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VC/WiiWare Tuesday: New first-party WiiWare and other things worth exclaiming
It's a very exciting day for game downloads in Japan! Not just because one of the Famicom's most infamously difficult games, Beat Takeshi's Takeshi no Chousenjou, is out, though that is exciting! Three new WiiWare games are available today, every one of which bears at least one exclamation point! In fact, Nippon Ichi's Let's Zenryoku Hitchhike features no fewer than nine! Tecmo's Atsui 12 Games Furifuri Party is the Playshake prototype from TGS, made more adorable, but still based on furious shaking! Most exciting, however, is Asoberu Ehon Tobida-Suguroku! (Playable Picture Book: Suguroku Flies Out), a multiplayer board game from Nintendo itself, based on the same Monopoly-like board game as Family Pirate Party! There's a long trailer up on Wii.com that demonstrates the gameplay!Virtual Console: Takeshi no Chousenjou (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Samurai Ghost (Arcade, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points) WiiWare: Atsui 12 Games Furifuri Party! (Tecmo, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Let's Zenryoku Hitchhike!!!!!!!!! (NIS, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points) Asoberu Ehon Tobida-Suguroku! (Nintendo, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points) [Image via 4Gamer]
VC Tuesday: Hot Fighting History
After a week off, Japan's Virtual Console is slow to pick back up. Really slow. Only two games made it to the download service this time, both martial-arts related, and both not very good. Konami's Yie Ar Kung-Fu at least deserves a bit of respect for being one of the first fighting games. Of course, that means it suffers the fate of all pre-SF2 fighters and isn't much fun. But at least it's better than Urban Champion. Yie Ar Kung-Fu is also notable for its deceptively banal title. Yie and Ar are Mandarin for one and two, which means that the game's title is actually the adorable One-Two Kung-Fu.The other game is Samurai Ghost. It's not really any better in Japanese. Yie Ar Kung Fu (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Genpei Toumaden Kannoni (PC Engine, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
VC Friday: The Art of Sonic
It's another Friday, and lately, that means Neo Geo games! Plus, y'know, some other stuff, which is usually pretty pricey, as VC titles goes. But this week, European gamers get a little break with a release out there for only 600 points. On top of that, there's four games from which Wii owners may choose. Sometimes, it's good to be a Nintendo fan. Alien Soldier -- Mega Drive -- 800 Wii points Art of Fighting -- Neo Geo -- 900 Wii points Samurai Ghost -- Turbografx -- 600 Wii points Sonic 3D -- Mega Drive -- 800 Wii points
VC Tuesday: Knuckular Power
It's a common complaint, but Japan gets so much cooler boxart for games (except for Sonic 3.) This boxart for what we know as Streets of Rage 3 is beautifully painted and would make a great poster for an action movie. Our boxart would make a great nothing for nothing. And the name: Streets of Rage is generic as can be, but Bare Knuckle totally implies tough people fighting with their fists-- which is exactly what is happening in this game.The other stuff out this week in Japan is Esper Dream, a Famicom Disk System action-RPG that uses the same color scheme for its characters as The Goonies II, and Genpei Toumaden, an awkward-looking Turbografx-16 action game that we'll be getting soon as Samurai Ghost. Esper Dream (Famicom Disk System, 1 player, 600 Wii Points) Bare Knuckle III (Mega Drive, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points) Genpei Toumaden (PC Engine, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
