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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Did you think a 13 hour layover in Frankfurt followed by a 10 hour flight to Atlanta, 45 minutes in customs, and then an hour train ride home would keep me from posting this week’s Wii downloadable update? Maybe if this had been one of those normal, crappy updates, but this week sees the release of Ys! Ys Book I & II for the TurboGrafx 16 CD-ROM to be exact, the redone version of the originals upgraded with excellent voice acting, a stunning orchestral soundtrack, and all-new special effects, all for a paltry 800 Wii points! As if that weren’t enough, we also finally get Samurai Showdown 2 for the NEOGEO (900 points), officially making this one of the best weeks on the Virtual Console in ages.
There’s also Helix from Ghostfire Games on the WiiWare side of things, a rhythm game that uses motion sensing to determine how well you move to the music of 26 different songs. While I’ve not heard much about the title, it isn’t from Gameloft, so it at least has that going for it.
There you have it! Passing out in 3…2…1… *thud*
Another Monday is upon us, and Nintendo is here to brighten our morning with the latest releases for WiiWare and the Virtual Console. Take a seat and place your napkin in your lap as Nintendo lifts the lid on their silver serving tray, revealing…
SPOGS Racing for WiiWare (1,000 points) is an arcade racer featuring what looks like Pogs stuffed into tires. Hmm. The rubber-encased cardboard circles take on other rubber-encased cardboard in a contest of driving superiority, using power ups that I am sure make as much sense as the game concept itself.
Meanwhile, in the past, the Virtual Console gets King of the Monsters for the NEOGEO (900 Points), the classic monster brawler that lets you pit not-really Godzilla against kinda-Megalon against each other in a battle royale to end…Japan, really.
Judging by that SPOGS screen, I’d say the VC is the clear winner this week, unless you’re a giant fan of Pogs, in which case you are viewing this through a temporal portal from the 90′s.
This week in Wii downloadables we have the Sega Master System classic Alex Kidd In Miracle World (500 points) and a couple of other things that don’t matter nearly as much, Burning Fight for the NEOGEO (900 points), which is a side-scrolling beat-em up which oddly enough does not feature anyone’s girlfriend being kidnapped, and the WiiWare title Gyrostarr from High Voltage (700 points), a sort of tunnel-shooter that reminds me a bit of N20 for the PlayStation, only cut in half. Hit the jump for the full details on the games accompanying our friend Alex Kidd on his magical journey of hope and wonder.
It’s Wii Downloadables Day, and this week sees a set of two WiiWare titles and one big Virtual Console release that will have us geeks and otaku complaining about our lack of Wii storage space all day long!
On the WiiWare side of things we get an update to the classic block-breaking genre with Gameloft’s aptly titled Block Breaker Deluxe (800 points), which adds special bricks, weapons, and the ever-popular ball-speed variations to the standard ball-on-paddle action, along with an exclusive multiplayer mode.
Then we have Neko Entertainment’s epic fishing adventure Cocoto Fishing Master (700 points), which casts (ouch) you as Cocoto, a strange little fellow travelling the world in search of the five millennial fish that can save the world. Check out the official website for more info on what could be a rather enchanting little title.
Finally we have the lone VC title, Samurai Showdown for the NEOGEO (900 points), the classic title that launched the revolutionary fighting-game series. It’s a cherry on top of a decidedly quality Wii update Monday. Fishing, anyone?
