Ah, it's finally time for Strong Bad to invade your game time! WiiWare debuts Strong Bad Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner this week (Telltale Games, 1 player, Rated T for Teen—Crude Humor, Mild Cartoon Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes, 1,000 Wii Points). If you're awesome and have a great sense of humor, you've probably already downloaded this, so I'm not going to tell you that you need to grab it.
When you burn out on beating the snot out of Homestar, you may want to check out Break In (TurboGrafx16, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone—Tobacco Reference, 700 Wii Points), a pool sim from the good old days with six different billiard games. You can play with up to four people, too.
Last up is Star Parodier (TurboGrafx16 CD-ROM, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone—Mild Cartoon Violence, 900 Wii Points), Hudson's spoof of Star Soldier. This is a good week for comedy! It's a single player experience, but you'll spend plenty of time giggling to yourself (which is probably what you do alone anyway, thanks to the internet's vast selection of funnies). Buying anything this week, little robots?
Aug. 11, 2008
Wii-kly Update
One WiiWare Game and Two Virtual Console Games Added to Wii Shop Channel
If your idea of a superhero is someone with an invincible ego who can type e-mails while wearing boxing gloves, then the Wii™ Shop Channel has great news for you. The legendary Strong Bad (from the popular Homestar Runner Web series) makes his eagerly anticipated WiiWare™ debut this week. For even more laughs and clever gaming kicks, you'll also find a satirical space-age shooter on the Virtual Console™, along with a classic billiards game for those who prefer to keep their feet planted firmly on the ground.
Nintendo adds new and classic games to the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii™ owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week's new games are:
WiiWare
Strong Bad Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner (Telltale Games, 1 player, Rated T for Teen—Crude Humor, Mild Cartoon Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes, 1,000 Wii Points): Charming. Suave. Awesome. These are the words Strong Bad would use to describe himself. In a world gone mad, only one man can be trusted to save the day. A man with an attitude. A man called Strong Bad. As the star of the Homestar Runner Web cartoons, Strong Bad has been answering e-mails (in boxing gloves), pranking his friends, pummeling his enemies, and making people with questionable taste snort milk out of their noses for years now. And he's branched out to star in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, a monthly five-episode series. In Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner, Strong Bad's plans to beat the snot out of Homestar backfire, and he ends up with an unwanted houseguest cramping his style. Now he needs to get life back to normal by any means possible. But wait, there's more: Teen Girl Squad comics, achievements, funny costumes and arcade games. You can even send pictures and messages to Wii Friends using Strong Bad's computer. So how about it? Can you handle Strong Bad's style?
Virtual Console
Break In (TurboGrafx16, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone—Tobacco Reference, 700 Wii Points): Gather up to four players for an authentic game of pool right in your own home. Choose from six billiards games including 9-Ball, Rotation and Carom (a game played without pockets). Use Simulation mode to calculate the perfect shot, or select Action mode and check out what went wrong with your missed shots. With all that to choose from, Break In gives players—from beginners to experts—all the elements necessary to enjoy a great game of pool. But it doesn't stop there. Select Technique to practice your angles or even go for a trick shot. Get some help from the CPU and hone your skills. With Break In, you'll be a pro in no time.
Star Parodier (TurboGrafx16 CD-ROM, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone—Mild Cartoon Violence, 900 Wii Points): Star Parodier is the hilarious spoof of the classic Hudson shooter Star Soldier. In this parody, there are three playable ships for players to choose from: the ingratiating PAROCEASER, the hot-headed BOMBERMAN, and the ever-so-introverted PC-ENGINE. Players control one of these unique and original ships and set off to blast their way through eight stages on the planet PAROSON. The comical characters take the color and flavor of the Soldier series to the next level and are guaranteed to leave players mesmerized. In addition to the normal game mode, there are also the familiar two-minute and five-minute attack modes, making Star Parodier the complete package that is sure to have players coming back for more.
Strong Bad was always going to be an instant purchase for me, so I was all ready to just sink 10 more bucks into the wii shop channel...then Star Parodier had to go and ruin my plans for cheaping out. Stupid Hudson with their "play as a pc engine and shoot CDs at giant snowmen" shmups; now I have to drop a full $20 on wii downloadables!
Side note: Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is apparently sooo attractive and cool that it won't let me download any more VC games, as they are neither cool nor attractive enough to share the same space with SBCG4AP! Well, that or my wii's tiny internal memory is finally full, but that would NEVER happen, would it Nintendo?
Huh I would of thought you guys in the US would of gotten Mega Man and Sam Shodown 2 this week, given that us PAL lot have had Mega Man for over a year now and we just got Sam Sho 2 last week, oh well guess you'll have to wait abit longer for 2d Platforming and Fighting greatness. Still Strong Bad looks cool shame we'll most likely have to wait a few weeks/months for it here, hell we don't even have Gyrostarr as of yet.
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12:21 PM on 08.11.2008
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I can only hope this leads to Parodius..
Side note: Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is apparently sooo attractive and cool that it won't let me download any more VC games, as they are neither cool nor attractive enough to share the same space with SBCG4AP! Well, that or my wii's tiny internal memory is finally full, but that would NEVER happen, would it Nintendo?
also heres to hoping after all 5 eps are released for VC - telltale will put them all on 1 disc for 30.