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11:10 AM on 03.04.2009, Dale North

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A Boy and His Blob: gorgeous screens, details, squeals of delight photo

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As we told you yesterday, A Boy and His Blob is being brought back for the Wii for its 20th anniversary. The 1989 NES classic is being revived by WayForward (Contra 4), and will feature hand-drawn and painted visual technology.

In this game, the evil emperor has taken the throne of Blobolonia. A blob and his boy companion work together to solve puzzles and defeat baddies in 40+ levels, all while downing a diabetes-worthy number of jelly beans. For those that know the classic and how the transforming mechanic works, there are new jelly beans: Bubble Gum Bubble and Caramel Cannon. Delicious.

All we know now is that this game is coming to the Wii this fall. Oh, and that the new screens look fantastic! Beautiful, even.

I wonder what changes they've made to the control scheme, though.

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PappaDukes

Dear lord this looks amazing!

B Truth

looks nice. i remember being so disappointed as a kid that the original game sucked.

Phoenix Gamma

WayForward is making this?!

Fantastic. It's totally in good hands.

spongbros

You mean that there's actually a company called WayForward?

ZombiePlatypus

Wow, that looks good. I'm really digging this game's style...

perri

Wow. Those brighter environments look incredible. I love the design of the characters too. Seems that there is going to be some pretty awesome gameplay with the blob. I never played the first one, was it similar? Use the blob to solve Eviro-puzzles?

Furyfire

ToxinBlackheart

How exciting! The game looks positively gorgeous.

specter620

The original was great, it was just hard as balls when your only 7 years old.

Forest Green Lantern

All I can say is that if they dumb it down I will be dissappointed!!! The original Blob was tuff as hell. Then again I was just a young lad when it came out! :P

Tactix

Holy balls. The art style is amazing! This is instantly on my DO WANT list by the art style alone!

Beautiful :D

Diverse

All I can say is, THANK GOD IT'S NOT IN 3D!

Holyetheline

Damn that's looking so good!

Mirax

I'm glad it is in 2D. Can't wait to play it, the screnshots look amazing!

Drack48

WOW! 2D will never die, I think of Killzone which is arguably the best looking 3d game to date and then see I this and I'm reminded of the power and purity of 2d visuals. You will never get that out of a 3d game. Bravo!

Tron

looks a lot better than the cancelled gba a boy and his blob. the blob in that game looked like a pedophile.

mix

I am so excited for this game!!!!!

BlackSheep

mmm ketchup jelly bean...

John B

Fall??? Damn. I was hoping that this was being released by the end of the month or something. :(

DaedHead8

@B Truth

I don't think the original sucked at all. In fact, it is still one of my favorite games for the original NES. I think you may be remembering how bad you were at it, like most kids were at the time. But if you sat down and concentrated and payed attention, that game was the most rewarding game on the NES, period.

Fronz

wow definitely excited.

Magnalon

This was one of the first games I ever played for the NES, and one of the 2 games my Mom enjoyed. Bring it on.

Zen Albatross

The original was by far the weirdest game I've ever played. Tons of bugs too -- You could glitch through the entire first level by falling and dying in a certain spot.

This looks gorgeous though.

Liontamer

Looking good. Who's doing the music?

Larry "Liontamer" Oji
Assistant Soundtrack Director, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Head Submissions Evaluator, OverClocked ReMix - http://www.ocremix.org
Creator, VG Frequency - http://www.vgfrequency.com
Staff, VGMdb - http://www.vgmdb.net

naia-the-gamer

That art style is gorgeous

vexed alex

I was really excited until I read it's going to be on Wii. I guess I'll have to enjoy this art style in standard definition and without true widescreen support.

Eugh.

They could have at least given it to me for DS.

oh my god bear is driving

When I saw that screenshot of him outside his house my jaw dropped. Such a rush. For a second there I was worried they weren't gonna have the whole "here's an enormous network of caverns, like, one floor under the subway" thing.

But come on. No creepy staring blob smile?

F Whipple

I never played the first one but this one looks pretty enough to get me interested

Rockvillian

QUICK someone make a plushie that changes shapes

Knives

Playing the first one with friends, taking turns on figuring out what to do and where, is one of my first memories as a gamer.Will get :)

welkstar

YES! Finally we're starting to see a return to 2D!

Infinitys End

Excellence as usual from WayForward. Bring on Hand-drawn Shantae!!!

Johnny Justice

Beautiful, although the repeating ground textures niggle me a bit.

eternalplayer2345

Looks beautiful, Never played a boy and his blob but I defiently wanna try this out

Paroxysm

I wonder if they learnt the lesson from the last Wario game that modern games should support widescreen

grafkhun

Do motherfucking want.

Kyousuke Nanbu

I would love this on XBLA, shame its on the Wii, hopefully it sells though as it looks frigging beautiful.

ErigBurger

I played the Gameboy version of this all the time when I was younger. I'm so excited for this.

atastysammich

Who knows? Maybe this revival will actually see the light of day!

WayForward's been pretty good about releasing games that aren't the Shantae sequel the entire planet wants, though.

*shakes fist* Damn you, WayForward...

megaStryke

@Kyousuke Nanbu

You mean it's a shame that this game is coming to a platform that could use more games like this? Because I don't see shame.

Tubatic

this looks great. I hope the theme music makes a comeback

Chronic Logic

Ah, 2D goodness! If only this game had some guns.

Puppy Licks

this looks fantastic, wasn't a huge fan of the original but still... that second last screenshot brought back memories :)

Dexter345

Oh my goodness. I'm getting excited for a new Nintendo game! YAY!

Ben PerLee

The blob looks the like Adipus babies from Dr. Who

ALSO:
KAWAII DESU

brimtastic

So... pretty

Technophile

Holy wow. Nice. I can barely remember the original other then it was weird and hard. I'll try this out for sure

Gen Eric Gui

I loved the one on the Gameboy, I can't wait to play this. Although the fact that they've said it takes place on "40+ levels" has me a little worried, since the original was basically Metroid.

Oh well, I trust WayForward.

Artemus

I about cried when I saw this...
Amazing.
Beautiful.
Epic.
Can't wait!
Thank you, lord of gaming!

NihonTiger90

I just crapped myself. This game is gonna be amazing.

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