How is Bayonetta selling in the west? I'm not a fan of the genre, but I hope it does well.

Well, the story in the first Madworld was everywhere. A bit pretentious looking back at it now.

@Nolan South
It has a commercial featuring La Roux. It can not fail.

And, ya know, it may be a good game on the side.

Meh, I'd prefer a new IP. Platinum Games has shown itself capable of consistently turning out excellent games and seeing them have to go into the pattern of churning out sequels to make money would depress me. Although, this seems more like the wishes of the game's creator so I guess I wouldn't really oppose it.

I think MadWorld was held back a bit, which was sorta evident in some of the cutscenes in the middle of the game. Too many comic frames, for me.

I'll buy the sequel the day it comes out, but I don't know whether I want it back on the Wii or not...

Ummm, maybe that's because the press is gushing all over Bayonetta giving it 10s and such, while MadWorld definitely has some problems with being a little too repetitive. I'd personally love to see a MadWorld sequel in the same way I'd love to see a Mirror's Edge sequel... a chance to take a game with a great core idea and hopefully fix it, expand upon it, and make it an amazing game.

I thought Madworld was better because it was on the Wii, and last I checked it sold over 300K which for a game that was built to be a niche title I think is pretty decent. Besides Jim you left out the part where the director of Madworld called the Wii a well balanced console that he seemed fairly happy with.

WOo, another somewhat wii-related article. I wonder why the sudden spike in wii news so suddenly. Now I await the imminent flood of why madworld 2 would or would not sell on the wii. With familiar arguments placing the blame on the console,developers, or audience.

I'd be all for a Madworld sequel regardless of which platform its on. That being said, they definately need to improve the combat. I was willing to enjoy Madworld regardless of its faults the first time around, next time I probably won't be so forgivig.

I'd buy a sequel to Mad World if it's game length was longer and if it wasn't as repetitive as the first game. I don't regret having bought Mad World after it received a price drop. I like the game but it certainly wasn't worth paying full price for.



- The monochrome graphics

As beautiful, unique, refreshing and stylish as the game's visuals are, it proved to be a turn off to a lot of gamers.... kind of like Okami (I am a fan of both Mad World & Okami's cell-shaded visuals by the way) .


- Short length with little to no replay value

This was perhaps the nail in the coffin for MadWorld in my opinion. The game is just too short and the attempt to add more content by adding a shallow, tacked on multiplayer mode was simply disappointing and offering replay value through the use of a frusterating and cheap hard mode was quite pointless.

- Repetitive gameplay

Even before you get halfway through the game, you've essentially seen and done everything that the game has to offer. It doesn't throw any new surprises except for a cool last boss battle cut scene that sadly ends up being an undwhelming fight with an anti-climatic ending to match.


- The story

Personally, I didn't care for the story at all. It just tried to be edgy, smart and bad ass and it wasn't.

It hurts me to say this to one of the coolest developers out there, but Platinum Games just doesn't seem to much talent for good story telling with perhaps the exception of Okami (but even that game suffered quite a bit due to the game's length). As a more recent example, I saw my sister's boyfriend beat Bayonetta and while the gameplay was fun and cool, the story simply sucked.

On the bright side, I thought the game's controls were very well done (except for the ocassional overuse of waggle during some of the boss fight QTEs). I also enjoyed the game's soundtrack (despite the looping) with the exception of one particularly annoying girly song. I also really liked the stylish graphics too and some of the mini games like the bottle rockets.

I'm not convinced this game would have actually done that much better on the PS3/360. A lot of people were put off by the visual style. Not myself, but I love unique visual styles.

I'd love to see a Madworld 2 multiplat (all three), as I think the visual style would look fantastic in HD, and also, it would serve as a very interesting experiment when comparing Wii and PS3/360 sales.

I feel if they put the marketing and development into Madworld as they did Bayonetta it would sell...regardless of the console it was on.

I'd buy a Madworld 2. I really enjoyed the controls, so I would prefer a Wii version...but I would pick it up on PS3 if that was my only option.

I bought MadWorld day one and still haven't played it. It was an effort I knew I wanted to support and was therefore worth my money, even though its been on my pile of "to play games" for almost a year now.

Sterling, quit it already, as much as you want it not to be, Madworld was a BBB title at best not a AAA, it was short, repetitive, AI was weak and had little replay value, if you think i'm exaggerating answer this question: Would the title as is but with HD improved graphics and no motion controls have sold on X360/PS3? IMHO no. Hell, let's go to your side of the court, compare Madworld to Bayonetta, graphics aside does the first reach or even grazes the second's quality? again: no, i'll admit that have yet to play Bayonetta and i'm making this assumption from the general scores from the web (including your review) but if once i get it Bayonetta is similar to Madworld's lame gameplay then it's going back to the store too. All that said why should Wii users be happy with a BBB title when we expected a AAA one? all the reasons listed above would give it a 7ish (maybe an 8 from those kind/merciful enough) in HD consoles but not better, so stop trying to pin the game's failure on Wii users, also this could be an informative read for you .

@ Edgydude:

Sterling just likes to get the fanboys riled up, that's why you see him post all the negative Wii news when there is some to post for the day.

Save the Wii for Carnival Games... Let's get Madworld 2 on a real console for sure!

A sequel? OH FUCK YES.

I'm a little late to the party but I just picked up this game new and I have to say, this by far one of my favorite games on the Wii. I really hope that they see that the numbers warrant a sequel and respond in kind. I would love to have a Mad World 2 for the Wii (it better come out for the Wii if there is a sequel, no problem with it being multi-plat, just release it for the Wii please!).

Anyways, hopefully they are listening, if there was one game (beside No More Heroes) that deserves a sequel, it is this game.