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Wii releases this week: Emergency Heroes edition
This week sees a few new games releasing on the Wii, providing those of you with a burning desire to feed your Wii new retail discs an opportunity to do so. Of note is Ubisoft Barcelona's Emergency Heroes, along with the PSP-to-Wii title, Death Jr: Root of Evil. Without further ado, let's get to the games!This week's new games are: Emergency Heroes Kawasaki Snowmobiles The Monkey King Death Jr: Root of Evil %Gallery-19279%
UFO Interviewed on their upcoming shooters
Siliconera interviewed UFO Interactive's Michael Yum about their two Wii shooters, Heavenly Guardian and The Monkey King: The Legend Begins. We recently nailed down the release date for Heavenly Guardian (April 22nd!) and Spencer Yip tried to do the same for the horizontal shooter The Monkey King. Unfortunately, the release date is still somewhat in the air (and maybe being fired at by patterns of glowing bullets), with Yum able to specify only Q2, with a probable $19.99 price. The awesome news is that the U.S. version will get a "reverse mode" and a new exclusive stage!Yum discussed the recent change in boxart for The Monkey King, from the colorful anime-style piece seen above to a cover with a less cartoony interpretation of the title character. He explained that "The American audience was just not aware of the Monkey King character so we felt that releasing the game after a new movie which I cannot say, would help people recognize the character." Presumably, then, the art was changed to resemble a live-action movie (probably The Forbidden Kingdom) a bit more.%Gallery-19528%%Gallery-19529%
New shots and release info for Heavenly Guardian and The Monkey King
No, The Monkey King: The Legend Begins didn't come out this week. But, according to the UFO Interactive rep we contacted about the game, it'll be out in Q2, which is ... pretty soon! Even more exciting, we got confirmation that not only is Heavenly Guardian (once Kiki Kai World) indeed coming out for Wii, it's also coming out in Q2! That's two brightly-colored 2D shooters in one vaguely-defined period.Along with this news, we got a bunch of awesome screenshots and art of both games, which we've put into screenshots for you. We've heard from players of the Japanese version that The Monkey King isn't so great, but we're still excited.%Gallery-19529%%Gallery-19528%
Wii releases for the week of March 31st [update]
Update: Those of you who got their hopes up regarding The Monkey King, prepare to be disappointed. The game has been delayed to Q2. Sorry!The final day of March brings word that not much is releasing for the Wii this week. Frankly, we'll take the respite, because our wallet needs a break from having to buy so many Wii and DS games lately. Of course, that isn't to say this week's pair of releases aren't without their merit. Just, as far as we go, we're not interested.This week's releases are: The Monkey King: The Legend Begins WWII Aces What about you all? Picking either of these up?
Wii Warm Up: New pew pew pew
If there's one thing the Wii has plenty of, it's scrolling shooters, vertical and horizontal. Thanks to the Virtual Console, the Wii has probably the best library of shmups in history. You can go play something like Lords of Thunder or Blazing Lazers right now without even having to go to a store first. That's pretty compelling. Which means that original disc-based shooters actually face a lot of competition from the VC. If you're just now discovering that you love shooters, you can get some of the best ones ever made for a few bucks. That could mean trouble for Castle of Shikigami III, Monkey King and Blast Works. If you like shooters, are you content with the vintage offerings? Do you feel that there's enough of a reason to continue checking out the new games, or have you been reveling in undiscovered classics?
The best trailer of a 2D shooter starring a monkey you'll see today
The fate of UFO Interactive's North American release of Kiki Kai World (now known as Heavenly Guardian) is up in the air. We aren't sure if it's coming out on Wii, or PS2, or anything. But UFO's other Starfish-developed 2D game, Monkey King: The Legend Begins, is still on the way -- this trailer says this month, but Amazon says April 15th.We're continuing to be optimistic about this game, both in terms of its quality and the likelihood of its release, because we so desperately want to believe that it's possible to release an original 2D sidescrolling shooter in 2008, and that it's possible to subsequently enjoy that shooter. It's easy to be optimistic when the game is as pretty as this one is.[Via NeoGAF]
