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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11:10 AM on 03.04.2009
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Fantastic. It's totally in good hands.
Beautiful :D
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.
This looks gorgeous though.
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Eugh.
They could have at least given it to me for DS.
But come on. No creepy staring blob smile?
WayForward's been pretty good about releasing games that aren't the Shantae sequel the entire planet wants, though.
*shakes fist* Damn you, WayForward...
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.
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Oh well, I trust WayForward.
Amazing.
Beautiful.
Epic.
Can't wait!
Thank you, lord of gaming!