“Nintendo’s tradition is that the hero or central character never vocally speaks. We also followed this tradition [keeping Little Mac quiet] for the title. We recorded speech to express each character’s origins and characteristics, and to make Doc Louis have a larger personality and greater impact on gameplay. I believe having fighters’ voices during matches is very effective in making the experience more immersive. Since we used the original camera view from over the shoulder and kept the feeling that the game is about overcoming your fears and knocking out your bullies, it makes sense for Little Mac to talk very little. He is more avatar than character, giving fans an opportunity to put a little of themselves into his character.” – Punch-Out!! producer, Nintendo’s Kensuke Tanabe
I am 100% open to seeing more voice acting in Nintendo titles. In the case of Punch-Out!!, I think they fit in quite well. The voiceovers in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption weren’t too shabby, either. How do you guys feel about it?
Santa Ana, CA (July 27, 2009) –NIS America announced today that Phantom Brave: We Meet Again will be released on Tuesday August 11 to retail stores nationwide.
About Phantom Brave: We Meet Again
Phantom Brave is a turn based strategy RPG that incorporates unique battle styles and a hardcore character customization system. Players can create units from a number of list of monster/ghost categories and power them up to a exponential number.
“Right now, in Japan, it’s been extremely popular, and we’ve gotten a lot of great feedback. At this moment, we still haven’t really decided on what to do. We kind of want to make a sequel, but we haven’t gotten enough feedback from the players. As we get more feedback from the users in Japan or even in America, then we’ll consider maybe making a sequel.” – producer Motohide Eshiro
As far as I know, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth has been received well. Sales of the game have been strong in Japan and it received an outstanding score in Famitsu, so hopefully that will carry over when it launches in North America.
Core Wii owners around the world have shown many signs of disappointment at Ubisofts sudden delay or Red Steel 2 to Q1 2010, but little has been said in detail as to why. At a recent Ubisoft conference, the President of the company had this to say regarding the cancellations.
“Red Steel and Splinter Cell are going to greatly benefit from the additional polishing time we are providing and will clearly be among the leading brands on the Wii and 360 for the March quarter. The changes on Splinter Cell and Red Steel – it’s just a question of polish. The team was asking that they couldn’t be with the level of quality on all the maps and all the game for the end of the year, so they had asked for more time to be able to come with a better product, for both of those games. The quality of the games is there for what you’ve been able to see at E3, but we were not able to have that same quality on the full game of those two products. We really think with the level of quality that we’ll be able to obtain with the time we give them we will have a long shelf life for those products. Now, because [Conviction and Red Steel 2] are launching during that quarter, they will not do as many units for the first month as they would have done in November/December, but we think that on the long-term they can achieve more units than what they would’ve done.” – Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot
We have pleasure to announce first Furry Contest:
Get your name into Furry Legends!
Yes, you’ve read this right! You can get your name into a visible place in Furry Legends!
How? It’s pretty simple!
Follow Furry Legends on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/Furry_Legends ), and once we exceed more than 1000 followers, we will randomly choose a person, or a couple, who will have their names featured in the game. Oh, and we’ll pay attention that these people are not associated with our company in any way
So! Follow our Twitter, and get ready for the name drawing!
K.K. March
K.K. Waltz
K.K. Jazz
K.K. Fusion
K.K. Samba
K.K. Bossa
K.K. Calypso
Lucky K.K.
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K.K. Rock
Rockin’ K.K.
K.K. Love Song
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DJ K.K.
Only Me
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K.K. Western
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Agent K.K.
K.K. Metal
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This CD will be available as a prize in this autumn for the European Stars Catalog.
