Official Wii/DS Q/A thread. FAQ in first post! Game reviews in second post!

[The_Horned_King]

GAMEPRO'S 21 Wii GAMES TO DROOL OVER!!

Game pro has done a nice little feature on 21 Wiigames you will drool over that are commign out the rest of this year and some into 2009. Below is the link tho the full article.

http://www.gamepro.com/nintendo/wii/games/features/206400.shtml


Also I figured I'd pull a few of "MY FAVORITES" form the list...

20: Red Steel 2

ETA: September 16, 2008
Why You Should Give a D**n: Little is known about Red Steel 2 right now which was confirmed in the Official Nintendo Magazine, aside from one tremendous fact: it will be one of the first third-party games to support the Wii MotionPlus accessory introduced with Wii Sports Resort. That means the clunky swordfighting so many complained about in the original game is going to be replaced with the smooth, precise, realistic sword battles you can get a taste of in Wii Sports Resort's fencing mini-games. With an overhauled swordfighting system, Red Steel 2 could deliver on all of the sword n' gun crime action that the original game promised.

#18: Samba de Amigo

ETA: September 23, 2008
Why You Should Give a D**n: One of the original arcade rhythm games, Samba de Amigo, is coming back for the Wii, with new Wii Remote support that removes any need for expensive peripherals. Shake a pair of Wii Remotes like maracas in time with the beats onscreen, aiming high, low, or at waist level. Strike a pose when the indicator comes up onscreen, holding the Wii Remotes as indicated. Pick from dozens of hot Latin songs, and post your scores on the global Leaderboards. You can even make a Friends List to compare your scores to those of people you know. Finally, when you've played all the songs to death, you'll be able to download new songs via the Wii Pay & Play service. If Nintendo lets a few classic Mario tunes free from the grip of Wii Music, we'd download them in a second.

#15: Animal Crossing: City Folk

ETA: November 16, 2008
Why You Should Give a D**n: Now you can take the fun of the GameCube's hit Animal Crossing online with the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Visit your friends' towns, or welcome up to three friends at once into your town to play games or just mess around. Each copy of Animal Crossing: City Folk ships with the new WiiSpeak microphone, designed to sit freely in the room and let everyone present enjoy talking to your online friends. Visit the new Big City area to customize your characters with new haircuts and costumes. You can even make your main character look like your favorite Mii! As long as we can still deface our friends' towns, we'll gladly take another trip to Animal Crossing.

#12: Wii Sports Resort

ETA: Spring 2009
Why You Should Give a D**n: Wii Sports is great, but you can only play the same six events for so long. Wii Sports Resort offers an all-new selection of events, and comes with the Wii MotionPlus add-on. With Wii MotionPlus, the Wii Remote becomes more sensitive than ever. Your Mii onscreen will copy every move you in an incredible new realistic way. Throw a Frisbee, steer jetskis, and even swordfight your friends as every movement you make registers onscreen with absolute accuracy. We can't wait to hear what other summer games Nintendo has in store. Suntan lotion rubdown contests, plz.

#10: Mario Super Sluggers

ETA: August 25, 2008
Why You Should Give a D**n: Wii Baseball's fun and all, but wouldn't it be better if you could hurl fireballs, eggs, and magic rainbows all over the field? Of course it would, that's why Mario Super Sluggers exists. Super Sluggers takes the addictive controls from Wii Baseball and matches them up with the fantasy-sports vibe as seen in the GameCube's Mario Superstar Baseball. Create dream teams that mix and match the 42 available characters (including Miis!), and have them battle it out across ten arenas in day or night conditions. Play Challenge Mode to gather characters for your team as part of an adventure story. We've already seen one Mario sports winner thus far on the Wii with Mario Strikers Charged... can the plumber go two-for-two?

#9: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

ETA: November 18, 2008
Why You Should Give a D**n: The long-awaited sequel to the GameCube's greatest RPG is coming to the Wii, with new Wii Remote support. In Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, you'll be able to navigate your world with a simple point-and-click system using the Wii Remote pointer. Enjoy sidequests at your local guild and play a variety of mini-games. In battle, maneuver a party of up to four members to exploit the Flex Range Element Enhanced Linear Motion Battle System (which is similar to Tales of Innocence's Battle System) to do extra elemental damage to your foes. You can also exploit elemental alignments in order to capture, breed, and add any of the game's over 200 monsters to the party to fight as an AI-controlled ally. It's like Pokemon, except you actually cares what happens in this story.

