Topic: Castlevania Judgement... not what anyone expected ever... EVER

[Adrock]

3D fighter... seriously.

[DAaaMan64]

Link or something!

[ShyGuy]

http://gonintendo.com/?p=47669

Soul Calibur Killer?

[vudu]

I'm listening to God Hates Us All by Slayer right now.  It sums up my feelings towards this game quite nicely.

Here's the info for those too lazy (or spiteful) to follow ShyGuy's link.

• Characters confirmed thus far - Dracula, Simon, Alucard, Shanoa, and Maria Renard.
• Classic subweapons - holy water, magic spells, dagger, boomerang
• Subweapon use still depends on hearts
• Remixed classic Castlevania tunes
• Set traps, destroyable environments, enemy monsters interfere with battle
• Nunchuck controls character movement, Wiimote used for motion attacks

[Bill Aurion]

[DAaaMan64]

I don't know about this man.

[Adrock]

It's a Castlevania game so I'll at least play it. I don't want to complain because it is a Castlevania game and Wii exclusive to boot, but I can't help but feel a little disappointed that Judgement isn't a 2D Symphony of the Night killer.

Now I really want Konami to think long and hard before they say that X or Y game isn't appropriate for the Wii crowd with a straight face ever again because they passed up the opportunity to release the most obvious game on home platform ever to release a 3D spin-off of a traditionally 2D series on a console that is not only a perfect fit for the series, but also is highly suitable for 2D games.

[Kairon]

@_@

...

who's...developing it?

[stevey]

Another crappy kiddy game.

Goodbye any hope of a true Castlevania game or anyother Konami game ever again for the wii now the have their excuse for not releasing anything when this bombs....

[Luigi Dude]

[UltimatePartyBear]

I have no idea what to think.  I wanted a real Castlevania game, sure, but this doesn't sound half bad.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

THIS PAVES THE WAY FOR RESIDENT EVIL 3D FIGHTER

[ShyGuy]

This won't tick me off until the true Castlevania game is a PS360 exclusive...

[Caliban]

Wierd as hell. Oh well, so is Igarashi.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

This news is borderline-fantastic.  Nintendo not only destroys gaming, but prompts the destruction of classic franchises!

[Kairon]

Man, being a Nintendo fanboi is never boring, I'll give ya that.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Man, being a Nintendo fanboi is never boring, I'll give ya that.

Does Kairon already have this preordered?

[Ian Sane]

What's this?  Another Wii exclusive spinoff of a popular series instead of a REAL entry?  What a surprise!!

Can we all just agree that the Wii third party support is complete balls yet?  The old "third parties didn't expect the Wii to be so successful" excuse officially no longer makes sense.  Konami has had ample time to analyze the different consoles.  This isn't some game annouced two years ago.  This is a brand new title and development started after the Wii already was the number one selling console!!

Nintendo's blue ocean strategy has paid off for them but has completely ruined the console in terms of relevent support.  Third parties think we're all casual non-gamer saps that buy any old crap.  And the Gamecube 1.5 hardware and non-gamer focus and weird ass controller contributed to that.  The Wii may be the top selling console but to a hardcore gamer it might as well be in last place like the Gamecube was.

I thought Nintendo was living in a dream world when they mentioned how they weren't really competing with the other consoles.  They were right!  The Wii isn't competing because its success has no effect on third party support.  From the perspective of the "old market" the PS3 and X360 are competing while the Wii is unrelated and just happens to attract members of the old market as well due to a few token gamer focused sequels from Nintendo.

Though to be fair any REAL Castlevania game from Konami on a console would be doomed to suck anyway.

[Spak-Spang]

After hearing the Super Cool News about Retro Mega Man 9...this just sucks.

How I would of loved a Wii Ware Castlevania over this...even a retro one or something...but this, just doesn't work at all for me. 

[bosshogx]

Um...wow?  I don't know what to think.  Being a huge fan of fighting games, I'm at least interested.  Konami doesn't have an impressive track record making fighting games, so we'll just have to sit back and see.  To be honest though, I really wouldn't want a 3D Castlevania game anyway.  Make the next Castlevania game for the WiiWare instead.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Ian Konami has been treating Wii like crap since the beginning so please quit the dramatic "OH noes this means 3rd Parties aren't going to treat Wii well". This is one company who has always been screwed up in who they support. Both Capcom and EA has been showing GROWING support for Wii in all kinds of genres, heck from what I've heard there is a good chance that some of EA's sports games on Wii could be the definitive versions.

So please stop whining about "Oh no the Wii is not as powerful as the Xbox 360 or that you don't personally like the controller", 3rd parties have no one to blame but themselves. Third Party traditional games have sold well on Wii, at least those with some marketing behind them.

[Ian Sane]

Ian Konami has been treating Wii like crap since the beginning

EVERYONE has been treating the Wii like crap since the beginning.  Who they hell hasn't?  And if you say EA I'm going to scream and scare my co-workers.

The only noticable improvement I've seen other than vague promises is from Activision who originally gave us an inferior port of Guitar Hero 3 but are promising to make the Wii version of GH: World Tour as close to the other versions as possible.

Everyone else's games fall into four categories:
1. Wii exclusive spin-off of popular series with waggle optionally accompanied by REAL entry to the series being announced for the PS3 and X360
2. PS2 port with optional waggle
3. Incredibly low quality non-game
4. Patronizing kids game that may or may not be good depending on who made it with accompanying "we feel Magical Baby Adventure fits the weenie hut jr. userbase of the Wii" press release

[ShyGuy]

Majesco treats the Wii well.

BTW, I believe Kairon pre-ordered Weenie Hut Jr.

[Spak-Spang]

Hey, at least EA and Ubisoft tried....a little.

Capcom released one awesome game, and then released some remakes.
Konami made two new franchises that weren't that great.
Most of the Japanese companies have seem to really be neglecting the Wii or not putting great effort.

Ubisoft at least started strong...although it ended up all being shuffle ware...that leaves Capcom.

Which didn't produce quality, but it wasn't exactly crap either. 

SSX Blur was pretty good.  BOOM Blox is amazing...and the Sports games had original features and were playable. 

[Kairon]

1. Wii exclusive spin-off of popular series with waggle optionally accompanied by REAL entry to the series being announced for the PS3 and X360
2. PS2 port with optional waggle
3. Incredibly low quality non-game
4. Patronizing kids game that may or may not be good depending on who made it with accompanying "we feel Magical Baby Adventure fits the weenie hut jr. userbase of the Wii" press release

All better than GC. And trending up. Lot of original titles coming from THQ; waaay more exclusives, even at B level, than the GameCube could ever boast; plus a lot of exclusive content, original IP and established franchise, including JRPGs, from Japanese developers revealed over the past couple months.