games and that's high praise being a DS game. I really think its art style works well on that platform.

okenny :)

concept art looks good, game looks like liquid shit though. Not that much better can be expected from the Wii.

Toprem

Quite underwhelming. Great premise a la Sin cat and mouse, but extremely left field of what I was expecting.

Fyren

@Pezdispenser: This was posted yesterday, and the video was being streamed straight from Gamecock's servers - it wasn't a GameTrailers video.

Now, that won't affect my purchase of the game, I wasn't really planning on buying it anyway, I just found it incredibly annoying.

Dave Silva

@Brian Crecente: Hah yeah that's because it was posted yesterday on a few pages back. Was very strange. Fixed now though so yay!

The game looks half decent though... I like the presentation and all but meh - to echo some of the sentiments here, it's just another platformer. Of course, that's just what I gather from the trailer.

amazinglarry

Oh, c'mon. Has nobody played Psychonauts? This is exactly like it.

AzraelUK

I guess no one here has heard of alpha builds, isn't the game still over half a year from release? =\

That aside, I think it looks like it's shaping up to be an interesting platformer. It'll be cool to see how it changes from this demo to the next.

Chillblain

Decent but out of place music, simplistic combat, overly floaty jumps....it lazily moans mediocre.

This looks horrid.

JoshReflek

Yeah this video is a let down. I remember liking the concept art from earlier but this game looks like hell to play.

yashichi8bit

Wii - nay, this entire generation - needs more platformers. I was looking forward to this, but the video has kind of turned me off. Frankly it looks like one of the games from that European developer that keeps busting out shit (Anubis, Ninjabread Man, etc).

Slow combat mechanics are always a bad sign.

StuLTissimus

@El Patricko: Me too... It's allways the same book, but with a new cover...

goliathvv

@El Patricko: Nope, I was just going to comment on that myself. This looks pretty much like rayman 64.

Dawud

Im all for more platformers--but this one looks boring (concept art looked sweet tho).

flagg

I didn't read every single comment here but I'm surprised. Am I the only one who thinks that game looks like shit?

El Patricko

Did someone seriously say they weren't going to buy any game from Gamecock just because the video started playing by itself? Last I checked, Gamecock doesn't own Gametrailers, doesn't own Kotaku, and didn't tinker with the settings on your computer.

Anyhoo, the game still looks a little unrefined. Hopefully they improve the model animations before release. Also, I'm praying that that wasn't the actual in game music.

Pezdispenser

@Callidux: Gamecock is the publisher; the games are being developed by Red Fly Studios. Gamecock antics reflect badly on the games they publish but they are not involved directly in making the games as far as I know.

I am looking forward to this. I like the concept and if the mushroom heros manage to pick up household items to battle spiders and wasps, they are always welcome at my house. I liked floating around, too. Makes platforming, which is hard for me, easier.

Chilly Hollow

A sticky hand to grapple?...

COOL!!!

King Seafoam

If only the game resembled the concept art in style and overall awesome-ness.

LX

@zoesch:

I agree with your 3 points.

Game looks generic as hell. Like any platformer post Mario 64. Mario, Vexx, Sphinx, Spiro... This game is packed with blandness, repetitiveness and fail. And the music is not even DnB is more like some late 90's jungle... I would definetly play Goldie presents: DJ men

Señor Cagon

@Zaxxon Q Blaque: It's not like it was a trailer that only showed CG cutscenes from the game like TV commercials like to do. It was footage of basic gameplay and after 20+ years of playing games you don't need to actually play the game to be able to pick up on half-assed combat with bad hit detection from a video of someone ELSE actually playing the game.

It has nothing to do with being a new publisher. If it the game was made by Treasure and called Mischeif Makers 2: Mushroom Men it wouldn't change the fact that it looks half assed like a majority of the games we are getting on the Wii.

Seriously, play Ninjabread man. I triple dog dare you.

Sadakou

ohhh boy, the music gets annoying after one bar^^

RafiRAF

Yeah, what's with all the gamecock hate? Hate anything that's different? Or is it still from that damn Bioshock speech thing that no one else is mad about besides you guys?

Check out Mike Wilson's interview on the GDC radio podcast and see if you can't get a better idea of what Gamecock is really about behind the lo-fi marketing:

[www.gdcradio.net]

kidko

"Oh look, a new game from a new publisher! I'll get the torches and pitchforks now. What? PLAY it? Why, no I have not, but that doesn't mean that I'm not qualified to burn it at the stake." :-| Seriously, give it a chance.

Zaxxon Q Blaque

Lowtech, slightly unnactractive build that this is, I am ALL OVER IT. They could totally do some cool things here, and I'm into mycology. Heh... it'd be cool if they actually wedged some neat biology into there.

