Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary

October 13th, 2009 Posted in DS, News, Posted by Valay, Wii

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

- Craig played the game last week
- Only played it for around a half hour
- Nintendo stopping by IGN next week with the full version
- He played it with Bill Trinen
- Game itself is single-player, can play with others at any time
- Other characters have no special abilities, just different skin
- The other players can hurt or help you
- Coin battle – Fighting to get the coins – helping each other but competing as well
- If another player loses all of their lives, wait until the start of the game, then continue from where the player is in the game
- Keeps track of number of continues you’ve used
- Nintendo wouldn’t talk about demo play
- Miyamoto roundtable next week in New York City for New Super Mario Bros. Wii
- Apparently will only be talking about New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii Fit Plus

Nintendo coming to IGN with games

- Nintendo also bringing Cave Story, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias to the IGN offices
- Both coming out very soon
- …And there will be a fourth game they’re bringing, but Craig can’t talk about it since Nintendo hasn’t announced it yet
- Matt says the game came out of nowhere
- Similar situation with Metroid Prime Trilogy
- Judging from what it is, it’s not a B title according to Craig

LostWinds 2

- From what Matt has heard from the UK team, it’s better than the first one
- New Wiimote pointer mechanics
- Matt’s excited

Cave Story

- Classic game
- A lot of fun
- Old-school design

Wii Fit

- Matt obsessed with it
- He wrote an article about it recently
- On the verge of becoming the second best-selling in the last decade
- Pretty impressive for an $89 product
- San Andreas is currently in second
- Wii Play is the number one seller
- They may be enough product for Nintendo to take the #2 spot
- Cammie Dunaway said Nintendo is cleaning the market of Wii Fit for Wii Fit Plus

A Boy and His Blob

- Matt gave it a 7.6
- He liked it
- Beautiful art
- 60 FPS
- Pretty game
- Not as good as Muramasa graphically, but still gourgeous
- Fun gameplay mechanics
- Controls pretty well for the most part
- WayForward didn’t use any d-pad controls
- Analog control isn’t beneficial
- Pointer should have been used for bean trajectory
- Matt would recommend it
- It’s a good platformer
- Some issues with the controls, blob AI
- Overall a good game

Ready at Dawn engine

- They just made a new middleware but it only supports the PS3/360/PSP
- Programming engine
- Didn’t make mention of the Wii in the press release other than they’re looking into it
- Surprising since they worked on Okami Wii

- Bozon doing Mario & Sonic reviews

Ju-On: The Grudge

- Matt absolutely hates the controls
- Haunted house simulator
- First-person
- Very dark
- Walk through the house, point flashlight at stuff, pick up keys to open doors, batteries for flashlight
- Matt admits that it is scary
- Don’t use analog stick
- Move really slowly through levels
- Turning isn’t easy
- Matt hears that it’s short
- XSEED publishing it
- Well choreographed
- If you can’t stand unintuitive controls, you won’t want to play the game

Space Invaders Extreme 2

- Paddle controller doesn’t work on the DSi, but it improves the game
- Tweaked what they did in the first game
- No stopping for specials
- Flows well

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

- Craig not reviewing the game
- He’s not a fan
- Pretty much the same game as last year
- It’s one of the bad Pokemon games

Reader questions

- The original DS was built like a tank, it’s dark, it’s large
- Rumor that nVidia won the contract for the next-gen DS – next DS probably in the works, Matt expects to see it by 2012
- Chances of Nintendo reforming Wiimote with MotionPlus: There hasn’t been any movement publicly, in no rush to do it
- Wii Fit minigame is the one where you have to simulate flapping your arms like a bird
- eBay has a huge piracy problem, shouldn’t buy DS games from there
- Everything on old Wii Fit disc is on Wii Fit Plus disc – If you had Wii Fit before and you never unlocked modes, Wii Fit Plus will unlock them all for you


  1. 5 Responses to “Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary”

  2. By Thomas N on Oct 14, 2009

    The Wii Remote will need to be redesigned if it includes MotionPlus intergrated in it. Also, I am not surprised of eBay having a piracy problem with DS products. It does little to combat piracy in all its forms in its auctions. Did not expect Shigeru Miyamoto in a roundtable in New York City next week.

  3. By Jason on Oct 14, 2009

    Who cares what any of these clowns from IGN think anyway? They’re all sell outs. They consistently sell their game review scores for exclusive reviews and game embargo so that their site sees more clicks.

    They’re all completely lacking credibility and journalistic integrity.

    I see posting this type of garbage on NE as an insult to NE.

  4. By rpguy_ad on Oct 14, 2009

    Jason:

    You just described 90% of all video game news sites, there.

  5. By Jimmi323 on Oct 14, 2009

    Jason:

    The point isn’t that we care what they think; we care that they get info before other places, and with a little practice it isn’t difficult to wade through their BS to find the details their previews and exclusives do contain.

  6. By Jason on Oct 14, 2009

    @Jimmi323

    I completely understand your point, and I used to wade through their shit just to find out the details and what not, but it really just feels so demeaning doing so, like I’m some sort of calf that will die if I don’t suckle the IGN tit to find out all the exclusive news and announcements that they receive.

    My other point is that if IGN is (and they certainly are) tainted and corrupt, why bother tuning in at all. They’re just a marketing machine for dev’s and publishers now, just a game-hype machine and most of you are buying into it.

    I imagine at this point that if IGN were to walk away from their current business model and start to become a site that is honest and has integrity (like NE) that the their whole empire would crumble because they’ve become so co-dependent on becoming the machine the corrupted and purchasable news and reviews source that they are. Want your game to get some great reviews to inhance sales? IGN, Gamespot, Kotaku, 1-up and all the other big names are for sale.

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