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New Blast Works trailer reveals multiple features
Jonathan Holmes
\\ 02.27.2008
24 comments

 

As a general rule, you never know if a new game will be any good until you've played it. No matter how great a game's pedigree, how good it's pre-release promotional material makes it look, or what the gaming press has to say about it in previews, any game could still dissappoint. Any game, except for Blast Works. If you have ever loved a 2D side scrolling shooter, you need to buy this game, case closed. 

Why?

For starters, Blast Works contains not one, not two, but four complete shooters in one package. More importantly though, Blast Works allows for literally endless levels of customization. If you buy this game and hate it, it's your own fault for not designing an awesome enough ship and a level to play it in. I know the first thing I'll be doing when this game drops on May 1st is make my flying Mr Destructoid "ship", an ED-209 boss, (link NSFW due to extreme violence towards Mr Kinney), and a co-responding level for them to exist in. All my pent up deviant shmup fantasies will finally come to fruition. 

[Via Gametrailers]



24 COMMENTS, LATEST BY p_rosky
for those of you not into just side scrollers, check out the 1st video of the six shown on one screen...that ship isn't side-scrolling, is is? -    view discussion




There are 24 comments about this post:
Y0j1mb0's Avatar
I think I just found another game to get excited about for the Wii aside from Smash.
Jonathan Holmes's Avatar
After seeing you avatar Y0j1mb0, I now know I also have to make a Pai Mei "ship" as well. But I'll be basing mine on his original [urk=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJDUMyVHu6w&feature=related]"Fist of the White Lotus"[/url] design, because I'm independent.
Jonathan Holmes's Avatar
Oop. BBcode fail on my part.

Link for Fist of the White Lotus intro Here.
KaL_YoshiKa's Avatar
Well that looks great, this was always one of my favourite Kenta Cho games.
Y0j1mb0's Avatar
I didn't know you were a kung fu fan. But if you were REALLY independant you would of shown this Pai Mei.
ShawnKelfonne's Avatar
Two player co-op?
Yes please!
hjd_uk's Avatar
uber-awesome

and last I heard it was just a Tukimi-fighters port!

WANT.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
“SOMEBODY WANNA CALL A GODDAMN PARAMEDIC?!?!”
kevinski's Avatar
Holy crap. I've played Tumiki Fighters, and this looks very similar to it (and includes it, I see). I think that it'll be worth it just for the WiiConnect24 functionality. I wonder if you can adjust the bullet spreads and whatnot. I'm sure that the game probably used BulletML, so I suppose that the bullet patterns and spreads could be controlled with simple sliders.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~Cs8K-Cyu/bulletml/index_e.html
Holyetheline's Avatar
I love customization features. This game is going to be great
Mr Bas's Avatar
Am I the only one who's more excited about the video Y0j1mb0 posted?
Mogg's Avatar
I don't get it. Its just a shooter but you can create your own ship and your enemies? am i missing something?
Necros's Avatar
"Endless possibilities!"

As long as you keep moving right and shooting things. :)
MechaMonkey's Avatar
While customization is nice, I don't want to have to go through the trouble to make my own levels for my awesome creation. The levels should already be awesome enough to support my imagination.
The-Excel's Avatar
rRootage, Gunroar, Torus Trooper and Tumiki Fighters all as unlockables?

Jesus man I need to get my hands on this. That's just excessive.
Dexter345's Avatar
It looked like the ships have a sort of Katamari element to them too. I'm curious to see how this turns out.
DinnertimeNinja's Avatar
I'm not entirely sure what's going on in half of that video but this looks kind of like the Wii version of Little Big Planet.

Different genres, of course, but the success of both is going to hinge on the enthusiasm of the community and the ability of the developer/online component to keep up with the community.

I want this game to thrive but a few things worry me:

1) As it's not a first party Nintendo title, it's very likely it could fall through the cracks of the Wii populace.

and 2) The online distribution system needs to be strong if this game is going to get as big as it could be, and we all know how Nintendo is with online concerns.
Eschatos's Avatar
That looks OK, but not great.
Tron Knotts's Avatar
WORST GAME EVAR
HarassmentPanda's Avatar
What the hell does co-responding mean--responding simultaneously? Did you mean corresponding?

This game could be pretty sweet. I wish I didn't suck so hard at these shooters, but my imagination is truly endless.
Zero_armada's Avatar
*Pre-orders*
Jonathan Holmes's Avatar
Y0j1mb0, AWESOME!

I have to get that one.
brad drac's Avatar
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT. Shmpus are awesome. Designing crap is awesome. 4 games in 1 is awesome. Too much awesome here.
p_rosky's Avatar
for those of you not into just side scrollers, check out the 1st video of the six shown on one screen...that ship isn't side-scrolling, is is?

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