You ruined what you created.  Let it die.

Correction, Capcom meddled and he had no choice but to ruin it.

"There is no point in making a sequel when the world doesn't belong to you."

Huh, he's an all or nothing guy. Wonder if his sentiment is shared by other developers, eastern and western.

As for a Viewtiful Joe sequel, I would like it! I never had the chance to check out Viewtiful Joe 2, Red Hot Rumble, or Double Trouble so I wouldn't know how those games messed things up. Still, I think there's always a chance to fix things. Hmm, maybe by starting as a downloadable title first?

Viewtiful Joe WiiWare sounds like a perfect fit for the title.

Oh, VJ2 sucked all right.  Its technical qualities were held back due to PS2 co-development, the on-screen presentation was overloaded with flashy crap like too many marshmallows in my Lucky Charms, the challenge level was off-balance in a "casualized" way, and the bosses and puzzles that made little sense with HARD minibosses or WAY TOO EASY character bosses depending on using Joe or Silvia  (some bosses didn't seem to put up a fight).  The vehicle stages sucked too, the ocean-crawling submarines was just uninteresting.

Viewtiful Joe is probably my favorite GameCube game. Viewtiful Joe 2 was not. I played about five minutes of Red Hot Rumble and didn't like it at all, and I played half of VJoe DS and kind of liked it.

Talk about a degradation of a series.

I'm all for this VJoe WiiWare proposition. I don't think it would happen, though. At least not with Kamiya involved.

It's funny how a TV show, game based on the TV show, and a DS game don't cause the leading developer to be upset about other hands on his franchise, yet one unreleased DS game does.

Weird.

i have VJ2 but have yet to play it. i wish i woulda known a bout th is before spending like $2 on it at gamestop.

I heard VJ2 was still great which is why I bought it (it's in the backlog) Obviously, a couple bad games don't kill an IP. A new game should definately come out.

where on EARF did you hear such a thing

Oh.....just some random web site, they were probably shmoozed w/ a calender or somthing.

Viewtiful Joe 2                          Mike Sklens          Dec 26, 2004  9.5
Viewtiful Joe                              Rick Powers          Oct 7, 2003  9.5
Viewtiful Joe                              Mike Sklens        Jul 22, 2003  9.5

can't trust that Mike fellow.

I thought Atsushi Inaba (who produced MadWorld) was the one who directed the original VJ for the GCN.


Am I wrong?

VJ2 was more of the same, but I enjoyed it a lot. And it ends on a total cliffhanger, so I definitely wouldn't mind a proper continuation. As for the other games, the VJDS was decent (but not as good as the console versions), and Red Hot Rumble was actually kind of awful.