Based on this trailer, I'm surprisingly interested in the upcoming Spectrobes: Origins for Wii. When the first game released on DS, I had heard good things but wrote it off as another "catch 'em all" game that I simply wouldn't have the time to invest in. Watching this one, with its two player co-op mechanics, makes me think it might be the perfect game to curl up on the couch with my woman for an hour or two every night.
You can check out the trailer which shows off some gameplay and some of the mini-game aspects after the jump. If the game doesn't interest you, then you can at least be amused by the people they used to translate for the Japanese developers interviewed. They are pretty awful and range from being unreasonably exuberant to stiffer than Frankenstein's gait, never managing to sound natural. Hilarious.
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Dude if you want co-op catch em all action - hit up Monster Hunter Freedom unite! - It's the bollocks! More of a catch / kill them all and chop of vrious parts of their anatomy to collect the weapons and armour made of said parts, but still, it's kinda like a grown up Pokemon.
To play on your own takes a good few hours to get into it (like 10), but you can half that if playing with 2 of you, or hook up on ad-hoc party and join another 2 to make it real easy 4 way co-op slaying action!
I'm a real addict, having trouble right now as I've just had my broken PSP swapped by Continuos play (5 years old - swapped for as new refirb), but it needs a hefty charge first so i can update firmware! And it's my lunch break in 20 mins! What else am i going to do with my lunch break?!!?!
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To play on your own takes a good few hours to get into it (like 10), but you can half that if playing with 2 of you, or hook up on ad-hoc party and join another 2 to make it real easy 4 way co-op slaying action!
I'm a real addict, having trouble right now as I've just had my broken PSP swapped by Continuos play (5 years old - swapped for as new refirb), but it needs a hefty charge first so i can update firmware! And it's my lunch break in 20 mins! What else am i going to do with my lunch break?!!?!
Might stay at work till it's charged.