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Sexy 2D Wii sidescroller shall be on show at TGS photo

2D sidescrolling should have died a miserable death by now, thanks to modern hardware capabilities and the demand for greater graphics.

But recent classics like Castle Crashers and the surefire upcoming hit Mega Man 9 are keeping things alive, and I couldn't be happier for that. While this won't set the gaming world on fire like those two titles, VanillaWare's sidescrolling Wii game, Oboro Muramasa Youtouden, is sure to garner some specialist attention.

The Odin Sphere team's lovely looking title has been incredibly quiet, but it's become clear that the game is not dead as some had imagined and that a playable build will be found at the Tokyo Game Show. I shall make a special note to keep an eye out for this at TGS, since any and all sidescrolling action is good ... unless it's bad.


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Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 08:38
Tubatic
'bout damn time/where the hell have they been.
kapshhh's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 09:03
kapshhh
Odin Sphere with Ninja's. How can you go wrong?
funran's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 09:09
funran
I love these 2D High Rez games, Odin Sphere was awesome. What I don't understand is why they would release this for wii, these hand drawn sprites would look 100% better in HD. One of the reason I think that 2D visuals have come back (mostly through PSN / XBLA) is because the blocky "staircase" textures are pretty much dead and now you can have high quality animation in sprite form on HD systems, and it looks great. I hope more things like this comes to PS3/360 as full games, not just DLC through XLBA/PSN.
ShinAmano's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 09:15
ShinAmano
This could be the first Wii title that I am actually excited about.
ShinAmano's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 09:16
ShinAmano
Also I agree funran
Blommen's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 09:36
Blommen
Holy shit, I love Odin Sphere!!

But I must say that I'm disapointed that this isn't coming to any HD capaple consoles...They should sell it for 20$ on PSN/XBLA. If they did that they would sell far more copies than on the Wii..
Shin Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 09:41
Shin Oni
was wonderin what happened to it. Seeing they REALLY didn't say anything on it and this game was announced not long after Wii's launch.
Cowboy TTop's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 09:41
Cowboy TTop
Another Wii game that looks great. I hope more Wii owners pick it up, since many still missed Odin Sphere.

Not point in making this HD, when all its imperfections of such sprites will be more visable. I'm sure there's a fear that if such 2D visual become too HD, that they'll look to much like animated cardboard cutouts.

Either, this game still look wondeful, bring it on.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 09:55
TrailerParkJesus
What a waste. Why don't the devs put it on a real console? Give yourself a chance to sell some units.
Face's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 10:31
Face
Oh cool! I thought this had been scraped.
F Whipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 11:14
F Whipple
I had completely forgot about this game. I'm glad to hear it's still coming along
Hitogoroshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 11:23
Hitogoroshi
Odin Sphere was so sweet. I'm really excited for this game.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 12:56
pedrovay2003
Wow, works for me. I still haven't played Odin Sphere, but that game already has me interested.

I hope TGS is better for the Wii than E3 was.
KMCC's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 15:01
KMCC
FINALLY! I was worried that this project had gone by the wayside.

@pedrovay: Odin Sphere is absolutely worth the time to play, highly recommended.
GohanGVO's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 19:23
GohanGVO
I really want to see more of this in action.
TheCleaningGuy's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/03/2008 20:53
TheCleaningGuy
I've been waiting for this for so long! Thank god it's finally coming!
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