#6: Fatal Frame IV

ETA: Early 2009
Why You Should Give a D**n: The latest addition to the acclaimed Fatal Frame survivor-horror franchise, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is exclusive to the Wii, developed in a partnership between Tecmo and Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture (who also brought us No More Heroes for the Wii). Use your camera to fight off hostile ghosts, or to take photographs of friendly and neutral ghosts. Use the Wii Remote to control your flashlight, or enter first-person mode to control your camera. Enjoy eerily beautiful graphics that push the Wii's limits, with no load times to stop the action as you move from room to room. Solve the mystery that haunts three girls who survived a kidnapping on a mysterious island, and return years later to try and unlock their repressed memories.

#4: de Blob

ETA: September 26, 2008
Why You Should Give a D**n: de Blob is an upcoming puzzle game about rebellion against a drab, grey world. As the titular Blob, you can tweak the evil overlords by bouncing off the landscape and the citizens to splatter them with glorious fun-giving color. Start as a clear Blob and then pick up color by slamming into the paint cans hidden throughout the city. Once you've got a color, then slide, bounce, and smear your new color all over the city. As the color brings life back to your surroundings, the soundtrack becomes more lively, with every new shade adding new instruments to the tune. Sorta sounds like Katamari Damacy in reverse, which we can dig.

#3: Mega Man 9

ETA: September 2008
Why You Should Give a D**n: Feel like new games are too weak, too easy for you? Sick of seeing bleeding edge graphics hyped like nothing else about a game could matter? Want to play something that'll kick your *** and make you come back for more? You want to play Mega Man 9, a hardcore old-school blast from the franchise's NES past. Enjoy pure 8-bit gameplay and a kickin' chiptune soundtrack as you try to beat eight new Robot Masters... if you can survive their levels. Spike pits, disappearing platforms, giant enemies with punishing attacks, Mega Man 9's got everything that ever made you throw a controller across the room. While this game is promised for other consoles, Mega Man and Nintendo have the strongest history, and the Wii Remote is the most natural, NES-feeling controller on the market. Who needs Achievements when you can have authenticity?!
NOTE THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE GAME...AKA A VC GAME

#2: Wario Land: Shake It!

ETA: September 22, 2008
Why You Should Give a D**n: A 2D platformer, hand-drawn by the artists at Production I.G.? Yes, please. Nintendo is resurrecting Wario's first game series, the Game Boy Wario Land games, with a spectacular new version for the Wii, Wario Land: Shake It!. Smash and bash your way through puzzling levels hiding lots of gold to hoard and secret treasures to nab. Grab hold of enemies and shake them into submission, or Stun the entire screen with Wario's huge ground pound! Toss enemies into switches and other useful targets, and aim perfectly by tilting the Wii Remote. You can even buy maps from Wario's old nemesis Captain Syrup, who may or may not really be on your side this time. You want a hardcore Nintendo franchise for the holidays? Here it is.

#1: MadWorld

ETA: Early 2009
Why You Should Give a D**n: Your name is Jack, and you're trapped in DeathWatch, a violent, extreme death sport. You have a chainsaw strapped to your arm and a world full of deadly props like spiked walls, metal girders, and sign posts. Your goal is to kill the enemy, in as brutal and spectacular a fashion as possible, but without becoming dehumanized by DeathWatch's terrorist organizers. So with the crowd cheering and color commentary praising your every move, you need to go out and tear your opponents (sometimes quite literally) apart. With stylish black-and-white graphics and a hardcore rap soundtrack, MadWorld is a comic book thrill ride from hell. If Sin City and Gears of War had a baby, that spawn would be called MadWorld.

So there you have a bunch of the stuff form the list many of which I have super excited for....for me my top 2 are Tales of Symphonia and Mad World...obviously Mad World is NOT for kids. I tried to pull a few of the games I thought you guys would also be excited too see in case you didn't want to go read the whole article....enjoy!

