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Tecmo's SPRay Brings Puking Adventures To Wii
Posted by Michael McWhertor at 7:40 AM on July 23, 2008
Tecmo's SPRay — oddly capped that way due to the game's protagonist, known as Spirited Prince Ray — may serve as an adequate substitute for Wii gamers waiting for Nintendo's Mario and Zelda teams to wrap up their next projects. SPRay is not unlike a Zelda-style adventure and comparisons to Mario Sunshine will likely be inevitable, as the game features a liquid spraying mechanic that's not too dissimilar from that GameCube non-classic.
Ray, here to save the world from an evil something or other that's covering his kingdom with a black goo, has a pair of familiars that will help him in his fight against, you know, evil. One, a portly bat-winged devil sprays a cleansing orange slime and a sticky green goo. The other, an angelic wisp, sprays water and ice that puts out fires and lays down ice tracks.
The combination of all these things is what gives SPRay its uniqueness.
As you can probably suspect, SPRay takes advantage of the Wii's remote for directing Ray's flow of slop. He'll need to lay down the sticky green stuff to stick to walls (or have other objects stick to walls), stuff that's in a more limited supply. As Ray and his liquidy partners level up, the player will have access to more abilities, giving it a Zelda-like adventure feel.
Like that series' star, Link, Ray also has a sword. He'll use it in concert with the liquid attacks to take out foes, something that should add variety to battling hordes of enemies.
The game looks to have epic boss battles that take advantage of your progressive abilities, something that will surely further comparisons between SPRay and The Legend of Zelda. While the visual design on some of these creatures may not hold up as well to what Nintendo's team has been capable of, we were surprised at how good some of them looked in motion.
The game is due out by the holidays. We look forward to getting some additional time with it... whenever that may be.
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Emiat
Posted 9:25 AM 23/7/08
@Hyperfludd: No, Super Mario Bros was awesome, Sunshine was..ummm good.
I wouldn't mind getting to have a go on this game at least I did enjoy the FLUDD aspect of Mario Sunshine and if this can pretty much do that and add extra liquids then it should be a fun game to mess around with.
Emiat
Hyperfludd
Posted 9:11 AM 23/7/08
Heeeyyy...
Sunshine was awesome :(
(Points at name)
Hyperfludd
baxterpunch
Posted 8:42 AM 23/7/08
So... does the devil puke up the goo? Does the angel puke also?
That headline promised puking.
baxterpunch
djricekcn
Posted 8:41 AM 23/7/08
Whatever happened with Itagaki vs Tecmo? any updates on that?
djricekcn
gaijira
Posted 8:34 AM 23/7/08
@Protector one: @excel_excel: Oh god...sting ray...still dividing...kill...me..
Hm, if this game features dirtying things up instead of Sunshine's Japanese OCD cleanliness, then I'm down.
gaijira
gaijira
Posted 8:24 AM 23/7/08
I might like to PLay this, even though weird caps in game titles annoy me. Kind of like pretentious backronyms (I'm looking at you, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.)
gaijira
excel_excel
Posted 8:24 AM 23/7/08
"features a liquid spraying mechanic that's not too dissimilar from that GameCube non-classic." Oh Michael....oh Michael!!!
excel_excel
Protector one
Posted 8:23 AM 23/7/08
Bad McWhertor, BAD. Sunshine is a classic. Maybe not to you and your troglodytic ways, but it is to others.
Protector one
Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc
Posted 7:56 AM 23/7/08
"Tecmo's SPRay - oddly capped that way to make it trademarkable"
Fixed that for you.
Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc
LowerHouseMember
Posted 7:56 AM 23/7/08
So you spray goo with your Wii? Just checking.
LowerHouseMember
s0nlxaftrsh0ck
Posted 7:55 AM 23/7/08
Hey those are exactly like Zelda and Mario sunshine!!! What gives?!?!?!
Just kidding. Still though i would really like to see what this looks like. It'd be awesome if the player can use the goo you spray out allows you to climb walls and then switch off to the other familiar and shoot off the ice beam and have an ice track form (something like iceman) and just slide down to a secret or something. Oh the possibilities of this thing! And the inclusion of a sword is a thumbs up in my book =3
s0nlxaftrsh0ck
EmeraldDragon
Posted 11:27 AM 23/7/08
I saw the trailer for this. It looked fun.
EmeraldDragon
Bunn
Posted 10:43 PM 23/7/08
Comparisons aside, I think we can be happy that it's not a minigame collection, and it seems to have some qualities. Isn't that what we where clamoring for? I'm all for it, I hope it sells a bazillion copies.
Bunn
RedMangosta
Posted 8:04 AM 23/7/08
Yes this looks promising...let's hope its not just a cheap copy of Sunshine or Zelda
RedMangosta
ajp84
Posted 12:23 AM 24/7/08
I just watched the trailer. That looks hilarious. I'll play.
ajp84
Klemmins
Posted 7:52 AM 23/7/08
Sounds pretty cool, I guess...
the name sucks though. They should have gon with SQUIrt. SQuirrelly Uber Irt.
Klemmins