Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 multiplayer

– Like Smash Bros.
– Zooming in and out camera
– 4 players at a time
– Item drops
– Bobafet, Darth Anakin, Star Killer, Assage Ventris, Maris Brude playable
– Play with Wiimote and nunchuck
– No pointing controls
– Z is your shield
– B is jump
– A is fight
– No combos
– Not that deep
– Scott didn’t like it, feels it’s repetitive

Epic Mickey

– Scott played it at PAX
– He liked it, it’s fun
– Good camera controls

Professor Layton and the Unwound Future

– Some cool changes in the game
– Sketch screen has been kind of useless sometimes, this time the actual pixel precision is really tiny, like one pixel
– Also given 8 colors
– Big plot point in the game is that you get a letter from future Will, takes place 10 years in the future
– 165 new puzzles
– Good animation
– Going to be a great game
– Releasing on Sept. 12

Super Mario All-Stars

– Coming to Wii
– Only Japan for now
– Comes with a booklet
– Also sold with a soundtrack

Conduit 2

– Delayed to 2011
– It was coming out the same day as GoldenEye
– Was playable at PAX

Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Wii)

– Done by WayForward
– Animation a little flash-like
– Some slowdown
– Based on the T.V. series
– Each episode in the game has a fully animated opening
– Full voice acting for the game
– Voice overs during gameplay
– Good art style
– Side-scrolling brawler
– Sort of a dull game

Reader questions

– Wiimote-only setup in Other M was determined at the beginning of development
– Shouldn’t worry about 3DS battery life, batteries have been important to Nintendo for awhile
– Don’t expect Nintendo to make big online changes for the Wii