THK

 

[happycampers]

Thanks for the reviews....lets see if I can answer any of yoru questions.
1)Any reviews from Disers on WiiSki?--I know there were a few reviews of it a while back from disers...If I get time later i'll try to figure out where in the thread they are. If I remember corectly people were having fun with it and the balance board. My SUGGESTION however is...buy it if you find it cheap...otherwise wait for what looks to be a much better wii skiing/snowboarding game in Shawn White's Snowboarding.(comming this x-mas)
2)Wii Does Sports (saw this in the Circuit City ad, can't find on IGN)- Never heard of it..and If I havn't heard of it,and you can't find any reviews on it STAY FAR AWAY!!! This means they didn't send out any press copies which always equals bad game.
3)DDR2-obviously you like DDR1 for the wii..ddr 2 is pretty much along the same lines...if you liek one as much as you say there is nothing to stop you form getting DDR2
4)Cranium Kabookii
Big Beach Sports
Either Kawasaki Game
Any Kidz Sports Games- havn't played any of them and they are pretty much shovelware (games made quickly to make a quick buck) you can get them cheap like $20.00 it might be worth messing around with...but usually these games aren't any good. My SUGGESTION is to take the money you would spend on these so-so games and pool it together to buy a great game or 2. I see you didn't mention that you guys had any of the big games like Mario Kart, SmashBros., Mario galaxy, ect. I HIGHLY suggest any of those games over the games you mentioned.
5)Go Diego Go Safari Rescue- again I know there was a review about it somewhere...but I think it was given a "pretty good" espically for the youngsters they the diser who reviewed it.

Thanks for the help there.

I figured out why you and IGN hadn't heard of that one game...The ad print was such poor quality, I couldn't read the title on the game corectly. I figured out that it's actually Wii Deca Sports. (Since you hadn't heard of it, and there are 10 games on it, I had to squint real hard to figure it out, but I still think "deca" looks like "does" in that picture .) Anywho...IGN gave it a 4.5. Have you tried that one?

So, you think the Shawn White game will be better than WiiSki? Is it just snowboarding or will it have skiing as well? (We've found the snowboarding on WiiFit to be rather tricky, but we like the skiing ones.)

Any recommendations on a soccer game for young kids?

 

[The_Horned_King]

Thanks for the help there.

I figured out why you and IGN hadn't heard of that one game...The ad print was such poor quality, I couldn't read the title on the game corectly. I figured out that it's actually Wii Deca Sports. (Since you hadn't heard of it, and there are 10 games on it, I had to squint real hard to figure it out, but I still think "deca" looks like "does" in that picture .) Anywho...IGN gave it a 4.5. Have you tried that one?

So, you think the Shawn White game will be better than WiiSki? Is it just snowboarding or will it have skiing as well? (We've found the snowboarding on WiiFit to be rather tricky, but we like the skiing ones.)

Any recommendations on a soccer game for young kids?

Can't help you with Wii Deca Sports never tried it. Maybesomeone else on the board can though.

I definately think Shawn White Will be better then Wii ski. That said now that you mention it I have NOT heard of Skiiign being in the game at all..simply snowboarding. So If you are all about the skiing then Wi Ski is the way to go. For a breif little snippet abotu Shawn White you can go to the link below..IGN played it at E3 and has some impressions.http://wii.ign.com/articles/891/891090p1.html

Soccer for young kids...I got the perfect one for you!!!!
By far the best soccer game on the wii is...Mario Strikers Charged
you can read a full review here...http://wii.ign.com/articles/808/808692p1.html

It's more of an acrade style fast paced with special moves soccer, but the basic game remains the same...all the other soccer game I know of on the wii are more simulation style and much more advanced. (being ment for teens and adults)

Hope this helps.
THK

 

[Justin the Hook]

Welcome Justin!...what a coincidence..my name is Justin too, and just like you I have been playign Nintendo games all my life, own everything you mentioned..and have you beat by about 6 years(I'm 28)...otherwise I thought I was sleep writing posts on the dis!