MaiAriSquee

Character control looks really floaty, and I don't mean the parts where he's floating. He looks the same when he's walking around, like the animations are covering more ground than they should.
Combat looks...ok. Better get a dustpan to sweep up all the dropped frames. OH!
Seriously, I was expecting more from this game. The real world environments are kinda cool, but the gameplay looks really standard.

bluestreak108

art direction looks cool... but just looks like a platform game with uninspiring spider-A.I. and an unfair camera (bee attack from behind? that'd get annoying fast)

but it's early and I hope it improves.

velvet396

Way too floaty. If the combat system is good and combo-y rather than button-mash-y I might try it out. I'd agree and say the concept art was much cooler than the in game is shaping up to be.

x753z is backwards!

The hit detection looks as horrible as it was in Ninjabread man (aka the worst video game ever made).

Sadakou

Just goes to show that great art direction doesn't make a game instantly great.

Kinda wish these info dumps were altogether in an EIEIO summary or something.

Demaar

The concept art is fantastic but it doesn't look like the game lives up to it yet. I think Deadly Creatures will be my small-hapless-character-in-a-big-world-surreal-adventure game for Wii.

NeoStarr

Fighting mechanics look cool, but im sure after a while they will get repetitive. Graphics of a ps2 game though.

Chrinkster

People with magic mushrooms always get party invites.

cactaur

On the concept art: It looked REALLY cool and I wish they made a little bit of a darker game than what was shown in the video but whatevs.

On the game: It seems fun, but if the gravity is always set to "moon bounce" then this game could get old really fast.

NeoAkira

@Android8675: I agree, Gamecock seems like a bunch of jerks.

Callidux

Looks really bland. Why bother when there's Super Mario and Ratchet & Clank?

Quilt

@Gadgetron: Oh... I saw the punchline...

Tori... Shame on you, SHAME ON YOU!

zoesch

we need another average 3rd person platformer why now? looks weak.

Gadgetron

Why was the Mushroom Man invited to all the parties? I iz thinking because they be representing yo with lotz of generic DnB to make the Mushroom ladies shake it up!
Booyakasha! Reprazent!

@Android8675: @amazinglarry: I was wondering why all of a sudden the hardcore record I was listening to (Superstatic Revolution, recommended to fans of Coalesce, Converge and Impure Wilhelmina) started to mash up with some generic DnB beats. Autoplaying videos are incredibly annoying.

On to the game, I love platformers, this had all the makings of a must buy game for me until I saw three things:

1)Secret object you reach by sorta walking off a platform and drifting... not cool, the epitome of annoying with analog sticks, it'll be even more annoying with the Wiimote

2)GFX, I'm not a graphics whore but when your levels and graphics alternate between 2001-level PlayStation 2 and 2004-level Gamecube you are doing something wrong, because it can't be that parts of the background looks OK and then the closeup leaves look awful, hopefully they will correct that.

3)Generic DnB (Yes, third time I mention it) is really out of place for the type of game and video, I can stand it for a racing or FPS trailer because you expect it, but on a platformer game? What's next? Goldie presents: DJ men? Super Aphex Brothers on Speed?

zoesch

Man, he's floaty. Hope he has some sort of stomp attack (meteor smash?). Anyway, looks fun and the concept is very imaginative.

Lokno

I'm hoping the game still has more development time. It's always heartbreaking when I get so psyched for a game based on amazing concept art, and the game just doesn't look like it lives up to it. The game looks fine, but there just wasn't much going on in the video... at least nothing that shows me why I would want to play it rather than just look at screenshots.

MisterSleep

Looks great, though a bit framey.
Combat looks.. interesting. Can't wait to learn more.

Mini_Dragon

@amazinglarry: Weird, it isn't autoplaying for me, in fact Gametrailers videos never auto play for me.

Brian Crecente

@amazinglarry: Hahaha, jinx!

Android8675

I will never buy another Game from Game Cock, not because I find these guys totally pretentious and generally "too cool for schoool", but in reality because, who makes an embedded flash player that starts up without user intervention??

I opened up the latest Yahzee review, and had opened this story in another tab for "later" and all of a sudden 2 videos start blaring away, and I can't figure out why Yahzee sounds like more of a "git" than usual.

Geez these guys are idiots.

Game looks ok though.

Android8675

I'm pretty pumped that this video just autoplays on the main page. Few things are better than trying to find out where in the hell that annoying sound layered over my music is coming from.

amazinglarry

Dude. Autorunning videos ARE NOT COOL. I'm sorry, I rarely bitch, but having the video load like that sucks.

*adblocks video*

Dave Silva