Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary

Madden

- Bozon doesn’t mind how the game looks visually
- Could have been a whole lot worse
- A little simplified
- Overall game looks slick
- Didn’t see anything on MotionPlus for the game
- Matt wishes they would have gone farther with visual style
- Still excited about this version more than any other on Wii
- Have to wait and see what modes they’re keeping, changing

Spyborgs

- It’s a pretty looking brawler
- Animations are good
- Hoping to run at 60 FPS
- Matt hasn’t seen it himself yet
- Sounds like it’ll be a basic brawler
- Putting a lot of motion in there, seems unnecessary
- Matt more psyched than he was before
- Very co-op focused

Red Steel 2

- Going to be very Wii MotionPlus heavy
- Can tell the main character is a gunslinger type
- Whole new storyline
- Weird mixture of western and modern day
- People digging the art, Matt is too
- Art looks really good
- Matt worried that it might be a Wii MotionPlus fest – need to wait and find out
- The gun controls were bad in the first game, reticule was stuttery
- Game rumored to be running at 60 FPS
- Matt + Bozon excited about the game, have their fingers crossed

Rabbids Go Home

- Matt really excited
- Not a minigame fest
- Really great artstyle, good game engine
- Funny
- Feels more like an adventure/platform game
- Weird funny scenario game
- Trigger comedy events
- No Rayman in the game
- Looks promising
- It’s basically a complete reboot

Little King’s Story

- Very much like a Pikmin kind of game
- A little lame not being able to use IR to move guys around
- Still really fun, has own comedy
- Can upgrade people into soldiers, farmers, different job classes
- Nothing “Wii” about the controls
- Tough to explain
- Graphics are a bit fuzzy
- A lot of fun to play
- Bozon likes it a lot

DK Jungle Beat

- Controls work pretty well for the most part
- Looks pretty much the same, plays pretty much the same
- Has more of a platformer element
- Matt not sure if he likes it better since he grew up playing on the bongos
- Game still looks great
- Challenges that felt more complex with bongos now feel easier
- Matt would still probably get GameCube version but it’s still an interesting platformer to check out

EA Sports games

- Tiger Woods coming with MotionPlus bundle in North America
- Grand Slam Tennis bundle in Europe
- Both coming out in June
- Disc Golf is a very cool Wii-exclusive mode in Tiger
- Wii MotionPlus makes a huge difference

Punch-Out!!

- Put a lot of time into it
- It’s Punch-Out!!
- Craig loves it, Matt doesn’t love it quite as much as he does
- Thinks it’s a good game, has old-school vibe
- Interface is junk
- One font for all characters
- Cut-scenes kind of a cop out – 4 still animations
- Disco Kid is really the only character addition
- Can get to end of the game pretty quickly
- Unlock Title Defense – fight everyone again, movesets change, might need to change attack styles
- There is some replay value
- Overall the game is good, not mindblowing
- Matt dumbfounded when he heard the development team spent 2 years on the game since there isn’t a ton of content

Reader questions

- Don’t want to burn out coverage of The Conduit but Will have some coverage on the game in the future
- Sequel to Dreamcast game Matt/Bozon would like to see on Wii: Jet Grind Radio, Powerstone, Shenmue
- Haven’t done a podcast lately because Craig has been away, so the team is down a man, too busy – Will try to recover on Monday
- Matt all for the new art direction of Red Steel 2, has faith in the project – will see a lot of the game at E3
- Bozon is pretty good at Punch-Out!!
- Not much news on Retro Studios but Matt is expecting their game at E3 – Don’t know for sure – Seems like it’s time for it to show up
- Scribblenaughts news tomorrow
- Mighty Flip Champs waiting to be improved, then it’s up to Nintendo to put the game up
- Mighty Flip Champs not actually a test for Shantae on DSiWare – If DSiWare isn’t a successful business opportunity, WayForward won’t want to fund another game – If DSiWare is successful enough, Shantae is in the mix
- Don’t know anything about Moving Memo
- There will of course be some Wii games from other publishers at E3
- IGN will have an inside scoop on anything High Voltage shows at E3
- What Matt said about Mario Galaxy 2 at E3 was kind of bsed – He doesn’t really know but thinks it’s likely – Know that Galaxy was a success, can be expanded upon

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