Great to have a fellow LONG TIME gamer around to talk too..please don't be a stranger. I've been chomping at the bit to talk to other about the more traditional nintendo games((many of the questions I get are about casual style game play..ala carnival games, wii sports, dogz, ect.))Feel free to post reviews of any nintendo games on the wii, ds or VC you have time to post They are always helpful to the readers.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the response. I will go ahead and put my first review out here of a non casual title. Pro Eveloution Soccer 2008. This is a true soccer game, not really what you would consider a simulation soccer game, but one that uses the Wii remote to the best of its ability. You can play as many international teams, european club teams and some various made up teams. The one nice thing about this game is that there is a adventure mode element to this game that teaches you the unique control scheme before jumping into playing and not understanding. The graphics are decent (we are talking about the Wii here) and the comentary is really annoying after about 3 matches just the same things over and over again. There are unlockable secrets in the game (You can unlock a team that will use your Miis and they have huge heads) Also in the more adventure mode you can steal players from the other teams that you play against, but only if you win. The biggest draw back for me in this game is that it only has the US national team and not even all the players that are on the team, and there is no World Cup mode just one that is called International Cup.

I give this game a 8 out 10 because there is a high playabilty of the game and it is a fun game, but since it does have a "VERY" unique control scheme it really isn't for the younger players i.e. anyone under 8.

If you are over 8 years old love soccer and want to use the Wii remote and nunchuck like never before this is a certain fun play. Until EA's FIFA 09 reveils it s control scheme this is the best soccer game out there for the older crowd.

 

[Justin the Hook]

Can't help you with Wii Deca Sports never tried it. Maybesomeone else on the board can though.

I definately think Shawn White Will be better then Wii ski. That said now that you mention it I have NOT heard of Skiiign being in the game at all..simply snowboarding. So If you are all about the skiing then Wi Ski is the way to go. For a breif little snippet abotu Shawn White you can go to the link below..IGN played it at E3 and has some impressions.http://wii.ign.com/articles/891/891090p1.html

Soccer for young kids...I got the perfect one for you!!!!
By far the best soccer game on the wii is...Mario Strikers Charged
you can read a full review here...http://wii.ign.com/articles/808/808692p1.html

It's more of an acrade style fast paced with special moves soccer, but the basic game remains the same...all the other soccer game I know of on the wii are more simulation style and much more advanced. (being ment for teens and adults)

Hope this helps.
THK

How do I explain Deca Sports? Wii Sports without the fun. That would be the best way to explain it. I don't think that the game is good after playing Wii Sports, but there are 1 million people who are not on the same page as me since they have sold that many copies of the game already. I rented it it doesn't have Mii support and they aren't really involved games. Very short much shorter than Wii Sports. I would suggest saving your money and get Wii Sports Resort next year when it comes out.

 

[happycampers]

Thank you Horned King and Justin the Hook for that info.

So, your Miis don't show up with Deca Sports? It's just standard characters?

Circuit City has it right now for $19.99, which is usually a decent price for a Wii game, and I was wondering if it was anything like the original Sports game since we really enjoy that one. It'd be nice to try, but I haven't found anyplace around me that rents Wii games.

I definately like the look of Wii Sports Resort. I wish it were going to be out before Christmas.

I'll check out those other reviews as well.

 

[The_Horned_King]

Justin ..thanks for the Pro Evo 08 Soccer review...I'll get the wife to add it to the reviews at the start of the whole thread. (and the Deca sport review also)

 

[airtime247]

I recently rented Deca Sports and I have to second Justin's opinion that it isn't very good. I didn't mind not using the Miis but it was the controls that bothered me. They weren't very intuitive or natural. It just wasn't very much fun.

-steve

 

[harleyquinn]

I just wanted to stop by and say hi!

I've been keeping an eye on things, but letting DH handle the questions while he's off for summer break (he's a teacher in case you didn't know).

I'll try and get to adding all the new reviews to the review post after we get back from vacation in DISNEY WORLD next week!

So from August 12-19, we won't be around to answer questions, but when we get back we'll get to everything that our other super posters don't get too.

 

[disneyfan2]

Very boring players in our HH but can someone give me some suggestions.
We love the Wii Sports(golf) but i would like to get some more golf games. I have rented a few but i would like to get something similar to what the golf on the Wii sports is like, but with newer courses etc. so far the only one we tried was SuperSwing Golf and the kids dislike it. anything out there that is similar to wii sports golf?

