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WiiWare is now online - Great Rumbler - 12th May 2008
Go buy Lost Winds right now!
WiiWare is now online - Dark Jaguar - 12th May 2008
What sort of game is it?
WiiWare is now online - Great Rumbler - 12th May 2008
An awesome side-scrolling platformer where you control wind and air currents.
WiiWare is now online - Dark Jaguar - 12th May 2008
So they didn't really lose the wind?
WiiWare is now online - Great Rumbler - 12th May 2008
The wind spirit, that was traped with the evil demon, had all of her magical parts scattered around the island.
WiiWare is now online - Dark Jaguar - 12th May 2008
Spirit particles are so weird....
Let's study them! Hurry! Someone kill that ghost so I can dissect it!
WiiWare is now online - A Black Falcon - 13th May 2008
Lame plot, but (based on a video) the game definitely looks interesting.
WiiWare is now online - Great Rumbler - 13th May 2008
The plot's just there to give you an excuse to do what you're doing, nothing more. The real game is in the presentation.
WiiWare is now online - A Black Falcon - 14th May 2008
Still, decent plots are always better than stupid ones.
WiiWare is now online - Great Rumbler - 14th May 2008
The plot isn't stupid, it's just very simple and one that doesn't try to do anything new.
WiiWare is now online - Sacred Jellybean - 14th May 2008
A Black Falcon Wrote:Still, decent plots are always better than stupid ones.
In some cases, the plot is pretty much irrelevant. I heard the plot to Mario Galaxy is kind of dumb (I never bothered to watch all those cutscenes, something about Bowser trying to destroy the universe?), but it doesn't matter, because the gameplay is awesome.
WiiWare is now online - Dark Jaguar - 14th May 2008
If it's a game like Mario, I actually think a "stupid" plot is superior, because that means charming innocence.
I don't want a brooding Mario.
WiiWare is now online - lazyfatbum - 27th May 2008
Mario in the vein of LotR would be hilarious, but actually that Russian/Communist style Mario art where he has a sledge hammer and the horribly disfigured characters but that would feel so, so wrong.
WiiWare is now online - A Black Falcon - 27th May 2008
I didn't say brooding, I just said better. You're right, Mario games don't need hugely complex plots, or deep characters. But it's not like EVERY Mario game involves a captured princess... they've mixed it up some before, they could do it again. See Mario 2, Mario Land 2, Wario Land (1, then the whole series, but 1 is the only one with serious Mario ties -- see the ending), Yoshi's Story... Yoshi's Island technically, but there it was just Luigi instead of Princess. But anyway, the point is, they could do something a bit different... they just don't. It's too bad.
WiiWare is now online - Dark Jaguar - 27th May 2008
Different eh? You mean like Super Mario RPG? They've done different plenty of times.
WiiWare is now online - alien space marine - 28th May 2008
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