First Impressions: Wario Land – The Shake Dimension

The Wario Land games started off on the gameboy. Being too young to have played the game (sad face) I only played Wario World, a mediocre attempt at a 3D Wario game. When I heard about there being a new 2D Wario Land game on the Wii, which is a console often criticised by Xbox and PS3 fans for not having HD graphics, I was a bit skeptical. But when I saw the screenshots, I was happy with how it turned out.

The game was released in Europe yesterday. Wario’s got to go into the Shake Dimension in order to defeat the evil Shake King. By doing this, he will get a great reward of treasure. The gameplay is similar to old 2D platformers, but with a twist. The Wii remote. You hold the Wii-mote sideways, and shake it to do a few things, like shaking items out of enemies.

The music in the game is quite good. And while, at least from what I’ve heard so far, it’s not orchestrated like Super Mario Galaxy’s soundtrack is, it’s still a great soundtrack from Nintendo. The cutscenes are completely hand-drawn, which (obviously) makes it look like a cartoon.

I’d reccomend buying this game if you haven’t bought at least 2 of the “bigger” games on the system (Zelda, Galaxy, Brawl, etc).

I may do a review of this soon, depending on whether or not I get the time.

First Impressions: Mega Man 9 (Wii)

Instead of getting SBCG4AP Ep 2, I downloaded Mega Man 9 this morning. I’ve only beat one boss, so this won’t be that great of a First Impressions post. Oh well.

Mega Man 9 is an 8-bit game, for the few of you that don’t know. So if you’re a graphics whore, you should probably you should probably not buy this. The story is that many robots have started reaking havoc on wherever it is Mega Man lives (I’m a Mega Man noob) and has framed Dr Light. It’s you’re job to clear his name, and defeat all the evil robots.

The music in the game is really good, even though it’s 8-bit. If you really like the music, you should probably buy the arranged album on Play-asia.com, like myself.

I’d reccomend the game to hardcore gamers, but casual may want to do a bit more looking into the game to see if they’ll enjoy it. Unfortunately, Xbox 360 owners will have to wait for a few days to play this.

Animal Crossing coming to Wii in December

Animal Crossings name change in Australia also applies in Europe, according to the NoE website. It has been re-named as “Let’s Go to the City”. It is slated for a release date of December in Europe.

Pack your bags and take a trip to the city as Animal Crossing comes to Wii! In a new instalment to the hugely popular series, Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City not only allows players to create their own perfect life in the country but also introduces an exciting new city area to explore! With many new features such as the new Wii Speak accessory which enables you to chat to other players in the game, Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City is the perfect place for you to create your ideal world when it launches across Europe in December 2008.

PS: Wario Land and Mega Man 9 are coming out in Europe, and I’ll be doing first impressions either tommorow or on Saturday. I’ve also found out that it may be possible (without spending loads of money) to get my Dazzle by the start of October.

First Impressions: Super Mario RPG – Legend of the Seven Stars + Why I haven’t got a few things done

WARNING: Before getting this game, make sure your TV can play in 60 Hz, or 480p. You will not be able to play the game if it doesn’t.

I decided to miss out on buying SBCG4AP Episode 2 on European launch date and instead buy Super Mario RPG, a game that Europe missed out on when it was released in Japan and the Americas on the Super Nintendo. The game was made by Square, now known as Square Enix, who are well known for there involvement in the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games.

It plays out like a traditional RPG, as you’d expect. It features an overhead view of Mario and his surroundings. It’s not fully 3D, but the character models are 3D. As you’d expect from a Mario game, there are some attacks that are obligitary for any Mario games, like the jump, but it also has the fireball. I’m currently up to a dragon boss, which is hard, in a word. It’s a recommended download from the Virtual Console. I may review it soon.

Also, the reason why I haven’t done my Mega Man review is because (you guessed it) it’s so damn hard to complete. (Sidenote: I HATE Iceman’s stage) And the reason why I don’t have my Dazzle yet is a longer story.

You may not know this, but I’m a teenager and live with my parents. My house is having an extension at the moment, and I thought it would be done by now, because I was told that many MANY months ago. Now, it’s due to be finished by about christmas. This is a problem because the TV I have at the moment doesn’t have any Composite outputs, and I won’t be getting a new TV until the extension is done. I could use another method, but it would take a hell of a lot of moving around. However, I could ask my unkle if he could give me some SCART things. Rather then explain what they are, which would take forever, I’ll just say that they have Composite outputs.

SBCG4AP Ep 2 Ready for NA Release

The second episode of SBCG4AP, called “Strong Badia The Free”, is set for release in North America. The release date on WiiWare and PC is Monday 15th (a.k.a tommorow). It should be coming out in Europe soon. Here’s the story quoted from the website.

When Strong Bad fails to obey the King of Town’s totally unfair email tax, he’s placed under house arrest. Once freed from his wrongful imprisonment, Strong Bad goes on a mission to unite the local warring factions under the Strong Badian flag.

Sonic Unleashed: NEW TRAILER!

Yesterday, a new trailer for the upcoming game: Sonic Unleashed was released. The trailer shows a Sonic speeding from a level based in China. The trailer also includes more Werehog footage and fiitage of two bosses. One for Normal Sonic and one for Werehog Sonic.

Click here to see the trailer!

Mega Man 9 US release date? + End of the World? + NOTICE

Today, Gamespot have set the release date of Mega Man IX to September 24th.

Since that’s a short post, I’m going to give you my thoughts on this little situation going on tommorow. There’s a $4 billion experiment going on tomorrow, and some people think that there will be a black hole made that will cause the end of the world. I don’t believe this, because the only report of it I saw was in the Sun, a newspaper in the UK with a really bad reputation. To give you an example of how bad it is, in the same edition of the newspaper, one of the big headlines was gossip about Amy Winehouse. But then again, I don’t really have a very good understanding of the situation.

And the last thing I wanted to say is about some people advertising in the comments. I have a lot of messages that are blocked because of advertising. The most advertising I will allow without deleting your comment is putting your website in the URL. Anyone else who says “Hey, check out my super-awesome site” will have their comment deleted, regardless of the content in the rest of the comment.

EDIT: Mega Man IX will be priced at 1,000 Wii Points according to the Japanese website.

UPDATEZ+My Games Wishlist

TFirst of all, sorry for my absence recently. I’ve been on a holiday for 10 days, and the only internet cafes around were too slow to do much on. And concerning the Dazzle, I just need to get the SCART cables with outputs in to the room where I have my Wii, and then I’ll be able to get it.

Here’s my game wishlist. You can expect first impressions and/or reviews of these games.

• Mega Man 9
• Every SBCG4AP episode
• Wario Land: The Shake Dimension
• de Blob
• Disaster: Day of Crisis
• Wii Music
• Animal Crossing: City Folk
• Wii Speak
• Mario Super Sluggers
• Madworld
• Wii Sports Resort (Motion Plus is the main motive for this purchase)

Stay tuned to this website, because I have a few reviews that you might want to check out. I’ll say no more.