 

[happycampers]

Can anyone help with a Lego Star Wars question?

DS7 saved up and just bought Lego Star Wars. We are trying to figure out the correct way to save the game. When we try to quit, it tells us that things obtained since the last save will be lost, but it doesn't give us an opportunity to save the game. What should we do to make sure he doesn't lose the studs and characters, etc. when we quit? Thanks in advance.

 

[airtime247]

Can anyone help with a Lego Star Wars question?

DS7 saved up and just bought Lego Star Wars. We are trying to figure out the correct way to save the game. When we try to quit, it tells us that things obtained since the last save will be lost, but it doesn't give us an opportunity to save the game. What should we do to make sure he doesn't lose the studs and characters, etc. when we quit? Thanks in advance.

There doesn't seem to be a way of saving that I have found. There is an autosave at the end of every mission. It will ask you if you want to enter Free Play or go back to the Cantina. A small Death Star will appear in the middle of the screen. This is the only way you will know it is saving.

This is easily one of my favorite games and is hilarious and entertaining. One thing he will probably run into if he hasn't already, there is a bug in the game during Episode 2. It is the scene where you are running across an conveyor belt and big machines are trying to stomp on you. There is a glitch involving R2D2 that will freeze up your Wii and you will have to completely power it off.

I had to search around online for a while to find the workaround but what he will need to do is avoid R2D2 as much as possible and only use him when it is absolutely required and then quickly switch to another character.

I finally got past it after the fifth or sixth try. It got frustrating as it happened 10 minutes or so after the mission started and I had to keep replaying it, without the ability to save just before I entered that scene.

I heard there is a bug later in the game but I haven't gotten that far yet.

-steve

 

[happycampers]

There doesn't seem to be a way of saving that I have found. There is an autosave at the end of every mission. It will ask you if you want to enter Free Play or go back to the Cantina. A small Death Star will appear in the middle of the screen. This is the only way you will know it is saving.

This is easily one of my favorite games and is hilarious and entertaining. One thing he will probably run into if he hasn't already, there is a bug in the game during Episode 2. It is the scene where you are running across an conveyor belt and big machines are trying to stomp on you. There is a glitch involving R2D2 that will freeze up your Wii and you will have to completely power it off.

I had to search around online for a while to find the workaround but what he will need to do is avoid R2D2 as much as possible and only use him when it is absolutely required and then quickly switch to another character.

I finally got past it after the fifth or sixth try. It got frustrating as it happened 10 minutes or so after the mission started and I had to keep replaying it, without the ability to save just before I entered that scene.

I heard there is a bug later in the game but I haven't gotten that far yet.

-steve

Thanks for the advice. We knew it saved once in a while, but weren't sure when it did, and when it was the best time to quit the game. Sounds like the best bet is to quit after you see the Death Star auto saving. We'll be on the lookout for the Episode 2 problem. Thanks for the heads-up. Do we need to avoid using R2 during all of episode 2, or just the conveyor belt game?

 

[airtime247]

Thanks for the advice. We knew it saved once in a while, but weren't sure when it did, and when it was the best time to quit the game. Sounds like the best bet is to quit after you see the Death Star auto saving. We'll be on the lookout for the Episode 2 problem. Thanks for the heads-up. Do we need to avoid using R2 during all of episode 2, or just the conveyor belt game?

It's just the conveyor belt part. I think it's the third or fourth mission (door from the Cantina) in Episode 2. I've only heard of him locking it up on the conveyor belt but I was avoiding him as much as possible after that until I completed the mission and it saved.

-steve

 

[Justin the Hook]

Very boring players in our HH but can someone give me some suggestions.
We love the Wii Sports(golf) but i would like to get some more golf games. I have rented a few but i would like to get something similar to what the golf on the Wii sports is like, but with newer courses etc. so far the only one we tried was SuperSwing Golf and the kids dislike it. anything out there that is similar to wii sports golf?

My suggestions are Tiger Woods Golf, for a good golfing experience you use the Wii Remote just like you do in Wii Golf and there is an easy mode that you don't have to worry about all the hooks and slicing.

The other game is called We Love Golf, now you don't use the Wii remote like a club, but this game is extremely fun and pretty easy to use. The nice thing about this game is that it was done by the same company that has made all the mario golf games and also the original hot shot golf games.

I doubt you'll be disappointed with either game.

 

[Justin the Hook]

Can anyone help with a Lego Star Wars question?

DS7 saved up and just bought Lego Star Wars. We are trying to figure out the correct way to save the game. When we try to quit, it tells us that things obtained since the last save will be lost, but it doesn't give us an opportunity to save the game. What should we do to make sure he doesn't lose the studs and characters, etc. when we quit? Thanks in advance.

There are 2 ways to save the game. The first is to complete a mission and get the Death Star to come on and save your progress. The second is when you are in the Cantina if you go over to the Bar it will make you look at Hints, Cheats, Characters, Gold Bricks, Enter Codes. At this screen if you use your Studs (Lego pieces that you earn) to buy something it auto saves your game at that point also.
I have played through this whole game and have yet to find any bugs in the game. Just remember because you went through all the chapters it doesn't mean you done. You have to play through all of them a second time in free play mode, this games seems like a quick one but there are lots of things to do while playing the game.

 

[happycampers]

There are 2 ways to save the game. The first is to complete a mission and get the Death Star to come on and save your progress. The second is when you are in the Cantina if you go over to the Bar it will make you look at Hints, Cheats, Characters, Gold Bricks, Enter Codes. At this screen if you use your Studs (Lego pieces that you earn) to buy something it auto saves your game at that point also.
I have played through this whole game and have yet to find any bugs in the game. Just remember because you went through all the chapters it doesn't mean you done. You have to play through all of them a second time in free play mode, this games seems like a quick one but there are lots of things to do while playing the game.

Thanks for the tips.

 

[spima3]

DS is having a problem w/ House of the Dead, arcade type shooting game. The remotes need calibrating and nothing he has tried has worked. We have searched the internet and found it is a common problem, and the few things suggested have not worked.

He also got the two hand gun type things just to play this for his birthday and it has been a HUGE disappointment.

Can anyone help? I hate this system!

 

[Justin the Hook]

DS is having a problem w/ House of the Dead, arcade type shooting game. The remotes need calibrating and nothing he has tried has worked. We have searched the internet and found it is a common problem, and the few things suggested have not worked.

He also got the two hand gun type things just to play this for his birthday and it has been a HUGE disappointment.

Can anyone help? I hate this system!

Ok does the game need the remotes to calibrate? or are the remotes not registering on the Wii and not working? I will give you answers to both problems.
1. In game calibration - You need to go to the options menu and when you are in the options menu there is a spot for remote settings. I can't remeber what it is actually called. The you go in there and there is a spot to calibrate the remote, also there is a spot to let the game know that he is using the Wii zapper also. I do apologize for the general statement it has been 4 months since I have played house of the dead.

2. Wii Remote - If you press the home key on the Wii remote there is a setting at the bottom of the screen that says wii remote settings. When you click on that it will allow you too reconnect the wii remotes which should calibrate the wii remote.
The other way is to go into the Wii options Menu which is the wrench on the bottom of the screen when you go in there you can calibrate the wii remote from these options. The best thing to do is also to make sure you have your sensor bar set up correctly. There is an option for the top of the TV and an option for under the TV.

Remember the Wii is a little different than most other consoles please don't hate it. If you are having a real problem with the game and it still isn't calibrating for you. You can always take it back to the store you got it from, now you will get the same game again, but it might not have the same issue that you are currently having.

 

[Justin the Hook]

I am going to give a pretty broad Madden 2009 Review.

First off if you want a fun football game that requires little to know skill this is the game for you. If you are looking for a football game that is more like your fantasy football league this is the game for you. If you are looking for a football game that will give you some time with friends again this is the game for you.

Madden delivers in almost every way, from fun gameplay, to ease of controls, to in depth details of the game. Where the game misses is the sound and visuals, but we all own a Wii or we wouldn't be looking at this thread. John Madden and Al Michaels are the comentary and they just become very repeditive in their speech.

I Give this game an 8 out 10, could be a 9 if they taken Brett Favre off of the cover.